Eduardo Gudynas has recently criticised David Harvey and his research team in Ecuador for ‘simpatico [sympathetic, nice or friendly] colonialism’ (Spanish/English).
The research team (Estefanía Martínez, Verónica Morales, Carla Simbaña, Japhy Wilson, Nora Fernández, Thomas Purcell and Jeremy Rayner) respond (Spanish/English);
An earlier English translation of the response can be found at My Desiring Machines.
Updated 16 October 2015 with links to translations.
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We have now translated the original piece by Gudynas on the ENTITLE network’s blog: http://entitleblog.org/2015/10/15/friendly-colonialism-and-the-harvey-fashion/
Reblogged this on Progressive Geographies and commented:
I’ve updated this post with links to a translation of the Gudynas piece and the official translation of the response.
ridicoulous. Gudynas just itinerates the culturalist ‘critique’ against the ‘north’ by fetishizing otherness. And by the way: it’s not Harveys fault to be cited by the ‘wrong’ persons or for ‘wrong’ purposes (who judges this by the way?)
first critiques:
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JM Alier – my own comment: “El año 2015 es pues el año del triunfo intelectual del post-extractivismo, y los aprendices de Harvey no se han enterado”.
See: http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=204595
Possibly true, but it is not one scholar against the other. And Harvey is now 79!
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