Dependency Theory: contemporary relevance and challenges in the current global crisis
May 11-13 | Hybrid format | Buenos Aires, Argentina
🕒 12:00 a.m. to 19:00 p.m. (Argentina) (UTC-3)
📍 CLACSO, United States 1168.
This bi-continental meeting between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean proposes a strategic discussion: thinking about dependency today as a tool to understand the conditions of sovereignty and emancipation in a world in dispute.
Through three thematic axes, the seminar will examine the relevance of Dependency Theory in the face of (neo)imperialisms, current geopolitical tensions, and the new methodological challenges imposed by financialization, extractivism, and the ecological crisis.
Speakers from Latin America
Adrián Sotelo (UNAM), Ana Esther Ceceña (UNAM), Ana Grondona (UBA), Claudio Katz (UBA), Diego Giller (UNGS), Emir Sader (UFRJ), Facundo Lastra (IIES – UNS), José G. Gandarilla (UNAM), Marcelo Dias Carcanholo (UFF), Mariano Treacy (UNGS), Monica Bruckmann (UFRJ), Nildo Ouriques (UFSC), Raúl Delgado Wise (UAZ), René Ramírez (CLACSO/UNA) and Sebastián Sztulwark (UNGS).
Speakers from Europe
Andrew Fischer (ISS), Angus McNelly (KCL), Carla Coburger (U. Bayreuth), Devika Dutt (KCL), Fabio Maldonado (KCL), Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (King's College), Jonas Van Vossole (CES), Luis Mah (ISCTE), María Gabriela Palacio (LU), Natália Bracarense (UTC), Patrick Mockre (WU Vienna) and Rogelio Madrueño (U. Bonn).
Organizing institutions
· National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) – Mexico
· Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC); Centre for Social Studies (CES); University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE); Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG) – Portugal
· Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) – United Kingdom
· Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
· University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – Argentina
· Latin American Studies (LAS) at Leiden University – Netherlands
· European Association of Development Research and Training Institute (EADI)
· Young Scholar Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI-INET)
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Themes
Theme 1. The historical development and contemporary relevance of Dependency Theory
This axis addresses the historical development and contemporary relevance of Dependency Theory, examining its main analytical categories, its internal debates, and its explanatory power in the face of recent transformations of global capitalism.
Axis 2. (Neo)imperialisms, geopolitical tensions and international economic relations from a dependency perspective
This axis analyzes (neo)imperialisms, geopolitical tensions and international economic relations from a dependency perspective, questioning global power configurations, rivalries between powers and the place of the periphery in the emerging world architecture.
Axis 3. New theoretical and methodological horizons: Dependency Theory as a framework for the contemporary structure of the world
This axis explores new theoretical and methodological horizons to consolidate Dependency Theory as an analytical framework of the contemporary world structure, incorporating debates on financialization, extractivism, global value chains, ecological crisis and transformations of work.
More than an exercise in commemoration, this seminar proposes a strategic discussion: thinking about dependency today means thinking about the conditions of possibility for sovereignty, development and emancipation in a world in dispute.
