Educating critical citizens for an alternative world-system

pp. 67-98

in: Tom G. Griffiths, Robert Imre, Mass education, global capital, and the world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

Referring to the institutionalist branch of global studies, whose educational variant is discussed in preceding chapters, world-systems scholars Boswell and Chase-Dunn (2000, 25) presented the interstate system as promoting and developing over time a world polity, with 'shared cultural definitions of what is legitimate among states and other global actors…institutionalizing the parameters of what is a goal worth pursuing." The ensuing world polity is both defined by and defines the operation of the interstate system, and the logics of the world-system that underpin them. Boswell and Chase-Dunn's (2000) interest was in associated strategies for transforming the capitalist world-system by changing the world polity, or in Wallerstein's terms, the geoculture of the world-system.