Center-periphery Model Research Articles

Center and Periphery in the Early Modern Spanish Empire: An Art-Historical Perspective on Colonial Latin America

ABSTRACT Art history’s center-periphery paradigm holds metropolitan centers as the originators of artistic models that the periphery copies. Accordingly, European artworks were the primary models for colonial Latin America’s artists who dutifully copied them. Scholarship that accounts for complex artistic negotiations characteristic of colonial societies complicates the long-held view of colonial Latin America as a replicative artistic periphery to Europe. It recognizes mutually constitutive relationships between different groups and artistic practices in the Spanish imperial order. This article highlights select examples of cross-cultural artistic interactions in colonial Mexico and argues that they often operated outside the European/Renaissance preoccupation with artistic originality/innovation as it is characterized in the artist biography genre of early modern Europe. Significantly, Christian global designs were the justification for Spanish power in the Americas, and colonial religious art has often been used to measure the success of that order. Accounting for the strategic copresence of European and Indigenous cosmologies and aesthetics in colonial visual culture is crucial to developing a more rounded and critical understanding of the Christian colonial order in Latin America. It also offers one alternative to the binary and largely unidirectional center-periphery model by highlighting the multidirectional flow of ideas, beliefs, and forms.

Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social ‘Centres’ and ‘Peripheries’

This special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies emerges from the 10th International European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) conference and postgraduate workshop, held in September 2022 at the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) in Budapest, Hungary, in collaboration with the Petőfi Literary Museum – Kassák Museum. Focused on the theme of ‘Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press’, the conference attracted scholars from diverse backgrounds who explored core–periphery tensions in various contexts. The essays included in this issue, stemming from selected presentations at the Budapest conference, offer an introduction to the spatial breadth and historical dimensions of the centre–periphery lens within periodical studies. Building upon theoretical foundations dating back to Raúl Prebisch’s recognition of core–periphery disparities in the 1920s, and subsequent critiques such as Immanuel Wallerstein’s identification of semi-peripheral regions, these essays critically engage with the evolving discourse surrounding core–periphery dynamics. Ultimately, this collection encourages a nuanced understanding of periodicals as cultural maps that survey the complexities of collaboration, competition, and conflict across diverse geographic landscapes. By doing so, it prompts critical interrogation of the centre–periphery model, questions its utility in enriching our understanding of periodical dynamics, and challenges preconceived notions of centrality and peripherality within periodical studies specifically, and cultural studies more generally.

Collective Self-Reliance: Restarting the Concept in the Sahel in the Context of a Multipolarizing World Order

This article is devoted to restarting the concept of “Collective Self-Reliance” (CSR) taking into account the emergence of a multipolar world. Particular attention is paid to the attempts of African countries to get out of the center-periphery model of dependent development through the implementation of this concept. The theoretical foundations of the CSR concept, enshrined in the Arusha Declaration of 1967, the Arusha Program for Collective Self-Reliance and Framework for Negotiations of 1979, and in a number of documents of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the African Union (AU), are presented. The attitude towards CSR is shown in the works of Western experts, scholars from the USSR and Russia, as well as contemporary researchers from the former republics of Yugoslavia. Interpretations of the concept are given, based on the works of Johan Galtung, Samir Amin, and German experts. The practice of applying the concept in Burkina Faso and the neighboring countries, as well as in Tanzania, is shown. A critical analysis of the results of the implementation of the concept and the possibilities of its implementation in the modern realities of global capitalism was carried out. Particular attention is paid to the levels of implementation of the concept as well as the theory and practice of delinking – a temporary decoupling of economic ties with the countries of the “collective West”. It is concluded that, in the 2020s, multi-level implementation of the CSR concept (local, country level, Alliance of Sahel States level, “World Majority” level) seems even more realistic than at the time of its development. This is facilitated by the dominance of non-Western economies in the global framework, macrohistorical processes of decoupling, as well as the key role of the “World Majority” countries in the current economic ties of the Sahel countries. A limiting factor in this is the large-scale flow of Western aid to the region.

