Uncertain Worlds

World-systems Analysis in Changing Times

Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317249986
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Scienze sociali
• Categoría: Sociologia

Uncertain Worlds is the definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. Few theorists have offered a more systematic theory of what has become known as 'globalisation' than Wallerstein. The book includes a one-of-kind interview with Wallerstein by Carlos Rojas, a conversation between Wallerstein and Lemert about the history of the field as it has come down to the present time, a long essay by Lemert on the uncertainties of the modern world-system, as well as a preface by Rojas and a concluding essay by Wallerstein. No other book lends such biographical, historical, and personal nuance to the biography of world-systems analysis and, thus, to the history of our times. The will be a key reference book for students of global politics, economics and international relations.

Index

A and B phases. See Kondratieff cycles

Absolutist states, 52

Acting, 11–12, 125, 157

Actually existing socialism, xix–xx

Adorno, Theodor, 4, 177

Affective fact, 192(n53)

Afghanistan, US. invasion of, xxix, 137, 139–140

Africa: class struggles, 109; construction of contemporary history, 6–7; influencing intellectual experience and growth, 12–14; Jewish nationalism and African nationalism, 8–9; post-1945 awareness of, 196; role in the world-system, 14; schematic focus before 1968, 34–35; UN membership for African countries, 5–6; weakness of nation-states, 15; as world-systems analysis model, 101–103

Africa: The Politics of Independence (Wallerstein), 6–7

Africa: The Politics of Unity (Wallerstein), 6–7

Africana Bulletin, 198

African-Americans, 73–74

Africanism, 5–6

After Liberalism, 42, 125, 172

Agamben, Giorgio, 170

Algeria, 9, 196–197

American Anthropologist, 115

American Labor Party (ALP), 112

American Sociological Association, 29

American Veterans Committee (AVC), 112

Amin, Samir, 54

Ancient history, 26

Annales journal, 204–205

Annales School, 54–55

Anthropology, xxxiii, 179

Antiestablishment, 3–4

Anti-Semitism, 7–8

Antisystemic movements, 68–72, 82–83, 85–86, 106, 186–187, 188

Arab-Israeli conflict, 9

Aristotle, 19–20

Arrighi, Giovanni, 116–117

Arrow of time, 120

Artificial intelligence, 122

Assimilation, 9; linguistic, 11

Aufhebung, 49

Autocratic systems, 141

Autopoiesis of social systems, 180, 191(n42)

Axes of the world-systems analysis perspective, 34, 94–96. See also Critical analysis of the long historical twentieth century; Epistemological-critical axis; Historical-critical axis; Immediate history and prospective scenarios

Baehrel, René, 162

Bakeiv, Kurmanbek, 135

Baku Congress (1920), 71, 78

Bandoeng conference, 196

Bell, Daniel, 108, 110, 113, 148(n9)

Berlin Wall, fall of: as beginning of U.S. hegemonic decline, 152–153; defining the short twentieth century, xix; defining...