Book review: Joachim J. Savelsberg, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles

Abstract

well limitations and future challenges for World-System Analysis. Among others, it should be mentioned, World Systems needs to integrate race, gender, and sexuality—the former advanced, the latter two almost null—while explaining the formation and reproduction of historical capitalism. Second, the macro bias of World Systems would benefit by providing a greater focus at the microlevel—objects and people—dynamics in the embedded systemic relations and the global chains of production (and power). And third, World Systems should push the dialogue—rather than the essentialist separation and romanticization and/or demonization—of the critical traditions of modernity with emerging subaltern knowledge (Western and non-Western), while approaching to them as contradictory, limited, and mutually constituted intellectual constellations.