China and the Andean Community: Opportunities and Risks out of the Decoupling Process

Even if China and the United States (US) are not heading toward a redux of classic military, Cold war logic, they are locked in an economic confrontation that has quickly turned into a dispute over prospective economic supremacy and heavily driven by technological advances. While the first area of intervention was international trade, progressively, the protectionist policies both nations began to implement were directed toward a broader plan to secure a leading edge in the future of technological development. Then, technological decoupling might be a more accurate term to describe the key courses of action to be followed in the forthcoming hegemonic struggle. In this setting, the question arises, what are the risks and opportunities for China in its relation with the Andean Community (CAN)? The departing argument is that the economic tensions between the world’s largest economies will cause growing competition. On the one hand, this will provide CAN an opportunity to improve their participation in the global economy, but on the other hand, risks for China for securing resources. The results show that Andean Community (CAN) trade relations with both the US and China follow a typical centre-periphery model. Still, it is noteworthy that China’s imports from CAN are almost entirely basic goods, while the US purchases significant amounts of goods that make part of the region’s productive diversification efforts since the 1990s. Regarding the opportunities for CAN, through a novel methodology, it was found that there are effectively some added-value manufactures that can substitute trade between China and the US. They represent a huge opportunity for the Andean nations to shift away from primary export dependency to manufactured goods. Regarding risks for China, on the one hand, the largest competition is expected in minerals such as molybdenum and tungsten; and agricultural products such as buckwheat and fish fats. On the other hand, the US has the lead in current LAC exports, given that it exceeds China’s current purchases

Spectator as worker: the production film of Soviet Georgia in Mikhail Kalatozov’s Salt for Svaneti and A Nail in the Boot

ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that Mikhail Kalatozov’s Salt for Svaneti and A Nail in the Boot serve as examples of the production film and chart the evolving relationship of early Georgian cinema to Soviet (film) production. The term ‘production film’ here delineates a category of early Soviet films that focus predominantly on the production process. I provide a framework for reading Kalatozov’s films as production films within the history of the Georgian Film Studio, tracing the influence of Sergei Tret’iakov and his writings on the production screenplay, as well as within contemporary research on industrial film as a genre, which has tended to overlook Soviet cinema. On a formal level, I interpret scenes of the production process as organised according to the worker’s gaze in the discussed films. The worker’s gaze functions as a device to entice the spectator, imagined as a worker, to participate in and reflect on socialist construction. Reading Kalatozov’s Salt for Svaneti and A Nail in the Boot as production films complicates the centre-periphery model and the standpoint of national cinema in the context of Georgian cinema’s emergence as a significant force in Soviet film production.

Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship

Drawing upon recent extensions of the centre–periphery model, we examine research and publications by academics at the periphery within the present environment of increasing institutional pressures to publish internationally. Reviewing the emergence and the historical development of management as a discipline, we describe the fragmentation in approaches to research that has arisen in this field among countries that are typically considered as the ‘centre’ of worldwide scholarship. We propose and empirically demonstrate that the differentiation within the ‘centre’ becomes largely mirrored at the periphery with respect to attention to societal contexts, research methodology and publishing. Our companion argument that doctoral education in and/or co-authorship ties to various parts of the ‘centre’, or a lack thereof, serve as the main vehicles in generating heterogeneity and some degree of agency at the periphery receives strong support. We also find that when ties to the ‘centre’ are absent contributions from the periphery remain limited. In addition, we show that tendencies towards decontextualized research, quantitative methodologies and publishing in US-based journals have become stronger over time. The article concludes with a discussion of the theoretical contributions, main findings and the implications of our study for the possible futures of research at the periphery.

Sub-Urban or Post-Rural: Suburban Development as a Two-Way Street in the Mid-Twentieth Century

This article argues that because a center–periphery model has dominated our understanding of postwar suburban growth we have failed to fully understand the rural dimensions of that growth. That misunderstanding resulted from the urban orientation of sociologists who studied the suburbs. As a consequence, we have also not appreciated the extent to which rural political outlooks shaped the postwar backlash against New Deal liberalism in the suburbs.

