Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

by Salvatore Babones (Editor), Christopher Chase-Dunn (Editor)

Overview

World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and more than half a dozen academic disciplines. Aiming to crystallize forty years of progress and lay the groundwork for the continued development of the field, the Handbook of World-Systems Analysis is a comprehensive review of the state of the field of world-systems analysis since its origins almost forty years ago.

The Handbook includes contributions from a global, interdisciplinary group of more than eighty world-systems scholars. The authors include founders of the field, mid-career scholars, and newly emerging voices. Each one presents a snapshot of an area of world-systems analysis as it exists today and presents a vision for the future.

The clear style and broad scope of the Handbook will make it essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, geography, political science, history, sociology, and development economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415563642
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/24/2012
Series:	Routledge International Handbooks
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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