ABSTRACT
This paper looks into the possibility of locating the BRICS idea in the realm of ‘culture’ from a longer-term perspective rather than a shorter one with an eye on the ephemeral contingencies of the member economies and foreign policies. Making a case for highlighting the location of BRICS in the cultural, it is argued that while the material bases of the world order inform the current inequitable positioning of nations across variables, a contrarian vision could create a space wide enough to sustain the idea and engender larger changes in those bases whenever the conditions are conducive. The realm of culture is broadened to ‘aesthesis’, involving the process of perception worked as much through images as through narrative. The idea of BRICS will be explored within the ambit of southernity through the theoretical inputs of spatiality and it is argued that it could be seen as a ‘heterotopia’ located in the global South.
