NEWSLETTER

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Fernand Braudel Center

for the Study of Economies,

Historical Systems, and CivilizationsState University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13901

No. 14 Activities, 1989-90 August, 1990

I. Research Working Groups

a. Hegemony and Rivalry in the World-System: Trends and ProspectiveConsequencesof GeopoliticalRealignments,1500-2025

This project was described in detail in Newsletter No. 13. The Center

has received a three-year grant of $243,222 from the John D. and Catherine T.~~cArthur Foundation for this work. The Center has created two linked

Research.~orking Groups to carry out this project. The first group is called

the Comparative Hegemonies RWG. It is seeking to compare the modern

world-system under each of three "hegemonies"--the United Provinces in the17th century, the United Kingdom in the 19th, and the United States in the

20th. The object is to see how each hegemonic power "institutionalized" its

hegemony and how such "institutionalization" slowed down the eventual processof "decline."

The second group is called the Trajectory of the World-System RWG. Its

object will be to project probable trends into the immediate future (to 2025)on the basis of analyzing developments between 1945 and 1990. It is lookingat what has been happening to states, enterprises, and peoples.

Both groups have 8-10 members and are coordinated by the team of

Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, and Immanuel Wallerstein. Each group

has a Scientific Secretary: Beverly Silver for Comparative Hegemonies, and

Satoshi Ikeda for Trajectory of the World-System. The membership of each RWG

is distinct (except for the coordinators), but the two groups meet in

"plenary" session at least once a year.

b. Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Capitalist World-Economy

This group has been formed under the leadership of Joan Smith, building

on the previous work of the Center on "incorporation" and "households." The

debate on racism/sexism of the last 20 years has centered around the issue of

its origins and the bases of its social support. Virtually everyone accepts

that there is some social construction of identities. The question is where,

when, and how. The Incorporation project has demonstrated that productive

systems and political machinery are significantly restructured, and inspecific ways, with a region's incorporation into the modern world-system.

The Households project has demonstrated that not only are householdstructures (of the kind we know) created with incorporation--and that the

household has both gender and ethnic characteristics as part of itsstructural definition--but that household structures are constantly remolded

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as a result of both the cyclical rhythms and the secular trends of theworld-economy. This new group is seeking to take the next logical

step--study how gender and race identities are formed within these alreadyidentified social processes.

c. Southern Africa and the World-Economy

The research on the period 1975-2000, being directed jointly with the

Centro de Estudos Africanos of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo) is

entering its terminal phase. Two meetings were held this past year: October30-31, 1989 in Binghamton, and June 12-15, 1990 in Maputo. The project

presented an interim report at the meetings of the African StudiesAssociation in Atlanta, November 2-5, 1989. The papers presented are now

available (on request) as Research Bulletin on Southern Africa and the

World-Economy, No.7, February 1990.

There will be a further meeting of the two institutions at Binghamton onOctober 25-26, 1990. At that time we expect the last parts of the researchwill have been completed, and the final volume will then be edited andreadied for publication. We hope to have a volume available in English and

Portuguese by the Fall of 1991. We also hope to convene an internationalcolloquium in Maputo in July 1991 to discuss the manuscript and the issuesfacing southern Africa as a region.

d. Households, Labor-Force Formation, and the World-Economy

This long-standing group has completed its work. There exists a finalmanuscript which is now being considered for publication. The table ofcontents is as follows:

Creating and Transforming Households:The Constraints of the World-Economy

Preface

I. Households as an Institution

of the World-Economy

Joan Smith and Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein and Joan Smi.th

Kathie Friedman Kasaba

Kathleen Stanley and Joan Smith

Kathie Friedman Kasaba

Randall H. McGuire and

Cynthia Woodsong

Maria del Carmen Baerga

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II. The United States

(a) The Detroit Story: TheCrucible of Fordism

(b) New York City: The Undersideof the World's Capital

(c) Binghamton: The Secrets of

a Backwater

(d) Puerto Rico: From Colonyto Colony

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III. Mexico Lanny Thompson

(a) Mexico City: The Slow Rise Lanny Thompsonof Wage-Centered Households

(b) Central Mexico: The Decline Lanny Thompsonof Subsistence and the Rise

of Poverty

IV. Southern Africa Mark Beittel

(a) The Witwatersrand: Black Mark BeittelHouseholds, White Households

(b) Lesotho: The Creation of William G. Martinthe Households

V. Core-Periphery and HouseholdStructures Immanuel Wallerstein and Joan Smith

Postscript on Method Joan Smith, with Jamie Sudler

Bibliography

e. Other RWG's

The RWG's on World Labor, Commodity Chains, and Institutionalization of

the Social Sciences are continuing their work, amply described in previousissues of the Newsletter.

