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- Editorial Note
Authors: Andrej Grubačić, Rallie Murray
Pages: 1 - 3
Abstract: The editor's introduction for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of Journal of World-Systems Research.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1180
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Introduction to the Symposium
Authors: Marilyn Grell-Brisk
Pages: 4 - 24
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1179
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Einstein’s Problem
Authors: Albert J. Bergesen
Pages: 25 - 38
Abstract: This paper focuses upon the human migratory trajectory from eons on planet Earth to slowly moving out into orbital space and whether world-systems theory must craft new theoretical frames to grasp the possible problems arising from the existence of a single social system comprised of actors distributed across terrestrial and orbital platforms, dubbed here as “Einstein’s Problem.”
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1154
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- A Thermodynamic Interpretation of the Progression of Historical Processes
Authors: Mark Paul Anthony Ciotola
Pages: 39 - 70
Abstract: This article examines the long-term rise of human civilization in terms of the emergence of socio-physical dissipative structures, including cities, agricultural systems, infrastructure and relevant economic enterprises. The laws of thermodynamics, the Principle of Least Time, and the phenomena of complexity and emergence are briefly reviewed and accepted as assumptions. The concepts of thermodynamic work, power and efficiency are likewise reviewed. Also examined are the emergence of medium-term dissipative structures, such as the rise and fall of dynasties, resource and economic bubbles in terms of thermodynamic theory. The impact of thermodynamic constraints on the emergence and fall of such structures is examined. Particular attention is paid to the interactions between physical resource use and the social progression of those structures. Areas of applicability to World-Systems is discussed.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1175
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Insights from General Complexity Evolution for Our Current Situation
Authors: David J. LePoire
Pages: 71 - 89
Abstract: Will the pace of change in our global technological society continue to accelerate' Or will it follow the path of most previous technological waves, which slowed down as they matured' The purpose of this paper is to explore how historical general evolutionary processes involving increased energy flows and corresponding higher complexity levels might have contributed to the global problems we face today with regard to energy, environmental, inequality, and demographics. This situation will be compared with various integrated complexity evolutionary models of three major phases in evolution (life, humans, and civilization). While natural ecosystems seem to have both positive and negative feedback mechanisms to prevent the onset of senescence, the current economic system seems to have avoided constraints to enter a positive feedback loop that results in unsustainable resource use and pollution. There are still many contrasting interpretations of what this means for the near future, but integrating insights from these perspectives may help us better understand these processes.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1176
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Anti-Systemic Movements in the Attention Economy
Authors: Aarushi Bhandari
Pages: 90 - 124
Abstract: In recent decades, anti-systemic movements feature new forms of communication for organizing efforts: the use of information and communication technologies. Research on information and communication technologies suggests that mobile phones and internet access have increasingly facilitated horizontal communication for anti-systemic movements across the world-system, creating space for rapid and instantaneous organization and mobilization. However, existing scholarship benefits from a critical evaluation of claims about horizontality by addressing the political economy of information and communication technologies from a world-systems analysis perspective. Specifically, information and communication technology devices and platforms—from cellphones to social media channels—are designed by powerful corporations that are often based in powerful core and semi-periphery nations. The majority of these corporations are based in the hegemonic core of the United States. Within the present context of waning material resources across the world-system, these corporations profit from an online attention economy. Just as traditional material economies exploit the labor and natural resources from the periphery to extract wealth for core states, the attention economy exploits the psychologies and behaviors of periphery populations to extract wealth for core countries. Thus, some of the most powerful institutions in the world-system control the algorithms and structures where anti-systemic movements compete for peoples’ attention. This study utilizes the Mass Mobilization Data Project 1990-2018 historical dataset to determine which kinds of anti-systemic movements thrive as information and communication technology access expands globally. Using population-averaged negative binomial panel models on protest counts, I determine that as information and communication technologies expand, anti-systemic movements that are unlikely to threaten U.S. hegemony thrive, and conversely, anti-systemic movements that pose serious threats to U.S. hegemony and the present capitalist world-system are stifled. To unpack these findings, I draw from the cultural political economy approach, a framework that describes how some imaginations become a zeitgeist over competing imaginations for economic and political realities.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1100
