BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//TERMINALFOUR//SITEMANAGER V7.3//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20240531T090000 LOCATION: DESCRIPTION:SCIS invites you to a seminar titled Onward To Liberation: Samir Amin and the Study of World Historical Capitalism on 31 May 2024, 09:00 - 10:30 (SAST).You are warmly invited to a seminar by Dr Salimah Valiani titled Onward To Liberation: Samir Amin and the Study of World Historical Capitalism.
Samir Amin (1931-2018 ), Africa's preeminent radical economist, did pioneering work on a question still relevant: How to understand the world as an interconnected whole. Trade and financial liberalisation,migration, and borderless ecological destruction have made this question increasingly apparent to the global majority in the 21st century. But as early as 1957, Samir Amin began tracing the dynamics ofworld inequality in what he called accumulation on a world scale. Often referred to as a Marxist, Amin’s thinking sparked much of what would come to be known as world-systems analysis. World-systemsanalysis draws from Marx’s historical materialism, and other concepts, without reifying Marx’s thought as a reading of world history.
In her paper, Valiani demonstrates that passing through Marx, eurocentric economic history, historical sociology, and international relations, the collective oeuvre of Samir Amin and his world systems interlocuteurs is eclectic theoretically and methodologically. Working through multiple disciplines, world-systems analysis employs class, surplus, race, coloniality, hegemony, and other concepts to trace world inequality from 1492, thus contributing to understanding long term social change in the service of the ongoing task of human liberation
Dr Salimah Valiani is a senior researcher at SCIS on the Climate and Inequity Research Project. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:SCIS invites you to a seminar titled Onward To Liberation: Samir Amin and the Study of World Historical Capitalism on 31 May 2024, 09:00 - 10:30 (SAST).

You are warmly invited to a seminar by Dr Salimah Valiani titled Onward To Liberation: Samir Amin and the Study of World Historical Capitalism.


Samir Amin (1931-2018 ), Africa's preeminent radical economist, did pioneering work on a question still relevant: How to understand the world as an interconnected whole. Trade and financial liberalisation,
migration, and borderless ecological destruction have made this question increasingly apparent to the global majority in the 21st century. But as early as 1957, Samir Amin began tracing the dynamics of
world inequality in what he called accumulation on a world scale. Often referred to as a Marxist, Amin’s thinking sparked much of what would come to be known as world-systems analysis. World-systems
analysis draws from Marx’s historical materialism, and other concepts, without reifying Marx’s thought as a reading of world history.


In her paper, Valiani demonstrates that passing through Marx, eurocentric economic history, historical sociology, and international relations, the collective oeuvre of Samir Amin and his world systems interlocuteurs is eclectic theoretically and methodologically. Working through multiple disciplines, world-systems analysis employs class, surplus, race, coloniality, hegemony, and other concepts to trace world inequality from 1492, thus contributing to understanding long term social change in the service of the ongoing task of human liberation


Dr Salimah Valiani is a senior researcher at SCIS on the Climate and Inequity Research Project.

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