Is there any way to move outward, with an institutional framework that
reaches out to world-systems students and faculty throughout the
humanities and social sciences? I write because I suspect that I'm not
the only graduate student (History, UC Santa Cruz) whose work fits
squarely within the world-systems perspective, but is relatively
isolated in a discipline which gives world history second class status,
and treats world-systems as not "real history." If you want to stop inbreeding,
you need to attract grad
students, and not just in sociology (for instance, I know a number of
literature grad students here who use world-systems concepts in their work).
Inbreeding is indeed quite bad -- but what is to be done?
Best,
Jason Moore, History, UC Santa Cruz.
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Carl H.A. Dassbach wrote:
> PEWS i sn't a section and the newsletter doesn't hold any news - instead,
> what we have is a small group of people congratulating one another and
> presenting each other with awards. No wonder its dying - inbreeding
> eventually produces sterile mutations.
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