Global South Rising? BRICS and the Reconfiguration of Knowledge Systems
  • Forthcoming December 2025/350 pages
  • Distributed for HSRC Press

Global South Rising? BRICS and the Reconfiguration of Knowledge Systems

Ari Sitas and Wiebke Keim, editors
Paperback: $45.00
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2709-5
Global South Rising? addresses a provocative question: Can BRICS reshape global knowledge hierarchies? The contributors examine the BRICS' rise in the context of its ambition to reconfigure not only the global economy, but also intellectual power structures. As they assess the bloc's performance, they highlight its challenges to dominant Western epistemologies and its potential to amplify the agency of the Global South. In the process, they invite readers to rethink concepts of power, knowledge, and global cooperation.
Ari Sitas is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Cape Town and honorary professor at the Open Africa Institute at the University of Stellenbosch. Wiebke Keim is a researcher at France's National Center for Scientific Research, where her work focuses on the internationalization of the social sciences.