Ideas of well-being economy in the theories of local self-government

Mostly center–periphery model of territorial development, long-standing domination of transfers in the structure of municipal budget revenues have formed the protracted, chronic nature of the socioeconomic problems. This necessitates refining goals, principles and content of municipal government, especially in the economic sphere. The paper aims to revise the propositions of the theories of local self-government against the backdrop of the emerging concept of well-being economy, which together constitute the methodological basis of the research. The study applies a suite of general scientific methods, including retrospective analysis and systematisation. Based on the review of pre-revolutionary works of Russian scientists and essayists for 1870–1917 devoted to zemstvo and town and city self-government, the paper deduces an image of well-being of a territory under local government. In particular, its well-being presupposes providing local internal and external amenities, care for food security, health, education, safety from various threats (fires, diseases, crime); organising the economic life of a territory through the municipalisation of socially important industries and services, generation of employment, as well as stimulation of economic activity through cooperation and issuing loans. Having compared the narratives of the well-being economy concept and the propositions of the theories of local self-government, the paper demonstrates that this concept can be implemented by means of local self-government, since their theoretical bases correspond to each other. The study concludes that there is a need to realise the potential of the local government system laid down by Alexander II, emperor of Russia. This requires making the interaction between residents and local government closer, disseminating knowledge about municipal government, and providing greater financial opportunities to local authorities so that they could concentrate on addressing local problems and expressing residents’ interests.

A study on Liuzhou digital economy and urban carrying capacity under center-periphery model

This paper takes Liuzhou City as the research object to empirically test the short-term and longterm dynamic relationship between digital economy and urban carrying capacity. The research finds that: (1) Digital economy has a significant role in improving urban carrying capacity, but it presents a certain degree of instability. (2) The digital economy is characterized by centrifugal force

URBANO CONTEMPORÂNEO E ESTRUTURA CENTRO-PERIFERIA

The contemporary urban phenomenon has challenged studies that seek to establish generalizations about spatial structuring, leading to continual questioning of center-periphery models. The proliferation of shopping malls towards the "peripheries" represents an important indicator capable of promoting this debate. Thus, the article analyzes the spatial structuring logic of Brazil's shopping center sector, particularly its expansion into the Brazilian Amazon. To that end, it raises two questions: Is the Brazilian center-periphery model still able to explain shopping centers' spatia distribution, considering the regions and hierarchy of the cities in which they are located? Based on the hierarchy and intra-urban space of its cities, how does this spatial distribution take place in the Brazilian Amazon? The sector's data is mapped based on information from the Brazilian Association of Malls and the Regic/IBGE/2018 study. On the intra-urban scale, it establishes three locational types (central, pulverized, fragmented) based on the uses within a 1 km radius of the malls. The study concludes that the center-periphery model has not lost its explanatory validity. However, it must be improved to capture the complexity of contemporary spatial structuring, dialoguing on multiple scales, and different socio-spatial formations. Keywords: Contemporary Urban, Center, Periphery, Shopping Mall, Brazilian Amazon.

The Imperative to Shift Armenia’s Peripherality: Contradictions of Institutionalisation and Functioning in Conditions of Democratic Transition

This article offers a discussion about the possibility for Armenia’s democratisation, and shift of its peripherality. The intention is to develop a thinking around the opportunities towards creating an environment in which a democratic transformation may be possible. The article uses the centre-periphery model and a decentring research agenda to build on the argument and a possibility for the shift of Armenia’s peripherality by means of its civil society. The article argues that if the former practices have failed the country today, it may be relevant to consider the shifting of former practices, which may as well result in shifting country’s peripherality. In this context, the process of democratisation of modern Armenia, which is conditioned by a number of factors, presupposing, first of all, the active participation of its civil society, is analysed. This article concentrates on the analysis of one of the necessary conditions for democracy and democratic transition, namely country’s local agency, the civil society. The article is prepared based on the premise that public policies shall follow opinion and expertise of country’s local agency.

Austrian national identity in the centre-periphery model

ABSTRACT This article deals with the question of Austrian national identity, seen as a case study set within the theoretical frameworks of the centre-periphery model, and in particular, the theories of cultural emancipation of a periphery from the preponderance of a centre. The article examines , firstly, the unequal partnership between Germany and Austria, whose roots are to be found in the rivalry between the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, and, secondly, the way Austria invented its concept of a cultural centre after 1945. Finally, emphasis is put on selected political, cultural, and social phenomena, as well as processes that have happened since the 1960s, which question the traditional image of Austria. The salient element of this deconstruction process is by means of unearthing Austria’s memory of the Nazi past, which facilitates the emergence of a critical culture of remembrance and undermines the artificial post-war construct of Austrian national identity.

