Dependency Theory and Uneven Development with Ingrid Kvangraven

In this episode of Crash Course Sara Murawski en Rodrigo Fernandez discuss Dependency Theory with Ingrid Kvangraven. How does dependency theory help us to formulate different answers to the problems developing countries face today. We try to understand what it is and why it has been lost in debates on the global south, after being dominant in the 70s and 80s.

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is an Assistant Professor in International Development at the University of York’s Department of Politics. Her research is centered on the role of finance in development, structural features of underdevelopment, the political economy of development (including the role of international institutions), and critically assessing the economics field. She is a Founder and Editor of the blog Developing Economics, founder and steering group member of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics.

00:00:00 Intro by Sara Murawski & Rodrigo Fernandez
00:04:52 Introducing Ingrid Kvangraven
00:05:40 Ingrid Kvangraven talks starts
00:06:18 Dependency Theory, outdated or out of Fashion?
00:07:40 What is Dependency Theory?
00:11:42 Dependency Theory: Why did it go out of fashion?
00:22:08 Redefining Dependency Theory
00:26:06 How can it explain global inequality? (South Korea)
00:29:36 Indonesia, Global Value Chains
00:32:40 Unfashionable but not outdated
00:33:42 Recent works
00:34:50 Conclusions
00:37:00 Q&A: Politics of knowledge production & Ideology
00:40:18 Q&A: Monopoly capitalism
00:45:50 Q&A: Dependency Theory & agency in the Global South?
00:48:00 Q&A: Dependency Theory, Indigenous people, Race and Gender
00:49:35 Q&A: Delinking from the global capitalist system (Samir Amin)
00:53:23 Q&A: Following progress as modernisation, and statist development program
00:56:26 Q&A: The ecological question and climate change
00:57:40 Q&A: Decolonization, African states & ISI: Import substitution industrialisation
01:01:40 Q&A: Is dependency theory useful to read contemporary patterns Chinese, Lat am, African relations?

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00:00:00 Intro by Sara Murawski & Rodrigo Fernandez
00:04:52 Introducing Ingrid Kvangraven
00:05:40 Ingrid Kvangraven talks starts
00:06:18 Dependency Theory, outdated or out of Fashion?
00:07:40 What is Dependency Theory?
00:11:42 Dependency Theory: Why did it go out of fashion?
00:22:08 Redefining Dependency Theory
00:26:06 How can it explain global inequality? (South Korea)
00:29:36 Indonesia, Global Value Chains
00:32:40 Unfashionable but not outdated
00:33:42 Recent works
00:34:50 Conclusions
00:37:00 Q&A: Politics of knowledge production & Ideology
00:40:18 Q&A: Monopoly capitalism
00:45:50 Q&A: Dependency Theory & agency in the Global South?
00:48:00 Q&A: Dependency Theory, Indigenous people, Race and Gender
00:49:35 Q&A: Delinking from the global capitalist system (Samir Amin)
00:53:23 Q&A: Following progress as modernisation, and statist development program
00:56:26 Q&A: The ecological question and climate change
00:57:40 Q&A: Decolonization, African states & ISI: Import substitution industrialisation
01:01:40 Q&A: Is dependency theory useful to read contemporary patterns Chinese, Lat am, African relations?