Political Science 2225E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dependency Theory, Import Substitution Industrialization, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
22 Dec 2020
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Dependency theory is the competing narrative to modernization theory. Developing societies encouraged not to buy from developed countries, but to product themselves. Developing countries were hot by economic crisis & because of globalization and economic policy choices. No goods & services; a shortage of good across developing countries: weren"t able to pay back loans that they borrowed = debt crisis & a high unemployment rate led to a search for an alternative paradigm. Economic reforms created social & ideational crisis in 1990s. Impasse period (both modernization, dependency theories were criticized as essentialist. Both going through crisis based on essentialism: idea that fits the meaning that something isn"t subject to interpretation, unchanging (is natural & fixed, essential: making a practice natural & unchanging. Criticisms came from a group of scholars called postcolonial theorists: came from literary scholarship, language specialists. Postcolonialism: theory of political perspective vs. post-colonialism: referring to the time period.
