Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World - 9780822348344

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the WorldSystem, Scale, Culture\nAuthor(s): David Palumbo-Liu, Nirvana Tanoukhi, Bruce Robbins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822348344, 978-0822348344\nSynopsis\nIn this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallersteins world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West. World-systems analysis reflects Wallersteins conviction that understanding global inequality requires thinking on a global scale. Humanists have often criticized his theory as insufficiently attentive to values and objects of knowledge such as culture, agency, difference, subjectivity, and the local. The editors of this collection do not deny the validityn