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. CONTENTS: Prologue. Of Brains and BRICS: An Introduction to BRICS and Social Scientific Knowledge Circulation--A. Sitas. Some Economic Dimensions of Developing Country Emergence and the Role of BRICS--S. Damodaran.

New World Order, New Epistemic Order?--R. Arvanitis et al. BRICS Countries and the Knowledge System--A. Sitas. BRICS in Mainstream Social Sciences: Mapping the Imagination of an Emerging Global South Phenomenon--M. Milia. Social Science Scholars from BRICS Countries as Invited Professors at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: An Empirical Analysis of Their Presentation Topics--W. Keim.

Unlikely Trajectories: BRICS Intellectuals, European Universities, and New Epistemological Roads in the 21st Century--B. Aguerta. Geopolitics of Knowledge from a UK-India Perspective: Precarity, Post-Coloniality and New Trends of Capital Flow Between the Global North and South--V. Kauê Ferreira. The Whole and the Parts: Two Empirical Approaches to Building BRICS Sociology--T. Dwyer. Dreams of Change. Testing the Rewiring vs.

Reconfiguration Hypothesis in BRICS' Mainstream Social Science Discourse--M. Milia. Is BRICS Just Rewiring or Reconfiguring the World System?--A. Sitas.