Volume XVIII, Number 1 (2012)


Special Issue on Land Rights in the World-System

Editors: Farshad Araghi and Marina Karides

 

Farshad Araghi and Marina Karides: "Introduction: Land Dispossession and Global Crisis"

Immanuel Wallerstein: "Land, Space, and People: Constraints of the Capitalist World-Economy"

Charles Geisler: "New Terra Nullius Narratives and the Gentrification of Africa’s “Empty Lands"

Phillip A. Hough and Jennifer Bair: "Dispossession, Class Formation and the Political Imaginary of Colombia’s Coffee Producers over the Longue Durée: Beyond the Polanyian Analytic"

Astra Bonini: "Complementary and Competitive Regimes of Accumulation: Natural Resources and Development in the World-System"

 

Ganesh K. Trichur: "East Asian Developmental Path and Land-Use Rights in China"

 

Ben Scully: "Land, Livelihoods, and the Decline of Work: South African Lessons for Current Debates"

 

Andrew K Jorgenson and James Rice: "Urban Slums and Children’s Health in Less-Developed Countries"

 

Book Reviews:

 

Del Valle Escalante, Emilio. Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity, and Identity Politics. (Reviewed by Samantha Fox)

 

Chen, Xiangming. Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformation in a Global Megacity. (Reviewed by David Smith)

 

Stepan, Alfred, Juan J. Linz, and Yogendra Yadva. Crafting State-Nations: India and other Multinational Democracies (Reviewed by Gary Coyne)

 

Chew, Sing and Pat Lauderdale (eds). Theory and Methodology of World Development: The Writings of Andre Gunder Frank. (Reviewed by Robert A. Denemark)

 

Çalişkan, Koray. Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity. (Reviewed by Sarah E. Lake)

 

Centeno, Miguel A and Joseph N. Cohen. Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective. (Reviewed by Robert J.S. Ross)

 

Mostern, Ruth. “Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern”: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960 – 1276 CE). (Reviewed by Patrick Manning)

 

Greaves, Alan M. The Land of Ionia: Society and Economy in the Archaic Period. (Reviewed by P. Nick Kardulias)