Immanuel Wallerstein Open Lecture Series – Fourth session. Variety of Empires: Extraction, Incorporation, and the Political Economy of Colonial Domination

The Fourth Session of the Imanuel Wallerstein Free Chair took place on June 25th
Variety of Empires: Extraction, Incorporation, and the Political Economy of Colonial Domination
Lecture by Gurminder Bhambra
University of Sussex, United Kindom

In the social sciences, Empires - despite their different characteristics - are usually defined based on their common features in time and space.

Gurminder BhambraBhambra, on the other hand, believes it is necessary to pay more attention to the colonial histories that formed the overseas European empires as the development of a distinct type of empire. He calls them "empires of extraction," differentiating them from "empires of incorporation."

In her lecture, the sociologist will outline the differences between the two types of empire, examining how the problem of famine was addressed during the period of British colonial rule in India, in contrast to earlier imperial formations such as the Mughal Empire.

Based on the differences in the treatment of famine, Gurminder Bhambra will offer a sociological interpretation of the distinctive character of the modern European Empire.

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Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Sussex, United Kindom)
Professor of Historical Sociology and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sussex. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), and the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). She recently completed a major Leverhulme Trust research fellowship (2022-24) on “Varieties of Colonialism, Varieties of Empire.” She has served as President of the British Sociological Association and as a Trustee of the Sociological Review Trust.

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Stephan Lessenich (IfS Frankfurt)

Organized by
Institut für Sozialforschung
National University of Cordoba
Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for Advanced Studies (CEA-UNC)
Latin American Council of Social Sciences

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La Immanuel Wallerstein Free Chair It will focus on promoting awareness of new critical perspectives emerging from the Global South and North regarding the study of current processes of global social change. It is a space for global dialogue, bringing together leading intellectuals involved in the renewal of sociology, critical theory, and the social sciences in general. The increasing globalization of the major problems faced by societies in the periphery and the core of the world demands the development of new critical theories, as well as new mechanisms for disseminating knowledge that update the intellectual, scientific, and political commitment to social change.

The Chair is named after one of the most renowned sociologists of recent decades in the Western Hemisphere. His vast body of work aimed precisely at a major renewal of the social sciences, with the objective of providing studies of social change with a fully global perspective, particularly attentive to the specific realities of the Global South. To achieve this goal, Wallerstein insisted, among other aspects, on the need to overcome the old Eurocentric views of the modern paradigm. Immanuel Wallerstein Free Chair It will be the first inter-institutional academic space organized by the CEA-FCS-UNC, Institute for Sozialforschung (IfS), Frankfurt am MainGermany and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)This global dialogue space is open, free and accessible, and its target audience includes undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers, non-teaching staff, researchers and the general public.

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Organisation

The Chair's activities will be structured around single sessions with different guest speakers. The possibility of organizing thematic series that include more than one session is also being considered. The Chair's activities will be both in-person and virtual. Virtual activities will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel of the Faculty of Social Sciences, UNC, and on CLACSO TV, while in-person activities will be filmed and subsequently uploaded to the same channels.

More information about the Immanuel Wallerstein Chair
https://wallerstein.sociales.unc.edu.ar/

CLACSO joins the Immanuel Wallerstein Free Chair as an associated institution, same as the Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (IEALC) from the University of Buenos Aires.

The organizing academic institutions are the Center for Advanced Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Cordoba, as well as the Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS), home of the Frankfurt School.

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