Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory

Oliveira, Felipe Antunes de; Kvangraven, Ingrid Harvold

doi:10.1080/09692290.2023.2169322

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“…Scholars in Latin America and Africa worked along similar lines to contextualize the experiences of their own countries. One of Africa's most prominent contributors, Samir Amin, organized the 1972 Dakar Conference, an example of co-production and socialization of ideas between dependency scholars and activists from both regions (Antunes de Oliveira and Kvangraven, 2023).…”

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Dependency in the Digital Age? The Experience of Mercado Libre in Latin America

Franco,

Graña,

Rikap

2024

Development and Change

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This article uses Mercado Libre, the leading digital platform company in Latin America, as an illustrative case to analyse the effect of regional platforms on development, by considering their interplay with both global leaders and local actors. Building on dependency theory, the article identifies the company's structural dependence on algorithms and computing power provided by the largest information technology (Big Tech) companies in the United States. Nonetheless, it also finds that Mercado Libre is at the frontier in applied data analysis solutions tailored for its businesses. Together with a privileged access to personalized and cross‐fertilized market and financial datasets, the company's internal and purchassed technologies are the source of asymmetric relationships with its platforms’ users. The article conceptualizes Mercado Libre's place in digital capitalism as extractivist with local actors and, just like local elites when dependency theory was first formulated, it is complicit with global powers. But, unlike those elite firms, it is not technologically laggard, and its value capture is underpinned by its technological advantage. Thus, this article conceptualizes (digital) dependency as multiple layers of economic power in which leading firms from the peripheries occupy intermediate and interconnecting positions. It shows that, while these regional leaders operate at the technological frontier, economic power relations based on technological asymmetries remain crucial for studying underdevelopment.

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Dependency in the Digital Age? The Experience of Mercado Libre in Latin America

Franco,

Graña,

Rikap

2024

Development and Change

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“…The scientific research, especially in the context of social science, is remarkable for the dependency theories that play a role in social phenomena. The role of the theory is to deal with the resettlement development in the country (Oliveira & Kvangraven, 2023). When the project authorities decide about the project, progress of country is important to consider in lens of development (Frank, 2013).…”

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A Holistic Scene Displacement to Resettlement: Resettler’s Behavior Adaptability and Inner Motivation: The Mind Accepts When Lives Are Secure

Ashraf,

Ghani,

Khan

2023

JSRD

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The human mind works on a pattern when he is living in a smooth pattern of his life. The role of behavior in case of resettlement cannot be neglected. This study investigated the resettler’s life well-being, inner motivation, and acceptability of their behavior. This study has been conducted on the affected people due to the Ghazi Barotha Hydro Power project in Pakistan. This data was collected from the 465 affected people who were relocated at different places through a questionnaire utilizing the survey approach. The random sampling techniques used, theoretical development drawn on the basis of the literature review, which was later tested by applying the positivism philosophy, The results of this study indicated that if physical and psychological needs and demands of the relocated are met, and along with inner motivation, their adaptability and acceptability of resettlement move in a positive direction. The objectives of studies were met, and this will be further helpful for policymakers, stakeholders, project authorities, and researchers.

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“…In a world where 252 men have more wealth than all one billion women and girls in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa combined, it is no surprise that discussions about decolonising development have proliferated in recent years (Ahmed et al. 2022; Antunes de Oliveira and Kvangraven 2023; Patel 2020; Shilliam 2016; Sabaratnam 2017). However, recent work on the standard of civilisation—a notion formalised by international lawyers in the 19 th century to justify European colonialism—highlights how an inherently racist ideology still guides much of world politics (Bhandar 2018; Gong 1984; Knox 2016; Tzouvala 2020).…”

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De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change

Selwyn

2023

Antipode

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Can development be decolonised? The dominant form of contemporary development thinking prioritises capital accumulation and economic growth, guided, if necessary, by violent means by national elites and hegemonic states. This article recounts an early moment in the struggle over the form and content of development. It argues that in response to post‐World War 2 decolonisation, W.W. Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth represents the modernisation and application to development thinking of supremacist norms rooted in the standard of civilisation (recolonising development). By contrast, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth proposed a “new humanist” alternative (decolonising development). However, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant ideology of development, the violence inherent in Rostow's notion of development has been whitewashed (development without violence), especially within the sub‐discipline of development economics, while within various strands of development thinking Fanon's vision of development has been blackwashed (violence without development). Reclaiming Fanon's humanism requires grappling with his insistence upon revolutionary violence as necessary to overcome supremacist forms of development.

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Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory

Cited by 9 publications

References 88 publications

Dependency in the Digital Age? The Experience of Mercado Libre in Latin America

Dependency in the Digital Age? The Experience of Mercado Libre in Latin America

A Holistic Scene Displacement to Resettlement: Resettler’s Behavior Adaptability and Inner Motivation: The Mind Accepts When Lives Are Secure

De/Recolonising Development: Fanon, Rostow, and the Violence of Social Change

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