[lbo-talk] Semi-peripheries

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Fri Feb 12 12:02:59 PST 2010


On Thu, February 11, 2010 5:49 pm, Eubulides wrote:


> There is no periphery or semi-periphery any more.

There most certainly is. Out of the world's 6.7 billion people, 1 billion live in fully industrialized countries, 1.5 billion in the true periphery, and 4.2 billion in the semi-peripheries.

My own definition: semiperipheries are regions of the world-system where there has been significant urbanization, industrialization, democratization and mediatization, but where the preindustrial, agrarian and colonial-imperial past is still a powerful cultural, economic and social reality.

-- DRR



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