scholarly journals The Centrality of Race to Inequality Across the World-System

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Boatca
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
World System ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
Ethnic Inequality ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

While I agree, and have previously argued myself that closer attention should be paid to semiperipheries in terms of their transformative potential, I consider the claim that nonwestern semiperipheries exacerbate and even cause racial/ethnic inequality misleading. In the following, I thus want to caution against what I think are three weak links in the authors’ argument: mistaking visibility for causation, conflating the concept of race with the reality of racism (and its many historical and geopolitical configurations), as well as throwing the baby (white supremacy) out with the bathwater (Western knowledge).I will limit my comments to two aspects. The first one is methodological and concerns the unclear unit of analysis that underlies the authors’ claim for the centrality of non-Western semiperipheries to ethnic/racial inequality. The second aspect is more substantive and targets the relationship between racism and the emergence, functioning, and reproduction of the modern/colonial world system.

scholarly journals Nonwestern Periphery and its Paradoxes: Reflections for Struggles in the 21st Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 499-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Saggioro Garcia
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
World System ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Economic Mechanisms

What has historically been the role of the nonwestern semiperiphery (what was it expected to do and what did it really do) and how has this role changed in recent years? In their article “Moving toward Theory for the 21st Century: The Centrality of Nonwestern Semiperiphery to World Ethnic/Racial Inequality”, Wilma Dunaway and Donald Clelland provide important contributions to the efforts to rethink global inequalities and the potential to transform the capitalist world-system. Presenting a wealth of data compiled in graphs and tables, the article aims to decenter analysis of global ethnic/racial inequality by bringing the nonwestern semiperiphery to the foreground. In their examination of the rise of the nonwestern semiperiphery, the authors question the popular “global apartheid model”, which identifies “white supremacy” as the sole cause of global ethnic/racial inequality. Their goal is to demonstrate that the nonwestern semiperiphery intensifies and exacerbates ethnic and racial inequalities in the world further by adopting political and economic mechanisms to exploit territories and workers both within and beyond their borders.

scholarly journals Moving toward Theory for the 21st Century: The Centrality of Nonwestern Semiperipheries to World Ethnic/Racial Inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma A. Dunaway ◽  
Donald A. Clelland
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
World Population ◽  
World Systems ◽  
The Core ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Theory

While there has been much attention to the economic, political, and transformative potential of the semiperiphery, scholars have failed to explore the ways in which this zone of the world-system causes, contributes to, and exacerbates world ethnic/racial inequality. By 2015, a majority of the world’s population is concentrated in 41 nonwestern semiperipheries that generate 40 percent of the world Gross Domestic Product. For those reasons, this essay decenters analysis of global ethnic/racial inequality by bringing the nonwestern semiperiphery to the foreground. Part I examines the ascent of nonwestern semiperipheries over the last half century, calling into question the popular “global apartheid model” which posits “white supremacy” as the singular cause of global ethnic/racial inequality. In Part II, we conceptualize, and present empirical data to support, ten conjunctures between the nonwestern semiperipheries and world ethnic/racial inequality. Part III offers a “theoretical retrenchment” in which we call for new approaches that bring the nonwestern semiperiphery to the foreground of theory and research about global ethnic/racial inequality. We argue that future theory building must pay particular attention to the rise of the Asian semiperiphery where two-fifths of world population is concentrated. Drawing upon previous world-systems research, we aggregate and update lists of countries in the core, semiperiphery and periphery in 1960, 1980 and 2015. 

Global Environmentalism and the World-System: A Cross-National Analysis of Air Pollution

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Andrew Mejia
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
World System ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Regime ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

Ambient air pollution represents a global health crisis, leading to 7 million annual deaths worldwide. The rise of a “global environmental regime” manifests in the widespread adoption of environmental policies and laws to reduce ambient air pollution, but debate remains whether they have any effect. Scholars argue that the relationship between the global environmental regime and air pollution depends on the penetration of the global environmental regime. In this analysis, I argue that the relationship between the global environmental regime and air pollution levels is contingent on a country’s position in the world-system. Using fixed effects panel analyses of 144 countries from 1990 to 2010, I find embeddedness in the global environmental regime does predict lower national air pollution levels. This effect, however, is smaller in semi-peripheral and peripheral countries. These findings contribute to an emerging body of scholarship integrating world society and world systems approaches in the study of the environment.

scholarly journals Wicked Overseers

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin F. Steinmetz ◽  
Brian P. Schaefer ◽  
Howard Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Urban Ghetto ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

In recent times, several tragic events have brought attention to the relationship between policing and racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. Scholars, activists, and pundits have clamored to explain tensions that have arisen from these police-related deaths. The authors contribute to the discussion by asserting that contemporary policing in America, and its relationship to racial inequality, is only the latest chapter in a broader historical narrative in which the police constitute the front line of a race- and class-stratified social order. In other words, contemporary criminal justice and race struggles are a legacy of colonialism. This essay begins with a brief overview of colonialism before turning toward dissecting the contemporary colonial character of policing African American urban ghetto communities in four parts. First, the emergence of ghettos as internal colonies is described. Second, mechanisms are given that propelled the mass entry of police into ghetto spaces, with particular attention given to the war on drugs, broken-windows and order-maintenance policing, and police militarization. Third, the authors explore how contemporary policing acts to manage the colonized through police stops, searches, and other practices. Finally, the relationship between American policing practices and cultural denigration of African Americans is described.

