From Situations of Dependency to Globalized Social Democracy

Evans, Peter

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“…11 10. The definitions proposed by Cardoso and Faletto (1979), Evans (2009) and Heller et al (2009) are not in line with this way of defining the research programme because they take a more descriptive approach to understanding economic organization and do not explicitly theorize about the polarizing tendencies of capitalism. 11.…”

Section: Core Hypothesis: Capitalist Development Tends To Be Polarizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme

Kvangraven¹

2020

Development and Change

133

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This article evaluates the relevance of dependency theory for understanding contemporary development challenges, especially in the light of changes in the global economy over the past 50 years. In order to do so, the article rectifies previous misunderstandings of the scholarship and offers a new definition of dependency theory as a research programme, rather than a singular theory. Four core tenets of this research programme are identified: a global historical approach; theorizing of the polarizing tendencies of global capitalism; a focus on structures of production; and a focus on the specific constraints faced by peripheral economies. While each of these elements can be found in many contemporary theories, what makes dependency theory unique — and a particularly strong research programme — is the combination of these elements. The article demonstrates how this approach provides a deep and broad understanding that is necessary to appreciate the persistence of uneven development with reference to two case studies, namely successful industrialization in South Korea, and how the fragmentation of global value chains has impacted industrialization in Indonesia. Finally, the article argues that approaching these kinds of cases through a dependency research programme can contribute to a fruitful renewal of development studies.

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Section: Core Hypothesis: Capitalist Development Tends To Be Polarizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme

Kvangraven¹

2020

Development and Change

133

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“…The autonomists correctly perceive that dependence on state resources and support, as well as on funding from mainstream foundations, often compromise the integrity and flexibility of social movement organizations in their ability to challenge existing power structures. But progressive transnational social movements should be prepared to work with progressive state governments in order to try to change the rules of the global economic order (Evans 2009;. 14 If social movement organizations become part of the problem rather than part of the solution new less dependent and compromised social movement organizations can take up the struggle.…”

Section: The Vessel 11 : Forging a Diagonal Instrument For The Globalmentioning

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Forging a Diagonal Instrument for the Global Left: The Vessel

Álvarez

Chase‐Dunn

2019

JWSR

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This article takes up Samir Amin’s challenge to rethink the issue of global political organization by proposing the building of a diagonal political organization for the Global Left that would link local, national and world regional and global networks and prefigurational communities to coordinate contention for power in the world-system during the next few decades of the 21st century. The World Social Forum (WSF) process needs to be reinvented for the current period of rising neo-fascist and populist reactionary nationalism and to foster the emergence of a capable instrument that can confront and contend with the global power structure of world capitalism and aid local and national struggles. This will involve overcoming the fragmentation of progressive movements that have been an outcome of the rise of possessive individualism, the precariat, and social media. We propose a holistic approach to organizing a vessel for the global left based on struggles for climate justice, human rights, anti-racism, queer rights, feminism, sharing networks, peace alliances, taking back the city, progressive nationalism and confronting and defeating neo-fascism and new forms of conservative populism.

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“…The autonomists correctly perceive that dependence on state resources and support, as well as on funding from mainstream foundations, often compromise the integrity and flexibility of social movement organizations in their ability to challenge existing power structures. But progressive transnational social movements should be prepared to work with progressive state governments in order to try to change the rules of the global economic order (Evans, 2009(Evans, , 2010. 14 If social movement organizations become part of the problem rather than part of the solution new less dependent and compromised social movement organizations can take up the struggle.…”

Section: The Vessel 11 : Forging a Diagonal Instrument For The Globalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forging a diagonal instrument for the global left: the vessel

Álvarez

Chase‐Dunn

2019

Globalizations

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This article takes up Samir Amin's challenge to rethink the issue of global political organization by proposing the building of a diagonal political organization for the Global Left that would link local, national and world regional and global networks and prefigurational communities to coordinate contention for power in the world-system during the next few decades of the 21st century. The World Social Forum (WSF) process needs to be reinvented for the current period of rising neo-fascist and populist reactionary nationalism and to foster the emergence of a capable instrument that can confront and contend with the global power structure of world capitalism and aid local and national struggles. This will involve overcoming the fragmentation of progressive movements that have been an outcome of the rise of possessive individualism, the precariat, and social media. We propose a holistic approach to organizing a vessel for the global left based on struggles for climate justice, human rights, anti-racism, queer rights, feminism, sharing networks, peace alliances, taking back the city, progressive nationalism and confronting and defeating neo-fascism and new forms of conservative populism.

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From Situations of Dependency to Globalized Social Democracy

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme

Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme

Forging a Diagonal Instrument for the Global Left: The Vessel

Forging a diagonal instrument for the global left: the vessel

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