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Theories of Antifascism in the Interwar Mediterranean Part II
Authors: Kristin Plys
Pages: 125 - 148
Abstract: The current proliferation of authoritarianism across both core and periphery is one political articulation of the current crisis of the capitalist world-system. Authoritarianism similarly proliferated in previous periods of crisis, in the 1970s and 1980s in the peripheries, and in the 1930s and 1940s in the core. In Part I of this essay, I detail how world-systems analysts have long been attuned to describing and analyzing chaotic moments in between systemic cycles of hegemony, but less attention has been given to the rise of authoritarianism in these chaotic phases. The multiple crises of hegemonic transition engenders an ideological contestation between Fascism and Communism revealing the limitations of Liberalism, the foundational ideology of the world-system. In such periods of hegemonic breakdown, anarchists developed autonomous strategies of resisting authoritarian rule at both the point of production (the worker-occupied and self-managed workplace) and at the point of leisure (the autonomous zone of the infoshop or café as resources and interventions in the joint struggle against capitalism and authoritarianism. These theories are important to recover for the contemporary fight against a resurgent authoritarianism across the world-system in the current conjuncture.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1138
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- From Wallerstein to Rothschild
Authors: Andrzej Turkowski, Tomasz Zarycki
Pages: 149 - 173
Abstract: This article investigates a neglected issue of the influence of systemic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe on the (sub)field of social sciences and more broadly on local fields of power. Our case study concerns a vibrant and internationally connected network of scholars from various disciplines and generations who were involved in developing and popularizing a dependency paradigm in communist Poland. As we show that the fall of communism and related transformation in the Polish field of power brought about dramatic shift in terms of their career trajectories as well as their ideological orientation and in consequence a sudden disappearance of this academic ecosystem. On this basis we argue about wider changes—encompassing marginalization of the “critical,” autonomous tradition and strengthening of heteronomic trends in social sciences in the region but also at the global level.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1135
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Trapped In The Semi-Periphery
Authors: Anthony William Donald Anastasi
Pages: 174 - 192
Abstract: This paper attempts to explain the middle-income trap from the lens of an amended world-systems theory, in which capitalists within the semi-periphery are taken into account. It rejects that developing countries should pursue an import-substitution industrialization strategy, and instead argues developing countries should pursue a strategy similar to South Korea’s. An export-oriented industrialization strategy, with tight limits on foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs) operating within the economy, building up state capacity in order to form a close collaborative, not corrupting relationship between private businesses and the state, and calls for heavy investments in human capital and industrial upgrading. This would ensure that surplus value does not leave the country nor does it lay idle in the hands of domestic capitalists. It also calls for changes to the global economic governance regime, such as common rules for FDI and taxes on MNCs, on the part of developing countries in order to create a more development friendly international economic system.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1119
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Reflections on Walden Bello
Authors: Javier Ezcurdia, James Anderson
Pages: 193 - 211
Abstract: The online censorship and subsequent arrest of scholar-activist Walden Bello is the latest instance of a disconcerting trend during a period of hegemonic crisis. To understand how a respected scholar ended up in jail and in grave legal trouble on very feeble accounts, we have to unpack the full implications of this case, and place it in relation to ongoing structural changes within the world-system—namely, the decline of the United States as global hegemon, the ascendancy of far-right authoritarianism as a popular political framework, and the use of institutions and technologies developed under liberal-democratic rule by authoritarian regimes for purposes of social control during a period of flux. The crisis offers an opportunity to reconfigure systemic arrangements through coordinated solidarity networks characterized by forms of organization and ways of relating that embody prerogatives and values different from those that predominate in the modern world-system and from those that reproduce the capitalist world-economy; which, more likely than not, will have authoritarian tendencies in the decades to come. As a conclusion, we offer some of the possibilities the global left has for these upcoming decades in regards of large coalitions aimed at changing the structure of the world-system at large.
