Sam Chian

After the Year of Africa: W. E. B. Du Bois, Immanuel Wallerstein, and the Sociology of Decolonization by Sam Chian

After the Year of Africa: W.E.B. Du Bois, Immanuel Wallerstein, & the Sociology of Decolonisation
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(PDF) Wallerstein after ’68: Marxism and the Making of The Modern World-System PDF | This article examines the intellectual foundations of Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis, focusing on the formative period of the late... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

📝 My new article on Immanuel Wallerstein is out in Journal of World-Systems Research. It builds on my earlier piece for @roapejournal.bsky.social and examines how Marxism shaped The Modern World-System.

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(PDF) Wallerstein after ’68: Marxism and the Making of The Modern World-System PDF | This article examines the intellectual foundations of Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis, focusing on the formative period of the late... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

📝 My new article on Immanuel Wallerstein is out in Journal of World-Systems Research. It builds on my earlier piece for @roapejournal.bsky.social and examines how Marxism shaped The Modern World-System.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

After the Year of Africa: W. E. B. Du Bois, Immanuel Wallerstein, and the Sociology of Decolonization by Sam Chian

In today's think-piece, Sam Chian discusses Immanuel Wallerstein alongside W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of decolonization and Pan-Africanism.

1/🧵 Immanuel Wallerstein is known for his world-systems analysis. But few recall that his ideas were shaped by engagement with African decolonisation. In the 1960s, #Wallerstein lived and travelled across #Africa, meeting #Fanon and Samir Amin, and admiring #Nkrumah and Cabral.

2/🧵 To learn more about Wallerstein decade-long engagement with African liberation, read Sam Chian’s article in the latest #ROAPE: “Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: From Modernisation to #Marxism in the 1960s”

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Sleeping beauty and the masses – Fanon’s class analysis of the postcolony - ROAPE In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial…

To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100
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