I wrote an essay for the INET blog on the problems with how colonialism & imperialism in understood in the Economics discipline (exemplified by Nievas and Piketty’s recent paper). Have a read and see what you think.
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Carolina Alves and I have recently launced a new blog series on Decolonising Economics on the Developing Economics blog. Have a look at our introduction and the contributions thus far here.
Along with Florence Dafe, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Iván Weigandi, I’ve written a blog post for the Africa Finance Forum Blog, run by the Making Finance Work for Africa project. In the piece, we draw on our recent research to discuss the potential (and risks) of local-currency debt as vehicles for financing of structural transformation on the continet.
I was recently on a plenary sponsored by the Development Studies Association (DSA) in Manchester with Kamna Patel, Sara Stevano and Indrajit Roy, where we were each asked to answer the above question. Along with the organizers, Pritish Behuria and Tom Goodfellow, we have now published the plenary discussion on the DSA blog:
- Introduction (Pritish Behuria and Tom Goodfellow)
- The need for South-centred theorisation in Development Studies by Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, King’s College, London.
- Looking inside the ‘black box’ of Development Studies by Kamna Patel, UCL
- Centring social reproduction in the study of development by Sara Stevano, SOAS University of London
- Reimagining the politics of development /studies by Indrajit Roy, University of York
What does it mean to decolonize teaching? This is one of the many questions we’re grappling with in Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ). Along with Ariane Agunsoye and Michelle Groenewald, I recently put down some thoughts in a two-part blog:
- Decolonising Economics Teaching, Part 1: Some thoughts on the curriculum, and
- Decolonising Economics Teaching, Part 1: Some thoughts on pedagogy
It’s the start of a new blog series by the great D-Econ blog team called Decolonising Economics: Teaching and Pedagogy.
I recently wrote an essay about Samir Amin for the popular magainze, Aeon. In it, I go through what I think are major lessons from Samir Amin that can help us understand imperialism, Eurocentrism, uneven development, and ideology better. I contrast his structural and materialist analysis of capitalism and imperialism with the culturalist views of Edward Said, as Said has received much more attention in both academia and in the public sphere. Read the essay here.
Read a Spanish translation of the article here (Letras Libres) and a Persian translation here.
Along with my colleaborator Surbhi Kesar I recently wrote a blog post for Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) on the ongoing industrial dispute in UK higher education, linking it the to wider structural problems of marketisation, privatisation, commodification, and decolonisation.
I summarize my recent research with Jacob Assa on how changes to how GDP is measured has uneven impacts on developing vs. developed countries for The Conversation.
I wrote an essay on global debt inequalities with Jayati Ghosh for Progressive International. Read the full essay here. The essay is part of the series “A Vision of Debt Justice” of Progressive International’s Debt Justice Blueprint.
I wrote a blog post for Developing Economics with Carolina Alves and Daniela Gabor on some of the revisionist takes on the consequences of the Washington Consensus. Check it out.
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