Charles Brown wrote:
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> >CB: What is the difference between "core-periphery" and "imperial >center-colonies"
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Charles, they are almost the same. Probably, I over-stated the difference in the first
place. Technically, periphery is a formerly colonized part of the world. The reason I
specifically like the concept is that even in the *decolonized* phase of capitalism,
peripheralization is still continuing, so periphery is an efficient tool to analyze new
forms of inequalities, poverty and exploitation on a global scale, although these
problems have been in existence since the 16th century. Also mind you that there is the
semi-periphery category. These three levels (core/semiperiphery/periphery) show the
degree/extend to which countries are integrated into the world system, geographically
and
time wise. For example, Brazil is not the same with Nigeria; one is on the top of the
other in the hierarchy of the world system. So these concepts are useful in terms of
understanding the articulation of multiple hierarchies, mechanisms of surplus labor
extraction, and other power/ideological structures that coexist with capitalism (
racism,
sexism).
adios))))))))
Mine
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Mine Aysen Doyran
PhD Student
Department of Political Science
SUNY at Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
135 Western Ave.; Milne 102
Albany, NY 12222
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