Theory and Methodology of World Development The Writings of Andre Gunder Frank

Sing C. Chew is Professor at Humboldt State University and senior research scientist in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.  He is co-Editor of Andre Gunder Frank’s  Festschrift, The Underdevelopment of Development. He is the founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Nature and Culture.  His most recent book is Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us,  a trilogy on Nature-Culture relations over world history of which the first two volumes are: World Ecological Degradation and The Recurring Dark Ages.

Pat Lauderdale is Professor of Justice at Arizona State University, and currently is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University.  His recent publications include  a special issue of the Journal of Developing Societies celebrating the work of Andre Gunder Frank, research on the world system from a Frankian perspective, global indigenous struggles, and a new book on state and international terrorism, Terrorism: A New Testament, with Annamarie Oliverio.  He continues his research on the analyses of globalization, nation-statism, rational capitalism, and concentration of power in the post-colonial world by focusing upon cracks in the armor of the dominant western paradigm.

Section A: On National Development: The Development of Underdevelopment * Introduction 1: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale * Chapter 1: Andre Gunder Frank (1966) The Development of Underdevelopment * Chapter 2: Andre Gunder Frank (1967) The Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology * Section B: From National Development to World Development: The Underdevelopment of Development * Introduction 2: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale * Reconceptualization of Theory and World History * Chapter 3: Andre Gunder Frank (1991) Transitional Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism * Chapter 4: Andre Gunder Frank with Barry Gills (2002) A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System * Chapter 5: Andre Gunder Frank (1991) A Plea for World System History * Introduction 3: Sing C. Chew and Pat Lauderdale * Beyond Eurocentrism, Systems Transformation, and Social Movements * Chapter 6: Andre Gunder Frank with Barry Gills (1992) The Five Thousand Year World System: An Interdisciplinary Introduction * Chapter 7 Andre Gunder Frank (1994) The World Economic System in Asia Before European Hegemony * Chapter 8 Andre Gunder Frank (2005) Debunk Mythology, ReOrient Reality * Chapter 9: Andre Gunder Frank with Marta Fuentes (1990) Social Movements

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