ABSTRACT
Study of the production and circulation of knowledge has been part of the sociology of knowledge for a long time. The main focus has been on the production of knowledge in certain places (centres) and its diffusion throughout the world (periphery), from the pioneering studies of Basalla (1967) on imperial science, to the current claims of ‘global South’ as a ‘labile signifier whose content is determined by everyday material and political processes’ (Comaroff and Comaroff 2012: 127). In this period, four standpoints can be identified and will be described to depict the general landscape.
