Welcome to the ASA Political Economy of the World-System Section!

The PEWS is a unique section of the American Sociological Association. The core interests of those in the section are to explain the production and reproduction of asymmetric power relations and macro and micro-level inequalities in their world-historical context.
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Section News

  • PEWS at the 2010 ASA Annual Meeting

    PEWS has organized three paper sessions and thirteen roundtables for the 2010 ASA Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The Section will also be hosting a joint reception with the Environment and Technology Section. Please see the PEWS ASA Schedule for more information.


  • Congratulations to Andrew Schrank and Karin Rosemblatt!

    Congratulations to Andrew Schrank, this year's winner of the PEWS Article award. His 2008 article is entitled "Homeward Bound? Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform." It can be found in the American Journal of Sociology 114(1): 1-34.
     

    Also, a second hearty congratulations to Karin Rosemblatt, who received an honourable mention for her 2009 article entitled "Other Americas: Transnationalism, Scholarship, and the Culture of Poverty in Mexico and the United States." Karin's article can be found in the Hispanic American Historical Review. 89(4): 603-642.


  • 2011 PEWS Conference -- National Borders in the 21st Century

    Next year's PEWS conference will be held April 28-30, 2011 at SUNY-Stony Brook. Please see the call for papers.


  • New PEWSNews Editor

    Kelly Austin of North Carolina State University has been appointed the new editor of PEWSNews. She will begin work soon assembling the Fall 2009 edition. Send inquiries or submissions to kfaustin@ncsu.edu.


  • Distinguished Career Award

    The late Giovanni Arrighi has been awarded the PEWS Distinguished Career Award. Giovanni is only the fourth person so honored (after Gunder Frank, Janet Abu-Lughod, and Immanuel Wallerstein). Sadly, Giovanni passed away before the formal presentation of the award at the ASA meetings in San Francisco, but he received formal notice of the award earlier this year. For a remembrance of Giovanni and his work by his student Tom Reifer, click here.


Join PEWS

Membership in the Political Economy of the World System Section is open to any member of the American Sociological Association. Section membership is $22 for regular members, $8 for student members, and $13 for low-income members, which includes support for the official section journal, the Journal of World-Systems Research.

Join Online: To join the ASA and/or the PEWS section online, go to the ASA Membership Information Website. On this webpage log in with your 7-digit member number and last name (all lower case), then click on "Join a Section" and add the Political Economy of the World-System section (Section 17).

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