Francois Chesnais, Centers and Peripheries in the World: A Hierarchical Network, 1992 Virtual Museum of Canada
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This map of the globe outlines the world system's urban hierarchy and the peripheral zones / hinterlands. It is a black and white map with Africa at the bottom and Australia at the top, representative of a world system in its spatial relations between the centers of capital accumulation.

Francois Chesnais, Centers and Peripheries in the World: A Hierarchical Network, 1992

Chesnais's presents the World System (i.e. the global capitalist economy) in its spatial relations between the centers of capital accumulation (the G8 group of nations) and the isolated and the exploited peripheries.


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