Book Chapter — Coda — by Terence K. Hopkins

“Coda” is how  students and colleagues of Terence K. Hopkins characterized, following his untimely passing a few months later, the concluding statement offered by him to the colloquium organized in his honor in 1996. A video presentation of the event is presented below:

“There is no way I can say anything except I’m awed, embarrassed. Thank you. The one thing that I would be enormously pleased if it were to come out of it would be a continual reconstruction of your community. Forgive me, but I think people and things live by their continual reconstitution. Each of you will continue and grow individually. Collectively you can engage and reinforce each other. Yes, I hope it’s towards movements. Many of you know, this deep belief, and hope, but only hope. It’s up to the movements to appropriate us. It’s up to us to appropriate movements. I wish only that there be a continuation of this, really if you think about it on a world scale, odd solidarity. It is worth continuing. Thank you.”

— Terence K. Hopkins (1929-1997) Professor of Sociology, co-Founder of World-Systems Studies, and Founder of the Graduate Program of the Sociology Department at Binghamton University (SUNY)