Paper short abstract:

I propose a reflection on the differential agendas and practices that interrelated dependency and decolonialism in the light of the reception in Europe, trying to show the invisibilisation processes and their impact in academic freedom.

Paper long abstract:

Among the currents of thought with a strong Latin American component that have had the greatest global circulation are the theories of dependency in the 1960s and 1970s and, a few decades later, the current "decolonial" critique. Both currents of thought had and still have an impact in Europe, although little is known about the practices and ideas they promoted. In the 1970s, dependency focused on south-north structural asymmetries in global capitalism and came directly to Europe from Latin America (especially Chile), accompanying the narrative of Third World, solidarity and anti-imperialist movements. Currently, the "decolonial/postcolonial" critique is received through some institutionally grounded voices in the US and England and has focused on an agenda that includes the question of subaltern voices, positionality, intertwined gender, ethnic and religious asymmetries. Nevertheless, voices from Latin America (and other regions of the so-called global South) are mostly invisible in the current European academic reception of decolonial/ poscolonial debates. I propose a reflection on the differential agendas and practices that interrelated dependency and decolonialism in the light of the reception in Europe, trying to show the invisibilisation processes and their impact in academic freedom.