scholarly journals Spaces, Trajectories, Maps: Towards a World-Systems Biography of Immanuel Wallerstein

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 448-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgi Derluguian
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
World Systems Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Movement

World-systems analysis, although itself a macrohistorical perspective, eminently allows for writing individual biographies because these are structurally conditioned and historically contingent trajectories developing in specific time and space. The biographical genre seems particularly useful in intellectual popularization and in exploring how macro-level concepts behave in observed empirical situations. This article offers and demonstrates specific recommendations and methodological warnings in application to the personal trajectory of Immanuel Wallerstein, the founder of world-systems analysis as an intellectual movement.

scholarly journals Anthropocene Fiction and World-Systems Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-371
Author(s):  
Andrew Milner ◽  
James Burgann Milner
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
World Systems Analysis ◽  
Annales School

As developed by Immanuel Wallerstein and various co-thinkers, world-systems analysis is essentially an approach to economic history and historical sociology that has been largely indifferent to literary studies. This indifference is perhaps surprising given that the Annales school, which clearly influenced Wallerstein’s work, produced a foundational account of the emergence of modern western literature in Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin’s L’apparition du livre (1958). More recently, literary scholars have attempted to apply this kind of analysis directly to their own field. The best-known instances are probably Pascale Casanova’s La republique mondiale des lettres (1999), Franco Moretti’s Distant Reading (2013) and the Warwick Research Collective’s Combined and Uneven Development (2015). More recently still, Andrew Milner in Australia and Jerry Määttä in Sweden have sought to apply “distant reading” more specifically to the genre of science fiction. Milner’s model of the “global SF field” identifies an original Anglo-French core, supplemented by more recent American and Japanese cores, longstanding Russian, German, Polish and Czech semi-peripheries, an emergent Chinese semi-periphery, and a periphery comprising the rest of the world. This essay attempts to apply that model to what Adam Trexler has termed “Anthropocene fictions” and Daniel Bloom “cli-fi”, which we treat here as a significant sub-genre of contemporary science fiction.  

Capitalism, Structural Crisis and Contemporary Social Movements: An Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaël Curty
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Political Action ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
World Systems Analysis

Immanuel Wallerstein is internationally recognized as the founder of world-systems analysis and is highly regarded for his groundbreaking analysis of the capitalist world-economy. In this excerpted interview, Immanuel Wallerstein analyzes the contemporary struggles between social movements representing the ‘spirit of Davos’ and the ‘spirit of Porto Alegre’ and explores the possibilities for social and political action for more equality and democracy in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Remembering Immanuel Wallerstein

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn ◽  
Jackie Smith ◽  
Patrick Manning ◽  
Andrej Grubacic
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Section Editor ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
World Systems Analysis

Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading founders and promoters of world-systems analysis, died on August 31, 2019. Given the importance of his scholarship to the Journal of World-Systems Research, we plan to publish in future issues research articles based on conferences and symposia that are now being planned to honor Wallerstein’s work and legacy. In this essay, JWSR founding editor, Christopher Chase-Dunn, is joined by current editor Jackie Smith incoming editor Andrej Grubacic, and World Historical Information section editor Patrick Manning offering reflections on some of Wallerstein’s contributions to both scholarship and practice.

scholarly journals Still Partners and Still Dissident After All These Years? Wallerstein, World Revolutions and the World-Systems Perspective

2000 ◽  
pp. 234-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
World Systems Analysis

This essay owes its origins to the provocative title of a recent article by Immanuel Wallerstein: “The Rise and Future Demise of World-systems Analysis” (1998a). “Demise”? What might this mean? The title evokes, of course, Wallerstein’s pathbreaking 1974 essay that spoke of “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System.” Twenty-?ve years later, Wallerstein is bold enough to speak of the demise of the perspective, a perspective that now encompasses a global group of scholars. For world-systems scholarship has, since 1974, thrived in book series, journals, universities and professional organizations—creating in the process a world-systems diaspora scattered around the planet.

scholarly journals Modern Monoculture and Periphery Processes: a World Systems Analysis of the Brazilian soy expansion from 2000-2012

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-90
Author(s):  
Niels Soendergaard
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
World Systems Analysis

Resumo: O artigo trata das implicações socioambientais e econômicas da expansão da produção de soja brasileira, durante o período entre 2000 e 2012. A perspectiva de análise de sistema mundo de Terence Hopkins e Immanuel Wallerstein (1982) é aplicada para avaliar em qual medida este desenvolvimento pode ser entendido como sendo característico do processo econômico de formação de periferia. Este arcabouço teórico é combinado com contribuições contemporâneas na literatura de Análise de Sistema Mundo que enfatizam assuntos ambientais e a natureza particular do agronegócio moderno, com a finalidade de entender as complexidades do atual setor de soja brasileiro. As dinâmicas de expansão produtiva e as suas diferentes implicações na sociedade são abordadas por meio de uma análise de cadeia de commodity da produção brasileira de soja. Uma estratégia de triangulação de dados é aplicada na análise, por meio de exame de documentos oficiais, pesquisas, entrevistas e material estatístico. O artigo conclui que enquanto algumas circunstâncias divergem das interpretações da perspectiva de Análise de Sistema Mundo, outros achados sugerem uma convergência entre a recente expansão da soja brasileira e as conceitualizações deste corpo teórico sobre periferia. A análise também aponta para a necessidade de reconsiderar o determinismo estrutural da perspectiva de Análise de Sistema Mundo, particularmente com relação ao possível potencial de agência política para confrontar os desafios associados com o desenvolvimento baseado em commodities.

scholarly journals Theorizing Capitalist Imperialism for an Anti-Imperialist Praxis

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 288-313
Author(s):  
Kristin Plys
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
History Of ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
World Systems Analysis

How does one craft an explicitly left theory of anti-imperialism that would animate an anti-imperialist praxis? World-systems analysis has a long history of engagement with theories of anti-imperialism from an explicitly Leninist perspective. For the founding fathers of World-Systems Analysis—Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, Samir Amin, and Andre Gunder Frank—anti-imperialism was an early central concern. Each of the four founders of world-systems analysis reads Lenin’s theory of imperialism seriously, but each has slightly different interpretations. One significant commonality they share is that they adopt Lenin’s periodization of imperialism, seeing imperialism as emergent in the late 19th century as part of a particular stage within the historical development of capitalism. However, as I will argue in this essay, perhaps it would be preferable to temporally expand Lenin’s concept of imperialism. Walter Rodney’s concept of “capitalist imperialism,” as I shall show in this essay, similarly calls Lenin’s periodization into question. Thereby, putting Rodney in conversation with Amin, Arrighi, Frank, and Wallerstein, leads me to further historicize world-systems’ theories of global imperialism thereby refining existing theories and levying that to build stronger praxis.

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