The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century (eBook, PDF)

Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
Redaktion: Grosfoguel, Ramón; Cervantes-Rodríguez, Ana Margarita

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Produktbeschreibung

An important building block for further advancing world-system theory, this book considers the theory from the perspectives of global processes and antisystemic movements, feminist theory, and the aftermath of the colonial system. The volume addresses three myths tied to Eurocentric forms of thinking: objectivist and universalist knowledges, the decolonization of the modern world, and developmentalism. All three myths, the authors argue, conceal the continued hierarchical and unequal relations of domination and exploitation between European and Euro-American centers and 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313076657
• Artikelnr.: 68527885

Autorenporträt

RAMÓN GROSFOGUEL is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College. ANA MARGARITA CERVANTES-RODRÍGUEZ is Research Affiliate for the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department, at SUNY-Albany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Unthinking 20th-Century Eurocentric Mythologies: Universalist
Knowledges, Decolonization, and Developmentalism by Ramon Grosfoguel and
Margarita Rodríguez 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 Rodríguez 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-Gómez 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