JOURNAL OF WORLD-SYSTEMS RESEARCH

A Free and Open Sourced Academic Journal Since 1994

Current Issue: Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2013

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ARTICLES (Download Articles)

Jackie Smith Editor’s Introduction

Adam Driscoll and Edward L. Kick | Abstract | Naval Stores Extraction in Eastern North Carolina: The Historical Basis of Spatial Inequality within a Core Nation

Thomas D. Hall | Abstract | Lessons from Comparing the Two Southwests: Southwest China and Northwest New Spain/Southwest US

Erynn Masi de Casanova and Barbara Sutton | AbstractTransnational Body Projects: Media Representations of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Argentina and the United States

Eric Bonds | Abstract | Hegemony and Humanitarian Norms: The U.S. Legitimation of Toxic Violence

Brent Z. Kaup | Abstract | In Spaces of Marginalization: Dispossession, Incorporation, and Resistance in Bolivia

Asafa Jalata | Abstract | The Impacts of Terrorism and Capitalist Incorporation on Indigenous Americans

BOOK REVIEWS (Download Reviews)

The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010 by John Owen, Reviewed by Julian Go

Free Burma: Transnational Legal Activism and Corporate Accountability by John Dale, Reviewed by Dominic J. Nardi Jr.

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization by Thomas D. Hall and James V. Fenelon, Reviewed by Paul S. Ciccantell

Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value by Ben Selwyn, Reviewed by Phillip Hough

Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists Versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology by Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro, Reviewed by Tim Bartley

Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Labor Standards: Firms and Activists in the Making of Private Regulation by Luc Fransen, Reviewed by Florence Palpacuer

Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005 by William G. Martin, Reviewed by John Dale

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