Dependence and Freedom

Martín Arboleda is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. He obtained his PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research explores the political economy of globalized extraction, as well as the political and intellectual history of Latin American theories of development and underdevelopment. His fields of interest include global political economy, critical social theory, and development studies. He is the author of the book Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism (Verso Books, 2020), as well as of Gobernar la utopía: sobre la planificación y el poder popular (Caja Negra Editora, 2021). His research has been published in several scholarly journals as well as in non-academic outlets.