Re: knowledge and underdevelopment

Rachelle:

I can hardly claim to add much to the excellent insights offered you by
Richard Lee and Maureen Silos.  Nevertheless, let me cyber-slip you some
"golden oldies" on knowledge in international relations.  Only some of
these sources are directly influenced by world-system theory in the
Wallersteinian sense; nevertheless, they do address the question of social
science knowledge in transnational relations.

Alger, Chadwick F. and Gene M. Lyons.  "Social Science as a Transnational
System."  _International Social Science Journal_ 36, no. 1 (1974):  127-149.

Crane, Diana.  "Alternative Models of International Scientific and
Professional Associations."  Chap. in _Knowledge and Power in a Global
Society_, ed. William M. Evan.  Beverly Hills:  Sage, 1982, 29-48.

Evan, William M.  "Some Dilemmas of Knowledge and Power:  An Introduction."
 Chap. in _Knowledge and Power in a Global Society_, ed. William M. Evan.
Beverly Hills:  Sage, 1982, 11-26.

Kumar, Krishna.  "Indigenization and Transnational Cooperation in the
Social Sciences."  Chap. in Krishna Kumar, _Bonds without Bondage_.
Honolulu:  University Press of Hawaii, 1979, 103-119.

Mushakoji, Kinhide.  "Scientific Revolution and Interparadigmatic
Dialogues."  Tokyo:  UN University, 1978, HSDRGPID-14/UNUP-75.

Prewitt, Kenneth.  "The Impact of Developing World on U.S. Social-Science
Theory and Methodology."  Chap. in _Social Sciences and Public Policy in
the Developing World_, ed. Laurence D. Stifel, Ralph Davidson, and James S.
Coleman.  Lexington, Mass:  Lexington Books, 1982, 3-20.


If you would like to see some relatively recent dialogue between
world-system theory and theoretical approaches in which culture plays a
more central role than in WST, see the contributions by Wallerstein and the
sociologist Roland Robertson in

_Culture, globalization and the world-system : contemporary
conditions for the representation of identity_, ed. Anthony D.
King.  Binghamton, NY : Dept. of Art and Art History, State University of New
York at Binghamton, 1991. 

See also Wallerstein's contribution to 

_Global culture : nationalism, globalization, and modernity : a Theory,
culture & society special issue_, ed. Mike Featherstone.  London ; Newbury
Park: Sage Publications, 1990.


There have also been world-system approaches to the study of the media.  An
example is 

Schwoch, James. "Cold War, Hegemony, Postmodernism:  American Television
and the World System, 1945-1992."  _Quarterly Review of Film and Video_ 14,
no. 3 (April 1993): 9-24.  (This article is part of a special issue of this
journal focusing on globalization as it applies to the cinema.  Some of the
articles in the issue might provide useful information about alternatives
to the world-system approach).  

The journal _Media, Culture, and Society_ also published a speical issue on
globalization--the citation is _Media, Culture, and Society 9, no. 2 (April
1987):  189-207.   Again, not all of the articles in this issue are
influenced directly by world-system theory, but some of them are useful
empirical studies of "cultural industries".

Finally, let me mention an article on cultural globalization:

Mattelart, Armand.  "Unequal voices."  UNESCO Courier 48, no. 2 (February
1995):  11-14.


I hope this assists you.  I am sorry the CSF lists have been so slow in
responding to your repeated requests for information.


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