Distinguished lecture
Africa: colonialism, decolonization and post-colonialism
Immanuel Wallerstein,
University of Yale
23 March 2010, 16:00, Keynes Room, School of Economics, University of
Coimbra
Within the doctoral programme on Post-Colonialisms and
Global Citizenship (CES/FEUC)
Biographical Note
Immanuel Wallerstein is a prominent sociologist, historical social
scientist and world-systems analyst. He is currently a Senior Research
Scholar at the University of Yale. He was the President of the
International Sociological Association (1994-1998), and chair of the
international Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social
Sciences (1993-1995). He writes in three domains of world-systems
analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system; the
contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy; the structures of
knowledge. Books in each of these domains include respectively The
Modern World-System (3 vols.); Utopistics, or Historical Choices for
the Twenty-first Century; and Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of
Nineteenth-Century Paradigms.