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Original Articles

The Eurocentrism of dependency theory and the question of ‘authenticity’: a view from Turkey

(Associate Professor of Sociology)
Pages 951-961 | Published online: 25 Aug 2010

Notes

  • See, for example, Arturo Escobar, ‘Imagining a post-development era? Critical thought, development and social movements’, Social Text, 31/32, 1992, pp 20–56; Frans Schuurman, (ed), Beyond the Impasse: New Directions in Development Theory, London: Zed Press, 1993; and Colin Leys, The Rise and Fall of Development Theory, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
  • See, for example, Dean Tibbs, ‘Modernization theory and the comparative study of socities: a critical perspective’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 15, 1973, pp 199–06.
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  • Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1984; and Pauline Marie Rosenau, Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
  • For prominent examples of this literature, see Wolfgang Sachs, (ed), The Development Dictionary, London: Zed Press, 1992.
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  • On Russian-dominated Asia, see H C D'Encausse & S Schräm, Marxism and Asia, London: Allen Lane, 1969. On the Indian subcontinent, see Bipan Chandra, ‘Colonial India: British versus Indian views of development’, Review, 14(1), 1991, pp 81–67. On Eastern Europe and the Middle East, see Dilek Barlas, Etatism and Diplomacy in Turkey: Economic and Foreign Policy Strategies in an Uncertain World, 1929–1939, Lcidan: EJ Brill, 1998.
  • See Barlas, Etatism and Diplomacy in Turkey.
  • This account draws on Haldun Gülalp, ‘Nationalism, statism, and the Turkish revolution: an early “dependency” theory’, Review of Middle East Studies, 4, 1988, pp 69–85.
  • Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Inkilap ve Kadro, Ankara: Bilgi, 1932, p 44.
  • Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
  • Ibid, pp 34–35.
  • Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, p 171.
  • James Petras, ‘The retreat of the intellectuals’, Socialism and Democracy, 12, 1991, pp 5–29.
  • Ian Roxborough, Theories of Underdevelopment, London: Macmillan, 1979.
  • André Gunder Frank, ‘The development of underdevelopment’, in Frank, Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969.
  • Colin Leys, ‘Underdevelopment and dependency: critical notes’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 7(1), 1977, pp 92–107.
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  • Haldun Gülalp, ‘Debate on capitalism and development: the theories of Samir Amin and Bill Warren’, Capital & Class, 28, 1986, pp 139–159.
  • Immanuel Wallerstein, ‘Crisis as transition’ in S Amin, G Arrighi A G Frank & I Wallerstein, Dynamics of Global Crisis, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1982.
  • Henry Bernstein & H Nicholas, ‘Pessimism of the intellect, pessimism of the will? A response to Gunder Frank’, Development and Change, 15(2), 1983.
  • André Gunder Frank, ‘A theoretical introduction to 5000 years of world system history’, Review, 13(2), 1990, pp 155–248.
  • Immanuel Wallerstein, ‘The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system: concepts for comparative analysis’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 16, 1974, pp 387–415.
  • See, for example, Robert Brenner, ‘On the origins of capitalist development: a critique of neo-Smithian Marxism’, New Left Review, 104, 1977, pp 26–92; and Ernesto Laclau, Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory, London: Verso, 1977.
  • James Petras, & Howard Brill, ‘The tyranny of globalism’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 15(4), 1985; and Haldun Gülalp, ‘Dependency and world-system theories: varying political implications’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 17(2), 1987, pp 131–139.
  • James Mittelman (ed), Globalization: Critical Perspectives, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996.
  • Nigel Harris, The End of the Third World, London: I B Tauris, 1986.
  • David Booth, ‘Marxism and development sociology: interpreting the impasse’, World Development, 13(7), 1985, pp 761–787; and Leslie Sklair, ‘Transcending the impasse: metatheory, theory, and empirical research in the sociology of development and underdevelopment’, World Development, 16, 1988.
  • Escober, ‘Imagining a post-development era?’.
  • Immanuel Wallerstein, Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms, New York: Blackwell, 1991.
  • Pieterse, ‘Dilemmas of development discourse’, p 15.
  • Roxborough, Theories of Underdevelopment.
  • Henry Bernstein, ‘Sociology of underdevelopment versus sociology of development?’, in David Lehmann (ed), Development Theory: Four Critical Studies, London: Frank Cass, 1979.
  • Haldun Gülalp, ‘Globalizing postmodernism: Islamist and Western social theory’, Economy and Society, 26(3), 1997.
  • Haldun Gülalp, ‘The crisis of Westernization in Turkey: Islamism versus nationalism’, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences, 8(2), 1995, pp 175–182.
  • The following account draws on Gülalp, ‘Globalizing postmodernism’; and Haldun Gülalp, ‘Modernization policies and Islamist politics in Turkey’, in Sibel Bozdoǧgan & Reşat Kasaba (eds), Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1997.
  • Escobar, ‘Imagining a post-development era?’, pp 22–23.
  • Ali Bulaç, Din ve Moderniun, Istanbul: Endiiliis Yayinlari, 1991.
  • Gyan Prakash, ‘Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism’, American Historical Review, 99(5), 1994, pp 1475–1490.
  • Ismet Özel, Üç Mesele: Teknik, Medeniyet ve Yabancilaşma, Istanbul: Çidam Yayinlari, 1992, p 83.
  • Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?, London: Zed Books, 1986.
  • Escobar, ‘Imagining a post-development era?’, p 27.
  • Ahmet Tabakoǧlu, “Islam Iktisadi Açisindan “Kalkinma“ ‘, in Ahmet Tabakoǧlu & Ismail Kurt (eds), Iktisadi Kalkinma ve Islam, Istanbul: Islami Ilimler Arajtirma Vakfi Yayinlari, 1987, p 244.
  • Beşir Hamitoǧullari, ‘Iktisadi Vahşi Büyümenin Bunalimlari ve Islam Kalkinma Modelinin Vaadettikleri’, in Tabakoǧlu & Kurt, Iktisadi Kalkinma ve Islam, pp 10–12.
  • Ersin Gürdoǧan, Teknolojinin ötesi, Istanbul: Iz Yayincilik, 1991, pp 16–17, 20.
  • Ibid, pp 25–26.
  • Ibid, pp 154, 158.
  • Maria Mies, ‘Gender and global capitalism’, in Leslie Sklair (ed), Capitalism and Development, London: Routledge, 1994, p 120.
  • Gürdoǧan, Teknolojinin Ötesi, pp 23, 31.
  • Contemporary Sociology, 26(3) 1997.
  • Ayşe Öncü, ‘Crossing borders into Turkish sociology with Gunder Frank and Michel Foucault’, Contemporary Sociology, 26(3), 1997, pp 267–270; and Maria Celia Paoli, ‘European theory in Brazilian sociology’, Contemporary Sociology, 26(3), 1997, pp 296–301.
  • Elizabeth Jelin, ‘Don't cry for me, Argentina, or the globalization of Peronism’, Contemporary Sociology, 26(3), 1997, p 302.
  • Scott Lash, Sociology of Postmodernism, London: Routledge, 1990.
  • Samin Amin, Unequal Development, London: Harvester Press, 1976.
  • Barry Smart, ‘Modernity, postmodernity and the present’, in Bryan S Turner (ed), Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity, London: Sage Publications, 1990, p 27.

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