The modern/colonial/capitalist world-system in the twentieth century : global processes, antisystemic movements, and the geopolitics of knowledge / edited by Ramón Grosfoguel and Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grosfoguel, Ramón.

Cervantes-Rodríguez, Ana Margarita.

Series:

Contributions in economics and economic history 0084-9235 ; no. 227.

Contributions in economics and economic history, 0084-9235 ; no. 227

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social systems.

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xxix, 306 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Praeger, [2002]

Summary:

Examines world-system theory from the perspectives of global processes and antisystemic movements, feminist theory, and the aftermath of the colonial system.

Contents:

Introduction. Unthinking Twentieth-Century Eurocentric Mythologies: Universalist Knowledges, Decolonization, and Developmentalism / Ramon Grosfoguel, Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez xi

The Twentieth Century: Darkness at Noon? / Immanuel Wallerstein xxxi

I. Global Processes, Power Relations, and Antisystemic Movements 1

1. Globalization and the National Security State Corporate Complex (NSSCC) in the Long Twentieth Century / Thomas Ehrlich Reifer 3

2. Bucking the System: The TimeSpace of Antisystemic Movements / Richard E. Lee 21

3. Some Initial Empirical Observations on Inequality in the World-Economy (1870-2000) / Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Angela Stach, David Consiglio, Timothy Patrick Moran 33

4. Transnationalism, Power, and Hegemony: Review of Alternative Perspectives and Their Implications for World-Systems Analysis / Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez 47

5. Mass Migration in the World-System: An Antisystemic Movement in the Long Run? / Eric Mielants 79

6. Twentieth-Century Antisystemic Historical Processes and U.S. Hegemony: Free Trade Imperialism, National Economic Development, and Free Enterprise Imperialism / Satoshi Ikeda 103

II. Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, and World-Systems Analysis 125

7. Commodity Chains and Gendered Exploitation: Rescuing Women from the Periphery of World-Systems Thought / Wilma A. Dunaway 127

8. Revisioning Social Change: Situated Knowledge and Unit of Analysis in the Modern World-System / Nancy Forsythe 147

9. Intersecting and Contesting Positions: Postcolonial, Feminist, and World-Systems Theories / Shelley Feldman 171

10. Writing on Gender in World-Systems Perspective / Sheila Pelizzon 199

III. The Aftermath of the Colonial System, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge 213

11. The Genesis of the Development Framework: The End of Laissez-Faire, the Eclipse of Colonial Empires, and the Structure of U.S. Hegemony / Fouad Makki 215

12. The Convergence of World-Historical Social Science, or Can There Be a Shared Methodology for World-Systems Analysis, Postcolonial Theory, and Subaltern Studies? / Santiago Castro-Gomez, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 237

13. Making "Africa" in Brazil: Old Trends and New Opportunities / Livio Sansone 251

14. The Convergence of World-Historical Social Science: "Border Thinking" as an Alternative to the Classical Comparative Method / Khaldoun Subhi Samman 267.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

027597197X

OCLC:

50877388