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Volume 22 Number 2 Year 2016

16 articles in this issue 

 

Introduction to Summer 2016 issue by JWSR editorial team

Pags. 306 - 308  

Andrea Komlosy,Manuela Boatca,Hans-Heinrich Nolte

Introduction to Special Issue on Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System

Pags. 309 - 314  

Klemens Kaps

This article addresses the question of to what degree the concept of geoculture can be brought in line with research on Orientalist stereotypes and imaginary. Following Said’s original definition of orientalism discourses of the 18th-century political eco... see more

Pags. 315 - 348  

Agnes Gagyi

Joining a series of analyses of effects of othering, orientalism, or coloniality in East Central Europe, the paper asks how long-term structural-ideological effects of global hierarchies, as reflected in post-colonial contexts by the term “coloniality of ... see more

Pags. 349 - 372  

Lindsay Marie Jacobs,Ronan Van Rossem

This article sets out to critically assess the increasingly prevalent claims of rapidly changing global power relations under influence of the ‘rising powers’ and ‘globalization’. Our main contention is that current analyses of countries’ degree of global... see more

Pags. 373 - 403  

Pedro Antonio Vieira,Helton Ricardo Ouriques

In this paper we examine the BRICS by focusing on one of its member states: Brazil. More specifically, we focus on the relationship between Brazilian foreign policy under President Lula (2003-2010), U.S. hegemonic decline, and the commodity boom that prov... see more

Pags. 404 - 429  

Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland,Tim Lindgren

This article combines world-systems, decolonial, eco-feminist and post-human ecological approaches to deconstruct the planetary crisis of the hegemonic civilization. Underpinned by anthropocentric, androcentric, hetero-patriarchal, Euro/Western-centric, m... see more

Pags. 430 - 462  

Andrea Komlosy

The decline of the “West” and the loss of U.S. global hegemony is accompanied by a three-sided debate. Some scholars have argued that emerging powers in the Global South will succeed the United States and assume a hegemonic role in the world-economy. They... see more

Pags. 463 - 483  

Tanya Golash-Boza

In the spring of 2014, President Obama’s administration reached a landmark of over 2 million deportations—more in under six years than the sum total of all deportations prior to 1997. Mass deportation has not affected all communities equally: the vast maj... see more

Pags. 484 - 509  

Irene Pang

Recent literature on microfinance has observed that commercial microfinance programs that achieve financial sustainability largely fail to reach the poor (Hulme 2000; Mayoux 2000; Cull, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Morduch 2007). Most studies rely on institutional ... see more

Pags. 510 - 541  

P. Nick Kardulias,Emily Butcher

This article uses world-systems analysis to examine the role that pirates and privateers played in the competition between European core states in the Atlantic and Caribbean frontier during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Piracy was an integral ... see more

Pags. 542 - 564