Call for Chapter Contributions - Samir Amin and Beyond: Development, Dependence and Delinking in the Contemporary World

Maria Dyveke Styve Announcement
Subject Fields
Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Contemporary History, Economic History / Studies, World History / Studies, Social Sciences

 

Call for Chapter Contributions

 

Samir Amin and Beyond: Development, Dependence and Delinking in the Contemporary World

 

Editors: Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe), Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (University of York), Maria Dyveke Styve (University of Bergen).

This edited volume has three goals. Firstly, we wish to highlight and reflect on Samir Amin’s core contributions to economic and political thought throughout his prolific academic life.

Second, we wish to interrogate contemporary forms of subordination and dependency in the global economy, taking the work of the late Samir Amin as an intellectual starting point. How have structural conditions changed within the global economy, for instance with increasing financialisation and the rise of China? Can Amin's contribution to dependency theory and his notion of delinking be fruitfully rethought within the context of financialisation? What are alternative and new forms of dependency theory that have emerged since its initial inception? Do(es) dependency theory(ies) still have any relevance for understanding the global economy? How have other concepts pioneered by Amin, such as Eurocentrism, helped advance our understanding of economic, political and social relations?  

Finally, and this is perhaps the most important original contribution of this volume, we wish to explore ways in which scholars from younger generations have picked up Amin’s ideas and adapted them in their own work. How have his ideas been employed to make sense of contemporary economic and political phenomena? How have his ideas been expanded upon, further developed, and critiqued? How have his ideas opened up certain avenues of research within different disciplines?

Feel free to reach out to the editors with any questions. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted to all three editors by e-mail.

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe): urcik@arts.uz.ac.zw  

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (University of York): ingrid.kvangraven@york.ac.uk

Maria Dyveke Styve (University of Bergen): maria.styve@uib.no

 

Final chapter length: 6 000 to 8 000 words.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 1st, 2019.

Deadline for final chapters: July 31st, 2019.

 

Contact Email
maria.styve@uib.no