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Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory

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  • Felipe Antunes de Oliveira
  • Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

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Whereas the field of International Political Economy (IPE) included a diversity of voices at its outset, histories of the field tend to marginalize certain contributions - particularly those from the Global South. The endeavor to decolonize IPE offers an opportunity to look back at IPE’s history, re-discover the marginalized voices, and imagine new possible futures. This article engages with contemporary calls to decolonize IPE and proposes an alternative route to do so by recovering dependency theory. We argue that dependency theory can be conceptualized as a peripheral IPE perspective that was committed to thinking from the Global South and to producing politically engaged scholarship just as the field was being formed. The article elaborates on the key tenets of dependency theory, contrasting it with mainstream IPE, and putting it in dialogue with decolonial approaches. To demonstrate the simultaneous non-Eurocentric, anti-colonial, and policy-oriented potential of dependency theory, we recover a foundational moment that disciplinary histories of IPE have forgotten: the 1972 Dakar conference, organized by Samir Amin, with the participation of leading Latin American and African dependency scholars.

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  • Felipe Antunes de Oliveira & Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, 2023. "Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(5), pages 1676-1700, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:30:y:2023:i:5:p:1676-1700
    DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2169322
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