When: Tuesday, 24 June, 16:15-18:45
Where: SR SG2, Bauteil 1 EG.02, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Wien
Chair: Eva-Maria Muschik (Department of Development Studies)
In the existing literature, capitalism’s “origin story” is oftentimes attributed to a limited set of linear processes occurring in a specific era and region, usually located in Europe. This, however, does not do justice to the delayed, intermittent and protracted histories of capitalisms across several centuries and within a number of core areas in Afro-Eurasia. In order to give due consideration to multilinear trajectories and the specific stages and phases of capitalist developments, a tentative non-Eurocentric periodisation of capitalisms in the longue durée is proposed, encompassing various world areas in long-drawn-out maturation processes spanning the 10th to 18th centuries.