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1155
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- The Field is Upon Us
Authors: Adrienne Pine
Pages: 212 - 218
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1178
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- The Silence of the Intellectuals
Authors: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Pages: 219 - 226
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1177
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- The Violent Crackup of the Post-WWII International Order
Authors: William I. Robinson
Pages: 227 - 232
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1153
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- The Challenges of Building the World Women’s Democratic
Confederalism
Authors: Eleonora Gea Piccardi
Pages: 233 - 245
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1152
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Review Of: Creolizing the Modern
Authors: Miloš Jovanović
Pages: 246 - 249
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1181
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Review Of: Creolizing the Modern
Authors: José Itzigsohn
Pages: 250 - 252
PubDate: 2023-03-21
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1182
Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
- Editorial Note
Authors: Andrej Grubačić
Pages: 178 - 180
Abstract: The editor's introduction for the Summer/Autumn 2022 issue of Journal of World-Systems Research.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1143
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Introduction to the Special Issue
Authors: Spencer Louis Potiker
Pages: 181 - 187
Abstract: Editor's introduction to the special issue on non-state movements and spaces.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1142
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems
Perspective
Authors: Spencer Louis Potiker, Dana Williams, Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
Pages: 188 - 218
Abstract: While world-systems anti-systemic movement scholarship has briefly acknowledged the existence of anti-state “cultural” movements—namely, autonomous indigenous movements in the periphery and anarchist worker movements in the core and semi-periphery—it relegates them to secondary importance to statist “political” movements. In this paper, we provide an intervention in the world-systems anti-systemic movements literature by centering anti-state movements in our analysis. In order to investigate the mechanisms essential for anti-state, anti-systemic movements over the longue durée of the world-system, we operationalize a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) using nine cases of non-state spaces from different geographies and historical time periods throughout the world-system. We use a Boolean crisp set, or binary approach, denoting the presence, or absence of factors to determine the pathways that lead to the variation between explicitly anarchist and implicitly anarchistic movements as well as short-term or long-term non-state spaces established by anti-state movements. We find that the core and semi-periphery classification of anarchist movements is false. We also find that non-state spaces succeed when they are not repressed by statist anti-systemic movements or core imperial nation-states. In effect, the anti-systemic political actor replicates the logic of the core nation-state it claims to be opposed to when it comes to its repression of non-state spaces and movements. Prior to the “liberal geoculture” (1848–1968), even core states had difficulty repressing non-state spaces, and after the liberal geoculture semi-periphery and periphery states have had difficulty repressing non-state spaces.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1097
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Maroon Movements Against Empire
Authors: Crystal Eddins
Pages: 219 - 241
Abstract: Marronnage, or escape from slavery, was a longue-durée form of resistance to slavery in Haiti and was also, as Sylvia Wynter argues, a “dialectical response to the capitalist plantation system”—a system that aimed to deny humanity, sever social and cultural ties, and commodified people and their labor power. This article, as well as works by others such as Cedric Robinson (1983), Sylvia Wynter (n.d.), and Jean Casimir (2020), argues that marronnage was a fundamentally anti-capitalist mode of resistance, socio-political critique, and grassroots mobilizing. In the immediate moments when enslaved people fled plantations, they reclaimed possession of themselves and other tangible and intangible resources, such as their time, social relationships, forms of knowledge, and labor skills that enslavers stole from them. When maroons re-appropriated resources and mobilized themselves, they challenged and subverted colonial plantation structures, contributing to the downfall of both Spanish and French imperial slaveries in Haiti. During and after the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, Africa-born rebels and maroons were central to the mobilizing structures that successfully fought to abolish slavery and overturn colonialism—representing an astounding rupture to the prevailing Atlantic world-system that was dependent upon enslaved labor. Even after the post-independence Haitian government replicated aspects of the colonial administration, as Casimir (2020) points out, the formerly enslaved masses of Haiti organized themselves into communal social arrangements that prioritized subsistence labor and extended kin networks, and continued to rely on marronnage to protest exploitative economic practices. This article explores the trajectory of marronnage in Haiti as a continuous struggle, emphasizing the ways that it exposed the violence, exploitation, and oppression inherently embedded in the Atlantic world-system, and exposed the limits of the governing Haitian states.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1108
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Critical World-Systems Analysis
Authors: Marilyn Grell-Brisk
Pages: 242 - 266
