The Political Economy of Central Asia: Industry and Production
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm
- Venue
- Main Building
- Room
- CG03
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
Examining the political economy of industrialisation in Central Asia, with particular attention to state intervention, foreign capital, and the changing organisation of production.
The session explores how industrial policies shape the region's integration into global production networks, discussing whether new investments and industrial strategies enable structural transformation or reproduce existing inequalities and dependencies.
The Political Economy of Central Asia Seminar Series
Central Asia is undergoing significant political-economic transformations, shaped by shifting geopolitical relationships, changing patterns of production and investment, energy transitions, and the movement of people and capital. Yet the regions' political economy is often examined primarily through the lenses of great-power competition, resource dependence, and geopolitical rivalry, leaving less room for critical perspectives on the social relations, institutions, and everyday practices that underpin these transformations.
The Political Economy of Central Asia is a five-part thematic seminar series bringing together scholars working on the region to explore these dynamics through critical political economy perspectives. The series aims to foster dialogue across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, connecting research on Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang/East Turkestan and beyond) to broader debates in international political economy, development studies, and critical social sciences.
About the speakers
Franco Galdini is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham. His research draws on Marxist political economy to examine industrialisation, capitalist accumulation, class relations and uneven development in Uzbekistan and the former Soviet Union.
Frank Maracchione is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS University of London. His research examines the political economy of Global China and Central Asia, focusing on economic knowledge, green production and local agency through a social reproduction approach.
Meeting details
This seminar will take place in person and online via Microsoft Teams.
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