Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

Herausgeber: Babones, Salvatore; Chase-Dunn, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Its long-term historical insights on globalization and its crises make world-systems analysis an indispensable tool for our time. The Handbook of World-Systems Analysis is the first comprehensive review of the field. It builds on over four decades of scholarship and includes contributions from a global, interdisciplinary group of more than 80 world-systems scholars. The clear style and broad scope of the Handbook will make it essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 542
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781138107199
• ISBN-10: 1138107190
• Artikelnr.: 57047925

Autorenporträt

Salvatore Babones is a senior lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Sydney and the author of the Benchmarking America blog. He is the author or editor of three books focusing on development, social change, and global health inequalities. Christopher Chase-Dunn is the Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California at Riverside and was the founding editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research. He is the author or editor of fifteen books on topics ranging from pre-modern world-systems to the future of capitalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Origins 1. Before the Long 16th Century 1. Market
Cooperation and the Evolution of the Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican World-System
2. Assessing the Debate between Abu-Lughod and Wallerstein over the
Thirteenth-Century Origins of the Modern World-System 3. Afroeurasian
World-System: Genesis, Transformations, Characteristics 4. Agricultural
Origins and Early Development 5. Qubilai and the Indian Ocean: A New Era?
2. Historical Processes of Incorporation and Development 6. Incorporation
into and Merger of World-Systems 7. The Great Transition Debate and
World-Systems Analysis 8. The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and
Cooperation: Globalization and Global Elite Integration, 19th to 21st
Century 9. The East Asian Path of Development 10. Darfur: The Periphery of
the Periphery Part 2: Theory and Critiques 3. Theoretical Frontiers in
World-Systems Analysis 11. Externality, Contact Periphery and Incorporation
12. Wallerstein's World-System: Roots and Contributions 13. The Structures
of Knowledge: Conceptualizing the Socio-Cultural Arena of Historical
Capitalism 14. The Multiplicity of National Development in the
World-System: A Critical Perspective 15. Crisis in the World-System:
Theoretical and Policy Implications 16. Core, Semiperiphery, Periphery: A
Variable Geometry Presiding over Conceptualization 17. Terminal Crisis or a
New Systemic Cycle of Accumulation? 4. Explicit Modeling as a Research
Strategy 18. Measuring Transition and Hierarchy of States within the
World-Systems Paradigm 19. World-Systems as Dissipative Structures: A New
Research Agenda 20. Narrating Stories about the World System of the First
Global Age, 1400-1800 21. World-Systems Theory and Formal and Simulation
Modeling 22. Mathematical Models of the World-System Development 5.
Critical Contributions to World-Systems Analysis 23. World System History:
Challenging Eurocentric Knowledge 24. The Failure of the "Modern World
System" and the New Paradigm of the "Critical Theory of Patriarchy" The
"Civilization of Alchemists" as a "System of War" 25. Authenticating 17th
Century "Hegemonies": Dutch, Spanish, French, or None? 26. The Challenges
of Globalization Theory to World-Systems Analysis Part 3: The Contemporary
World-Economy 6. Markets and Exchange 27. Surplus Drain and Dark Value in
the Modern World-System 28. The Silence of Finance and Its Critics:
Portfolio Investors in the World-System 29. Debt Crises in the Modern
World-System 30. Economic-Political Interaction in the Core/Periphery
Hierarchy 31. The Other Side of the Global Formation: Structures of the
World Lumpeneconomy 7. Networks and Chains 32. Global Cities, Global
Commodity Chains And The Geography of Core-Ness in the Capitalist
World-System 33. Trade, Unequal Exchange and Global Commodity Chains:
World-System Structure and Economic Development 34. Global Cities and World
City Networks 35. How Individuals Shape Global Production 36. World Cities
in Asia 37. The Internet and the World-System(s) 8. Globalization and
Distribution 38. Globalization: Theories of Convergence and Divergence in
the World-System 39. Social Stratification and Mobility: National and
Global Dimensions 40. Income Inequality in the World: Looking Back and
Ahead 41. Billionaires and Global Inequality: Does An Increase in One
Indicate an Increase in the Other? 42. The Pervasiveness of ICT in Our
Present Modern World-System