48 articles in this issue
Jackie Smith
Mangala Subramaniam
Kathleen C. Schwartzman
China has become an important global actor in the arenas of production, trade, and foreign investment. In 1948, China contributed slightly less than 1 percent to global exports; by 2013, it had grown to almost 12 percent. Has China's vertiginous trade gro... see more
Fouad Makki
The aim of this article is to examine the interactive dynamics of "Africa" and the "world economy" over the past half century. By relating the overarching developmental trajectory of the continent to the long-wave rhythms of the world economy, the article... see more
Albert Bergesen
Sing C. Chew
Hae-Yung Song
Annamarie Oliverio, Pat Lauderdale
Robert A. Denemark, Barry K. Gills
Christopher Chase-Dunn
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Simone Polillo
Mehmet Baki Deniz
Tiantian Zheng
Johanna Herrigel, Marion Werner
Elizabeth Bennett
Brendan McQuade
Jose H. Bortoluci
Jean-Germain Gros
Lorraine Bayard de Volo
R. Scott Frey
Centrality in the world-system allows countries to externalize their hazards or environmental harms on others. Core countries, for instance, dump heavy metals and greenhouse gases into the global sinks, and some of the core's hazardous products, productio... see more
K. Kalpana
This paper examines the gendered local character of neoliberalism at the household level by focusing on microcredit/finance programs in India. Microfinance promoted by the state as an informal activity targeting women is intended to alleviate income inequ... see more
Pablo Lapegna
Based on ethnographic research, archival data, and a catalog of protest events, this article analyzes the relationship between popular social movements, business mobilization, and institutional politics in Argentina during the post-neoliberal phase, which... see more
Paul Almeida
Historical shifts in global economic formations shape the strategies of resistance movements in the global South. Neoliberal forms of economic development over the past thirty years in Central America have weakened traditional actors sponsoring popular mo... see more
Devparna Roy
Market penetration by the hegemonic core state's agricultural biotechnology firms has been preceded and accompanied by a vigorous anti-genetically modified seeds (anti-GM) movement in semi-peripheral India. To understand the extent of anti-imperialism and... see more