Re: knowledge and underdevelopment

Excellent list Jeffrey, thanks a lot.  

Maureen


At 05:41 AM 3/10/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>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
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>_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 
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>_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 
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>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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>Jeffrey L. Beatty
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