World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture

221 Pages·2022·5.969 MB·English

by  Corey Payne, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Beverly J. Silver

WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
AT A CRITICAL JUNCTURE
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world faces extrao rdinary
system-level challenges—from deep inequality and xenophobic natio nalism to militarism
and neofascism, from the refugee crisis and environmental degradation to upsurges of
social unrest and escalating rivalries among powerful states. This book begins from the
premise that world-systems analysis can be a powerful tool for the study of these problems,
with the potential to overcome the methodological and theoretical limitations of other
social science perspectives. The editors argue, moreover, that world-systems analysis can
be strengthened by drawing on its holistic methodologies, returning to its Third World
roots, and learning from other critical approaches. The authors in this volume not only
make important contributions to comparative and historical social science but also bring
a new vigor to the world-systems perspective. Facing critical junctures in both the
“state of knowledge” and the “state of the world,” this book demonstrates the continued
utility of, and future possibilities for, world-systems analysis.
Corey R. Payne is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and the Arrighi
Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the
dynamics of historical capitalism, social conflict, and war-making.
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz , PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean
for Faculty Affairs in the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences at the University of
Maryland, College Park. His book Unveiling Inequality (NY, 2009), co-written with
Timothy P. Moran, won the 2010 Best Book Award of the Political Economy of the
World-System section of the American Sociological Association. His current research
focuses on global patterns of income inequality, social stratification, and mobility.
Beverly J. Silver , PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Center
for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
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Immanuel Wallerstein, Series Editor
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Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century
Edited by Thomas Reifer (2012)
O vercoming Global Inequalities
E dited by Immanuel Wallerstein, Christopher Chase-Dunn,
Christian Suter (2014)
S ocial Movements and World-System Transformation
E dited by Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning,
John Markoff (2016)
T he World-System as Unit of Analysis
E dited by Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz (2017)
G lobal Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective
E dited by Manuela Boatcă, Andrea Komlosy, Hans-Heinrich (2017)
E conomic Cycles and Socials Movements
E dited by Eric Mielants and Katsiaryna Salavei-Bardos (2020)
M igration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System
E dited by Denis O’Hearn and Paul S. Ciccantell (2021)
W orld-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture
E dited by Corey R. Payne, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz,
and Beverly J. Silver (2023)
WORLD-SYSTEMS
ANALYSIS AT A
CRITICAL JUNCTURE
Edited by Corey R. Payne,
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz,
and Beverly J. Silver
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003325109
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CONTENTS

List of Figures viii
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors x
1 World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture 1
Corey R. Payne, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz,
and Beverly J. Silver
PART I
World-Systems Analyses, Concepts, and Methods 15
2 Avoiding the Security Trap: The Contributions
of Terence Hopkins and World-Systems as Methodology
for Critical Police Studies 17
Brendan McQuade and Stuart Schrader
3 Terence K. Hopkins and Concepts as Relational
Categories: Different Manifestations of the
Relationship Between Religion and Neoliberalism
in the Global South 28
Gamze Evcimen
4 Symbolic Power and Geoculture in the World-System:
Ottoman and Russian Perspectives 42
Juho Korhonen
vi Contents
5 Reconstructing Commodity Chain Analysis
as World-Systems Analysis 54
D avid A. Smith, Paul S. Ciccantell, and Elizabeth A. Sowers
PART II
Continuity and Transformation in World-System
Hierarchies 67
6 The Rise of the Global South and the Redefinition
of World-System Hierarchies 69
Víctor Ramiro Fernández, Luciano Moretti, Joel Sidler,
and Emilia Ormaechea
7 Marxism and World-Systems Analysis in the Transition
to the Long Twenty-first Century 81
Carlos Eduardo Martins
8 On the Lineages of World-Systems Analysis:
Sub-imperialism as a Conjunctural Approach 93
Antônio Brussi
9 The Dialectics of Time and Value Accumulation:
Alienation on a World-Scale Dimension 110
Ísis Campos Camarinha
PART III
Social Contradictions of Capitalism in the
Twenty-first Century 125
10 “Primitive” Accumulation Under Historical Capitalism
and the Unequal Social Regulation of the
Global Labor Force 127
Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles
11 “Primitive” Accumulation in Urban Semiperiphery:
Ethno-racial Elites, Rezoning, and Displacement
in Manhattan, New York City 138
Kai Wen Yang
Contents vii
12 Global Crisis and Militarized Migration Management:
A World-Historic Perspective 156
David B. Feldman
13 Dilemma of the Rising Giant: China’s Food Import
Strategy and Its Constraints 168
S haohua Zhan and Lingli Huang
R eferences 179
I ndex 204
FIGURES
8.1 Crisis in Brazilian Industry—Participation of Industry
in GDP 98
11.1 Chinatown and the Lower East Side Soft Site Map 141
1 1.2 External Cores and the Division of the Corridor Region 142
11.3 Chinatown and the Lower East Side Zoning Districts 143
1 1.4 Canal Street Connective Corridor 147
1 1.5 Rebuilding Chinatown Initiative’s 2004 Upzoning
Framework 149
11.6 Proposal for Chinatown Special District 150
11.7 Proposed Zoning in SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan 151
11.8 Proposed Zoning in East Village and the Lower East Side 152
1 1.9 Extell Tower and Proposed Towers at Two Bridges,
Lower East Side 153
13.1 China’s Grain Production, Net Grain Imports,
and Grain Self-sufficiency Ratio: 1979–2017 171
TABLES
8.1 Brazil: Exports to Central and South America,
the Caribbean, and Africa (1997–2019) (US$) 100
8.2 Brazil: Percentage of values of total exports (US$)
according to product type (2001–2019) 101
8.3 Engineering Services BNDS—Main-financing
destination 1998–2019—US$ millions 103
8.4 Values and countries that have received financing
from BNDES 1998–2018 (US$ millions) 104
9.1 Accumulation by type of balance of payments account,
organic zones, and working time, 1960–2019 118
9.2 Period covered by country and type of balance
of payments account 121
12.1 International migrants, 1970–2019 162