[ASA_PEWS] call for paper proposals International Conference of Historical Geographers

[Christopher Chase-Dunn]

*18**th **International Conference of Historical Geographers (ICHG 2025)*

*Fudan University, Shanghai, 14-18 July 2025,*

* https://ichg2025fudan.casconf.cn/ <https://ichg2025fudan.casconf.cn/>*
World-system Geographies in the Global South:Historical Capitalism and
Contemporary Challenges

Convenors: *Larissa Alves de Lira *(Institute of Brazilian Studies,
University of São Paulo, Brazil); *Kauê Lopes dos Santos *(Department of
Geography, Unicamp, Brazil), *Jucier Raimundo de Assis *(Department of
Geography, Federal University of Piauí, Brazil), *Luis Garrido Soto *(Núcleo
de Historia Económica y Social, Universidad de Chile, Chile)

This call for papers brings together geohistorical, geoeconomic and
geopolitical works within the scope of different approaches to the world
system in historical and contemporary dimensions.

The world-system approach can be decomposed into at least two traditions in
human sciences: geohistory and economic sociology. Marxism (or historical
materialism) could also be added in terms of incorporating class conflict
into the historical systems under consideration. In the field of
geohistoricist analysis, the questions raised is rooted in the developments
of the *Annales *school, particularly after the work of Fernand Braudel
(1981-84) on “world economies” and Pierre Chaunu. Origins in the field of
sociology go back to the works of Oliver Cox (1964), Immanuel Wallerstein
(1974, 1979, 1983, 1984, 2004) Andre Gunder Frank (1998, 2015), Giovanni
Arrighi (2007, 2010) and Samir Amin (1974,1998), thus stabilizing the use
of the “world-system” concept.



Within the more historiographical and even anthropological field, proposals
by Dale Tomich (2003, 2015, 2016) and Sidney Mintz (1978, 1985) stand out
with the objective of investigating the world system from a local or
subjective viewpoint, including emphasis on short duration, small scales,
and the jump between scales. In addition, we must also highlight the
academic- institutional network bequeathed by world-system analysis: the
Fernand Braudel Center (1976- 2020), with its important journal *Review*;
the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) conferences, which often
become edited books; the *Journal of World-Systems Research*; the Arrighi
Center for Global Studies, among many others. The presentation of this
session proposal will focus on a succinct evaluation of the new work
proposals that world-system analysis can raise and that we believe we can
bring together at this event through this public call for papers.

The geographic structures, forms, and territorialities directly
corresponding to the structure of global capitalism - such as the issue of
demography, agrarian and urban geographies, the stratification of the
economy, among other geographic processes - on various transnational and
intrastate scales were unevenly developed according to these two trunks of
approach. Likewise, the manner in which Latin American, African and Asian
countries were inserted into the world system suffered developmental
inequality.



Without disregarding exchanges and dialogues, regional geography and
“global southern” countries were known to be largely incorporated by
historicist reflections, and which continue to present research with
promising results. However, in the field of economic sociology, these same
connections appear to be less developed. Thus, regarding this last aspect,
geographical implications associated with the understanding of world system
economic sociology can still invest in developments. An example of these
reflections are works by Albert Bergesen (1985), Christopher Chase-Dunn
(2000, 2005), and Daniel Pasciuti (2013).



Perhaps one of the greatest difficulties is being able to create an economic
 geography of the entire world system with a relational character due to it
being easier to obtain long-term serial statistics precisely in “advanced”
capitalist countries, compared to the difficulty of obtaining this type of
information or data in peripheral areas. Global systemic inequality in data
and information production conditions must also be problematized.



The complex and diverse movements of territories in the Global South
throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries pose some analytical
challenges within the world-system approach. These include the need to
differentiate and operationalize the categories of periphery and semi-
periphery (Arrighi and Drangel, 1986; Terlouw, 2002; Wallerstein, 2004).
Such differentiation may prove promising, especially to encourage
structured research in comparative methodologies within the field of
geographic science. For this, strictly geographical contributions (Taylor,
1987, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2013) or “embodied comparison” are relevant, as another
methodological proposal from the perspective of world systems that goes beyond
the mere “classical comparison” between different compartmentalized spaces
or periods (McMichael, 1990, 2000).

In this regard, Wallerstein’s (2001) concept of Time-Space must also be
retrieved to precisely incorporate the “continuity in change” or “newness
in continuity” in center-periphery relations through cyclical fluctuations
causing secular trends. Finally, there are interesting works that attempt
to historicize these relationships in the long term, as in the cases of
Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell (2005, 2007), who emphasize the
competition for natural resources of hegemonic centers in different
peripheral geographic spaces; as well as the work of Peter J. Hugill (1988,
1993, 1993, 1999, 2009), which takes more seriously the notion of hegemonic
transition and the struggle for the center based on disparate material and
especially technological capabilities, including the invention of synthetic
products to replace natural resources in which the supply was hampered by
naval blockades in international trade. Additionally, within these
movements, there is the emergence and consolidation of global south-south
relations, revealing the political exercise of redefining inter-state
relations within the world system.

Furthermore, beyond its inclusion in debates about the political economy of
international space, it should be noted that the concept of the Global
South is also associated with the development of decolonial epistemologies,
attentive to the persistence of coloniality, neo-colonialism,
reprimarization, deindustrialization, and neo-extractivism. Moreover,
economic crisis, financialization, economic blocs, hegemonic transitions,
climate crisis, among other geographic processes that derive from the
structure of global capitalism, historically and contemporaneously can be
addressed. Specifically, works in the following areas will be welcome, but
not necessarily limited to:

·         Historiography of the world system

·         The world system and civilizations

·         The world system and Empires

·         The world system, colonial system, and coloniality

·         The world system and demography

·         Agrarian geography of the world system

·         World system and urban geography

·         Geoeconomics of international space and its effects on the
semi-periphery and periphery

·         Territorialism and capitalism geographies

·         The Iberian cycle and its effects on the semi-periphery and
periphery

·         The Dutch cycle and its effects on the semi-periphery and
periphery

·         The British cycle and its effects on the semi-periphery and
periphery

·         American cycles and their effects on the semi-periphery and
periphery

·         The world system and economic history in the Global South.

·         The world system and political history in the Global South.

·         The world system, hegemonic transitions and their effects on
the semi-periphery
and periphery

·         The world system, climate crisis and its effects on the
semi-periphery and periphery

·         Global South-south or global south-east relations (socialist
countries).

·         Neo-colonialism,      financialization,     reprimarization,
deindustrialization,      neo- extractivism in the Global South.

·         Political turmoil in the Global South

·         The North American hegemony crisis and its effects on the
semi-periphery and periphery

·         Asia's resurgence and its effects on the semi-periphery and
periphery

·         The exercise of sovereignty by African countries and the disputes
between the center and the semi-periphery over their resources and markets.

·         The world system and labor forces, and their effects on the
semi-periphery and periphery

·         The world system and post-developmental perspectives

·         The world system and decolonial perspectives

·         The world system, the Global South, and perspectives for the 21st
century.

*Please send an abstract of maximum 200 words plus 5 keywords to *
lara.lira at gmail.com, <lara.lira at gmail.com> luisgarridosoto1986 at gmail.com,
<luisgarridosoto1986 at gmail.com> kauegeo at gmail.com, <kauegeo at gmail.com> and
raimundojucier at yahoo.com.br *by 16 September 2024.*
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