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

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  • Ana Saggioro Garcia Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

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https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2017.740

Abstract

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.

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2017-08-11

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Garcia, A. S. (2017). Nonwestern Periphery and its Paradoxes: Reflections for Struggles in the 21st Century. Journal of World-Systems Research, 23(2), 499–504. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2017.740

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2017): Special Issue: Unequal Ecological Exchange

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Dialogue: Race in the Capitalist World-System

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