From the International Communication Association Podcast Network, this is Interventions from the Global South. In this introductory episode, we'll go over what the Global South means and why communication scholars are interested in the Global South. I will discuss the conceptual registers organizing frameworks and anchors for imagination rooted in the Global South, both historically and in the context of contemporary global challenges. We'll dive deep into questions of sovereignty, collectivization, embeddedness, connection and other concepts that are central to understanding communication in and from the Global South. Finally, we will look at the questions this series will help answer. Welcome. I am Mohan Dutta, Director of the Center for Culture Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation, or CARE, at Massey University in Aotearoa, New Zealand, your host for the ICA podcast, Interventions from the Global South. So what is - and more importantly, where is - the Global South? The Global South is both a cartographic construction and a material construction. It is a reference to the spaces of the Southern Hemisphere, historically the sites of colonial intervention. So this kind of a hemispheric approach, then, specifically locates the North as the site of colonialism and capitalism, and then imagines the South as the site of the workings of interventions directed by capitalism and colonialism. The concept of the Global South connects us to anti-colonial struggles that occupied the global imaginary particularly in the 1920s, 30s, and then going all the way into the 1970s. On one hand, communities that make up the Global South are the targets of the extractive forces of capital. And on the other hand, the people from within these communities are expelled from these spaces of extraction through the capitalist processes. You have ongoing productions of spaces of extraction. This can be in the form of large-scale factory infrastructures, detention camps, migration centers. These can be your special economic zones where capital flows freely without resistance because labor laws have been systematically attacked, or these can be places where particular forms of interventions have been created in order to sustain the conditions of bonded or enslaved labor.