Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture
1st Edition
Edited
By Corey Payne, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Beverly J. Silver
December 20, 2022
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world faces extraordinary system-level challenges—from deep inequality and xenophobic nationalism to militarism and neofascism, from the refugee crisis and environmental degradation to upsurges of social unrest and escalating rivalries ...
Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System
1st Edition
Edited
By Denis O'Hearn, Paul Ciccantell
July 30, 2021
This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of world-systemic migration as a racialized process. Since the early expansion of the world-system, the movement of people has been its central process. Not only have managers of capital moved to direct profitable expansion; they have also ...
Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Mielants, Katsiaryna Bardos
October 05, 2020
Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future offers diverse perspectives on the complex interrelationship between social challenges and economic crises in the Modern World System. Written with a balance of quantitative, qualitative and theoretical contributions and insights, this ...
Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective: Theoretical Debates and Methodological Innovations
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, Hans-Heinrich Nolte
September 29, 2017
During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in the 1970s, no single core power has attained a hegemonic position in an increasingly polarized world. As income inequalities have become more pronounced in core countries,...
The World-System as Unit of Analysis: Past Contributions and Future Advances
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz
September 21, 2017
World-system analyses have recast the study of between- and within-nation country inequality as constituent aspects of a single field of inquiry: the study of inequality and social stratification as processes that always have been global in their very essence. World-system analyses maintain that ...
Social Movements and World-System Transformation
1st Edition
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By Jackie Smith, MICHAEL GOODHART, Patrick Manning, John Markoff
October 20, 2016
At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social change and other emerging scholars and practitioners to advance new thinking about social movements and global transformation. Social movements around ...
Overcoming Global Inequalities
1st Edition
By Immanuel Wallerstein, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christian Suter
January 29, 2016
This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth and income in a global ...
Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Thomas Reifer
May 30, 2014
Despite prognostications of the "end of history," the 21st century has posed new challenges and a host of global crises. This book takes up the current global economic crisis in relation to new and changing dynamics of territory, authority, and rights in today's global system. The authors explore ...
Mass Migration in the World-system: Past, Present, and Future
1st Edition
By Terry-Ann Jones, Eric Mielants
February 28, 2011
Mass Migration in the World-System brings to light the multiple experiences of migrants across different zones of the world economy. By engaging wide-ranging ideas and theoretical viewpoints of the migration process, the labor market for immigrants, and the rights of migrants, this book provides an...
Asia and the Transformation of the World-System
1st Edition
By Ganesh K. Trichur
August 30, 2010
In this collaboratively authored book world-system scholars critically synthesize Asia's re-emerging centrality despite the myriad financial crises that have punctuated the end of the U.S.-dominated Cold War world order. From different vantage points the authors review the turbulent landscape of ...
Islam and the Orientalist World-system
1st Edition
By Khaldoun Samman, Mazhar Al-Zo'by
October 30, 2008
Featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and relations to global cultural and economic realities. The book confronts a trend today of analyzing ...
Allies As Rivals: The U.S., Europe and Japan in a Changing World-system
1st Edition
By Faruk Tabak
June 15, 2007
This book traces the dynamics of international rivalry from the late 1970s up through the present. Among the members of the dominant North political discord has become prominent recently in debates ranging from the Balkan Wars to the Second Gulf War. Yet a wide array of disputes--launching of ...