II. Conferences

a. XIth International Colloquium on the World-Economy

The XIth ICWE will be held in June, 1991 in Germany, co-sponsored asalways by the Starnberger Institut zur Erforschung Globaler Strukturen,

Entwicklungen und Krisen (Germany), the Maison des Sci_ences de 1 'Homme(France), and the Fernand Braudel Center. The theme will be: "1989: TheEnd of an Era?" The six sessions will be entitled:

This conference will be held in Binghamton on November 16-17, 1990, andis open to all interested scholars. It will be co-sponsored by the SouthwestAsian and North African Studles Program of SUNY-Binghamton (SWANA), theFernand Braudel Center, and the Institute of Turkish Studies. The theme is

I. The Future of Geopolitical AlignmentsII. The Future of National Development

III. The Future of Antisystemic MovementsIV. The Future of SocialismV. The Future of Mixed Economies

VI. The Future of the Capitalist World-System as a Whole

b. IVth Biennlal Conference on the Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy

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"Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1980." Each sessionwill have one substantial paper with invited commentaries by specialists on

other areas of the world, who will seek to compare patterns at the samemoment in time. The list of the four main sessions is as follows.

I. Suraiya Faroqhi, "Manufacturing in the 16th/17th-Century Ottoman

Empire"

Comments by: Domenico Sella/ItalyK.N. Chaudhuri/lndia

II. Mehmet Gen~, "Manufacturing in the 18th-Century Ottoman Empire";;#

Comments by: Carlo Poni/ltalyFrank Perlin/India

III. Donald Quataert, "Manufacturing in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire"

Comments by: Albert Feuerwerker/ChinaJonathan Prude/United States

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Caglar Keyder, "Manufacturing in 20th-Century Turkey"Comments by: Amiya Bagchi/lndia

Francisco Zapata/Latin America

c. Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Conferences

The XIVth Conference was held in Seattle under the sponsorship of the

Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and four other structures of

the University of Washington plus the PEWS Section of the American

Sociological Association. The theme was "Cities in the World-System." A

volume, edited by Resat Kasaba, is forthcoming with Greenwood Press. The>volume will include papers by current FBC Research Associates:

Suraj Kumar & Eyiip Ozveren, "Port-City as a Phenotype: ATheoretical Specification of the Long Nineteenth Century"

Richard Lee & Sheila Pelizzon, "Hegemonic Cities in the Modern

World-System"

Kenneth Barr, "From Dhaka to Manchester: Factories, Cities, and the

World-Economy, 1600-1900"

The XVth PEWS Conference will be held on March 28-30, 1991 at the

University of Hawaii. The theme is "Pacific-Asia and the Future of the

World-System." Papers are solicited for the following panels:

1) Changing Hegemons: Japan or United Europe?2) NICs: A Challenge to the World-Systems Perspective?3) Core-Periphery: Changing Patterns of Multilateral Networks

4) Centrally-Planned Economies in the World-System

5) Antisystemic Movements in Asia and the Pacific6) Restructuring the Peripheries: The 1990's and Beyond

Those wishing to participate should send an abstract of 200 words by Dec. 15,

1990 to Prof. Ravi Arvind Palat, Moore Hall, 1890 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI

96822 (FAX: 808-948-6345).

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The XVlth PEWS Conference will be held in 1992 at Duke University on thetheme of "Commodity Chains in the World-Economy." The organizer is GaryGereffi. The XVllth PEWS Conference will be held in 1993 at Cornell

University. The theme is "Food and Agri.culture in the World-Economy." Theorganizer is Philip McMichael.

d. Symposium on Decentering Discourses

A conference on "Gendert Cultural and Critical Theory in African andCaribbean Contexts" was held at Binghamton on March 15-17t 1990. Theorganizer was the Department of Afro-American and African Studies. The

Fernand Braudel Center was a co-sponsor.

