Southern theory: the global dynamics of knowledge in social science

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Notes

1. The reader may well notice that there is some measure of ambivalence here. For example, Connell has no hesitation in extolling the virtues of Gyorgy Lukács’ History and class consciousness, a metropolitan classic if ever there was one, ‘as virtually the origin of the modern sociology of knowledge’ (222). (I am reminded that when Lukács once averred that even the worst form of socialism was preferable to the best form of capitalism, Leszek Kolakowski remarked drily, ‘Ah yes, the advantages of Albania over Sweden are self‐evident’.)