From Dadabhai Naoroji’s ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’ to Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Under-Developed Africa’, there is a long tradition of scholarship that demonstrates the entangled nature of poverty in the Third World and wealth in the First. Indeed, the claims are stronger arguing that the wealth of European countries has been established on the basis of making much of the rest of the world poor. This is done through colonial processes which include the extraction of resources, the appropriation of land and labour, the taxation of individuals and communities and more. This webinar examines the importance of historical colonial relations to the establishment and continued reproduction of processes of global political economy, including colonially-instituted arrangements and relationships which persist into the present. It examines the colonial global economy as one which operates through racialized forms of exploitation, extraction and perverse inclusion, from the heights of international economic law, down to labour regimes in global supply chains and to climate change in the Global South.

Confirmed speakers:

Dr Paul Gilbert (Sussex Uni)

Dr Perla Polanco Leal (Sheffield Uni)

Professor Genevieve LaBaron (Sheffield Uni)

Dr Keston Perry (UWE Bristol)

This event is hosted by the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project which seeks to make available open access resources for the teaching of sociology. It emerges out of discussions about the need to broaden our understandings of the past – to be inclusive of colonial and imperial histories – in developing our understandings of the present. The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project is funded by the Sociological Review Foundation.

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