The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein

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Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the most influential yet controversial sociologists of the past half-century, is a touchstone in innumerable debates about globalization and the power of capitalism, the nature of development in the modern era, and how to come to grips with widespread inequalities while recovering the potential for social change. The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein offers a compelling guide to his writings and ideas, his influences and reception, and the reasons for his enduring significance, with eleven original interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of international scholars. Importantly, the contributors also advance Wallersteins work into neglected areas such as climate change, global pandemics, racism, and gender and demonstrate his importance, not just to debates in his own intellectual context, but to those of our own times as well. This companion provides a multifaceted tool for thinking with Wallerstein, while showing where those engaging with Wallersteins thought can take his work in the contemporary world.

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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).