In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider
the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by
engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein's 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
Wallerstein's 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 validity of those criticisms; instead, they offer
Wallerstein's world-systems analysis as a well-developed vision of
the world scale for humanists to think with and against. Scholars
of comparative literature, gender, geography, history, law, race,
and sociology consider what thinking on the world scale might mean
for particular disciplinary practices, knowledge formations, and
objects of study. Several essays offer broader reflections on what
is at stake for the study of culture in decisions to adopt or
reject world-scale thinking. In a brief essay, Immanuel Wallerstein
situates world-systems analysis vis-a-vis the humanities.
"Contributors." Gopal Balakrishnan, Tani E. Barlow, Neil
Brenner, Richard E. Lee, Franco Moretti, David Palumbo-Liu, Bruce
Robbins, Helen Stacy, Nirvana Tanoukhi, Immanuel Wallerstein, Karen
Wigen
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