Journal of World-Systems Research  

 

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William I. Robinson

Scholars of world-systems and global political economy have wrestled for decades with the genesis of 'race' as a social construct and its historical significance for the system of world capitalism.  Transformations in the world capitalist system pose a ne... see more

Ramon Grosfoguel

This article provides a definition of racism inspired in the work of Frantz Fanon, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and contemporary Caribbean Fanonian Philosophers. It discusses racism in relation to zone of being and zone of non-being. Racism is discussed as ... see more

Wilma A. Dunaway,Donald A. Clelland

Using world-system concepst, this essay challenges the popular racial bifurcation of the world between whites and peoples of color.

James V. Fenelon

This article reviews and synpsizes race-based slavery and genocide extant across the Americas for a half millennia of colonial capitalist development, and identifies four major phases;  conquest, colonization, capitalism, and hegemonic global capitalism. ... see more

Francisca Oyogoa

Cruise ships present a useful context to study contemporary developments in globalization.  U.S.-owned cruise companies have managed to create the “ideal” context for contemporary corporations: very little government oversight of labor relations, an avail... see more

Tanya Golash-Boza

By the time President Obama leaves the Oval Office there will have been 3 million deportations from the United States during his eight years in office.  This sum is 50 percent more than the total number of all deportations prior to 1997, and far more than... see more

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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Aidan Beatty,Maurice Coakley,Sharae Deckard

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Aidan Beatty

There is a conventional view among Irish historians that a revolution occurred in that country between the passing of the Third Home Rule Bill of 1912 and the end of the Civil War in 1923.  The violence of those years, the collapse in support for the Iris... see more

Thomas Murray

Recent accounts of constitutional development have emphasised commonalities among diverse constitutions in terms of the transnational migration of legal institutions and ideas. World-systems analysis gives critical expression to this emergent intellectual... see more

Tommy McKearney

The Northern Ireland story is more complex than the trite tale of orange versus green or two warring tribes. Current inhabitants are not settling ancient scores. Northern Ireland is the product of colonialism, the plantation of Ulster, machinations of a B... see more

Kurt Jacobsen

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Sharae Deckard

Since the collapse of the Celtic Tiger, the socio-economic particularity of neoliberal capitalism in its Irish manifestation has increasingly been critiqued, but little attention has been paid to neoliberalism as ecology within Ireland. This article condu... see more

Maurice Coakley

For Ireland – along with Spain, Portugal and Greece – membership of ‘Europe’ was seen as an opportunity to escape their historical legacy of ‘underdevelopment’ and become fully integrated into core positions in the global system. Each of these states, and... see more

Aidan Beatty,Sharae Deckard,Maurice Coakley,Denis O'Hearn

In this interview, Denis O’Hearn presents his views of Ireland’s historical and contemporary status in the capitalist world-system and which countries Ireland could be profitably compared with.  He discusses how Ireland has changed since the publication o... see more

Jonathan Leitner

A long debate about the American “transition to capitalism” was apparently settled via a rough consensus on the gradual prevalence of rural capitalism in the north; and that even small, subsistence-oriented farm households engaged in some market exchange,... see more

Nicolas Grinberg

This paper offers a critique of mainstream and critical versions of Global Commodity Chain analysis of post-1960s global-economy transformations claiming that they suffer from different types of methodological nationalism. After arguing that the key to ov... see more

Laura T. Raynolds

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Tomaso Ferrando

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Andre Nickow

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Philip McMichael

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Jill Lindsey Harrison

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Gerardo Otero

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