This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences. It explores not only how knowledge is appropriated in peripheral fields but also how foreign ideas shape those fields and the trajectories of scholars, and uses actor-network theory to explain circulation of knowledge as an extension of socio-technical networks that transcend borders.

"This is a truly interesting and worthwhile case study, introducing a number of new interpretive ideas as well as data of broader relevance. It shows that the relation between the centre and the periphery is not one simply of one-way domination, but that characteristics of the periphery also contribute to its continuing status, though social-science graduates from the periphery can sometimes use foreign relations to structure their own careers."

- Jennifer Platt, University of Sussex, International Sociology

Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at Universidad de las Americas Puebla. He is also Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, and part of the Cambridge team in the research project "International Cooperation in the Social Sciences & Humanities," which is part of the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Union.