Abstract: From the first #BlackLivesMatter (#BLM) in 2013 to the summer of 2020, America and the rest of the world have been compelled, at minimum, to pay attention to the continuous rejection of Black being(ness). Black Lives Matter! isn’t just a call to attend to police brutality against Black people in America, it is a rallying call demanding that Black folx’s humanity be acknowledged and accorded without question—that we be seen. It is a declaration of resistance against the antiblackness that is embedded within racial capitalism. And, it is a demand that comes from years of frustration from Black lives being continuously and violently disregarded, of seeing “Black faces in high places” but no tangible institutional relief from the ever-present abjection of Blackness and Black folx. I argue that to pre-figure Black futurity, the movement for Black lives must necessarily be a movement that actively calls attention to and resists disposability regimes that highlight the tension between the world-system’s economics of inequality and its professed politics of equality. I contend that the active rejection of antiblackness and the movement for Black lives must be transnational in scope, and while implicitly occupying non-state anti-systemic spaces, it must reimagine the logics of solidarity, simultaneously embodying Black transnational and translocal collaboration; it must be radical in scope, seeking not simply to fix the existing structures of inequality and oppression but envision new structures, a complete reorganization of society where antiblackness no longer exists. To begin the work, I propose a multilevel analytical framework.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1103
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- The Ins and Outs of Autonomy
Authors: Ryan Knight
Pages: 267 - 292
Abstract: Drawing from processes of autonomous community organization in Mexico, this paper will interrogate and rethink the borders and boundaries of autonomy. Rather than articulating autonomy as some fully separated space with clearly delineated borders, this paper will show how struggles for autonomy in Mexico are constantly navigating their insides and outsides, organizing and inhabiting the border or boundary space. With this, we can begin to re-conceptualize autonomy without state-like borders as something in constant movement. In the same way, we can begin to take seriously the complexities and intricacies of autonomous struggles as they play out in practice.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1096
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Postcolonial and Anti-Systemic Resistance by Indigenous Movements in
Mexico
Authors: Carlos Lucio, David Barkin
Pages: 293 - 319
Abstract: Indigenous resistance against neoliberalism reveals numerous social transformations and political contributions in the context of a postcolonial transition from the world-system. The Mexican indigenous movement, inspired by the Zapatista rebellion, renewed conversations between the country's diverse indigenous peoples but also established new alliances with non-indigenous sectors of national society in defense of the commons and alternative ways of life to the civilizational order of capital. The radicalism, led by the indigenous peoples in their process of transformation into a social subject deploys new forms of collective action that break with the ideological discourses and narratives of modernity. As in other parts of the global South, communities in Mexico are actively engaged in consolidating their ability to govern themselves, through strategies of autonomy and self-determination, providing a wide variety of services to improve the quality of life of their members, diversifying their productive base and renewing their cultural heritage, while defending and caring for their territories. The indigenous movement is currently experiencing a conceptual and discursive renewal that inverts the assimilationist thesis implicit in the slogan of “Never again a Mexico without us,” from which their historical exclusion in the project of nation was questioned, to “We, without Mexico" that poses a radical questioning of the worn-out model of the nation-state, which assumes as its main objective to think (and act) beyond the State and capital. As part of international networks and alliances, they are engaged in leaving the world-system.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1113
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Colonial Management of Iranian Kurdistan; with Emphasis on Water Resources
Authors: Allan Hassaniyan, Mansour Sohrabi
Pages: 320 - 343
Abstract: Iranian Kurdistan (a region referred to by the Kurds as Rojhelat/East Kurdistan), which possesses a large variety of minerals, oil reserves, dense forests, and massive surface and underground water resources, has for decades supplied the economic, agricultural, and industrial sectors in Iran, mainly benefiting the development of the central parts of the country and bringing significant income to the state. This has occurred while the Kurdish region remains among the most economically underdeveloped and deprived areas of Iran. The Iranian state’s economic and developmental approach to Kurdistan’s natural resources, and the mechanisms of extractions and exploitation of these resources, have resulted in extensive environmental degradation, affecting the public health in the Kurdish region, and not least de-development and further underdevelopment in this region. Taking into account the extent of extraction and use of Kurdistan’s natural resources reveals the Kurdish-state relation as an internal core-peripheral relationship, resulting in the centre’s destruction of the natural environment and exploitation of the natural resources of the periphery. This paper sheds light on the Iranian state’s economic and developmental activities, with a focus on water resources in the Kurdish region and the consequences of their use on the natural environment.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1081
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Theories of Antifascism in the Interwar Mediterranean Part I
Authors: Kristin Plys
Pages: 344 - 358
Abstract: The current proliferation of authoritarianism across both core and periphery is one political articulation of the current crisis of the capitalist world-system. Authoritarianism similarly proliferated in previous periods of crisis, in the 1970s and 80s in the peripheries, and in the 1930s and 40s in the core. In Part I of this essay, I detail how world-systems analysts have long been attuned to describing and analyzing chaotic moments in between systemic cycles of hegemony, but less attention has been given to the rise of authoritarianism in these chaotic phases. The multiple crises of hegemonic transition engenders an ideological contestation between Fascism and Communism revealing the limitations of Liberalism, the foundational ideology of the world-system. In such periods of hegemonic breakdown, anarchists developed autonomous strategies of resisting authoritarian rule at both the point of production (the worker-occupied and self-managed workplace) and at the point of leisure (the autonomous zone of the infoshop or café as resources and interventions in the joint struggle against capitalism and authoritarianism. These theories are important to recover for the contemporary fight against a resurgent authoritarianism across the world-system in the current conjuncture.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1105
