Description
In this book, prominent scholars from around the world debate two major themes: the past and future of the capitalist world-economy and ways in which a capitalist economy shapes Western research, the academy, and broader knowledge structures. Putting the two themes together, they also analyze the relationship between scholarship and the rest of the world. The book is published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Fernand Braudel Center. The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilzations, located at Binghamton University, SUNY, in Binghamton, New York, analyzes large-scale social change over long periods of historical time.
Author Info
Immanuel Wallerstein is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, and author most recently of Decline of American Power; Utopistics; and After Liberalism.
Contents
Introduction: Scholarship and Reality
Immanuel Wallerstein
PART I: The Capitalist World-Economy: From Past to Future
Chapter 1: Globalism or Apartheid on a Global Scale?
Samir Amin
Chapter 2: Through the Obstacle(s) and on to Global Socialism
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Chapter 3: Europe: The Asymptote of Political Integration
Bart Tromp
Chapter 4: Using, Producing, and Replacing Life?: Alchemy as Theory and Practice in Capitalism
Claudia von Werlhof
Chapter 5: Hegemony and Antisystemic Movements
Giovanni Arrighi
Chapter 6: Present Systemic Trends and Antisystemic Movements
Pablo Gonzalez Casanova
Chapter 7: Proletarian Internationalism: A Long View and Some Speculations
Marcel van der Linden
PART II: Structures of Knowledge and Constructed Knowledge in the Modern World
Chapter 8: Commonality and Divergence of World Intellectual Structures in the Second Millennium CE
Randall Collins
Chapter 9: Africa and African Studies
Mahmood Mamdani
Chapter 10: A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Chapter 11: Continuing American Provincialism and the Rest of the World
Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Chapter 12: Does One Represent Reality or Does One Explain It?
Maurice Aymard
Chapter 13: The Scholarly Mainstream and Reality: Are We at a Turning Point?
Immanuel Wallerstein
Chapter 14: The North Atlantic Universals
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Index
About the Contributors