Journal of World-Systems Research  

Jackie Smith

The survival of the global capitalist order depends upon its ability to convince people who are disempowered and dispossessed by this system that there is no alternative. Thus, utopias are defined as impossible and nonexistent. Yet Erik Olin Wrights Real ... see more

Ariel Salleh

Sociologists use the concept of class variously to explain and predict people's relation to the means of production, their earnings, living conditions, social standing, capacities, and political identification. With the rise of capitalist globalization, m... see more

Rose M. Brewer

What is clear to me in this current moment of capitalist crisis and the demand for its alternative is this: African peoples throughout Africa and the diaspora the United States, Brazil, the Caribbean, Europe are at the center of dispossession: social, e... see more

Marina Karides

In late 2008 Athenian youths, triggered by extreme police violence, took to the streets with collective and intensive protests against the growing poverty, unemployment, and political corruption in Greece. The subsequent, regular protests in urban Greece ... see more

Kevan Harris

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Eric Bonds,Liam Downey

This paper contributes to understandings of ecologically unequal exchange within the world-systems perspective by offering a series of case studies of ecological modernization in the automobile industry. The case studies demonstrate that green technologie... see more

Brian J. Gareau

This paper incorporates world-systems perspectives into an analysis of global environmental politics, thus adjoining a political economic analysis of scale with studies of global environmental policy. It is the ability of some social groups and institutio... see more

Alexander Thomas

This article examines the role of the world-system in the structure of cities. Data from the evolution of cities in the Fertile Crescent shows that a number of traits of modern cities were also present in the earliest cities. Specifically, mass production... see more

Jason Hall,Loretta Bass

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Salvatore Babones,Robin M. Farabee-Siers

Trade partner concentration can be used to operationalize important concepts like dependency and globalization, but it can be very time-consuming to calculate concentration indices. In research for which export, import, or total trade partner concentratio... see more

Thomas D. Hall

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Richard E. Lee

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Joseph Conti

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Kristen Hopewell

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Omar Lizardo

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Bruce Podobnik

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Jon Shefner

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Nicholas Miano

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