Re-making the global economy of knowledge: do new fields of research change the structure of North-South relations?

What is it about?

The geopolitics of knowledge shows that publications emanating from the global North are preponderant. In this article we show that processes of knowledge production are dynamic and that in three new domains of knowledge - climate change, gender and HIV and AIDS - work undertaken in the global South is important, internationally impactful and often innovative, reflecting the interests of the global South. On the other hand, the resource-rich global North continues to dominate but not monolithically.

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Why is it important?

Interest in knowledge production as labour process and in North-South relations is growing. In this paper we use research from Australia, Brazil and South Africa to show how research work in the global South contributes to global knowledge and how it contests the terms of knowledge production, long-dominated by the global North.