non-European peripheral regions. In
this volume, world-system scholars address these
and related aspects of the modern/colonial capitalist
world-system.
Addressing the myth of universalist knowledge,
the volume reminds us that our knowledge is
situated in the gender, class, racial, and sexual
hierarchies of a specific region in the world-system,
while the coloniality of power additionally
situates our knowledge. The volume further argues
that the postcolonial era retains the hierarchy
of colonialism, and the possibility of national
development without global structural changes
is one of the greatest 20th-century myths. Taking
these perspectives into consideration, the contributors
examine and help to refine classic world-system
theory.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Unthinking
20th-Century Eurocentric Mythologies: Universalist
Knowledges, Decolonization, and Developmentalism
by Ramon Grosfoguel and Margarita Rodriguez
- The 20th Century: Darkness at Noon? by Immanuel
Wallerstein
- Global Processes, Power Relations, and Antisystemic
Movements
- Globalization and the National Security
State Corporate Complex (NSSCC) in the Long
20th Century by Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
- Bucking the System: The Timespace of Antisystemic
Movements by Richard E. Lee
- Some Initial Empirical Observations on Inequality
in the World-Economy (1870-2000) by Roberto
Patricio Korzeniewicz, et al.
- Transnationalism, Power, and Hegemony: Review
of Alternative Perspectives and Their Implications
for World-Systems Analysis by Margarita Rodriguez
- Mass Migration in the World-System: An AntiSystemic
Movement in the Long Run? by Eric Mielants
- 20th-Century Antisystemic Historical Processes
and U.S. Hegemony: Free Trade Imperialism,
National Economic Development, and Free Enterprise
Imperialism by Satoshi Ikeda
- Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, and World-System
Analysis
- Commodity Chains and Gendered Exploitation:
Rescuing Women from the Periphery of World-System
Thought by Wilma A. Dunaway
- Resolving the Paradox of Gender: Women and
Power in the Modern World-System by Nancy
Forsythe
- Intersecting and Contesting Positions: Post-Colonial,
Feminist, and World-System Theories by Shelley
Feldman
- Writing on Gender in World-Systems Perspective
by Sheila Pelizzon
- The Aftermath of the Colonial System, Coloniality,
and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
- The Genesis of the Development Framework:
The End of Laissez-faire, the Eclipse of Colonial
Empires, and the Structure of United States
Hegemony by Fouad Makki
- The Convergence of World-Postcolonialism
as a Critical Theory of World Society by Santiago
Castro-Gomez and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
- Making "Africa" in Brazil: Old
Trends and New Opportunities by Livio Sansone
- The Convergence of World-Historical Social
Science: "Border Thinking" as an
Alternative to the Classical Comparative Method
by Khaldoun Subhi Samman
Authors
*Ramon Grosfoguel is Assistant Professor of
Sociology at Boston College.
**Ana Margarita Cervantes - Rodriguez is Research
Affiliate for the Center for Social and Demographic
Analysis, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Department, at SUNY-Albany.
The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist
World-System in the Twentieth Century: Global
Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics
of Knowledge
Ramon Grosfoguel
(Editor) Ana Margarita
Cervantes-Rodriguez (Editor) |