Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein

Chamsy el-Ojeili is Associate Professor of Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of The Utopian Constellation (2019) and (with Patrick Hayden) Critical Theories of Globalization (2006). Patrick Hayden is Professor Emeritus of Political Theory and International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. His books include Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory (2009) and Camus and the Challenge of Political Thought: Between Despair and Hope (2016).

• Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1.“There Is No Such Thing as Sociology”: Wallerstein as Sociologist, Chamsy el-Ojeili and Patrick Hayden; 2. From Africa to the World: The Sources of Wallerstein’s The Modern World-System, Gregory P. Williams; 3. Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis and the Structures of Knowledge, Richard E. Lee; 4. Wallerstein as International Political Sociologist: On Power, Hegemony and the Interstate System, Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-Ojeili; 5. The Agonies of Liberalism: Wallerstein on the Rise and Fall of Liberal Ideology; Paul Voice; 6. Global Inequalities Avant la Lettre: Theoretical Filiations and Radical Critique, Manuela Boatcă; 7. Reckoning with Gender in the World-System: Insights from and Challenges to Wallerstein, Shelley Feldman; 8. The Past and Future of Anti systemic Movements: Possibilities and Limits of Social Change in Wallerstein’s World-Systems Analysis; Janet M. Conway; 9. The Global Environment and Climate Change in the Modern World-System, Jennifer E. Givens; 10. Pervasive Pandemics: Understanding Global Health and Disease from a World-Systems Perspective, Kelly F. Austin; Index

Editors Hayden (emer., Univ. of St Andrews, UK) and el-Ojeili (Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand) have compiled an intriguing collection of thoughtful essays about one of the 20th century’s greatest sociologists. — Choice