...1 Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis From Social Science Disciplines to Historical Social Sciences WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS originated in the early 1970S as a new per• spective on social reality. Some of its concepts have been in use for a long time and some are new...

... materialist objection [to a higher Platonic realm] But the objection brings with it an exceedingly drastic conse• quence, if the only way forward would seem to be to abandon and disown the con• cept of generic series even though such series exist objectively and historically. Whenever a series is...

...Acts of Genocide Commission for Historical Clarification The Commission for Historical Clarification (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico, ceh) was established as part of the peace negotiations between the reb- els and the government that finally brought Guatemala’s internal armed...

...Surviving Recovery of Historical Memory Project The Recovery of Historical Memory Project was run by the Human Rights Office of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese during the mid-1990s as an alternative truth commission. It worked at the community level with locally trained “animators...

... Four Kathryn Kopinak Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models Mexico’s economy is undergoing a stunning transformation. Five years after the...

... less combining, the words "true" and "story," it seems pertinent to consider the ideological and psychoanalytical implications of our narrativization of the historical real and our re• petitive compulsion to appropriate, mobilize, dramatize, and yet to fix in that movement the past for the...

... conclusion hailing historical bodies This book has traced bodies and pleasures through a few sites that span twenty years of vast social change in China. I have tried to show how carnal life has responded to the political in a country where...

... chapter 3 Historical Reconfigurations Delineating Asian Women as/not American Citizens Characterizing the then predominantly male Chinese population as a “bachelor society of ‘serfs Reverend J. C. Holbrook wrote in an 1859 ar- ticle in...

... TWO (Neo) historical Retrievals Jorge Salessi The Argentine Dissemination of Homosexuality) I890-I9I4 Introduction A close reading of the writings of key figures in the Argentine state tech• nocracy between 1890 and 1914 shows the consistent preoccupation of...

... chapter six Pagings and Postings: Historical Imperatives of the Late Century The 1980s were years of plurality, reexaminations, affirmations, perplex• ities, and world awareness in Brazilian lyric. The decade was marked by the political transition (from...

...Part Four Chapter Six The Zapatistas’ Theoretical Revolution Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences You are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich. This is why a Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched when it comes to ad...

...I RE-VISIONING AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE WORLD WOMEN’S MISSION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE American Identity and Christian Internationalism Jane H. Hunter he events of the early twenty-first century present a challenge to his...

... Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough ‘‘By isolating man from the rest of creation and defining too narrowly the...

... part iii Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots j tomiko brown-nagin The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the naacp’s Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta...

... peter f. lau Conclusion Brown and Historical Memory j In June 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the University of Michigan’s a≈rmative action policy for law school admissions by a...

... conclusion Commodity Chains and Globalization in Historical Perspective Carlos Marichal, Steven Topik...

... I. Secularism’s Historical Background Shabnum Tejani a Reflections on the Category of Secularism in India Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the Ethics of Communal Representation, c. 1931 iscussions on the place of the religious community in...

... PART ONE Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Identity: Indian, Assamese, and Tai-Ahom CHAPTER 1 Identification in India At midnight August 15, 1947, the nation-state of...

..., The Nature of the Gods, Book II Gardens, Climate Changes, and Cultures An Exploration into the Historical Nature of Environmental Problems Ville Lähde THE ROMAN EMPIRE was hardly the first culture to make...

... achieve such Government for this country. —Chandulal J. Shah, addressing the First Indian Motion Picture Congress, 1939 seven * HISTORICAL ROMANCES AND MODERNIST MYTHS IN INDIAN CINEMA Three linked factors may be disaggregated as formative influences on Indian film aesthetics in the late...