Please find below details of the next seminar in the SOAS Department of Development Studies and Bloomsbury DTC for the Social Sciences seminar series. Please kindly share with colleagues and networks that may be interested. The seminar will be followed by a small reception.
Dr Jeff Webber (Queen Mary, University of London)
World Market, Patterns of Accumulation, and State Forms: The Political Economy of the Latin American Left
Tuesday, 30 January, 5-7PM
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
This paper provides a synoptic assessment of the political economy of the Left turn in Latin America in the twenty-first century. First, it charts the broad trajectory of Latin America’s political economy in relation to trends in the world market and the international division of labour between 1980 and 2017. Second, it shifts scales of analysis to characterise and periodise the specific patterns of accumulation in three countries of special importance within the wider Left turn: Brazil (2002-2017); Argentina (2003-2017); and Venezuela (1999-2017). Third, it characterises the particular changes in state form that accompanied the Left turn (and its present crisis) in each of these three cases, pointing to the structural limits of these experiments and the contradictions which are therefore coming to the fore as the great recession of 2008 makes its delayed landing on the shores of Latin America and the Right regains lost ground.
Jeffery R. Webber is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Webber sits on the editorial board of Historical Materialism. His most recent books are The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left (Haymarket, 2017).
All welcome, no need to book but please do arrive early to be sure of a seat. Details of all events in the seminar series are provided below. We look forward to seeing you there.
On behalf of the seminar organising committee,
Feyzi Ismail, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Nithya Natarajan, Jai Bhatia, Patrick Norberg, and Jo Tomkinson
SOAS DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES & UCL, BLOOMSBURY AND EAST LONDON DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP
Seminar Series, Term 2, 2017-18
Tuesdays, 5-7PM
Room: Various
All welcome, no need to book
* 30 January *
Dr Jeff Webber (Queen Mary, University of London)
World Market, Patterns of Accumulation, and State Forms: The Political Economy of the Latin American Left
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
* 6 February *
Dr Nick Srnicek (King’s College London)
The Crisis of Social Reproduction and the End of Work
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
* 20 February *
SPECIAL PANEL EVENT
Professor Mark Duffield (University of Bristol)
Dr Zoë Marriage (SOAS, University of London)
Professor Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex)
The Struggle for Development
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
* 27 February *
Professor Barbara Harriss-White (University of Oxford)
The Wild East: India’s Criminal Economy and Politics
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
* 6 March *
Dr Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City)
Black Revolution: The Global Politics of Black Radicalism
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
* 13 March *
Dr Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)
South-South Development Cooperation 3.0? Changes in the Decade Ahead
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
Further details are available on the SOAS Development Studies Department website: https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/events/devstudseminars/
