Thomas D. Hall

The world-systems perspective and archaeology: Forward into the past

This article reviews previous attempts to extend world-system theory from the modern era to prehistoric and archaeological settings. It summarizes major debates among scholars from several disciplines who are comparing the modern world-system with earlier world-systems. Special attention centers on the problems of conceptualizing world-systems, the spatial bounding of world-systems, and understandings of systemic logics.

A world-systems reader : new perspectives on gender, urbanism, cultures, indigenous peoples, and ecology

Chapter 1 Introduction: World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large Universe Chapter 2 Recent Research in World-Systems Analysis Part 3 From Many Disciplines Chapter 4 Archaeology and World-Systems Theory Chapter 5 Geography & World-Systems Analysis Chapter 6 K-Waves, Leadership Cycles, and Global War: A Non-Hyphenated Approach to World Systems Analysis Chapter 7 Gender and the World-System: Engaging the Feminist Literature on Development Part 8 World-System Overviews Chapter 9 Canadas Linguistic and Ethnic Dynamics in an EvolvingWorld-System Chapter 10 Urbanization in the World-System: A Retrospective and Prospective Look Chapter 11 World-Systems Theory in the Context of Systems Theory: An Overview Chapter 12 Postmodernism Explained Part 13 Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology Chapter 14 Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee Frontier Chapter 15 Resistance Through Healing among American Indian Women Chapter 16 World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis: Rethinking the Theories Chapter 17 Modern East Asia in World-Systems Analysis Part 18 Future Visions Chapter 19 Spiral of Socialism and Capitalism Chapter 20 World System and Ecosystem

Indigenous Movements and Globalization: What is Different? What is the Same?

Too often indigenous movements are lumped in with [anti-]globalization, globalization protest movements, or the ‘new social movements’. While in some respects this categorization fits, in other, more important respects it does not. Indigenous peoples have been resisting globalization and globalization-like forces for centuries in the western hemisphere, and for millennia in Africa and Eurasia. While the forms of resistance have changed significantly over time, a key difference for indigenous movements is that they typically are not interested in reforming the system. Rather, they are interested in autonomy and preserving their own political–cultural space to remain different. In this sense they are often deeper challenges to neoliberalism than other movements. This paper explores and elaborates on these differences and their significance for our understanding of globalization and the reactions to it.

Archaeology and world-systems analysis

Abstract Many archaeologists have criticized world-systems analysis (WSA) for being overly economistic, ignoring individual actors and importing modern analyses to ancient settings where they are inappropriate. Those criticisms are directed largely at Immanuel Wallersteins original formulation that was explicitly developed to explain contemporary global inequalities within and among states. In that sense there is validity to these charges. We argue, however, that most of these critiques of WSA have been misplaced. They seem to be rooted in lack of attention to modifications and extensions of WSA over the last three decades intended to address these issues, and often demonstrate a lack of familiarity with a host of WSA studies since 1974. We further argue this newer comparative WSA is a work in progress, which can be useful to archaeologists in the study of regional interactions and long-term development, and to which archaeologists are the most qualified to contribute in order to further the modification and development of WSA.

The Effects of Incorporation into World-Systems on Ethnic Processes: Lessons from the Ancient World for the Contemporary World

This article discusses how incorporation into a world-system (ancient or contemporary) can create, transform, or destroy ethnic groups. It suggests that: (1) ethnically homogeneous states have never been common; (2) ethnicity has always been fluid with respect to identity, boundaries, cultural content, and membership; (3) ethnic processes cannot be understood without careful consideration of their interstate, or world-systemic, context; (4) contemporary ethnic conflicts have contemporary roots; (5) the differences between the contemporary and ancient worlds need further study; (7) the origin of the ideal of the ethnically homogeneous state and shifts in ethnic processes in the twentieth century lack adequate explanation.

Rise and Demise, Comparing World Systems.

* Introduction Concepts And Definitions * A Hundred Flowers Bloom: Approaches to World-Systems * Defining World-Systems * Two, Three, Many World-Systems Explaining World-System Evolution * New Territories: The Problem of Incorporation * The Semiperiphery: Seedbed of Change * Iterations and Transformations: A Theory of World-Systems Evolution Investigations: Cases And Comparisons * A Very Small World-System * The Unification of Afroeurasia: Circa 500 b.c.e.1400 c.e * The Europe-Centered System * Cross-System Comparisons: Similarities and Differences Conclusions * The Transformation of World-Systems * Conclusions, Questions, Speculations

Effects of adsorbed water vapor on the adsorption rate constant and the kinetic adsorption capacity of the Wheeler kinetic model.

