For decades, the “Third World” was an expression used to refer to regions seen as lacking prosperity and progress, on the one hand, and as a rallying call for anti‐colonial struggles on the other. The concept evoked the uneven distribution of power and wealth following World War II, replaced the forms of oppression and disparities distinctive of the former colonial world, and fostered liberatory and autonomous projects. In recent discussions on intellectual decolonization, however, the Global South became a popular way of expressing purportedly similar understandings of what I name as “moral geographies of inequality.” This article reviews the genealogies, uses, lives and afterlives of these two concepts, discussing whether the “Third World” and the “Global South” refer to one and the same; the contexts in which these terms are most commonly used; why one term has been substituted for the other; and the possible repercussions of this shift.

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从第三世界到全球南方：反殖民知识传统中不平等的道德地理学的定义


几十年来，“第三世界”一词一方面用来指代那些被视为缺乏繁荣和进步的地区，另一方面也被视为反殖民斗争的号召力。这一概念引发了二战后权力和财富分配不均的现象，取代了前殖民世界特有的压迫和不平等形式，并促进了解放和自治项目。然而，在最近关于知识非殖民化的讨论中，全球南方成为表达对我所说的“不平等的道德地理”的相似理解的流行方式。本文回顾了这两个概念的谱系、用途、生平和来世，讨论了“第三世界”和“全球南方”是否指同一个概念；这些术语最常用的上下文；为什么一个术语被另一个术语取代；以及这种转变可能产生的影响。