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Theorist and political economist Samir Amin passed away over the weekend. Samir Amin's criticism of the theory of development is crucial for demystifying the typical view of economics as a science pointing us to its real ideological origins. An anti-imperialist and Marxist throughout his life Samir Amin leaves behind an important legacy and a voice for the global periphery, too often ignored by Eurocentric theorists.

In this talk, Amin addresses the attempt to build a different path of decolonization and economic development for the countries of the periphery that rejected the logic of capital accumulation through the Bandung Conference.

-David Griscom

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Samir Amin: The Deployment of the Bandung Project (1955-1970), SOAS, University of London

This lecture was given at SOAS, University of London on 25 April 2013 as part of the series "Samir Amin: Six Decades of Development Debate". Professor Samir Amin is giving three seminars at SOAS on his theoretical contribution to Development Studies and his experience in advising development policies in the Global South. This is the second of these seminars. Professor Samir Amin is Director of the Third World Forum (Dakar, Senegal) and a leading figure of World Social Forum that met this year in Tunis. He lives between Dakar, Paris and Cairo. He is one of the most prominent theorists of the political economy of development and global accumulation as well as one of the best-known analysts of Arab and African economies. He is the author of several seminal books including: Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism Maldevelopment: Anatomy of a Global Failure The People's Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution You can find out more about studying development studies at SOAS, University of London at http://www.soas.ac.uk/development/