TY - JOUR AU - Turkowski, Andrzej AU - Tomasz Zarycki, PY - 2023/03/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - From Wallerstein to Rothschild: The Sudden Disappearance of the Polish School of Dependency Theory After 1989 as a Manifestation of Deeper Transformations in the Global Field of Social Science JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 29 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.5195/jwsr.2023.1135 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/1135 SP - 149-173 AB - <p>This article investigates a neglected issue of the influence of systemic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe on the (sub)field of social sciences and more broadly on local fields of power. Our case study concerns a vibrant and internationally connected network of scholars from various disciplines and generations who were involved in developing and popularizing a dependency paradigm in communist Poland. As we show that the fall of communism and related transformation in the Polish field of power brought about dramatic shift in terms of their career trajectories as well as their ideological orientation and in consequence a sudden disappearance of this academic ecosystem. On this basis we argue about wider changes—encompassing marginalization of the “critical,” autonomous tradition and strengthening of heteronomic trends in social sciences in the region but also at the global level.</p> ER -