Economic Globalisation and the Structure of the World City System: The Case of Airline Passenger Data

Urban Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1925-1947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Mahutga ◽  
Xiulian Ma ◽  
David A. Smith ◽  
Michael Timberlake
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
System Structure ◽  
World City ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
The World ◽  
Airline Passenger ◽  
Passenger Flows ◽  
City System ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Relationship

This paper reports results from an analysis of the relationship between the structure of the city-to-city network of global airline passenger flows and the interstate world system. While many scholars suggest that the broader parameters of the world system structure the urban hierarchy embedded within or articulated to it, others argue that the urban hierarchy is decoupling from the world system. The analyses show that there has been some modest convergence in the distribution of power in the world city system. Moreover, they suggest that the mechanism for this convergence is the upward mobility of cities located in the semi-periphery and the east Asian region. The paper closes by considering the implication of these findings for a larger understanding of the relationship between globalisation, the structure of the world city system and its articulation with the world system.

A Genre Approach to the Study of Im-politeness

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Fox News ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper argues that genre notions, as understood by (Fairclough, 2003), can provide an overarching unit of analysis to accommodate both top-down and bottom-up analyses of impoliteness. These notions are here applied to the study impoliteness within an institutional genre: news interviews. Impoliteness is seen as the driving force behind a new genre, "news as confrontation", whose communicative goal is to reaffirm a view of the world. The multifunctionality of impoliteness in this context has been related to a mismatch between the introduction of impoliteness as a novel staple in the news as confrontation shows, and the unchanged social expectations of politeness as the default term in social interaction. At the level of the relationship between interviewee and interviewer, impoliteness manifests itself both at the lexico-grammatical level and interactionally. However, impoliteness is used to create rapport between the interviewer and the overhearing audience. Thus, incivility toward those guests who differ ideologically from the audience has to be assessed as rapport building, and seen as constitutive rather than disruptive of communal life. I provide two examples of the new genre by providing an in-depth analysis of two interviews by Bill O'Reilly for Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor the epitome of news as confrontation shows.

scholarly journals Modeling the Process of Deglobalization of the World Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
D.K. Khomutov ◽  
◽  
O.I. Kireeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
World Economy ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
The World ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
The Relationship

based on the macroeconomic indicators of exports and direct investment from the country, a model of the process of deglobalization of the world economy, which began in 2008, was developed, which became particularly clear during the pandemic. To determine the countries of the center and the periphery, the k-means method of cluster analysis was used. As a result, a clear illustration of the distribution of the roles of countries in the world economy according to the theory of world-system analysis was obtained, as well as the relationship between the macroeconomic indicators of individual countries and the share of world trade in world GDP was established. The results obtained can be used in further studies, which will be based on the data of the macroeconomic indicators of the pandemic period.

scholarly journals La cooperación al desarrollo como parte de la estructura económica del capitalismo global

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 811
Author(s):  
Irene Maestro Yarza ◽  
Javier Martínez Peinado
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
World System ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Logical Scheme ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The Relationship

In this article the relationship between Cooperation for Development and capitalist development is examined, focusing specially on changes in both processes during the last decades. It is argued that Development Cooperation is a part of the world economic structure, designed by capitalism along its different phases (in an international dimension, first; and global afterwards), so its functionality is embodied in the capitalist logical scheme itself. This paper outlines the narrow relationship between the cooperation models and the logics of reproduction of World System, both in its structure and superstructure dimensions. A Pro System cooperation practice is distinguished from an Anti System one, and some preliminary conclusions are derived about the need of improvements in Development Cooperation in order to promote truly structural changes.

A Note on the Ancient World-Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-167
Author(s):  
Ervand Margaryan
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Type ◽  
World System ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article deals with the relationship of such concepts as the world-system and civilisation, both living independently and co-existing in time and space. World-systems and civilisations may be forced to unite into hyper-systems, or world-empires of different kind—self-sufficient, militarist-parasitic, and mixed type. Militarist empires-parasites can be settled and nomadic. Nomadic or bivouac empires are empires-armies, which exist only in movement. Stopping leads either to the death of the empire-army, or to the transformation into one but usually several stationary empires, mostly also militarist-parasitic.

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