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Olga Tokarczuk, The Book of Jacob A character in Olga Tokarczuk's magnificent novel The Book of Jacob refers to the time that is "not yet" historical;a time that is, in some ways, frozen, and as such excluded from the developmentalist and civilizationist historical narratives. Since its inception, the world-systems perspective has been concerned with the problem of historical time. In world-systems analysis, time and space are seen as substantive properties of social relations, and the network of relations that comprises the capitalist world economy produces its own temporal spatial and temporal configurations. [...]Çaǧrı Ídiman in the second part of his essay on Tributary World-Ecologies, brings into sharper historical relief the distinctive element of capitalist worldecology, distinguished from other world-ecologies by simultaneous transformation of productive relation and mode of appropriation of labor and nature.
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A careful meditation on the three nostalgic forces shaping anti-systemic processes, Bonds commentary focuses on uneven development in the capitalist world-economy, and the complex peripheral and semi-peripheral reality in which BRICS, as an alternative, presents no real challenge to a world-system driven by overaccumulation of capital. The next article takes us from the field of contemporary power relations to the high middle ages to focus on two distinct world-ecologies, in the North Sea and the Mediterranean, evaluated on its own terms from the World-Ecology Perspective. [...]our book review section includes the 2020 book Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa by Nitsan Chorev, reviewed by Patricia Ward.