Remembering Immanuel Wallerstein

Christopher Chase-Dunn,Andrej Grubacic,Patrick Manning,Jackie Smith

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2020.995

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Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading founders and promoters of world-systems analysis, died on August 31, 2019. Given the importance of his scholarship to the Journal of World-Systems Research, we plan to publish in future issues research articles based on conferences and symposia that are now being planned to honor Wallerstein’s work and legacy. In this essay, JWSR founding editor, Christopher Chase-Dunn, is joined by current editor Jackie Smith incoming editor Andrej Grubacic, and World Historical Information section editor Patrick Manning offering reflections on some of Wallerstein’s contributions to both scholarship and practice.

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Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading founders and promoters of world-systems analysis, died on August 31, 2019
Immanuel Wallerstein was an intrepid protagonist of human equality and an innovative and influential social scientist who led a scholarly movement to build a coherent framework for understanding the emergence and development of global capitalism
The world-system perspective emerged during the World Revolution of 1968, when progressive social scientists contemplated the meaning of Latin American dependency theory for Africa and Asia

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Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading founders and promoters of world-systems analysis, died on August 31, 2019. Given the importance of his scholarship to the Journal of World-Systems Research, we plan to publish in future issues research articles based on conferences and symposia that are being planned to honor Wallerstein’s work and legacy. JWSR founding editor, Christopher Chase-Dunn, is joined by current editor Jackie Smith, World Historical Information section editor, Patrick Manning, and incoming editor-in-chief, Andrej Grubačić, offering reflections on some of Wallerstein’s contributions to both scholarship and practice.

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