The 19 eighties was the decade when the idea that caribbean, latin american and especially african countries were cor incompetent and perpetually impoverished. That period of the debt crisis also was really important, because it was this moment that obscure the very history that we've been discussing. In doing so, turned cause and effect on its head, emphasizing this pathologized third world as the cause of its own problems.
Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle.
Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/
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