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Interrogating Structural Conditions for Agricultural Production
Authors: Andrew R. Smolski
Pages: 359 - 390
Abstract: An important, contemporary focus of scholarship is on the necessary structural conditions to promote a sustainable transition in agriculture. This study examines the possible role of anti-systemic structures, delinked and exilic, in conditioning transitions to agroecological production. I conduct a comparative-historical analysis of two periods, 1959–1991 and 1992–2016, within a single case, Cuba. The results provide evidence that the prevalence of delinking with incorporation maintains an industrial model of agricultural production, even while bringing the law of value under sovereign control. In this way, the existence of delinking as one type of anti-systemic structure is not a sufficient condition for increasing agroecological production; although data suggests that delinking can provide important tools to support sustainable transitions in future periods. In the second period characterized by increasing prevalence of an exilic structure in conjunction with delinking, results demonstrate that anti-systemic structures operate complementary to one another and can maintain partial incorporation while increasing the application of agroecological production. As such, this study provides a rationale for future research and action on anti-systemic structural mixture conditioning sustainable transitions.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1117
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Tributary World-Ecologies, Part II
Authors: Çağrı İdiman
Pages: 391 - 414
Abstract: This essay—the second in a two part series—reconceptualizes the High Medieval Mediterranean World as a tributary world-ecology. Area Studies view the High Medieval Mediterranean as a culturally fragmented world, while the Commercialization Theorists only unite these fragments externally through trade relations. In contrast, Marxist Theorists almost exclusively focus on Medieval Europe through production relations. I argue that the High Medieval Mediterranean can be theorized as a tributary world-ecology. I advance two interrelated arguments. First, I underline the socio-ecological similarities and differences between the North Sea (addressed in Part I) and the Mediterranean Worlds. The Mediterranean world-ecology was premised upon the breakdown of world-imperial redistribution mechanisms and localization of peasant exploitation. This was exemplified by the development of iqta’, pronoia and similar land-tenure regimes across the Mediterranean World. The localization peasant exploitation, however, did not result in autarchy, but rather in the formation of a world-market. In fact, novel agrarian relations, coupled with the climatological upturn and technological innovations, led to the growth of surpluses in the hands of the aristocracies. This in turn stimulated artisanal production and revival of trade. Consequently, the Mediterranean World, like the North Sea World, witnessed further geographical integration and economic growth. Second, I emphasize the similarities and differences between the crises of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Worlds. Their socio-ecological relations reached their limits when the climate began to cool and destabilize, and organizational innovations could no longer produce sufficient surpluses. Consequently, both world-ecologies collapsed, finding its clearest expression in the Black Death. In turn, the Mediterranean, just like the end of the Roman period, disintegrated. The Western Mediterranean and the North Seas were integrated on the basis of capitalist productive and commercial networks, resulting in the birth of European capitalist world-ecology. In contrast, the Eastern Mediterranean would be reintegrated on the basis of the tributary networks of the Ottoman World-Empire.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1122
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Power, Profit, and Prometheanism, Part I
Authors: Jason W. Moore
Pages: 415 - 426
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1140
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy in Southern Europe
Authors: Javier García Fernández
Pages: 427 - 437
Abstract: This paper is a farewell and an intellectual tribute to one of the greatest masters of contemporary Marxist thought and one of the major references in contemporary social science. Immanuel Wallerstein died August 31, 2019, leaving a theoretical, historical, and intellectual legacy that is to be read, rethought, and actualized by social scientists in the coming decades. His world-systems theory gave rise to a whole new understanding of the genesis of the capitalist world-system. This contribution reviews the sources that inspired the world-system theory, as well as showing its main contributions and its dialogues with other proposals of critical social theory, such as the epistemologies of the South and decolonial thought. This article is also a new formulation of the perspectives that the world-systems theory opens for the historical and sociological research on Andalusia and southern Europe in the context of the historical genesis of world capitalism.
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1134
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Encountering Other Cultural Universes on the Brink of Chaos
Authors: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Pages: 438 - 441
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1141
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Review Of: The Biomedical Empire
Authors: Durgesh Solanki
Pages: 442 - 444
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1145
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Review Of: Oil Crisis in Iran
Authors: Val Moghadam
Pages: 445 - 447
PubDate: 2022-08-25
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1144
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 2 (2022)
- Editorial Note
Authors: Andrej Grubačić
Pages: 1 - 3
Abstract: The editor's introduction for the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Journal of World-Systems Research.
