ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |75 pages
Origins
chapter |8 pages
The social foundations of global conflict and cooperation
part |109 pages
Theory and critiques
chapter |8 pages
The structures of knowledge
chapter |9 pages
The failure of the “Modern World-System” and the new paradigm of the “Critical Theory of Patriarchy”
part |97 pages
The contemporary world-economy
chapter |8 pages
Trade, unequal exchange, global commodity chains
chapter |2 pages
Billionaires and global inequality
part |88 pages
Development and underdevelopment
chapter |8 pages
The embedded periphery
part |69 pages
Sustainability
chapter |2 pages
What is old and what is new?
chapter |9 pages
Forests, food and freshwater
chapter |3 pages
The environmental impacts of foreign direct investment in less-developed countries
part |73 pages
Society