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• Fall Issue of JWSR

  2026-09-04

  The Fall issue of JWSR is officially out. Please share widely with your networks.  https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr   The issue features eight research articles organized around interconnected political, ecological, and historical questions. We hope it helps us shed light on the current historical moment with articles that directly address everything from shifts in global accumulation and geopolitical power, to the resurgence of authoritarianism, the persistence of colonial forms of knowledge, and the deepening contradictions of climate governance.      Read More Read more about Fall Issue of JWSR

• Announcing the Summer/Autumn JWSR 2025 Issue

  2025-09-15

  This issue provides a special opportunity to say farewell to the inimitable Dale W. Tomich in the form of the first of a two-part interview between Dale and his student and friend Juan Giusti-Cordero. The issue also features a diverse array of research articles, from topics such as the role of new media in the digital age in dismantling the West’s propaganda machine to the ties between economy and ecology through the lens of species impact.

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• Announcing the Winter/Spring 2025 JWSR Special Issue on Global Disasters and World Society, Part I

  2025-04-17

  The JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research.

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• Announcing the Summer/Autumn JWSR 2024 Issue: Thirtieth Anniversary

  2024-08-30

  This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Journal of World-Systems Research. One of the founding editors, Chris Chase-Dunn, has included a reflection on the rise and evolution of the journal, and we have also included a list of some of the top-downloaded articles from each decade. Along with several research articles we are also pleased to publish a commentary by Boaventura de Sousa Santos on AI.

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• Announcing the Winter/Spring 2024 JWSR Special Issue on Women in World-Literature: A Woman’s Work

  2024-04-17

  Our JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of World-Systems Research Winter/Spring 2024 Special Issue on Women in World-Literature: A Woman’s Work.

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• Announcing the Summer/Fall 2022 JWSR Special Issue on Immanuel Wallerstein: The Legacies

  2023-08-22

  Our JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of World-Systems Research Summer/Autumn 2023 Special Issue Immanuel Wallerstein: The Legacies.

   

  This issue takes us on a journey through the breadth of what world-systems analysis offers not just to the field of sociology but to a trans-disciplinary, even anti-disciplinary social science. It features the special section “Immanuel Wallerstein: The Legacies,” compiled by guest editor Christopher Chase-Dunn, a series of essays expanded and reimagined from the “Old Heads Discuss Immanuel Wallerstein’s Ideas” at a conference last year. Among the other myriad contributions is the insightful essay by Jason W. Moore “Power, Profit, and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life.”

  
  The Journal of World-Systems Research is available free online at jwsr.pitt.edu It is the official journal of the American Sociological Association’s section on Political Economy of the World-System and one of the most established scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journals. Please help us spread the word about the issue and forward the details below to friends and colleagues.

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• Call for Abstracts: Special Issue "National Sovereignty and the World-System"

  2023-06-09

  Guest Editors Roberto D. Hernández, San Diego State University and Nandita Sharma, University of Hawaii at Manoa invite abstract submissions to a special issue examining, among a host of related concerns, the world-scale importance of nationalisms within the world capitalist system.

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• Announcing the Winter/Spring 2023 JWSR Issue

  2023-03-21

  Our JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research.

  Much of this issue takes up the topic of engaging with anti-systemic movements and anti-fascist movements in various ways, from the perspective of world history and the immediate present. In addition to a number of engaging includes a guest symposium by Marilyn Grell-Brisk and Christopher Chase-Dunn on “Complexity Theory and Physical, Biological, and Sociocultural Evolution;” as well as several of compelling pieces of new scholarship in our essays and commentaries sections.

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• Announcing the Summer/Fall 2022 JWSR Special Issue on Anti-State and Anti-Systemic: Exilic Spaces and Societies in Movement in the World-System

  2022-08-25

  Our editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of World-Systems Research Summer/Fall 2022 Special Issue on Anti-State and Anti-Systemic: Exilic Spaces and Societies in Movement in the World-System, guest edited by Spencer Louis Potiker and Yousuf Al-Bulushi, from University of California, Irvine.

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• Announcing the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of JWSR

  2022-03-29

  Our JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research. This issue takes us down a variety of avenues, and we are pleased to announce the new section Commentaries.

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• Announcing the latest issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 25 Issue 1 Winter/Spring 2019

  2019-03-28

  Our JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Winter/Spring 2019 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research.

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• Announcing New Issue of Journal of World-Systems Research Vol.24 Issue 1 Winter/Spring 2018

  2018-03-29

  Our expanded JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publicaqtion of the Winter/Spring 2018 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research (http://jwsr.pitt.edu) Read More Read more about Announcing New Issue of Journal of World-Systems Research Vol.24 Issue 1 Winter/Spring 2018

• Two JWSR authors win top article awards

  2017-08-03

  We are pleased to announce the following awards to JWSR authors:

  • Tanya Golash-Boza received honorable mention in the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award of the Race, Class, and Gender Section of the ASA for her article, “Parallels Between Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation: An Intersectional Analysis,” published in Journal of World-Systems Research 22(2) (2016).

  • Irene Pang received the PEWS Section Terence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award for her article, “Banking Is for Others: Contradictions of Microfinance in the Ghanaian Market,” Journal of World-Systems Research 22(2) (2016).

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