III. Colloquium

The Fernand Braudel Center is now sponsoring two colloquia atBinghamton.

a. The 1990's: What May We Expect

In the fall semester of 1989t the topics were:

China: A roundtable with Cheng Tie-jint Lu Aiguo, and You LaiyinThe Middle East: Don Peretz

Latin America: Anibal QuijanoAfrica: Ali Mazrui

U.S.S.R.: Giovanni Arrighi

Europe: ~aglar Keyder7

The World-System as World-System: Immanuel Wallerstein

In the spring of 1990, under the theme "Sod.al Movements," the topicswere:

Melvyn Dubofsky (HistorYt SUNY), "The U.S. Labor Movement"Ichiyo Muto (PARC, Tokyo), "Antisystemic Movements in Asia"

Su Shaozhi (Beijing/Macquarie Univ.), "The Democratic Movement inChina"

Marta Petrusewicz (Princeton Univ.), "Solidarnosc"

John Saul (York Univ., Toronto) "The Anti-Apartheid Movement in SouthAfrica"

b. Culture and the World-System

This colloquium is conducted jointly with the Office of the Schweitzer

Chair and is coordinated by Tony King (Art History) and Ali Mazrui

(Schweitzer Chair). In the fall semester of 1989, the topics were:

Tony King, "Space, Image, Text: Culture and Representations in theWorld-System"

Paul Hopper (Linguistics), "Language, Discourse, andPost-Structuralism"

Ali Mazrui, "Cultural Forces in North/South Relations"

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Jane Collins (Anthropology), "Cultural Representation of CulturalDifferences: The National Geographic and the Third World,1950-1980"

John Tagg (Art History), "The Germaneness of Ideology"Carole Davies (Dept. of English), "Orality, Cultural Theory, and

Criticism"

In the spring of 1990, under the theme "Culture and Consciousness," thetopics were:

Stephen Ross (Philosophy, SUNY), "For Whom does Knowledge Speak?Discipline(s) and (Mis)representation"

Jonah Elaigwu (Univ. of Jos, Nigeria), "Cultural Diversity and theFederal Solution: An African Perspective"

Partha Mitter (Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Sussex), "OccidentalOrientations: Art and Nationalism in Colonial India"

Jean Franco (Columbia Univ.), "Interpreting Culture ThroughLiterature"

Anthony Appiah (Duke Univ.), "Is the 'Post' in Postmodern the Same asthe 'Post' in Postcolonial? A Problem in Literature"

IV. Publications

a. Review

The tables of contents for Volume XIII, 1990 are as follows:

No.1, Winter 1990

Christopher Chase-Dunn Resistance to Imperialism:

Semiperipheral Actors

Peter J. Taylor Britain's Changing Role in the

World-Economy

Teshale Tibebu On the Question of Feudalism,

Absolutism, and the BourgeoisRevolution

No.2, Spring 1990

Andre Gunder Frank A Theoretical Introduction to

5000 Years of World System History

WORLD-SYSTEMS THEORY 15 YEARS ON: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

Walter Goldfrank Current Issues in World-Systems

Theory

Harriet Friedmann Rethinking Capitalism and Hierarchy

Fred Block Capitalism versus Socialism in

World-Systems Theory

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Janet Abu-Lughod Restructuring the PremodernWorld-System

Immanuel Wallerstein World-Systems Analysis: The SecondPhase

No.3, Summer 1990

Silviu Brucan Historical Evolution of Classes and

Class Policy in the U.S.S.R.

