scholarly journals Editorial Note

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-358
Author(s):  
Andrej Grubačić

Editors introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 27, No. 2 Summer/Autumn 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Andrej Grubačić

Editors introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 27, No. 1 Special Issue on Capitalist World-Economy in Crisis: Policing, Pacification, and Legitimacy


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 527
Author(s):  
Jackie Smith

Volume 25(1) of the Journal of World-Systems Research initially included a review by Jeb Sprague of Marion Werner’s Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean, DOI 10.5195/JWSR.2019.920. Because the book review editor decided it would be better suited for inclusion in a proposed review symposium, she removed the review from the website, with the idea that it would run in a future issue. This was done in error, since by the time the decision was made to reschedule the review, it had already been published in the first issue of volume 25. Accordingly, a slightly revised version of the review has been restored to its original publication site. The book review editor regrets the mistake and apologizes for the confusion.


2003 ◽  
pp. 393-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K. Jorgenson

What are the effects of increased stuctural integration of international trade on the environment of relatively poorer countries, particularly in the southern hemisphere? This is the key question addressed by Corey Lofdahl in his book Environmental Impacts of Globalization and Trade:A Systems Study. Given the theme for this special issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research, a discussion and evaluation of this book seems rather timely and relevant. An immediate fact of interest is that Lofdahl is not an environmental sociologist, let alone acquainted with relevant empirical works grounded in a world-systems perspective. Rather, he is trained as a political scientist, and works in the simulation and information technology sector.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-142
Author(s):  
Jackie Smith

Editors introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 26, No. 2


1995 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn

Welcome to the Journal of World-Systems Research. This is our first "batch" of articles and book reviews. Electronic journals do not have issues as print journals do. Rather articles will usually be added to the journal individually as they become ready for publication. Volume 1 will be composed of all those articles that will be published in 1995. Each article has its own unique Number. Future articles will be added to the Volume as they become available, though we may again produce more "batches" in connection


2009 ◽  
pp. 193-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Gellert ◽  
Jon Shefner

Some of the most insightful work in the political economy of the world-system area has been produced by researchers whose extensive fieldwork offers them deep familiarity with people and locales. Few other methods are as useful to understand the impacts of structural change on daily life and the ways agents resist, alter, and shape emerging structures. Yet such structural fieldwork is marginalized by the over-reliance of pedagogical materials on social constructionist, social psychological, or interactionist perspectives and also in world-systems research and writing by the privileging of long durée historical or quantitative cross-national methods. This paper introduces the concept of structural fieldwork to describe a qualitative field methodology in which the researcher is self-consciously guided by considerations emerging out of macro-sociological theories. We identify four advantages of structural fieldwork: the illumination of power’s multiple dimensions; examination of agency and its boundaries or limitations within broad political and economic structures; attention to nuances of change and durability, spatial and temporal specificities, and processes of change and durability; and challenging and extending social theory. These advantages are illustrated in select examples from existing literature and by discussion of the two author’s fieldwork-based research. The paper concludes that explicit attention to fieldwork may strengthen political economy and world-systems research and also de-marginalize political economy informed by structural fieldwork.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Smith ◽  
Isaac Kamola ◽  
Alexandre White ◽  
Patrick Manning

Editors' Introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 26, Issue 1 (Winter/Spring 2020)


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