Modern writings on Neo-Colonialism/Dependency theory

[bailey_187]

Lots of the texts on this subject seem to be from the 1960s and 1970s.

Is there any modern writings on this?

How does it explain the rise of India and Brazil today?

[kalu]

Andre Gunder Frank has written some recent stuff on the rise of East Asian economies. Hell, even Immanuel Wallerstein has updated his work (in light of the US's "crash landing" in Southwest Asia). Still, dependency theory has kind of been overtaken by stuff like development critique (James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta), at least in the field of Anthropology. Dunno about Economics. You should check out the recent work on development that has built on dependency theory while also producing a salient conceptual critique of the categories of western modernity, including what we lump under "capitalism", development and so on (as previously mentioned, see Ferugson, also Arturo Escobar is huge, he uses a bit of Samir Amin in Encountering Development).