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From the latest issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research: “The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it aren’t immediately clear”: A World-System Biography of George Orwell by Brendan McQuade http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/7 The are other interesting articles in this issue that are certainly worth reading: jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/index Vol 21, No 2 (2015): Special Issue: World-System Biographies Guest Editors, Kevan Harris & Brendan McQuade Table of Contents Editors' Introduction 1) Symposium: The Climate Crisis & Anti-Systemic Movements 1a) La Via Campesina: The ‘Peasants' Way’ to Changing the System, not the Climate Nora McKeon 1b) Can Climate Activists’ ‘Movement Below’ Transcend Negotiators’ ‘Paralysis Above’? Patrick Bond 1c) Five Points on Sociology, PEWS and Climate Change Andrew K. Jorgenson 2) Special Issue: World-Systems Biographies 2a) Notes on the Method of World-System Biography Kevan Harris, Brendan McQuade 2b) From Socialism to Hedge Fund: The Human Element and the New History of Capitalism David Huyssen 2c) “The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it aren’t immediately clear”: A World-System Biography of George Orwell Brendan McQuade 2d) Aristocratic Rebellion: Ruben Darío and the Creation of Artistic Freedom in the World-System Roberto José Ortiz 2e) Sociology in Times of Crisis: Chen Da, National Salvation and the Indigenization of Knowledge Ana Maria Candela 2f) The Origins of Turkey’s “Heterodox” Transition to Neoliberalism: The Özal Decade and Beyond Şahan Savaş Karataşlı 2g) The Breakaway Boss: Semiperipheral Innovations and the Rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad Kevan Harris 2h) Spaces, Trajectories, Maps: Towards a World-Systems Biography of Immanuel Wallerstein Georgi Derluguian 3) Research Articles 3a) Austerity and Anti-Systemic Protest: Bringing Hardships Back In Jon Shefner, Aaron Rowland, George Pasdirtz 3b) From Waste to Resources? Interrogating ‘Race to the Bottom’ in the Global Environmental Governance of the Hazardous Waste Trade Cristina A. Lucier, Brian J. Gareau 4) Book Review Symposium 4a) Introduction: Review Symposium on Nancy Plankey-Videla's We are in this Dance Together: Gender, Power and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm Carol Walther 4b) Making Apparent the World-System in the Everyday Challenges of the Apparel Industry Marina Karides 4c) Reflections on a Dance Aurelia Lorena Murga 4d) Putting Organizational Transformation and Workplace Dynamics in Global Context Jennifer Bair 4e) Engaging with Dr. Plankey-Videla’s We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm Cristina Morales 4f) Teaching Gender and Resistance from a World-Systems Perspective: "We are in this Dance Together” in the Classroom and Beyond Smitha Radhakrishnan 4g) Still Dancing Together: Women Workers' Mobilization, State Action, and Global Capital Nancy Plankey-Videla 5) Book Reviews 5a) Review of Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Is the American Century Over? Salvatore Babones 5b) Review of Arturo C. Sotomayor, The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper: Civil-Military Relations and the United Nations Robert A. Rubinstein 5c) Review of Claire Laurier Decoteau, Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa Lauren Paremoer 5d) Review of Dan Breznitz and Michael Murphree, Run of The Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China Lu Zhang 5e) Review of Peter Taylor et al., Global Urban Analysis: A Survey of Cities in Globalization David A. Smith 5f) Review of Thomas Dietz and Andrew Jorgenson, eds., Structural Human Ecology: New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability Beth Schaefer Caniglia 5g) Review of Sergey A. Nefedov, Faktornyy analiz istoricheskoho processa. Istoriya Vostoka. [Factor analysis of historical process. The History of the East]. Dmytro Khutkyy _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