PubDate: 2022-03-26
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1128
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
- The New Shape of the Global Power-Field (GPF) After the Transformation of
the Modern World-System Post-WWII (Part. 2)
Authors: Omer Awass
Pages: 4 - 24
Abstract: This article is a follow-up to a previous essay that mapped the dynamics of the modern world-system theory into what was called a Global Power-Field (GPF) during the colonial era phase of planetary history. It continues this mapping project by exploring the reconfiguration of the field in the postcolonial period. This field of power operated on the practice of ‘objectification’ of asymmetrical relations within its domain. The current essay extends that analysis by further identifying the forms of ‘objectification’ in the field’s contemporary phase. A prominent feature of the current field is the non-locality of its operations; a term signifying the level of dispersion of its vectors of power across the globe. The investigation will conclude with a detailed case study of how this current version of the GPF impacts the Global South by examining Post-Revolutionary Iran’s relations with the West.
PubDate: 2022-03-26
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
- Tributary World-Ecologies, Part I
Authors: Çağrı İdiman
Pages: 25 - 52
Abstract: This essay, in two parts, argues for the centrality of the world-ecology perspective for theorizing the relations, dynamics, and crises of the High Medieval Worlds. Commercialization Theorists view the High Middle Ages as a period of early capitalism, while classical Marxist theorists conceive it as a continuation of feudalism. In contrast to both conceptions, I argue that this era can instead be evaluated on its own terms from the world-ecology perspective. In Part I, I develop two interrelated historical-geographical and theoretical arguments. By employing a comparative world-historical methodology, I first argue that two distinct world-ecologies emerged in the North Sea and the Mediterranean during the High Middle Ages. Second, I define world-ecologies not only in terms of commercial relations, but also of production relations, that is, the mode of appropriation of nature and labor. Next, I focus on the common characteristics of tributary world-ecologies. These two world-ecologies were distinguished by agrarian tributary relations, two-tiered commercial networks, and a multiple state-system. I argue that they expanded due to the unique bundling of climatological upturn, novel production relations, and technological and organizational innovations. I conclude Part I by analyzing the North Sea world-ecology, which has typically served as a model for both Commercialization and Classical Marxist perspectives. While there is no question that both perspectives have their merits, it seems more fruitful to explain the relations and dynamics of the North Sea world by the mutual-conditioning of nature, tributary production, and two-tiered commerce. Second, it is more useful to theorize the North Sea world in relation to the larger tributary worlds, characteristic of the High Middle Ages.
PubDate: 2022-03-26
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1066
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
- For a Revolutionary Feminist World-Systems Analysis
Authors: Umaima Miraj
Pages: 53 - 76
Abstract: In revolutionary anti-colonial movements, women's involvement has been limited, and their contributions often marginalized or forgotten. This is not only an empirical puzzle in that anti-colonial movements have historically recruited women and furthered feminist discourse while also marginalizing female members, but also a political problem for movements that the lived reality for female participants diverges from the egalitarian philosophies of the movements themselves. In this article, I build on and further develop theories of feminist world-systems analysis, contending that feminist world-systems needs to rethink theories of anti-systemic movements to better include women’s revolutionary roles as active agents in the historical process of colonial independence and decolonization. In so doing, I contend that a revolutionary feminist world-systems analysis is increasingly important to analyze that women’s active roles as revolutionary agents have been sidelined because the movements that they have been a part of have also found themselves co-opted by dominant liberal ideology. This theoretical position is illustrated through an analysis of the published periodicals of the anti-colonial Ghadar Party. Through this empirical case study, I show that Ghadar’s revolutionary potential receded to the background because of its failures to fully include its female members. This case study is then levied to demonstrate how reviving a feminist world-systems analysis can help us better theorize women’s important but under-analyzed role in revolutionary anti-colonial movements.
PubDate: 2022-03-26
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1065
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
- Leaning on the BRICS as a Geopolitical Counterweight Leads Only to
Faux-Polyarchic, Subimperial “Spalling”
Authors: Patrick Bond
Pages: 146 - 152
PubDate: 2022-03-26
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1124
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
- How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life
Authors: Jason W Moore
Pages: 153 - 168
PubDate: 2022-03-26
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1127
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
- Why Not Default'
Authors: Jerome Roos, Andrej Grubačić
Pages: 169 - 174
PubDate: 2022-03-26
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1123
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
- Give and Take
Authors: Patricia Ward
Pages: 175 - 177
PubDate: 2022-03-26
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2022.1125
Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022)
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