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE CENTER- PERIPHERY MODEL IN EUROPE

This paper investigates the effect of spatial divisions and their demarcations on the formation of networks and the inadequacies of specific policy implementations in mitigating marginalization processes. Despite the controversies surrounding numerous theoretical premises, the center-periphery model remains widely accepted. Implications of these ideas by synthesizing critical findings from a vast array of prior literature using a comprehensive bibliometric analysis have been clarified. Innovation and a readjustment of regional policy are required to address the disparities between the center and the periphery. Regional development policies of the European Union aim to reconcile the socioeconomic chasm between prosperous and peripheral regions. The localization theory of regional development provides insights into the spatial distribution of firms, the dispersion of economic prosperity, and the potential for future growth. These insights provide valuable perspectives on regional policies and the factors that influence the geographical distribution of economic activity.

Digital inhibitors in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic

The novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) global pandemic has brought vast changes to people’s lifestyles in general and has changed business processes globally. The education systems are not spared from the COVID-19 impact and business delivery procedures. Africa mainly being the consumer of digital goods and services and not necessarily the producer as shown in the centre periphery model was not spared either. This paper explores the effects of COVD- 19 at institutions of higher learning and how they were immensely affected resulting in increased use of the web 2.0. However, the digital learning methods encountered digital inhibitors which include but not limited to accessibility, connectivity, social, geographical, economic, legal and technological digital issues. Challenges faced by the community of higher learning institutions in Zimbabwe embracing the digital learning tools are discussed. Using a qualitative approach, this article interrogates the impact of these higher education digital inhibitors in Africa with special reference to Zimbabwe during and post COVID-19 global pandemic. The research instruments used were online interviews and experiences. It is against this background that the writers unearth digital inhibitors in higher education during the COVID-19 era. Post COVID-19 era cannot be still business as usual. It is recommended that to bridge the gap there is need to consider Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as basic necessity not a luxury that have too be accessed by all as well as being in a position to operate the tools and having information literacy skills.

Brussels 1900 Vienna: Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and Other Cultural Practices ed. by Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer, and Chris Reyns-Chikuma

