Who Writes about Brazil-China?

Epistemic Sovereignty and South South Knowledge Asymmetries in Global International Relations

Autores

  • MENGNI XIN Sichuan International Studies University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21530/ci.v21n1.2026.1661

Palavras-chave:

Brazil-China Relations, Epistemic Sovereignty, Global IR, South-South Relations, Knowledge Production

Resumo

Debates in Global IR increasingly treat International Relations scholarship as an object of inquiry, yet little is known about how two Global South academic communities produce knowledge about a shared bilateral relationship and what such production means for epistemic sovereignty. Drawing on peer-reviewed articles published from 2000 to 2025 in CNKI, CSSCI, SciELO, and six Brazilian International Relations journals, the study combines descriptive bibliometric mapping with qualitative discourse analysis to compare Brazilian and Chinese scholarship on Brazil-China relations. The article argues that the two literatures diverge in scale, agendas, citation practices, and narrative framing. Such asymmetries complicate the ideal of horizontal South-South cooperation and contribute to Global IR debates on reciprocal knowledge production.

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Publicado

2026-07-21

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XIN, M. (2026). Who Writes about Brazil-China? Epistemic Sovereignty and South South Knowledge Asymmetries in Global International Relations. Carta Internacional, 21(1), e1661. https://doi.org/10.21530/ci.v21n1.2026.1661