[ASA_PEWS] Announcing new issue of JWSR -World-systems analysis and the Anthropocene/ Symposium on reparations

[Smith, Jackie]

Dear PEWS Section members,

We announce the newest issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research<http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr>, a special issue on World-Systems Analysis in the Anthropocene, guest edited by Leslie Sklair and Michael Warren Murphy. This issue helps integrate world-systems perspectives with contemporary understandings of the Anthropocene and its implications. Diverse contributions from social sciences, literary analysis, critical race scholarship, and praxis encourage more attention to how world-historical structures shape our understandings of the relations between humans and the Earth.

Complementing our special issue is a timely symposium, Using World History to Inform Work for Reparations. With this intervention, we hope to inspire scholars to deepen their engagements with movements for reparations and racial justice. World-historical perspectives can inform and guide public policies and debates in constructive ways, and this political moment offers promising openings for critically interrogating the origins and effects of the racial hierarchies that are central to the capitalist world-system.
Please help share the word about your Open Access Journal of World-Systems Research<http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr>!

Journal of World-Systems Research<http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr>
Journal of World-Systems Research

Volume 26 Number 2
Summer/Fall 2020

Table of Contents

Symposium:
Using World-History to Inform Work for Reparations

"Introduction: World History and the Work of Reparations," Michael Warren Murphy, Jackie Smith, Patrick Manning, and Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh

"Choices in Implementing Reparations," Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh

"Making our Way Home: Housing Policy, Racial Capitalism and Reparations," Prentiss Dantzler, Georgia State University and Aja Reynolds, Wayne State University

"Reparations, Restitution, Transitional Justice" Joyce Hope Scott, Boston University & International Network of Scholars and Activists for African Reparations


Special Issue:
World-Systems Analysis in the Anthropocene
Guest editors:
Leslie Sklair<http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/leslie-sklair>, London School of Economics & Politics
Michael Warren Murphy<http://www.sociology.pitt.edu/person/michael-murphy>, University of Pittsburgh

ARTICLES

"Introduction to the Special Issue on World-Systems Analysis and the Anthropocene," Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics and Political Science and Michael Warren Murphy, University of Pittsburgh

"The World System and the Earth System: Struggles with the Society/Nature Binary in World-System Analysis and Ecological Marxism," Alf Hornborg, Lund Univesity

"Nuclear Weapons and the Treadmill of Destruction in the Making of the Anthropocene," Michael Lengefeld, Goucher College

"Treadmills of Production and Destruction in the Anthropocene: Coca Production and Gold Mining in Colombia and Peru," Chad L. Smith, Texas State University, Gregory Hooks, McMaster University, and Michael Lengefeld, Goucher College

"Power and Politics in the World System: A Cross-National Analysis of Environmental Governance," Jamie M. Sommer, University of South Florida and Andrew Hargrove, Stony Brook University

"Anthropocene, Emissions Budget, and the Structural Crisis of the Capitalist World-System," Minqi Li, University of Utah

"The World Ecology of Desalination: From Cold War Positioning to Financialization in the Capitalocene," Brian F. O'Neill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Anthropocene Fiction and World-Systems Analysis," Andrew Milner, Monash University and J.R. Burgmann, Monash University

"Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene" James Fenelon, California State University San Bernardino and Jennifer Alford, California State University San Bernardino

"Refiguring the Plantationocene: Racial Capitalism, World-Systems Analysis, and Global Socioecological Transformation," Michael Warren Murphy and Caitlin Schroering, University of Pittsburgh

"Disasters are Everyday like the Weather: Reflections on Violence in the 'Phillipine Anthropocene,'" Chaya Ocampa Go, York University


BOOK REVIEWS

"Review Of: First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers," Corey R. Payne, Johns Hopkins University

"Review Of: La guerre de Sept Ans," Matthew Hayes, St. Thomas University



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Jackie Smith, Professor
Editor, Journal of World-Systems Research<http://jwsr.pitt.edu/>
Department of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh
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