A transnational book: Dependency and development in Latin America
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A transnational book: Dependency and development in Latin America Alejandro Blanco 1
& Luiz
Carlos Jackson 2
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The objective of this paper is to discuss the conditions of production and circulation of the book to understand the success and impact of Dependency and development in Latin America. Firstly, we highlight in which sense this book belongs to a broader intellectual tradition, i.e., the interpretative essays on Brazilian reality. Secondly, we investigate the transnational institutional trajectories of its authors that enable them to develop the comparative analytical perspective of the book. Finally, we reconstruct the publishing history of the book. Keywords Latin American sociology . Essay . Dependency . Fernando Henrique Cardoso .
Enzo Faletto
Introduction The Brazilian sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931-) and the Chilean sociologist Enzo Faletto (1935–2003) published in 1969, by the publishing house Siglo XXI, the first edition of the book “Dependencia y desarrollo en América Latina. Ensayo de interpretación sociológica” (1969) / Dependency and development in Latin America: sociological interpretative essay. One year later the Brazilian publishing house Zahar released it in Brazil. They worked in this book in Chile during a particular political
* Alejandro Blanco [email protected] Luiz Carlos Jackson [email protected]
1
Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Universidade Nacional de Quilmes, Bernal, Argentina
2
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The American Sociologist
context. Whereas Brazil has gone through an authoritarian regime since 1964, Chile had a fruitful democratic environment in which the sociologists could freely work. The book was the result of their work with three important and transnational institutions based in Santiago de Chile which deeply fostered the Latin American Social Sciences: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC),1 The Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES),2 and Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO).3 The book focuses on a sociological investigation and analysis of the subordination dynamics played by the Latin American peripheral economies in relation to the central economies. This “subordination” is what they call “dependency” and it pervades the social and political condition of many Latin American countries. The book had a considerable importance in terms of the wideness of the circulation of its ideas. Accordingly, we need some information to understand the book’s circulation. Between 1969 and 2002, the publishing house Siglo XXI released thirty editions with up to nine hundred copies each. It means almost one copy per year. The book was also translated to Italian (1971), German (1976), French (1978) and English (1979) expressing a high level of internationalization and outperforming
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