56 articles in this issue
Patrick Bond
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Nora McKeon
Andrew K. Jorgenson
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David Huyssen
Brendan McQuade
George Orwell is one the best known and highly regarded writers of the twentieth century. In his adjective form—Orwellian—he has become a “Sartrean ‘singular universal,’ an individual whose “singular” experiences express the “universal” character of a his... see more
Roberto José Ortiz
The late 19th struggle for artistic freedom in the capitalist world-system put the artist in a contradictory position. This contradiction is particularly relevant for writers of the periphery. Freedom or autonomy to pursue purely intellectual projects req... see more
Ana Maria Candela
Chen Da was one of the foremost sociologists of China from the 1920s to the 1940s. His intellectual habitus took shape from the long crisis that defined Chinese intellectual life from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, a period of continuous imperial ass... see more
Sahan Savas Karatasli
This article examines the origins of Turkey’s neoliberal transformation in world-historical perspective by highlighting interactions between the crisis of U.S. hegemony, social and political movements in Turkey, and Turgut Özal's political career as the a... see more
Kevan Harris
Within a year of becoming president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad had already confused much of the world. Explanations of his political ascent in a semi-peripheral country rely largely on the concept of charismatic authority. This ... see more
Georgi Derluguian
World-systems analysis, although itself a macrohistorical perspective, eminently allows for writing individual biographies because these are structurally conditioned and historically contingent trajectories developing in specific time and space. The biogr... see more
Jon Shefner, Aaron Rowland, George Pasdirtz
This article explores the relationship between hardships and protest in the world-system. Despite the history of discussion of anti-systemic protest, there has been little work that differentiates world-systems contributions to social movement research fr... see more
Cristina A. Lucier, Brian J. Gareau
The rise of global environmental governance regimes allegedly contradicts the process of an environmental “race to the bottom” (RTB) that results from capitalist globalization. We examine new developments in this area through a qualitative case study of t... see more
Carol Walther
Marina Karides
Aurelia Lorena Murga
Jennifer Bair
Cristina Morales
Smitha Radhakrishnan
Nancy Plankey-Videla
Salvatore Babones
Robert A. Rubinstein
Lauren Paremoer
Lu Zhang
David A. Smith
Beth Schaefer Caniglia
Dmytro Khutkyy