Announcing the Winter/Spring 2025 JWSR Special Issue on Global Disasters and World Society, Part I
The JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research.
This issue contains a special section edited by Chris Chase-Dunn and Fábio Pádua dos Santos, “Global Disasters and World Society, Part I,” which is a compilation of papers based upon the International Conference on Global Disasters and World Society held in March 2024. Topics in the special section range from the role of climate change in the rise of Islam in the sixth century to explorations of the possibilities and potentialities of a Global Green New Deal. In keeping with the philosophy of the journal, two articles in this section, by Paola Huwe de Paoli and Giacomo Otavio Tixiliski are presented in both English and in Portuguese. Other articles in the issue range in topics from Indigenous observations of whiteness as an extension of Du Bois’ work on world-systems analysis, historicizing the development of the prison, and the notion of a “world translation system” and the hierarchy of knowledge production.
We are also happy to announce that our first contribution to the ASA Podcast series is now up, featuring an interview with author Roberto J. Ortiz about his article "Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of 'Showcase' Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective," which is available here.
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.
Journal of World-Systems Research
Volume 31 Number 1
Special Issue on Global Disasters and World Society
Winter/Spring 2025
Table of Contents
i Grubačić | Editors’ Introduction
GLOBAL DISASTERS AND WORLD SOCIETY
Chase-Dunn and dos Santos | Global Disasters and World Society: Introduction to the Special Section on Global Disasters and World Society, Part I
Korotayev | Sixth Century Global Climatic Disaster, the Origins of Islam, and its World-System Consequences
Grinin and Grinin | Deepening of the World-System Crisis: Reconfigurations of the World-System and Potential Impacts on Destabilization and Environmental Degradation
de Paoli | The Popular Anthropocene in Global Climate (Dis)Governance: An Analysis of Mitigation Strategies for the Climate Emergency
de Paoli | O Antropoceno Popular na (Des)Governança Global do Clima: uma Análise das Estratégias de Mitigação da Emergência Climática
Carroll | Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World
Schwartzman | A Science-Based Ecosocialist Strategy for Climate Security
Ortiz | Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of “Showcase” Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective
Tixiliski | Shamanic Thinking in the Capitalocene: An Attempt to Build Alliances at the End of the World
Tixiliski | O pensamento xamânico no Capitaloceno: Uma tentativa de construção de alianças no fim do mundo
Langman | The Generational Basis of Anti-Systemic Resistance: Mobilizations Against Extinction
ARTICLES
Welch | A Nez Perce/DuBoisian Theory of Whiteness and the Global Color-Line
Parisot | Historicizing the Prison in the History of Capitalism
Balorda | The Reproduction of Peripherality during the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Santora | Lex Capitalocenae: Cheap Nature and the Emergence of Legal Naturalism
Rammelt and Ylla-Català | Ecological Unequal Exchange: Winners and Losers in Global Raw Material Trade and Consumption
Rayyan and Thawabteh | Translation and the Political Economy of Global Knowledge Production: The Case of Translating Contemporary Arab Thought
Gürcan | Rethinking “World Wars” Through a World-Systems Lens: A Relational and Contextual Approach
Mandle | Modelski’s Long Cycle Revisited: Comparing American Decline to British Deconcentration
