Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-system: Crises and resistance in the 21st century world-system
Wilma A. Dunaway
Jan 2003 · Greenwood Publishing Group
Ebook
266
Pages
About this ebook
As one-half of the latest edition of Immanuel Wallerstein's Political Economy of the World System series, this collection offers cutting-edge theoretical directions to explain the structural crises of the 21st-century world- system. Contributors argue that the capitalist world system has reached a critical bifurcation point, a short period which will be characterized by a sudden shift in the long-term structural forces that have created and sustained the world as we know it. Writers challenge conventional thinking about the most significant structural crises that face the 21st-century world-system, including terrorism, debt, the growth of megacities as global actors, the emergence of a powerful transnational capitalist class, and the world ecological crisis.
About the author
WILMA A. DUNAWAY is Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. She is the author of The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (1996).
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