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Book SynopsisImmanuel Wallerstein, one of the most influential yet controversial sociologists of the past half-century, is a touchstone in innumerable debates about globalization and the power of capitalism, the nature of development in the modern era, and how to come to grips with widespread inequalities while recovering the potential for social change. The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein offers a compelling guide to his writings and ideas, his influences and reception, and the reasons for his enduring significance, with 10 original interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of international scholars. Importantly, the contributors also advance Wallerstein’s work into neglected areas such as climate change, global pandemics, racism, and gender and demonstrate his importance, not just to debates in his intellectual context, but to those of our times as well. This companion provides a multifaceted tool for thinking with Wallerstein, while showing where those engaging with Wallerstein’s thought can take his work in the contemporary world.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1.“There Is No Such Thing as Sociology”: Wallerstein as Sociologist, Chamsy el-Ojeili and Patrick Hayden; 2. From Africa to the World: The Sources of Wallerstein’s The Modern World-System, Gregory P. Williams; 3. Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis and the Structures of Knowledge, Richard E. Lee; 4. Wallerstein as International Political Sociologist: On Power, Hegemony and the Interstate System, Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-Ojeili; 5. The Agonies of Liberalism: Wallerstein on the Rise and Fall of Liberal Ideology; Paul Voice; 6. Global Inequalities Avant la Lettre: Theoretical Filiations and Radical Critique, Manuela Boatcă; 7. Reckoning with Gender in the World-System: Insights from and Challenges to Wallerstein, Shelley Feldman; 8. The Past and Future of Anti systemic Movements: Possibilities and Limits of Social Change in Wallerstein’s World-Systems Analysis; Janet M. Conway; 9. The Global Environment and Climate Change in the Modern World-System, Jennifer E. Givens; 10. Pervasive Pandemics: Understanding Global Health and Disease from a World-Systems Perspective, Kelly F. Austin; Index