A recent trend in occupational safety and health has focused on the use of respiratory protective equipment to supplant engineering controls as the primary means of protecting workers from toxic substances. Respirator adsorbent cartridges have been demonstrated to have a finite capacity to adsorb toxic vapors. The knowledge of when this limit is approached or has been exceeded is crucial to the user. The Wheeler kinetic breakthrough model has been shown to describe accurately organic vapor penetration through beds of activated carbon. The model, however, does not account for competitive adsorption of water vapor or other organic vapors. The investigations reported here demonstrate the effect of adsorbed water vapor on the kinetic adsorption parameters (kinetic rate constant and kinetic saturation capacity) of the Wheeler equation. Adsorbent beds were equilibrated at varying concentrations of water vapor and then challenged with carbon tetrachloride vapor-laden air. Dry carbon had an initial rate constant of 62.5 s-1 and a kinetic adsorption capacity of 0.36 g of adsorbed CCl4/gram (g/g) of adsorbent. These parameters decreased in proportion to the amount of water vapor adsorbed, with the minimum predicted values occurring at 100% relative humidity. The minimum experimental value for the kinetic rate constant was 17.6 s-1, a decrease of 73% from the dry carbon values. The minimum predicted value for the kinetic adsorption capacity was 0.16 g/g, a decrease of 45%.

Determination of Organic Vapor Respirator Cartridge Variability in Terms of Degree of Activation of the Carbon and Cartridge Packing Density

The protection provided by carbon-containing organic vapor respirator cartridges depends in part on the packing density of the carbon in the cartridges and its degree of activation. Large variations in these parameters could have significant effects on the service-life of respirator cartridges. Variability among commercially available organic vapor respirator cartridges was examined with regard to the following characteristics: the particle size distribution, amount of carbon and packing density of the carbon in the cartridges and the degree of activation of the carbon. The degree of activation was determined by measuring the maximum adsorption space and the structural constant of the carbon. These two parameters--Wo (cm3/g) and k (cal/M)-2--are constants in the Dubinin/Radushkevich (D/R) model from which physical absorption onto microporous adsorbents, such as activated carbon, are described. Respirator cartridges from three different suppliers were examined. Significant variability (11-40%) in the amount and the degree of activation of the carbon occurred between cartridges of different manufacturers, as well as among cartridges of an individual manufacturer.

A Critique of MSHA Procedures for Determination of Permissible Respirable Coal Mine Dust Containing Free Silica

The literature in selected technical subject areas related to the Mine Safety and Health Administrations (MSHA) respirable mine dust control policy was critically reviewed. Specific topics included: (1) the technical aspects of respirable dust sampling, (2) the development of a sampling strategy and (3) currently used analytical techniques for free silica content of respirable coal mine dust. The 2.0 Lpm MSHA respirable dust sampling flow rate does not conform with published results which indicate that to simulate existing pulmonary particle deposition models, the sampling flow rate should range from 1.4 to 1.7 Lpm. MSHAs sampling strategy focuses on controlling respirable coal mine dust with both area and personal samples of workers in selected occupations or activities. Many uncertainties are encountered as area samples are used to estimate personal exposures. Although all of the analytical methods for crystalline free silica are sufficiently sensitive to be able to detect and quantitate free silica at environmentally significant concentrations, they are all plagued with similar difficulties. Analytical standards representing the various forms of silica are not available. Available analytical methods do not differentiate among polymorphs of silica. Recommendations are presented to resolve identified problem areas.

Using Comparative Frontiers to Explore World‐Systems Analysis in International Relations

This article presents one way to approach the case study versus theoretically driven approach to teaching comparative courses. The goal is to actively engage students in doing international studies, not simply reading about the work of others. The method derives a broad set of case studies from some theoretical approach. Students then conduct and present their own case studies. Students then use their own case studies and those examined by the class as a whole as vehicles for interrogating, critiquing, and extending that theoretical approach. These final exercises in theory-building are a significant part of this approach. The specific example presented here uses world-systems analysis as the vehicle for organizing comparative study of frontiers. However, this method could readily employ other theoretical models to examine other theoretical and/or empirical puzzles via specific case studies.