The necessary scholarship of Dale W. Tomich

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ID3877696
AuthorsMichaeline A Crichlow (Duke University, corresponding author), Juan Giusti-Cordero (University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume36
Issue3
Pages248-255
Publication date2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/09213740241274946
OpenAlexW4402585372
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

In this brief introduction, we highlight the critical contributions of the esteemed scholar, historical sociologist and theoretical historian, Dale Tomich, whose scholarly interventions have contributed to changing the field of plantation slavery, studies of capital and historical studies in general. We emphasize his key historical and methodological interventions, particularly the importance of studying locales at several intersecting scales, underscoring the world economy as ultimately the main unit of analysis as it operates differentially across the Atlantic and beyond. Moving among these interconnected and relational scales we argue has allowed for a more complex understanding of how even 'small islands' like those in the Caribbean facilitate 'huge comparisons,' influence and are shaped by deterritorialized forces emanating from the world economy. Tomich's work we argue, theorizes and historizes from the top to the bottom and vice versa, a necessary labor for apprehending how subject-citizens navigate their worlds in their various locales

Epistemology · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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