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What’s wrong with Development Studies and how can we change it? (blog)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date March 24, 2023
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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

Download the full set of conference responses.

Blog Decolonizing Economics Teaching

Two blog posts on decolonizing teaching

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date May 13, 2022
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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:

It’s the start of a new blog series by the great D-Econ blog team called Decolonising Economics: Teaching and Pedagogy.

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Beyond Eurocentrism (essay)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date April 20, 2022
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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).

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Galileo and neoliberal academia: a critical assessment of UK higher education (blog post)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date March 12, 2022
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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.

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GDP numbers are not what they seem (article for the Conversation)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date June 10, 2021
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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.

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No More Global Debt Inequalities (blog post)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date April 22, 2021
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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.

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The Washington Counterfactual: don’t believe the Washington Consensus resurrection (blog post)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date April 10, 2021

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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Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’? (blog post)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date January 20, 2021
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Happy to contribute to the interesting initiative The Economics Observatory with the blog post “#economicsfest: Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’?” In it, Carolina Alves and I reflect on the two roundtable discussions that D-Econ curated at the Bristol Festival of Economics last year (see here). We discuss historical efforts to decolonise economics, what we mean by the ‘colonisation’ of economics, the impact of colonisation on the discipline, and decolonisation of both teaching and research.

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An Anti-Imperialist Call for Debt Justice (Statement)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date September 3, 2020
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As a member of the Debt Justice Working Group of Progressive International, I recently published this statement on what I find essential for any progressive international fight for debt justice: An Anti-Imperialist Call for Debt Justice.

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Reclaiming Economics After Covid-19 (new blog post)

Post author By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Post date August 17, 2020
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“The pandemic has revealed the poverty of our economic theory. Rupture with the old paradigm is the only route to recovery.”

Read my piece with Carolina Alves on Progressive International’s blog.