Spaces, Trajectories, Maps: Towards a World-Systems Biography of Immanuel Wallerstein
Georgi Derluguian
New York University-Abu Dhabi
Abstract
World-systems analysis, although itself a macrohistorical perspective, eminently allows for writing individual biographies because these are structurally conditioned and historically contingent trajectories developing in specific time and space. The biographical genre seems particularly useful in intellectual popularization and in exploring how macro-level concepts behave in observed empirical situations. This article offers and demonstrates specific recommendations and methodological warnings in application to the personal trajectory of Immanuel Wallerstein, the founder of world-systems analysis as an intellectual movement.
https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/download/14/636