Rethinking the Developmental State:
Five Panels at the Social Science History Conference
Toronto, 2024

Organized in collaboration with Macabe Keliher

Panel 1: The Roots of a Developmental State in China and Taiwan

Chair: Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University of London

  • Political Legitimacy in Post-Imperial China: Debt and Development • Stacie Kent, Boston College

  • Developmental State’s Origins in Northeast China: Institutions, Geopolitics and Early-Late Development, 1918-1931 • Mingke Ma, University of Oxford

  • The Chinese Roots of Taiwan's Development State • Megan Greene, University of Kansas

Panel 2: Taiwan Agriculture

Chair: Ariel Ron, Southern Methodist University

  • The Agricultural Roots of Industrialization in Rural Taiwan, 1950-1960 • Emily Hill, Queens University

  • Feeding Taiwan’s Transition to the Carbon Economy: Polyethylene and the Transformation of Taiwan’s Agricultural and Industrial Eco-System, 1965-1978 • Ying Jia Tan, Wesleyan

  • Crisis and Contingency in the Formation of the Taiwan Developmental State • Christopher Isett, University of Minnesota

Panel 3: Latin America and East Asia

Chair: Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University of London

  • Economic Warfare and the Roots of Developmentalism in China and Taiwan • Macabe Keliher, Southern Methodist University

  • Rubber, Soybeans, and Developmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon • Matthew Abel, Southern Methodist University

  • From Developmentalism to Neoliberalism: Beach Tourism, Cancún, and the Mexican State • Carlos Hernandez, Wayne State

Panel 4: North America

Chair: Macabe Keliher, Southern Methodist University

  • Public Debt for Development? The Civil War Debt and the Shaping of the U.S. Developmental State • Nicolas Barreyre, EHESS

  • Uneven Development, Mining, and Money in the Nineteenth-Century United States • Emma Teitelman, McGill University

  • Theorizing Canada as a Challenge to the American Developmental State: From John Rae to Jacob Viner • Elsbeth Heaman, McGill University

Panel 5: Rethinking the Developmental State Roundtable

Chair: Stacie Kent, Boston College

  • East Asia • Macabe Keliher, Southern Methodist University

  • Transnational linkages • Stefan Link, Dartmouth

  • The United States as a Developing Nation: The Myth of the Weak American State vis-à-vis Capital • Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University of London.

  • Latin America • Carlos Hernandez, Wayne State