South-South Cooperation with a Cultural Perspective: Interdependence, Dialogue and Coexistence

Abstract

The text analyzes different possibilities for the implementation and consolidation of initiatives that facilitate and strengthen the
dynamics of South-South cooperation between Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, from a cultural perspective. It
also reinforces interdependence, dialogue and coexistence as dynamic elements of rapprochement between the people, States and institutions of these regions, and seeks to address the issue of South-South cooperation with specic theoretical resources and
references to intellectual and cultural collaboration. In addition, it resorts to alternative, decolonizing and critical epistemologies to elucidate the history of African otherness, which is positioned as a bridge between the Asian, Latin American and Caribbean ones. This allows nurturing reections loaded with cultural, academic and historical imprints that seek to intensify such cooperation, and emphasizes the leading role of the research community in these initiatives of academic collaboration. It also seeks to establish favorable conditions for a better rapprochement of the people, States and institutions of the global South. In short, it is committed to the creation of fruitful and indispensable alliances for a sustained dialogue, an enriching coexistence and a constructive interdependence that work in favor of the strengthening of cultural, political and economic exchanges in this international scenario.