Etienne Balibar The Nation Form: History and Ideology

ON HEGEMONY

Giovanni Arrighi The Three Hegemonies of Historical

Capitalism

Terence K. Hopkins Note on the Concept of Hegemony

No.4, Fall 1990

Bernard Mommer Oil Rent, Its Distribution and theNational Accounts: The Case of

Venezuela

Gueorgui Derluguian Social Decomposition and ArmedViolence in Post-Colonial

Mozambique

DEVELOPMENTALIST THEORY BEFORE 1945(Part I)

Michael Merrill The Anti-Capitalist Origins of theUnited States

Jean-Yves Grenier La notion de croissance dans la

pens~e ~conomique fran~aise au 18esi~cle (1715-89)

b. Studies in Modern Capitalism

This Cambridge University Press series, a joint enterprise of theFernand Braudel Center and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, had its

eighteenth volume appear in 1989: Marie-Claire Berg~re, The Golden Age ofthe Chinese Bourgeoisie, 1911-1937.

c. Ottoman Empire volumes

The proceedings of the 1st Biennial Conference on the Ottoman Empire and

the World-Economy were published as a special issue of Review (XI, 2, Spring

1988), edited by ~aglar Keyder, under the title "Ottoman Empire: NineteenthCentury Transformations." The proceedings of the IInd Conference, entitled

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"Large-Scale Commercial Agriculture in the Ottoman Empire" and edited by-I

~aglar Keyder and Faruk Tabak, are forthcoming this year with SUNY Press.The proceedings of the IIIrd Conference on "The Impact of the 1838Anglo-Turkish Treaty: Anatolia and Egypt Compared" are currently being edited

by Qailar Keyder and Donald Quataert. The proceedings of this year's IVthConference will be edited.

d. Research Bulletin, Southern Africa and the World-Economy

No.7, February 1990, is available upon request.

e. Conference Papers

The following papers, given by Center Associates, are available upon

request:

Giovanni Arrighi, "The Three Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism," ESRCConference on Structural Change in the West, Emmanuel College,

Cambridge, September 6-8, 1989.

Immanuel Wallerstein, "Beyond Annales?," International Colloquium, "LesAnnales--Hier et Aujourd'hui," Institute of Universal History of theU.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow, October 3-6, 1989

Immanuel Wallerstein, "Marx, Marxism-Leninism, and Socialist Experiences in

the Modern World-System," International Conference on "Marxism and theNew Global Society," Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam Univ.,Seoul, October 25-27, 1989

f. Other

Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K.

published in 1989 a collection ofMovements with Verso Press. Four

Colloquia and the fifth at a PEWS

Hopkins, and Immanuel Wallerstein, have

joint papers entitled Antisystemicof the papers had been given at ICWEConference.

V. Visiting Research Associates

The center hosted a Fulbright Scholar, Prof. Ilie D. Badescu, Dept. of

Economics and Sociology, Univ. of Bucharest (Romania), from May-July 1990.

VI. Post-Doctoral Fellow in World-Systems Studies

As of this year, the Center has established this Post-Doctoral

Fellowship. After a worldwide competition, the Center has appointed Farshad

A. Araghi to a two-year postdoc. Mr. Araghi has just received his Ph.D. inSociology from the Univ. of Georgia, where his areas of specialization were

historical sociology, the sociology of development, world-systems analysis,and sociological theory. A native of Iran, Mr. Araghi has worked on the

agrarian question and land reform in Iran. His dissertation is on the

world-historical origins of capitalism in Iran, comparing two distinct

periods, 1848-1945 and 1945-1979. His point of departureis the emergenceof

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new forms of capital in the world-economy and the corresponding changes inthe organization of production and circulation of commodities.

VII. Public Speakers

October 12, 1989: Claude Ake, Prof. of Political Economy, Univ. of PortHarcourt (Nigeria), "Africa and the Changing World-System: Is There Any Hopefor Africa?" co-sponsored by Afro-American Studies, and Political Science.

October 24, 1989: Mme. Le Thi Nham Tuyet, Prof. of Anthropology, Vietnam

Committee for Social Science, "Women and Socialism in Vietnam," co-sponsoredby Sociology, Women's Studies, History, East Asian Studies, Inst. for

Research on Multiculturalism and International Labor, and the East Asian andManagement Studies Program.

February 26, 1990: Kaji Etsuko, editor of the magazine Sekai Kara (From theWorld), "The Japanese Women's Movement," co-sponsored by Sociology, Women'sStudies, and East Asian Studies.

April 2, 1990: George Elwert, Institut fur Ethnologie, Freie Univ., Berlin,"East Germany, 1989-90: Observationsof a West BerH.n Anthropologist."

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