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An important building block for further advancing world-system
theory, this book considers the theory from the perspectives of
global processes and antisystemic movements, feminist theory, and
the aftermath of the colonial system. The volume addresses three
myths tied to Eurocentric forms of thinking: objectivist and
universalist knowledges, the decolonization of the modern world,
and developmentalism. All three myths, the authors argue, conceal
the continued hierarchical and unequal relations of domination and
exploitation between European and Euro-American centers and
non-European peripheral regions. In this volume, world-system
scholars address these and related aspects of the modern/colonial
capitalist world-system. Addressing the myth of universalist
knowledge, the volume reminds us that our knowledge is situated in
the gender, class, racial, and sexual hierarchies of a specific
region in the world-system, while the coloniality of power
additionally situates our knowledge. The volume further argues that
the postcolonial era retains the hierarchy of colonialism, and the
possibility of national development without global structural
changes is one of the greatest 20th-century myths. Taking these
perspectives into consideration, the contributors examine and help
to refine classic world-system theory.
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