ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss social organization, the resistance strategies that have been constructed, and the worldviews of ordinary peoples, all of which have contributed to the Global South's development of a strength, in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, that has been unknown in the Global North. This development allows the Global South to build narratives and views of resistance, survival, and visions for the future. This resistance force exists despite the fact that the implications and consequences of COVID-19, and its impact on health systems and economies will be harsher there, and negative prospects will be worse than in the Global North. These conditions of resistance contribute to produce a stronger resilience than what can be found in the Global North, as well as an intellectual production that is more focused on alternative views for prospects for the future. The fast production of texts, the continuous organization of events, and the online debates focused on what a post-COVID-19 future should be like, are proof of that. The Global South has been producing ideas and thoughts on causalities whereas the Global North has been discussing immediate effects. Now, the planet's future depends on taking into account views from the Global South-which have, so far, been silenced by the Global North. These views-based on disruptive experiences and lessons from contexts different from those that are usually universalized-make proactive contributions. In the Global South, a view of the future is being constructed that surpasses the dystopia-continuity dichotomy mainly built in the Global North during the COVID-19 crisis. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.