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Efe Can Gürcan
Rethinking “World Wars” Through a World-Systems Lens
Social Science

What are the key characteristics of the current instabilities of the capitalist world-system, and how does it compare to previous periods that led to...

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Crelis Rammelt, Raimon C. Ylla-Catala
Ecological Unequal Exchange
Economics

The Marxist theory of unequal exchange challenges the idea that trade never results in outright losses. As a biophysical process, ecological unequal e...

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Sam Chian
Wallerstein after ’68
Sociology

This article examines the intellectual foundations of Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis, focusing on the formative period of the late 1960...

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Ryan Gunderson, William Charles, Claiton Fyock
Global Capital and Amphibian Extinctions
Environment

Sri Lanka has the highest number of recorded amphibian extinctions and most of the island’s remaining amphibian species are threatened with extinction...

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Roberto J. Ortiz
Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of “Showcase” Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective
Development

The rise of oil-fueled accumulation in the global North produced an energy regime that by the mid-twentieth century was being extended to the semiperi...

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This article presents a compelling and timely analysis of the energy crises in Cuba and Puerto Rico, two Caribbean "showcase" peripheries. Employing a...

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Andrey Korotayev
Sixth Century Global Climatic Disaster, the Origins of Islam, and its World-System Consequences
Social Science

We suggest viewing the origins of Islam against the background of the sixth century global climatic disaster and the Arabian socio-ecological crisis t...

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Paola Huwe de Paoli
The Popular Anthropocene in Global Climate (Dis)Governance
Social Science

The climate emergency is posing an existential threat to millions of species on Earth—including humans. Despite advances in climate science and the co...

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Giacomo Otavio Tixiliski
Shamanic Thinking in the Capitalocene
Social Science

The paper interweaves the concepts of two contemporary thinkers in order to describe the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. Based on the books Capita...

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William K. Carroll
Refusing Ecocide
Politics

To place the ongoing disaster of climate breakdown in political-economic context and explore future possibilities, this article mobilizes three concep...

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