Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2012

General Issue: World-Systems Research

Published: 2012-08-26

SYMPOSIUM: Real Utopias & the Politics of Dispossession

Editor?s Introduction: Utopias and the Politics of Dispossession

Jackie Smith

138-140
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Green Economy? or Green Utopia: The Salience of Reproductive Labor Post-Rio+20

Ariel Salleh

141-145
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Political Economy of the World-System: The Imperative of African-Centered Utopias

Rose M. Brewer

146-150
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Local Utopia as Unobtrusive Resistance: The Greek Village Micro-Economy

Marina Karides

151-156
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Special Contribution: Interview with Giovanni Arrighi ?At Some Point Something Has To Give? ? Declining U.S. Power, the Rise of China, and an Adam Smith for the Contemporary Left

Kevan Harris

157-166
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General Section: Articles

Green? Technology and Ecologically Unequal Exchange: The Environmental and Social Consequences of Ecological Modernization in the World-System

Eric Bonds, Liam Downey

167-186
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Theorizing Environmental Governance of the World System: Global Political Economy Theory and Some Applications to Stratospheric Ozone Politics

Brian J. Gareau

187-210
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Urbanization before Cities: Lessons for Social Theory from the Evolution of Cities

Alexander Thomas

211-235
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The Effects of Global Interaction on Poverty in Developing Countries, 1991-2005

Jason Hall, Loretta Bass

236-265
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General Section: Research Note and Data Set

Indices of Trade Partner Concentration for 183 Countries

Salvatore Babones, Robin M. Farabee-Siers

266-277
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General Section: Book Reviews

Review of "Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present," by Julian Go

Thomas D. Hall

278-280
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Review of "The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany," by Rebecca Jean Emigh

Richard E. Lee

280-284
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Review of "Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research," by Jennifer Bair, ed.

Joseph Conti

284-287
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Review of "Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization," by Nitsan Chorev,

Kristen Hopewell

287-289
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Review of "Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization," by John R. Searle

Omar Lizardo

290-292
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Review of "Global Democracy and the World Social Forums," by Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter Smith, and Rolando Vazquez

Bruce Podobnik

292-293
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Review of "Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies," by Athina Karotzogianni and Andrew Robinson

Jon Shefner

293-295
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Review of "Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era," by Armory Starr, Luis Fernandez and Christian Scholl

Nicholas Miano

295-297
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