Reviewed by: Brussels 1900 Vienna: Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and Other Cultural Practices ed. by Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer, and Chris Reyns-Chikuma Mathias Meert Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer, and Chris Reyns-Chikuma, eds., Brussels 1900 Vienna: Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and Other Cultural Practices. Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2022. 453 pp. Metropolitan reality plays a key role in the study of modernity: the development of urban life in turn-of-the-century Europe affected literary and artistic movements across the continent and facilitated mobility and cultural [End Page 79] exchanges in and through various networks. Research has highlighted the importance of the major European capitals in this regard, often strengthening the view of Paris as the centre of Europe's rapidly evolving cultural life at the end of the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, other centers also existed and contributed significantly to the development of European modernism. In their edited volume Brussels 1900 Vienna, Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer, and Chris Reyns-Chikuma focus on the importance of networks, dispositions, and connections between Brussels and Vienna, seeking to deepen and extend the research that has been done on the internationalism of the Belgian-Austrian axis. As the editors emphasize in their highly informative introduction, the complexity of European development of the fine arts in modernity cannot be grasped through a binary, center-periphery model: relations and developments in literature, music, and the visual and performing arts ultimately take shape in "networks with many ties of diverse quality" (2). The central concept of the network informs the research perspective of the overall volume and several of its collected contributions, both on a thematic and methodological level. The volume brings together sixteen contributions on various aspects of the Brussels-Vienna axis, which are divided into five sections. Besides the introduction, the volume also features a handy index with names, topics, and places. The first section ("Staging Modernisms") brings together research on key figures from European Modernism such as Maeterlinck, Hofmannsthal, and the retheatricalization movement (Anke Bosse), the critical reception of Maeterlinck's plays in Vienna (Sigurd Paul Scheichl), and the understudied reception of Schnitzler's plays in Belgium (Piet Defraeye). The second section ("Transpositions") focuses on aspects of reception and literary exchanges (Hubert Roland), Stefan Zweig's translations of Emile Verhaeren's poetry (Norbert Bachleitner), concepts of exoticism in Brussels and Vienna (Szilvia Ritz), and the relationship between Musil's novel The Man without Qualities and Art Nouveau (Aniel Guxholli). The third section ("Transformations") shifts the focus to visual arts and architecture, with contributions on the reception of Belgian art in the Viennese Secession (Inga Rossi-Schrimpf) and the role of the Belgian "other modernity" in Viennese art criticism (Sylvie Arlaud). Contributions on the understudied topic of child art, primitivism and partronage (Megan Brandow-Faller), on the Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (Clément Dessy), and Frans Masereel's transnational visual narratives (Chris Reyns-Chikuma) also showcase the importance of [End Page 80] the various transformations taking place in the arts at the time. In the fourth section ("Resonances"), the research focuses on Vienna and Brussels as cities of music, with contributions on La Jeune Belgique and Arnold Schoenberg's well-known Pierrot Lunaire (Alexander Carpenter) and the strong tradition of violin music in Brussels, Liège, and Vienna from the nineteenth century onward (Guillaume Tardif). In the final section ("Café and Psyche"), the contributions touch upon the broader cultural networks that inform the rapidly urbanizing societies in Brussels and Vienna, respectively, with a focus on fin-de-siècle café life in Vienna and Brussels (Hans Vandevoorde) and on the international expansion (and professionalization) of psychoanalysis through translated works of Julien Varendonck and Anna Freud (Birgit Lang). While the titles of some of the sections may conceptually overlap (transposition, transformation, resonances), the various case studies nonetheless showcase a broad, complex, and diverse panorama of Belgian, Austrian, and European art. The studied corpus covers the era from the late 1880s to the early 1930s and performs multiple crossings: it not only crosses political, national, and linguistic borders but is also fundamentally intermedial, involving among others magazines, translations of (literary) texts, performances, reproductions of art, concerts, exhibitions, and so...

An intellectual history of P.C. Ray’s papers on the nitrites of mercury

Prafulla Chandra Ray’s contribution to the birth and development of an ‘Indian school of chemistry’ is well documented. But much of this recognition is situated in the realm of the social history of science. My aim in this essay is to view Ray through the lens of intellectual history and, above all, to shed fresh light on his actual contribution to the chemistry of the nitrites of mercury. Toward this end the focus here will be on five of Ray’s earliest papers on this family of compounds. We will see that the received narrative that Ray discovered mercurous nitrite is problematic. Examining the texts of his early papers it will be seen that Ray’s main contributions to the nitrites of mercury were (i) his apparently serendipitous discovery of a method of synthesizing mercurous nitrite; and (ii) the identification of and solutions to a series of interrelated Kuhnian normal science problems pertaining to this family of compounds. Furthermore (iii) the tools of intellectual history will help discern an underlying ‘plot structure’ informing the tenure of his work; and finally (iv) we will see that the centre-periphery model that attends the social historiography of science in colonial and post-colonial India plays no role in illuminating Ray’s early creative work on the nitrites of mercury.

Оценка возможностей и ограничений развития коммунальной инфраструктуры на принципах государственно-частного партнерства в регионах России

Public-private partnership (PPP) is one of the promising mechanisms for attracting private funds for infrastructure development. In modern Russia, projects based on the principles of PPP have been implemented for more than 17 years, but so far this topic has not found sufficient coverage in geographical research, although in general experience has been gained in assessing the effects of the implementation of infrastructure projects, and in economics several significant works have been devoted to the application of PPP. In the article, using the example of communal infrastructure, the author presents the concept of a methodology for assessing the regions of Russia on the feasibility of developing infrastructure in them using PPP mechanisms, assessing the opportunities and limitations for the development of such infrastructure. As part of the methodology, an integral index is proposed based on a set of indicators that reflect the region’s need for the development of communal infrastructure, its institutional, budgetary, and financial capabilities, and other factors. Based on the results of the analysis, six groups of regions were identified depending on the final score of the integral index. As a rule, the most economically developed regions, including the largest industrial and resource-producing regions, have the best opportunities for implementing PPP projects, primarily due to the increased competencies of the responsible authorities and the orderliness of the budget system. A definition of PPP is put forward as an institutional innovation that spreads along the center-periphery model. Also, based on the results of the study, proposals are put forward for the development of PPP in regions lagging behind in terms of capabilities.

