The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

by Ramón Grosfoguel, Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez

Overview

An important building block for further advancing world-system theory, this book considers the theory from the perspectives of global processes and antisystemic movements, feminist theory, and the aftermath of the colonial system. The volume addresses three myths tied to Eurocentric forms of thinking: objectivist and universalist knowledges, the decolonization of the modern world, and developmentalism. All three myths, the authors argue, conceal the continued hierarchical and unequal relations of domination and exploitation between European and Euro-American centers and non-European peripheral regions. In this volume, world-system scholars address these and related aspects of the modern/colonial capitalist world-system.

Addressing the myth of universalist knowledge, the volume reminds us that our knowledge is situated in the gender, class, racial, and sexual hierarchies of a specific region in the world-system, while the coloniality of power additionally situates our knowledge. The volume further argues that the postcolonial era retains the hierarchy of colonialism, and the possibility of national development without global structural changes is one of the greatest 20th-century myths. Taking these perspectives into consideration, the contributors examine and help to refine classic world-system theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313318047
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/30/2002
Series:	Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System , #227
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

RAMÓN GROSFOGUEL is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

ANA MARGARITA CERVANTES-RODRÍGUEZ is Research Affiliate for the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department, at SUNY-Albany.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Unthinking 20th-Century Eurocentric Mythologies: Universalist Knowledges, Decolonization, and Developmentalism by Ramon Grosfoguel and Margarita Rodríguez
The 20th Century: Darkness at Noon? by Immanuel Wallerstein
Global Processes, Power Relations, and Antisystemic Movements
Globalization and the National Security State Corporate Complex (NSSCC) in the Long 20th Century by Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
Bucking the System: The Timespace of Antisystemic Movements by Richard E. Lee
Some Initial Empirical Observations on Inequality in the World-Economy (1870-2000) by Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, et al.
Transnationalism, Power, and Hegemony: Review of Alternative Perspectives and Their Implications for World-Systems Analysis by Margarita Rodríguez
Mass Migration in the World-System: An AntiSystemic Movement in the Long Run? by Eric Mielants
20th-Century Antisystemic Historical Processes and U.S. Hegemony: Free Trade Imperialism, National Economic Development, and Free Enterprise Imperialism by Satoshi Ikeda
Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, and World-System Analysis
Commodity Chains and Gendered Exploitation: Rescuing Women from the Periphery of World-System Thought by Wilma A. Dunaway
Resolving the Paradox of Gender: Women and Power in the Modern World-System by Nancy Forsythe
Intersecting and Contesting Positions: Post-Colonial, Feminist, and World-System Theories by Shelley Feldman
Writing on Gender in World-Systems Perspective by Sheila Pelizzon
The Aftermath of the Colonial System, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
The Genesis of the Development Framework: The End of Laissez-faire, the Eclipse of Colonial Empires, and the Structure of United States Hegemony by Fouad Makki
The Convergence of World-Postcolonialism as a Critical Theory of World Society by Santiago Castro-Gómez and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Making "Africa" in Brazil: Old Trends and New Opportunities by Livio Sansone
The Convergence of World-Historical Social Science: "Border Thinking" as an Alternative to the Classical Comparative Method by Khaldoun Subhi Samman