Alf Gunvald Nilsen is director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa and a professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria. Karl von Holdt is a professor and research associate at the Society, Work and Politics Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand. Ching Kwan Lee is professor of sociology at the University of California Los Angeles and an Extraordinary Professor at the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos is professor of Latin American Studies at the Federal University and Prolam-USP in São Paulo.Ruy Braga is associate professor of sociology at the Univeristy of Sao Paulo.

'Overall, the volume provides a compelling comparative conjunctural analysis of the emerging powers by placing them in the framework of the ‘Southern interregnum.’ It provides an empirically rich analysis by leading scholars in the field of the contrary and turbulent moment in which governing elites in emerging powers are confronted with complex disjunctures between accumulation and legitimation. The book is therefore required reading for anyone interested in the position of the emerging south countries within the broader global juncture, though the question of whether these domestic crises of accumulation and political legitimacy will necessarily derail the so-called ‘rise of the South’ remains an open question.'Kevin Gray, PPE Sydney

• Introduction Governing the Southern Interregnum: Accumulation, Legitimation, and Hegemony in a Turbulent Conjuncture – Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Karl von Holdt1 Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Evangelism: Hegemonic Politics and Elective Affinities in Bolsonaro’s Brazil – Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos and Ruy Braga2 Making the Neoliberal Hindu Nation: Accumulation and Legitimation in Modi’s India – Alf Gunvald Nilsen3 How China Rides the Waves of Crisis: Going Digital and Going Global – Ching Kwan Lee4 Primitive Accumulation, Elite Formation, and Corruption: Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa – Karl von HoldtConclusion Remaking Hegemony? Elite Projects and Their Limits in the Southern Interregnum – Karl von Holdt and Alf Gunvald Nilsen