Stephen G Bunker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen G Bunker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Bunker |
| SIGNATURE | BUNKER S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Politics and Public Policy in Latin America
This innovative textbook focuses on the policy approach as a systematic tool for understanding Latin American political life and then outlines policymaking variations among the Latin American regimes. The authors introduce the student to the study of policymaking by examining various theoretical perspectives and then grounding those perspectives in
Politics and Public Policy in Latin America
Globalization and the Race for Resources
How Ecologically Uneven Developments Put the Spin on the Treadmill of Production
The treadmill of production concept can be significantly enriched if it is incorporated into a world-systemic approach to the economic/ecological/political processes that development around dominant nations’ strategies for access to the raw materials that the treadmill requires that they consume at exponentially expanding rates
The Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist World-Economy
The economic ascent of China in the past two decades is the most dramatic change in the capitalist world-economy of this period. Analyses focus on changes in government control of the economy, the availability of low cost workers for export production, the historical characteristics of Chinese economy and society, and the role of the Chinese government as a developmental state. All highlight key parts of China s economic ascent, but none addresse…
Os fatores espaciais e materiais da produção e os mercados globais
Many authors have attempted to incorporate the local into the global.However, understanding the expansion and intensification of the social and material relations of capitalism that have created and sustain the dynamic growth of the world-system from the local to the global requires analysis of material processes of natural and social production in space as differentiated by topography, hydrology, climate, and absolute distance between places. In…
Matter, Space, Energy, and Political Economy
Many authors have attempted co-incorporate the local into the global. World-systems analysis, though, is rooted in processes of production, and all production remains profoundly local. Understanding the expansion and intensification of the social and material relations of capitalism that have created and sustain the dynamic growth of the world-system from the local to the global requires analysis of material processes of natural and social produc…
Generative sectors and the new historical materialism
Da castanha-do-pará ao ferro
The study comprises the trajectory of the regional production both of the iron ore as well as Brazil nut, extractives products of the Brazilian Oriental Amazonia. It indicates that the mining activities became a important economic activities, once the Brazil nut had lost its economic expression. The study argument that such differentiated trajectories have linked concerning the fact that the Brazil nut extraction being not susceptible to the tech…
International Inequality in the Age of Globalization
This paper shows how Japanese ?rms and the Japanese state constructed a development model based on the steel industry as a generative sector that drove Japan s economic ascent in the world-historical context of U.S. hegemony. We make three arguments in this paper. First, there is a new model of capital accumulation that does create new forms of social inequality by redistributing costs and bene?ts in very di?erent ways than earlier models. Second…
Space and Transport in the World-System
Introduction: Space, Transport, and World-Systems Theory by Paul S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker Ocean Transport Transportation Space: A Fourth Spatial Category for the World-Systems Perspective? by Philip E. Steinberg Power and the Shaping of Markets: The Global Order, Imperialism, and Shipping Nationalism by Baldev Raj Nayar It's All About Market Share: Competition Among U.S. West Coast Ports for Trans-Pacific Containerized Cargo by John Gu…
Joint Ventures em ambientes frágeis
By examining the recent changes in the aluminum world trade structure this article emphasizes the Japanese strategies to secure the access to this metal, the effects of such strategies on the Brazilian Amazon region, and their consequences for the world aluminum industry. It examines how the specific environmental and physical characteristics of the aluminum and of the sites its exploitation influence its profitability and turns competitive its e…
Raw material and the global economy
Many proponents of industrial ecology have asserted that the declining volume of raw materials used per unit of gross national product (GNP) constitutes a process of dematerialization.”; They have suggested that this process could allow continued growth in production and wealth while attenuating adverse impacts on the environment. Dematerialization, however, has been a central strategy for reducing production costs since before the beginnings of …
Restructuring Markets, Reorganizing Nature
Theorists of hegemony combine a concern with the causes of war and peace with questions of dominant trade regimes. While this combination addresses issues of central importance for studies of international relations, it may somewhat confound the role of hegemony studies within a world systems perspective. The power of the world systems perspective lies in the consideration of entire worlds, not simply as the appropriate unit of analysis, but as i…
The Ecology of Commerce
Logs for Capital
Fragile Lands of Latin America
The Demography of Inequality in Brazil
Peasants Against the State
Staples, links, and poles in the construction of regional development theories
Peasants against the State
Peasants against State
Stephen Bunker challenges the image of peasants as passive victims and argues that coffee growers in the Bugisu District of Uganda, because they own land and may choose which crops to produce, maintain an unusual degree of economic and political independence. Focusing on peasant struggles for market control over coffee exports in Bugisu from colonial times through the reign and overthrow of Idi Amin, Bunker shows that these freeholding peasants a…
