World-Systems in California and California in the World-System
Christopher Chase-DunnInstitute for Research on World-Systems
University of California-Riversidehttp://irows.ucr.edu
Storm Coming
Outline of the talk• The Comparative World-Systems Perspective on human sociocultural evolution: • Interaction networks and core/periphery relations• World Revolutions and the Evolution of Global Governance• Rise of the Central System• World-Systems in California• Humans come to the Americas :Paleoindians in California • 12,000 year old chert projectile points on Santa Rosa Island: maritime adaptation and • the boat route to the Americas• Emergence of Sedentary Foragers: Resistance to pots and horticulture • Languages in California: Waves of Immigration and Sociocultural Variety within
California• Yuki, the Modocs and the Mohaves (the warriors)• Population pressure and the institutionalization of warfare.• Santa Cruz Island: the model of population pressure, differentiation and • trade.• Protomoney in the Southern California World-System• Core and periphery in Socal: The Cahuilla [Mukat’s People]• The Wintu and Their Neighbors in Northern California
More outline• Eastern and Western World-Systems: California the Far Edge of the European Frontier• Waves of European Colonial Imperialism: Genocide and Racism in California• Waves of Decolonization: California and the rise of the U.S. First New Nation• Waves of trade Globalization Since the early 19th Century: California joins the core of the world-system• World City Regions: California• New York and Los Angeles: The Culture Industry: City of Quartz• North/South similarities and differences: different paths of class formation and industrial development• Socal: craft unionism and small commodity production in the construction industry• Norcal: industrial unionism, the Longshoremen and the Left• Different outcomes of the World Revolutions of 1917 and 1968• World Rev 1917: The Longshoremen lead the San Francisco General Strike of 1934; • The Oakland General Strike of 1946• The boom and the bubble: U.S. economic development since World War II• World Rev 1968: The Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964. California leads the • world revolution of students• New Lead Industries and California (“Defense,” Global Hollywood, Information • Technology and Biotechnology • California leads in the counter-revolution: Reaganism-Thatcherism, Neoliberalism. • Proposition 13 in 1978. the “middle class tax revolt”• The Walmart economy and the global goods industry• Prisoners of the America Dream : home-ownership politics• A declining hegemon exports prestige goods: Orange County is the name of a new suburb in • Shanghai• The Melting Pot and the Demographic Emergence of the Latinos: but which Latinos will come to power?• Planet California in the World Revolution of 20xx: tracking the Occupy movement in California : Todos somos
Oaklanders del mundo
The rise of the central system (political/military network of states)
Western and Eastern world-systems since the emergence of states
Waves of european colonial imperialism (globalization)
• Christendom and capitalism: the crusades• The second wave: genoa, portugal and spain go around
africa and to the new world • Capitalism and conquest of the New World best explain the
Rise of the West over the other core regions of Afro-Eurasia• The evolution of global governance and world revolutions• Waves of colonization and decolonization
The Manila Galleon
Waves of colonialism and decolonization
California in evolutionary world historical perspective
Before California: Arrival of the Humans
Marine-adapted 12,000 year old chert tool kit from Santa Rosa Island from
The Wintu and their neighbors: a very small world-system in northern california
The Cahuilla and their neighbors
California – the Western edge of U.S. hegemony
Waves of trade Globalization 1820-2006
Norcal and socal– New York and Los Angeles: The Culture Industry: City of Quartz– North/South similarities and differences: different paths of class formation and
industrial development– Socal: craft unionism and small commodity production in the
construction industry– Norcal: industrial unionism, the Longshoremen and the Left– Different outcomes of the World Revolutions of 1917 and 1968– World Rev 1917: The Longshoremen lead the San Francisco General Strike of
1934; – The Oakland General Strike of 1946– The boom and the bubble: U.S. economic development since World War II– World Rev 1968: The Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964. California
leads the – world revolution of students– New Lead Industries and California (“Defense,” Global Hollywood,
Information – Technology and Biotechnology – California leads in the counter-revolution: Reaganism-Thatcherism,
Neoliberalism. – Proposition 13 in 1978. the “middle class tax revolt”
City Regions in CaliforniaCity lights
Tijuana
Salt Lake
Las Vegas
Prisoners of the American Dream• The Walmart economy and the global goods industry• Prisoners of the America Dream : home-ownership
politics• A declining hegemon exports prestige goods: Orange
County is the name of a new suburb in Shanghai• The Melting Pot and the Demographic Emergence of the
Latinos: but which Latinos? Neolibs vs. liberation theology
California in the World Revolution of 20xx
Time-mapping the occupy movement in California• Facebook pages: where were they in CA and where were they not as of Nov. 3, 2011? OccupyBarstow.org “About as far from Wall Street
as you can get.”
