Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Keyder, Çağlar

Titel

Obituary: Immanuel Wallerstein, public intellectual and leader of progressive social science, passes

Ist Teil von

• New perspectives on Turkey, 2019-11, Vol.61, p.5-8

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1 These articles laid out the essential theses of Wallerstein’s research program: the capitalist world system had dominated the world since the beginnings of capitalism; it was spatially and functionally differentiated into core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral areas, with their differentiation being due to state strength; and it was a historical system whose beginning, development, and future demise could be analyzed in terms of cycles of the ascending and declining power of the hegemonic state and the growth and stagnation of the world economy. To pursue such a vast project properly would require the collaboration of colleagues, graduate students, and willing partners from all over the world, and to this end Wallerstein accepted a position at the State University of New York in Binghamton, where he was able to start a research institute, invite scholars from around the world, organize academic meetings, and train graduate students. In addition to two more volumes of The Modern World-System, 3 he published (with Amin, Arrighi, and Frank) a book on the crisis that began in the 1980s, 4 a collection of essays (with Arrighi and Hopkins) on antisystemic social movements, 5 and a report for the Gulbenkian Commission on the epistemology of social sciences, while another collection of essays—Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities—was a collaboration with Etienne Balibar. 6 These studies extended the themes explored in Wallerstein’s earlier contributions and were enormously popular globally.