The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889-1930
Underdeveloping the Amazon
Peasants against the State
Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery
The demographic, ecological, and infrastructural effects of extractive economies differ significantly from those of productive economies. Analysis of underdevelopment in extractive export economies requires time-lagged models of the cumulative effects of the sequence of local modes of extraction organized in response to world-system demands. Such a model, organized aroud the predominance of specific commodities at different times, is derived from…
Staples, links, and poles in the construction of regional development theories
Raw material and the global economy
Many proponents of industrial ecology have asserted that the declining volume of raw materials used per unit of gross national product (GNP) constitutes a process of dematerialization.”; They have suggested that this process could allow continued growth in production and wealth while attenuating adverse impacts on the environment. Dematerialization, however, has been a central strategy for reducing production costs since before the beginnings of …
Matter, Space, Energy, and Political Economy
Many authors have attempted co-incorporate the local into the global. World-systems analysis, though, is rooted in processes of production, and all production remains profoundly local. Understanding the expansion and intensification of the social and material relations of capitalism that have created and sustain the dynamic growth of the world-system from the local to the global requires analysis of material processes of natural and social produc…
The Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist World-Economy
The economic ascent of China in the past two decades is the most dramatic change in the capitalist world-economy of this period. Analyses focus on changes in government control of the economy, the availability of low cost workers for export production, the historical characteristics of Chinese economy and society, and the role of the Chinese government as a developmental state. All highlight key parts of China s economic ascent, but none addresse…
Dependency, Inequality, and Development Policy
Generative sectors and the new historical materialism
International Inequality in the Age of Globalization
This paper shows how Japanese ?rms and the Japanese state constructed a development model based on the steel industry as a generative sector that drove Japan s economic ascent in the world-historical context of U.S. hegemony. We make three arguments in this paper. First, there is a new model of capital accumulation that does create new forms of social inequality by redistributing costs and bene?ts in very di?erent ways than earlier models. Second…
Developing the Amazon
Center-local struggles for bureaucratic control in Bugisu, Uganda
Various recent studies of East African politics imply a unilinear tightening of state control over national populations. This paper addresses an alternative proposition, that freeholding peasant groups may achieve considerable power in relation to the state if they produce goods that are important to the state's export strategies. I examine cyclical struggles beween local-level associations and the national state for control of coffee marketing i…
Peasants against the State
Ideologies of intervention
Opening ParagraphWhere peasant production predominates in the national economy, the state is faced with a difficult dilemma. It must derive its revenues from cash crops, but if it appropriates too much, it will drive peasants out of the cash market and into subsistence (Hyden, 1980; Bunker, 1983b). Many African states have attempted to resolve this dilemma through direct contrôl of crop markets (Bates, 1981). Market control in peasant economies, …
Power structures and exchange between government agencies in the expansion of the agricultural sector
Peasants Against the State
Ritual, Respect and Refusal
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Stephen Bunker; Ritual, Respect and Refusal: Drinking Behavior in an Andean Village. Human Organization 1 December 1987; 46 (4): 334–342. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.46.4.4504x2hg22179118 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refere…
Debt and Democratization
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Collaboration and Competition in Two Colonization Projects
The development of efficient and honest bureaucracies has long been a central concern in studies of organizations, but there is little theory to explain the emergence of corruption in bureaucracies. Analyses of this type of corruption in underdeveloped countries have frequently attributed causation to particular political, cultural, or social-structural factors, without taking into account different degrees of corruption in highly different frame…
Da castanha-do-pará ao ferro
The study comprises the trajectory of the regional production both of the iron ore as well as Brazil nut, extractives products of the Brazilian Oriental Amazonia. It indicates that the mining activities became a important economic activities, once the Brazil nut had lost its economic expression. The study argument that such differentiated trajectories have linked concerning the fact that the Brazil nut extraction being not susceptible to the tech…
Joint Ventures em ambientes frágeis
By examining the recent changes in the aluminum world trade structure this article emphasizes the Japanese strategies to secure the access to this metal, the effects of such strategies on the Brazilian Amazon region, and their consequences for the world aluminum industry. It examines how the specific environmental and physical characteristics of the aluminum and of the sites its exploitation influence its profitability and turns competitive its e…
Restructuring Markets, Reorganizing Nature
