Full Description
This book offers a discussion of the origins of Latin American dependency theories and their implications for contemporary social theory. The book explores the conditions of emergence of this intellectual movement, the trajectories of some of its main formulators, as well as the circulation of their ideas, their reception in other contexts, and their influence on other theoretical formulations and problems of the present. The book is aimed at social scientists interested in broadening the scope of social theory towards the Global South, in processes of knowledge circulation between central and semi-peripheral regions, as well as in understanding the problems of dependency, modernisation, and development processes in Latin America. The book can be used both as an introduction to these themes and to delve deeper into specific issues.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Historical and systematic perspective
1. Origins of the Dependency Theory: Trajectories, Actors and Institutions
2. On dependency, a theorization in plural declension
3. Intelectual and political trajectories of the formulators of dependency theory
Part II: Dialogues and Receptions
4. Dependency theory, developmentalism and marginality in Aníbal Quijano: Latin American critical debates
5. Coloniality and Dependency: mutual provocations
6. Functional differentiation, world society and the centre/periphery difference: a dialogue between systems theory and dependency theory
7. The German Reception of Dependency Theories: Boom, Decline and Revival
Part III: New Problems
8. Dependency Theories as Political Critique and Interpretation of Latin American history
9. Dependency and the world-system: revisions inspired on the critique of coloniality
10. Energy transition and the new shape of green colonialism: from the Commodities Consensus to the Decarbonization Consensus
