Originally combining insights from Dependency and Annales Schools, World-Systems Theory is an ana... more Originally combining insights from Dependency and Annales Schools, World-Systems Theory is an analytical framework emerging in the late 1960s to explain long-term, multiple-scale social dynamics. Major principles unifying world-systems approaches are the treatment of worldsystems as primary, historically delimited units of analysis, the emphasis on interconnections across societies, the unprecedented nature of the capitalist mode of production, and the identification of unevenly influential zones characteristic of world-systems. Alleged to be, among other things, structuralist, functionalist, and/or deterministic, World-Systems perspectives have offered studies largely debunking such charges while expanding research horizons to include household processes, Indigenous Peoples' histories, and environmental degradation, among other areas. Though intrinsically geographical, world-systems perspectives did not receive geographers' attention until the 1980s, mostly in economic and political geography. Nevertheless, geographers have made important contributions in shaping World-Systems perspectives through theoretical development and critique, particularly in the understanding of urban processes, states, and geopolitics.
Studies from both liberal democratic to state–socialist contexts have demonstrated the debilitati... more Studies from both liberal democratic to state–socialist contexts have demonstrated the debilitating effects of gendered social inequalities on women's ability to engage in the public sphere (among others,. Feminist scholars have exposed the masculinist basis of conventional citizenship theory and practice, which is grounded on false dichotomies such as political (legal) and economic realms, public and private spheres, or formal (official) and informal (unofficial) domains
actively reshaped and sensitised to the social contexts from which they arise, as much critical s... more actively reshaped and sensitised to the social contexts from which they arise, as much critical scholarly work has already accomplished (
Originally combining insights from Dependency and Annales Schools, World-Systems Theory is an ana... more Originally combining insights from Dependency and Annales Schools, World-Systems Theory is an analytical framework emerging in the late 1960s to explain long-term, multiple-scale social dynamics. Major principles unifying world-systems approaches are the treatment of worldsystems as primary, historically delimited units of analysis, the emphasis on interconnections across societies, the unprecedented nature of the capitalist mode of production, and the identification of unevenly influential zones characteristic of world-systems. Alleged to be, among other things, structuralist, functionalist, and/or deterministic, World-Systems perspectives have offered studies largely debunking such charges while expanding research horizons to include household processes, Indigenous Peoples' histories, and environmental degradation, among other areas. Though intrinsically geographical, world-systems perspectives did not receive geographers' attention until the 1980s, mostly in economic and political geography. Nevertheless, geographers have made important contributions in shaping World-Systems perspectives through theoretical development and critique, particularly in the understanding of urban processes, states, and geopolitics.
Studies from both liberal democratic to state–socialist contexts have demonstrated the debilitati... more Studies from both liberal democratic to state–socialist contexts have demonstrated the debilitating effects of gendered social inequalities on women's ability to engage in the public sphere (among others,. Feminist scholars have exposed the masculinist basis of conventional citizenship theory and practice, which is grounded on false dichotomies such as political (legal) and economic realms, public and private spheres, or formal (official) and informal (unofficial) domains
actively reshaped and sensitised to the social contexts from which they arise, as much critical s... more actively reshaped and sensitised to the social contexts from which they arise, as much critical scholarly work has already accomplished (
Critical Geographies introduces students, scholars and activists to wide-ranging approaches, topi... more Critical Geographies introduces students, scholars and activists to wide-ranging approaches, topics and theories associated with critical geographical scholarship. A selection of thirty-six chapters of previously published work, spanning over 150 years, is organized into four thematic sections with editorial introductions, addressing the themes of critical reflection within academic geography, theorizing the relationship between space and society, outlining geographical approaches towards human-environment relations, and a critical view on representing Earth. The collection offers a series of snapshots of the multi-directional and meandering paths of critical thought in the geographic discipline.
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