Announcing the Winter/Spring 2024 JWSR Special Issue on Women in World-Literature: A Woman’s Work
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.
This issue features the special section “Women in World-Literature: A Woman’s Work,” compiled and edited by Roxanne Douglas, as part of an ongoing development of a conversation initiated at the Women in World-Literature Conference in 2022. The section engages in the world-literature system from the perspective of what historically has been defined as women’s work—motherhood, sex work, affective labor, storytelling and knowledge production, even consumption itself. Among our many other contributions in this substantial issue are three commentary essays by William I. Robinson, Peter Linebaugh, and Jonas Van Vossole and Marcela Uchôa that confront the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Journal of World-Systems Research
Volume 30 Number 1
Special Issue on Women in World-Literature: A Woman’s Work
Winter/Spring 2024
Table of Contents
i Andrej Grubačić and Rallie Murray | Poetry After Gaza: Editors’ Introduction
WOMEN IN WORLD-LITERATURE: A WOMAN’S WORK
Roxanne Douglas | A Woman’s Work: Making Something Out of Nothing: Introduction to the Special Issue
Bushra Mahzabeen | Containers of “Meat, Blood, and Madness”: Exploitative Labor and Disposable Bodies in Lullaby and Still Born
Charlotte Spear | “What Will Set Yuh Free is Money”: Sex Work, Debt and the Dynamics of Exploitation in Here Comes the Sun and The Immortals
Hendrikje Kaube | Compassion as Commodity: Middle-Class Women and Care Work in the Long Nineteenth Century
Madeleine Sinclair | “When the Skin Comes Off, Their True Selves Emerge”: Folkloric Irrealism and Gender Politics in Twenty-First Century Caribbean Short Fiction
Federica Lupati | The Brazilian Indigenous as an Uneven Identity: Reading an Indigenous Woman’s Voice in Márcia Wayna Kambeba’s Poems
Hannah Gillman | Reading Hunger and Exhaustion in Clarice Lispector’s A Hora de Estrela: Exploring the Ecology of Women’s Work and Literary Production
Roxanne Douglas | A Woman’s Work is Never Done: Exhaustion and Alienation: A Concluding Coda to the Special Issue
ARTICLES
Philipp Köncke and Stefan Schmalz | The World-System of Vaccine Distribution: Global Inequalities and Geopolitical Conflicts During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lara M. Espeter and Patricia Retamal | Global Commodity Chains and the Pandemic: Labor-Power in Agricultural Sectors in Kenya and Chile
Amanda Sikirica | Where are Fossil Fuels Displaced by Alternatives?: World-Systems and Energy Transitions
Albert S. Fu and Utku Balaba | Incineration, Urbanization, and Municipal Solid Waste in the World-System
Şahan Savaş Karataşli and Derek Clark | Ibn Khaldun’s Labor Theory of Value and the Question of Race: Revisiting the “Nondebates of the 1970s” through The Muqaddimah
Francisco Tiapa | Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific
Ege Demirel | Anarchy in the World-System: The Emergence of the Semi-Core and the Phase of Interregnum
Leslie C. Gates | The Mexican Haunting of Venezuela’s Oil Workers (1912–1948): A Legacy of Capitalist Incorporation
Zhandarka Kurti and Zeynep Gönen | Carceral Power in World Historical Context: Bridging the Methodological and Theoretical Contributions of World-Systems Analysis and Radical Criminology
ESSAYS
Ravi Arvind Palat | World-Systems at Fifty: A Provisional Balance-Sheet
José Neves | Empire, Marxism, and Nationalism: On the Death of Antonio Negri
COMMENTARIES
William I. Robinson | Palestine and Global Crisis: Why Genocide? Why Now?
Peter Linebaugh | Palestine and the Commons: Or, Marx and the Musha’a
Jonas Van Vossole and Marcela Uchôa | Israel and the End of International Law
