BRICS civil society initiatives: towards the inclusion of affected communities in collective development?

Introducing Remembrances of Tricontinental Pasts: Narratives and Artefacts of Global Cold War Social Movements

“…As Freddy and Thomas (2011) noted, brics' economic activity has made it hard to "delink [the brics] from this arrangement that is built upon the liberal and capitalist models that form the foundations of modern political economy" (Freddy & Thomas 2023, no page). For Thompson and De Wet, brics countries replicate the contradictory hegemonic forms of exploitation through, one the one hand, acknowledging the importance of poverty alleviation in policy discourse, whilst in practice implementing economic austerity (Thompson & De Wet 2018). The greatest challenge the brics seem to pose to the liberal order, according to Røren and Beaumont, is that they have showcase that "following liberal economic and democratic norms is not a prerequisite for rising to the top echelons of international society's status hierarchy" (Røren & Beaumont 2019, 444).…”