Knowledge and Global Power Making new sciences in the South by Fran Collyer

ISBN: 9781776142248

Soft Cover, 300 pages

Wits University Press, 1 May 2019

This ground-breaking international study examines how knowledge is produced, distributed and validated in the global knowledge economy. Focussing on HIV/AIDS, climate change and gender studies in the global South, the study demonstrates that ‘place matters’ in shaping research, scholarship and knowledge itself.

Knowledge and Global Power is a ground-breaking international study which examines how knowledge is produced, distributed and validated globally. The former imperial nations – the rich countries of Europe and North America – still have a hegemonic position in the global knowledge economy. Fran Collyer, Raewyn Connell, João Maia and Robert Morrell, using interviews, databases and fieldwork, show how intellectual workers respond in three Southern tier countries, Brazil, South Africa and Australia. The study focusses on new, socially and politically important research fields: HIV/AIDS, climate change and gender studies. The research demonstrates emphatically that ‘place matters’, shaping research, scholarship and knowledge itself. But it also shows that knowledge workers in the global South have room to move, setting agendas and forming local knowledge.