Immanuel Wallerstein Travels to Romania: Ideological Fit, Leftovers, and the Future of Decolonization

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Bogdan Popa
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Abstract A growing body of work has investigated the travel of neo-Marxist theorists and theory to state socialist contexts such as Romania and China, but this scholarship has not focused on successful strategies of indigenization. While several explanations for this process have been proposed, this article advances the concept of “ideological fit” to illuminate how a new body of work is successfully popularized and integrated into national conversations. I explore the relationship between the indigenization of Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems theory in Romania within the context of Cold War ideological conflict. This study compares the popularization strategies of a group of U.S. social scientists (Daniel Chirot and Katherine Verdery) with local attempts (Ilie Bădescu) to promote Wallerstein’s theory in Romanian academia. World-systems theory advanced a critique of global capitalism in the United States, whereas in Romania, it was integrated into and discussed as a contribution to anticolonial struggles around the world. As a result, Bădescu’s assertion that Romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu was an anticolonial thinker became generative in local sociology. I conclude by discussing how key theoretical elements of Wallerstein’s theory, which I call the “leftovers,” have been redeployed in new scholarship on decolonization and discuss the risks of such an approach.
伊曼纽尔·沃勒斯坦罗马尼亚之旅:意识形态契合、残余物和非殖民化的未来
越来越多的工作研究了新马克思主义理论家和理论在罗马尼亚和中国等国家社会主义背景下的传播,但这些学术研究并未关注本土化的成功策略。虽然对这一过程已经提出了几种解释,但本文提出了“意识形态契合”的概念,以阐明一个新的工作体系如何成功地推广并融入国家对话。我在冷战意识形态冲突的背景下探讨伊曼纽尔·沃勒斯坦的世界体系理论在罗马尼亚的本土化之间的关系。本研究比较了一组美国社会科学家(Daniel Chirot和Katherine Verdery)在罗马尼亚学术界推广沃勒斯坦理论的推广策略和当地的尝试(Ilie b descu)。世界体系理论在美国提出了对全球资本主义的批判,而在罗马尼亚,它被纳入并作为对世界各地反殖民斗争的贡献而被讨论。因此,布雷代斯库关于罗马尼亚民族诗人米哈伊·埃米内斯库是一位反殖民主义思想家的主张在当地社会学中产生了影响。最后,我讨论了沃勒斯坦理论的关键理论要素(我称之为“剩余物”)是如何在非殖民化的新学术研究中重新部署的,并讨论了这种方法的风险。
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