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Solidarity in a Global AgeĀ–Seattle and Beyond

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Solidarity in a Global AgeSeattle and Beyond
 
Creator Wilkin, Peter
 
Description There are good grounds for taking seriously Wallerstein's dictum that the world system has entered what he describes as an interregnum. By this he means two important things: First, that the world is moving between two forms of world system, from a capitalist world system to something new; Second, that in such an interregnum questions of structure become less signi? cant than those of agency. The world system is one that has been produced, reproduced and will ultimately be transformed by human actors. The direction that it takes will be the result of the political struggles that ensue in the interregnum. In this paper I examine some of these claims in the context of a series of events that have taken place over the past decade and in the run up to the protests that occurred in December 1999 at the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle. In so doing I hope to put some empirical ?esh on the bones of the idea that Wallerstein has suggestively offered us.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Date 2000-02-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/230
10.5195/jwsr.2000.230
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 6, Issue 1, 2000; 19-64
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/230/242
 
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