EVALUATIVE (DE)INTENSIFIERS IN THE SERVICE OF POLITE ACADEMIC EXPERT COMMUNICATION: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL SPECIFICS

The article actualises the connection between the category of politeness and the category of expert evaluation seen as a special discursive evaluation variety in the scientific and expert socio-communicative practice. (De)intensifiers of evaluation — lexical and grammatical means used for strengthening or softening of categorical character of evaluative statements in the academic reviews — are considered as elements of politeness strategies, aimed at maintaining of the reviewer’s and author’s image. The necessity of polite scientific expert communication is explained by the parameters of socio-communicative situation, in which academic journal reviews are embedded, first of all, by the fact that the new scientific knowledge presented in reviews has not yet been verified and is therefore particularly vulnerable to criticism. Due to image risks, reviewers are expected to perform cooperative communicative behavior in order to mitigate the effects of criticism. The study of evaluation (de)intensifiers as politeness markers is embedded in the modern discourse-linguistic and socio-communicative research paradigm. The research relevance is also explained by the insufficient comparative study of (de)intensification in the evaluative language. The qualitative-quantitative content analysis of 50 German- and Russian-language academic reviews in linguistics allows to highlight the means of (de)intensification of expert evaluation and to present them as center-periphery models (depending on the frequency of lexical and grammatical units in the data). In addition, the inclusion of these means into certain strategies of positive and negative politeness is considered. The hypothesis of linguistic and cultural specificity in the use of contextual (de)intensifiers of evaluation is confirmed.

Industrial Regional Space in the “Core–Periphery” System in Russia

Abstract—the center-periphery model is used to explain modern geographical processes and phenomena, but nobody systematically studies the position of Russian regions in the system of center-peripheral relations. The current study is aimed at eliminating this gap. The purpose of research is to test the methodology for identifying central and peripheral regions in the Russian industrial space and the main features of the industrial development of different types of regions. Statistical and mathematical-statistical research methods based on Rosstat data in 2005–2020. The sample included 83 subjects of the Federation (with the exception of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol), for which there are comparable data series. All regions are assigned to one of the types: core, sub-center, sub-periphery, periphery. The nuclear regions include highly industrial regions with a high base and competitive industries. The group of sub-center regions includes medium-sized industrial regions with high dynamics. The sub-periphery concentrated 40% of the Russian regions. Regions of this group were further divided into subtypes according to the dynamics of industrial development and specialization. The periphery was divided into 2 subtypes: 1) depressed regions with a high base shrinking in the post-soviet period; 2) underdeveloped regions with a low base. It is noted that shifts in the center-periphery system are inertial. Over the past 15 years, the concentration of industrial production in cores and sub-centers has increased, but the investment dynamics is higher in sub-centers. The role of old-industrial sub-peripheral regions is most strongly reduced. The role of the underdeveloped periphery in industrial employment of the population is increasing. The findings can be used to further adjust the regional industrial policy and develop a strategy for the spatial development of Russia.

Hegemony and Inequality in Global Science: Problems of the Center-Periphery Model

The autonomous global system of science, grounded in collegial networks of scientists, publishing, and cross-border papers, is expanding rapidly and spreading to a growing number of countries. Strong national science systems have emerged outside Euro-America. Yet the multipolarization of economic capacity and scientific output plays out within a continuing Euro-American science world regulated by an inside/outside binary. Global science remains primarily Anglo-American in language, leading institutions, disciplinary and publishing regimes, agendas, and topics. Non-English and endogenous knowledges are excluded. The article critiques the world-systems theory interpretation of relations of power in science. The determinist center-periphery model fails to grasp the growth and pluralization of global science and its relation with national science systems. It normalizes the Eurocentrism it opposes, radically underestimating agency outside the “center” countries. The article argues for a more ontologically open theorization of global power in science, in terms of cultural hegemony, and for an ecology-of-knowledges approach.