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Abstract

This article examines recent arguments about the centrality of the Global South in international politics. Many pundits and academic specialists engaged with the idea do not offer a methodological way of investigating the material transformations the Global South states brought about. It examines five methodological ways of studying the Global South. Different methodological ways of studying the Global South see the world differently and thus bring different policies and practical solutions. However, any investigation of the Global South that serves a political purpose must also be attentive to the reigning dominance of neo-positivist methodologies in the debates on rulesbased international order, including that of big data in the context of the rise of

Machine Learning to decipher significant trends on the challenges of the decline of the West. Thus, critical methodologies in studying the Global South, one that aims to bring an alternative political project focused on equality and justice, must challenge the dominance of neo-positivism on its turf. The article offers two tentative reflections on critical methodologies capitalising on big data.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright the author, 2024.
Publisher Keywords:	Global South, Research Methodology, Scientific Modernity, Subversion, Materialism.
Subjects:	J Political Science J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States) J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs School of Policy & Global Affairs > International Politics
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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