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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Modern World-System"”.
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State-business relations and economic transition in the modern world-system: a comparative study of South Africa and Zimbabwe
This thesis examines state-business relations (SBRs) in semi-peripheral South Africa and peripheral Zimbabwe following each country’s transition to majority rule. This study offers an explanation for why SBRs are likely to either consolidate or fracture in post-transition communities over time …
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Great Conversations: Systems, Complexity, and Epic Encyclopedic Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction 1960-2007
… interprets its knowledge." The development of system paradigms in the sciences and humanities have shown that the complexity of the modern world-system preclude any such move towards totality. From this ideological shift in contemporary American culture, it follows that recent encyclopedic …
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Ottoman Empire's role in the emergence of the "European" world system
<p>In this study I will be focusing on classical world system theory. I will discuss the revisions that are done to the system and how these revisions opened up possibilities to include the Ottoman Empire in the world system. The categories that were created by Immanuel Wallerstein to depict the …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
… of colonial relations that condenses world centre and periphery within intimate matrixes of difference that uniquely reveal psychic interiorities (of Self and Other) and material exteriorities (of body and city) as the making of ‘the modern world'. Orientalism dislodges Apartheid from …