Note: please increase the size of the credit lines by at least 2 points. This fourth volume analyses the recent global transformation that heralded the supposed demise of the 'Third World' and emergence of the 'Global South'. Essays in this collection explore whether the distinction between 'Global South' and 'Global North' is useful for understanding the current global constellation. It does so by casting a wide exploratory net, not limiting itself to the dominant politico-economic meaning, but addressing historical transformations of world-interpretation as well as wider cultural-intellectual meanings. It draws on analyses in global history, conceptual history, comparative literature, social and political theory, political philosophy and social history to develop a comprehensive inter-disciplinary perspective on the uses of 'South' and 'North'. Peter Wagner is Research Professor of Sociology at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and at the University of Barcelona. Cover image: William Kentridge, Drawing from Felix in Exile (detail), 1994. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 120 x 150 cm / 47-1/4 x 59-1/16 in. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery (c) William Kentridge Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0040-4 Barcode

Peter Wagner is Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. His publications include The Trouble with Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Modernity as Experience and Interpretation (Polity Press, 2008), A History and Theory of the Social Sciences (Sage, 2001), Theorising Modernity (Sage, 2001) and A Sociology of Modernity (Routledge, 1994).