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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I - Overview and Introduction
1 - World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large Universe
WHAT IS WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS?
WORLD-SYSTEMS DYNAMICS
NEW DIRECTIONS IN WORLD-SYSTEMS RESEARCH
A FEW EXAMPLES
NOTES
REFERENCES
2 - Recent Research on World-Systems
WHAT DEFINES A WORLD-SYSTEM
RESEARCH ON WORLD-SYSTEM BOUNDARIES
SURPLUS ACQUISITION
HIERARCHY
EMPIRICAL MEASURES OF WORLD-SYSTEM POSITION
TRENDS AND CYCLES IN THE MODERN SYSTEM
HEGEMONIC SEQUENCES
CONCLUSIONS
NOTES
REFERENCES
Part II - From Many Disciplines
3 - Archaeology and World-Systems Theory
REDEFINING CORE/PERIPHERY RELATIONS
REDEFINING ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE
CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
4 - Geography, Place, and World-Systems Analysis
GEOGRAPHICAL REFORMULATIONS OF WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF PLACES WITHIN THE WORLD-ECONOMY
GEOGRAPHY, PLACE, AND WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
PLACES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WORLD-ECONOMY
CONCLUSION
SUGGESTED READINGS
REFERENCES
5 - K-Waves, Leadership Cycles, and Global War: A Nonhyphenated Approach to World Systems Analysis
THE DOUBLE HELIX OF K-WAVES AND LONG CYCLES
GLOBAL WAR
GLOBAL CONCENTRATION PROCESSES
THE INTERMITTENT FUSION OF GLOBAL AND REGIONAL PROCESSES
WHITHER THE FUTURE?
FURTHER READING ON THE LEADERSHIP LONG CYCLE PROJECT
NOTES
REFERENCES
6 - Gender and the World-System: Engaging the Feminist Literature on Development
HISTORY OF FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP ON DEVELOPMENT
FEMINIST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT LITERATURE
MARIA MIES: WOMEN AS THE LAST COLONY
CONCLUSIONS: THE MICRO-MACRO DEBATE
SUGGESTED READINGS
NOTES
REFERENCES
Part III - World-Systems Overviews
7 - Canada’s Linguistic and Ethnic Dynamics in an Evolving World-System
ETHNIC PLURALISM IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM
CANADA’S PLURALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
DISCUSSION
NOTES
REFERENCES
8 - Urbanization in the World-System: A Retrospective and Prospective
AN EMERGING PARADIGM: URBANIZATION IN THE WORLD-ECONOMY
DEPENDENT URBANIZATION: CITIES OUTSIDE THE CORE
WORLD CITY/GLOBAL CITY
WORLD CITY NETWORKS AND HIERARCHIES
CONCLUSION
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
NOTES
REFERENCES
9 - World-Systems Theory in the Context of Systems Theory: An Overview
SYSTEMS AND SYSTEMS THINKING: SOME BASIC CONCEPTS
DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES
THE WORLD-SYSTEM AS A DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURE
SUGGESTED READINGS
REFERENCES
10 - Postmodernism Explained
GLOBAL FRAME ANALYSIS
PICTURES AND POWER
ART SINCE BRITISH HEGEMONY
REFERENCES
Part IV - Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
11 - Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee Frontier
THE HISTORICAL SETTING
CAPITALIST BIFURCATION OF ECONOMIC PRODUCTION
GENDER BIFURCATION OF TRADE
THE MALE ROLE IN ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY
DEBT PEONAGE AND DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
EXPANSION AND DEVALUATION OF WOMEN’S WORK
WOMEN’S WORK AND ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATION
WOMEN AND CHILDREN PLACED AT RISK
POLITICAL DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
THEORETICAL REPRISE
REFERENCES
12 - Resistance through Healing among American Indian Women
AMERICAN INDIAN ASSIMILATION INTO U.S. SOCIETY
ALCOHOL USE: DISEASE, ADAPTATIVE MECHANISM, OR FORM OF RESISTANCE?
OTHER FORMS OF RESISTANCE RELATED TO ALCOHOL USE: MEDICAL TREATMENT AND AA VERSUS TRADITIONAL HEALING
POSTMODERN VIEWS OF ETHNIC RESISTANCE
WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY AND ETHNIC RESISTANCE
AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN AND RECOVERY
THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE CASE HISTORY
WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES WITH RECOVERY
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
SUGGESTED READINGS
NOTE
REFERENCES
13 - Frontiers, Ethnogenesis, and World-Systems: Rethinking the Theories
COMPARATIVE WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
GROUP FORMATION, TRANSFORMATION, AND INCORPORATION INTO A WORLD-SYSTEM
INCORPORATION IN WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
INCORPORATION AND ETHNOGENESIS, TRANSFORMATION, AND ETHNOCIDE
INCORPORATION IN PRECAPITALIST CONTEXTS
FURTHER ANALYSIS OF FRONTIERS
SPATIAL ASPECTS OF INCORPORATION AND FRONTIER (TRANS)FORMATION
PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY
GEOPOLITICS
POLITICAL AND CULTURAL INCORPORATION
GENDER ROLES, SPIRITUALITY, CULTURE, AND LAW
CONCLUSON
NOTES
REFERENCES
14 - Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis
CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
TOWARD A WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
INCORPORATION
REGIONALIZATION
ASCENT
CENTRALITY
THEORETICAL REPRISE
NOTE
REFERENCES
Part V - Future Visions
15 - From State Socialism to Global Democracy: The Transnational Politics of the Modern World-System
STATE SOCIALISM IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM
WHAT IS POSSIBLE?
CONCLUSIONS: TEN POINTS
NOTES
REFERENCES
16 - World-System and Ecosystem
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
TOWARD ECOSOCIOLOGY
NOTES
REFERENCES
Appendix 1 - Political-Economy of the World-System Annuals
Appendix 2 - Political-Economy of the World-System, Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of Annual Book Prizes
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