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Volume 25 Number 1 Year 2019

23 articles in this issue 

 

Editors' Introduction Winter/Spring 2019

Pags. 1 - 5  

Theo LeQuesne

This essay combines salient instances of climate justice activism in key battlegrounds against the fossil fuel industry in the United States and Canada with theoretical interventions in studies of corporate power, grassroots democracy, and counter hegemon... see more

Pags. 15 - 27  

Caitlin Schroering

In this short piece, I seek to explore two main questions: 1) How can communities take control over local governance and shape local economic futures?and2) How can local communities effectively band together to support world-system transformation? I exami... see more

Pags. 28 - 34  

Richard Flacks

Fifty years ago, a massive oil well blowout and subsequent oil spill triggered community resistance to oil company operations in Santa Barbara county and its surrounding waters. The county has had surprising success in regulating and reducing oil developm... see more

Pags. 35 - 41  

Thomas M. Hanna

In response to increasing inequality, the rising power of large corporations, climate change, and other challenges, public ownership is back on the agenda in the United States and around the world. In this "new gilded age" there is much to learn from past... see more

Pags. 42 - 48  

Barry Feldman,Mason Herson-Hord

Radical democracy is a needed alternative to the formal representative democracy of Western societies where viable choices are constrained by the wealth and power of the ruling class. Dual power is a bottom-up strategy of building organic institutions of ... see more

Pags. 49 - 58  

Leslie C. Gates,Mehmet Deniz

Can world-systems analysis illuminate politics? Can it help explain why illiberal regimes, outsider parties, and anti-immigrant rhetoric seem to be on the rise? Can it help explain any such nationalchanges that seem destined to shift how nations relate to... see more

Pags. 59 - 82  

John M Shandra,Michael Restivo,Jamie M Sommer

The theory and empirical research on ecologically unequal exchange serves as the starting point for this study. We expand the research frontier it in a novel way by applying the theory to China and empirically testing if forestry export flows from low-and... see more

Pags. 83 - 110  

Márton Demeter

This paper expands the framework of the Bourdieusian field theory using a world-system theoretical perspective to analyze the global system of social sciences, or what might be called the world-system of knowledge production. The analysis deals with the m... see more

Pags. 111 - 144  

Omer Awass

Neoliberal economic theorists posit that the economic sphere is to be differentiated from the social world and governed by its own rationality that is distinct from religious, ethical, social, or political considerations. My article explores how the issua... see more

Pags. 145 - 168  

David N. Pellow

The term critical environmental justice (EJ) studies was perhaps first used in the early 2000s and has been become more mainstream in the last two years. R. Scott Frey’s research on the transnational trade in hazardous substances reveals that he was produ... see more

Pags. 169 - 174  

Kelly F. Austin

I consider Scott Frey’s work on “The Transfer of Core-Based Hazardous Production Processes to the Export Processing Zones of the Periphery: The Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico,” published in 2003, including the contributions of this research to bro... see more

Pags. 175 - 184  

Paul K. Gellert

This  essay discusses Scott Frey’s  contributions to our understanding of what he called environmental ‘anti-wealth,’ including his analysis of how it is spread to the peripheries of the world-system, and how Frey’s work intersects with other research, in... see more

Pags. 185 - 193