Social Science on a World Scale: Connecting the Pages

Parallel projects of class analysis, emerging at different points of the global periphery at similar times, pose the problem of connection and disconnection.  An outline is given of the global economy of knowledge, centered on the global North which is the privileged site of theory (including methodology). Critiques and alternatives are discussed, particularly indigenous knowledge, decolonial perspectives and Southern theory.  Questions are raised about the intellectual workforce, the labour process of knowledge formation, and the circulation of knowledge.  The possibility is raised of a democratic world knowledge economy, based on an epistemology of solidarity. Keywords: Knowledge economy. Class analysis. Southern theory. Indigenous knowledge.