Keim examines the global asymmetry of sociology through the centre-periphery structure of international knowledge. The article begins from a critical diagnosis: internationalization often reproduces North Atlantic domination because prestige, publication channels, language, funding and recognition remain unequally distributed. The iconic idea is counter-hegemonic current. A global discipline becomes genuinely plural only when peripheral or Southern scholarly communities are able to produce theory, set agendas and build autonomous circuits of recognition rather than merely supply local case studies to dominant frameworks. Keim’s contribution is important because it moves beyond denunciation. She asks what conditions allow alternatives to emerge despite marginality: institutional density, intellectual self-confidence, local relevance, transnational connection and resistance to dependency. The article therefore treats knowledge as a field of uneven communication. Some positions speak and are heard as universal; others speak and are heard as particular. Counter-hegemony begins when that distribution of audibility is altered. The text is useful for thinking any intellectual project that seeks autonomy from inherited canons. It shows that epistemic plurality is not a mood. It is built through institutions, journals, translations, networks, publics and sustained theoretical production from elsewhere.