Theorists of hegemony combine a concern with the causes of war and peace with questions of dominant trade regimes. While this combination addresses issues of central importance for studies of international relations, it may somewhat confound the role of hegemony studies within a world systems perspective. The power of the world systems perspective lies in the consideration of entire worlds, not simply as the appropriate unit of analysis, but as i…
Peasants against the State
Peasants against the State
Peasant Responses to a Dependent State
En menaçeant d'abandonner la production agricole pour l'exportation les paysans du Bugisu s'assuraient d'une influence politique locale et d'une autonomie économique face à l'État. A ussi longtemps que l'État tirait la majorité de ses revenus extérieurs de la vente de produits agricoles, les paysans conservaient une influence considérable sur les prix et les conditions de vente de ces produits. A ctuellement l'aide internationale pour la reconstr…
Agricultural and political change in the Ugandan economic crisis notes
Barriers to Communication and Measurement of Semantic Space
Power structures and exchange between government agencies in the expansion of the agricultural sector
Class, Status, and the Small Farmer
In this essay, contrasting processes of class formation are related to the relative success and failure of rural development programs in two dependent countries, Uganda and Brazil. I explain why government programs aimed at transforming peasants into small farmers integrated into a market economy have much greater chances of success when local middle classes mediate the interaction of peasants with imposed capitalist institutions than when these …
The Structure of Contemporary Brazilian Development
Latin American Migrations and Migrants
Policy Implementation in an Authoritarian State
The Brazilian government's plans to build the Transamazon Highway from the Atlantic coast to the Peruvian border and to settle thousands of landless peasants along it created intense debate before the project's precipitous beginning. Critics of the road “that went from nowhere to no place” denounced it as economic folly, while champions of “national integration” saw it as a crucial step toward the economic and geopolitical unification essential t…
Paradoxical Harvest
The Brazilian State and the Pioneer Frontier
Developing the Amazon
Dependency, Inequality, and Development Policy
Collaboration and Competition in Two Colonization Projects
The development of efficient and honest bureaucracies has long been a central concern in studies of organizations, but there is little theory to explain the emergence of corruption in bureaucracies. Analyses of this type of corruption in underdeveloped countries have frequently attributed causation to particular political, cultural, or social-structural factors, without taking into account different degrees of corruption in highly different frame…
Center-local struggles for bureaucratic control in Bugisu, Uganda
Various recent studies of East African politics imply a unilinear tightening of state control over national populations. This paper addresses an alternative proposition, that freeholding peasant groups may achieve considerable power in relation to the state if they produce goods that are important to the state's export strategies. I examine cyclical struggles beween local-level associations and the national state for control of coffee marketing i…
Teso in Transformation
Ethics and Methods of Researching Official Corruption
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Stephen Bunker, Lawrence Cohen; Ethics and Methods of Researching Official Corruption: Reply to Rabben. Human Organization 1 March 1984; 43 (1): 81–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.43.1.j607054700311765 Download citation file: Ris (…
Ideologies of intervention
Opening ParagraphWhere peasant production predominates in the national economy, the state is faced with a difficult dilemma. It must derive its revenues from cash crops, but if it appropriates too much, it will drive peasants out of the cash market and into subsistence (Hyden, 1980; Bunker, 1983b). Many African states have attempted to resolve this dilemma through direct contrôl of crop markets (Bates, 1981). Market control in peasant economies, …
Agricultural and political change in the Ugandan economic crisis notes
Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery
The demographic, ecological, and infrastructural effects of extractive economies differ significantly from those of productive economies. Analysis of underdevelopment in extractive export economies requires time-lagged models of the cumulative effects of the sequence of local modes of extraction organized in response to world-system demands. Such a model, organized aroud the predominance of specific commodities at different times, is derived from…
Peasant Responses to a Dependent State
En menaçeant d'abandonner la production agricole pour l'exportation les paysans du Bugisu s'assuraient d'une influence politique locale et d'une autonomie économique face à l'État. A ussi longtemps que l'État tirait la majorité de ses revenus extérieurs de la vente de produits agricoles, les paysans conservaient une influence considérable sur les prix et les conditions de vente de ces produits. A ctuellement l'aide internationale pour la reconstr…
Organización social y visión ecológica de un sistema de riego andino
Conzedera que en un pueblo tienen sacado unas asecyas de los rríos o posos, de las lagunas o de estanques. En tiempo antiguo lo sacaron con tanto tavajo que ci avía de pagar y gastar se gastaría dies o doze mil pesos o veynte mil pesos. Que antes que fuese Ynga, como avía tanta suma de yndios y no tenía más que un rrey y señor, lo abrieron y lo sacaron las asecyas y todas las sementeras, andenes que ellos les llama para, chacra, larca. Y lo sacar…
Underdeveloping the Amazon
Rivers of Empire
Long Live the Strong
Sicuanga Runa
Underdeveloping the Amazon; Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
Underdeveloping the Amazon
Underdeveloping the shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker pro…
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