The table of contents of ‘The Social Action Field’ by Pieter Saey — an epistemological and geographical evaluation of Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis.

CONTENT

Preface

General introduction

Part I. Other marxism

I.1. Constructivism

I.2. Marxism

I.3. Standpoint epistemology

I.4. Reasoning backwards as method

Part II. System, structure and agency

II.1. A system approach

II.2. A relational approach

II.3. A structural approach

Part III. The world-system as geographical system

III.1. Spatial structuring and internal dynamic

III.2. Position in time

III.3. Position in space

III.4. Unit of analysis

III.5. (Meta)geographical structure of the world-system

Part IV. Half a millenium world-economy

Overview

IV.1. Interim balance

IV.2. Autopoietic system and geographical system

IV.3. The social action field