Giovanni Arrighi: Scholarship, Activism and the World-System

摘要

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, in a time of momentous change -from the Arab Revolutions to the Occupy Wall Street movement that inspired protests across the globe - few scholarly contributions have proved more enduring or of greater contemporary relevance than the landmark interventions of Giovanni Arrighi, who passed away on 18 June 2009. The range of Arrighi's prodigious contributions, from the study of white settler colonialism in Southern Africa, to the rise of Chinese-led East Asia, to his analyses of the global system, world inequalities and antisystemic movements from the late medieval period to the present, represent a truly impressive achievement (Arrighi et al., 2010; Reifer, 2009).