The Global Left - Wallerstein, Immanuel

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Auteur(s) : Wallerstein, Immanuel

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 112

Expédition : 277

Dimensions : 22.2 x 14.5 x 1.0

ISBN : 9781138390386

Résumé :

Considering anti-systemic movements, dilemmas of the left in relation to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, and tactics for political action, this book includes new essays by Etienne Balibar, John K. Galbraith, Johan Galtung, Nilufer Gole, and Pablo Gonzalez Casanova in conversation with Wallerstein's core ideas.

Biographie:

Immanuel Wallerstein was Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019. From 1976 to 1999, he was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University (SUNY), where he was also a founder and director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. From 1975 until his death, he was Senior Research Scholar at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris, and intermittently served as Directeur d'?tudes associ? at the ?cole des hautes ?tudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He held positions at many universities worldwide throughout his career and was awarded 15 honorary degrees. Wallerstein served as President of the International Sociological Association from 1994 to 1998 and received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association in 2003. In 2014, the International Sociological Association awarded him the first ever Award for Excellence in Research and Practice. During the 1990s, he chaired the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences, whose object was to indicate a direction for social scientific inquiry for the next 50 years. His books, which have been translated into dozens of languages, include the world-renowned four-volume study, The Modern World-System, and, cowritten with ?tienne Balibar, Race, Nation, Class. He is considered to this day one of the most influential sociologists of his era.

Sommaire:

Foreword

Part I: The Global Left: Past, Present, and Future

1. Capitalism and Antisystemic Movements: 1789-1968
2. Structural Crisis of the Modern World-System: Dilemmas of the Left
3. Bifurcation and Collective Choice: Tactics of the Transition

Part II: Appreciations/Critiques

4. Bifurcation in the End of Capitalism
5. The Left: Its Immediate Future
6. The Global Left: A Comment
7. Immanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right
8. The Global and the Left: Possible Encounters?
9. The Hypothesis of Decline
10. Response to Appreciations/Critiques