Journal of World-Systems Research  

Editors introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 26, No. 2

Michael Warren Murphy, Jackie Smith, Patrick Manning, Ruth Mostern

Work for reparations requires interventions by world historians to bear witness to the brutalities of the past as part of a process that seeks truth and reconciliation, along with some measure of accountability and restitution.  Shifting our lens to ... see more

Patrick Manning

Prentiss A. Dantzler, Aja D. Reynolds

Joyce Hope Scott

Leslie Sklair, Michael Warren Murphy

Across the social sciences and humanities, and in diverse forms of popular media around the world, discourse about the Anthropocene is proliferating. From the plastic particles found in deep sea trenches to the unfolding of Earth’s sixth mass extinction, ... see more

Alf Hornborg

Efforts to conceptualize the role of asymmetric resource transfers in the capitalist world-system have been constrained by the emphasis on surplus value and the labor theory of value in Marxist thought. A coherent theory of ecologically unequal exchange m... see more

Michael Lengefeld

This research analyzes the human dimensions of environmental degradation and injustice in the age of nuclear weapons. Human societies are fundamentally linked to global environmental systems and are transforming ecological conditions in dramatic ways, suc... see more

Chad L. Smith, Gregory Hooks, Michael Lengefeld

Human activities in Latin American countries have resulted in past and ongoing deforestation located in the Amazon and the Andes.  Demonstrative of this new Anthropocene Epoch, the illegal production of cocaine stands as a major driver of these envir... see more

Jamie M. Sommer, Andrew Hargrove

While various researchers and practitioners agree that it will be hard to restructure our current global and local systems to adapt to and mitigate climate change, there is unsurprisingly great disagreement in how and if this can be accomplished and on wh... see more

Minqi Li

This paper evaluates the implications of global emissions budget distribution between three large geographical areas (China, OECD countries, and the rest of the world) in the context of Anthropocene and the structural crisis of the capitalist world system... see more

Brian F O'Neill

Andrew Milner, J.R. Burgmann

As developed by Immanuel Wallerstein and various co-thinkers, world-systems analysis is essentially an approach to economic history and historical sociology that has been largely indifferent to literary studies. This indifference is perhaps surprising giv... see more

James Fenelon, Jennifer Alford

Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world... see more

Michael Warren Murphy, Caitlin Schroering

While sympathetic to debates about the utility, accuracy, and significance of the “Anthropocene,” in this brief essay, we are most interested in implicating racialization, colonization, and their ongoing place in the capitalist world-economy and global ec... see more

C. O. Go

This essay offers an urgent intervention from the global South in contribution to this special issue on the Anthropocene. Drawing from Rob Nixon's work on slow violence, the author offers sobering reflections on the everyday realities of what she writes a... see more

Corey R Payne

Matthew Hayes