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Re: "rise of china" and wst [resend] by Richard K. Moore 01 March 2001 22:34 UTC |
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this never echoed back to my inbox, sorry if this is a duplicate. rkm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/1/2001, Krishnendu Ray wrote: >But let me first quote Wallerstein: "World-systems analysis... is not a theory >but a protest against neglected issues and deceptive epitemologies." Central >to his epistemological critique is his call to "unthink" the 19th.c. >foundations of the social sciences = the nation-state as the unit of analysis. Fair enough, but beware the 'pendulum phenomenon'. That is, we all have a tendency, when rejecting the 'old', to swing the pendulum too far the other way. If the purpose of this list is _only to pursue world-system analysis, then we should keep our blinders on. If on the other hand we want to _supplement other analytical frameworks with w-s analysis, then that is another matter. rkm
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