– Big and Early: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Long Beach, Riverside, Berkeley, Sacramento, Santa Barbara,
– Smaller and Later: Alameda, Anaheim, Arcata, Baker, Bakersfield, Barstow, Beaumont, Calistoga, Carmel, Chico, Coachella Valley (Indio, Palm Springs, Palm Desert), Concord, Corning, Costa Mesa, Danville, El Centro, Escondido, Eureka, Fairfield, Fallbrook, Fontana, Fortuna, Fresno, Gilroy, Grass Valley, Hayward, Hemet, Hollywood, Huntington Beach, Idyllwild, Laguna Beach, Lake Elsinore, Lancaster, Merced, Oceanside, Malibu, Modesto, Monterey/Salinas, Moreno Valley, Mount Shasta City, Napa, Ontario, Orland, Oxnard, Palmdale, Palo Alto, Petaluma, Pomona, Redlands, Walnut Creek, Redding, Red Bluff, Redondo Beach, Redwood City, Richmond, San Bernardino, San Fernando, San Mateo, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Simi Valley, San Leandro, San Luis Obispo, San Jose, San Marcos, Santa Monica, Stockton, Sonoma, Sonora, South San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Tahoe City, Temecula, Torrance, Tracy, Victorville, Vallejo, Vacaville, Ventura, Visalia, Woodland, Weaverville, Watsonville, Ukiah
• California Towns and Cities that did not have an Occupy Facebook page: – Adelanto, Albany, Alturas, Anderson, Apple Valley, Arcadia, Auburn, Angelus Oaks, Aptos, Asuza, Atherton, Avalon, Banning, Benicia, Burbank,
Burlingame, Big Bear, Big Bar, Bishop, Blythe, Borrego Springs, Boron, Brentwood, Burnt Ranch, Chino, Chino Hills, City of Industry, Crescent City, Coalinga, Colma, Colton, Cupertino, Cuyama, Dana Point, Darwin, Diamond Bar, Donner Lake, Dunigan, Dunsmuir, El Cajon, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Fillmore, Fremont, Forest Falls, Fall River Mills, Folsom Gorman; Grapevine, Happy Camp, Hayfork, Hyampom, Inyokern, Johnson City, Julian, King City, Klamath Lake, Lafayette, Lakehead, Lake Amador, Lake Isabella, La Sierra, Livermore, Los Altos, Los Banos, Lebec, Lee Vining, Maricopa, Mariposa, Marysville, McCloud, Menlo Park, Milpitas, Mineral, Mineral King, Moraga, Morro Bay, Moss Landing, Murrieta, Needles, Olancha, Orange, Orinda, Oroville, Orland, Pacifica, Pala, Panamint Springs, Paso Robles, Perris, Pismo Beach, Port Chicago, Ramona, Red Mountain, Ridgecrest, Rodeo, Roland Heights, Roseville, San Clemente, San Jacinto, Sausalito, Santa Paula, Santa Maria, Santa Rita, Seal Beach, Sebastapol, Shasta, Shasta Lake City, Shingletown, St. Helena, Soledad, Soquel, South Lake Tahoe, Susanville, Tehachapi, Thermal, Three Rivers, Tiburon, Trona, Trinidad, Truckee, Tulare, Tulelake, Turlock, Trinity Center, Twenty-nine Palms, Union City, Warner Springs, Weed, Williams, Willows, Willow Creek,Winters, Yreka, Yuba City, Yucaipa
• Demonstration but no Facebook page: San Rafael, Healdsburg• Facebook page but nothing on it: Porterville, Piedmont
Lyrical upsurge
• Planet California in the World Revolution of 20xx: time-mapping diffusion of the Occupy movement in California : occupy barstow, etc.
• Revolution in a declining hegemon? No. but a declining hegemon that can play a positive role in working out the problems of the 21st century rather than being part of the problem.
• Greece, Spain, Iceland; the Pink Tide in Latin America and the Social Forum Process
• Green market socialism, global democracy and future of humanity