Event Archive for October 2023

IKD seminar series: When is Industry Sustainable? New Perspectives on Sustainable Industrial Policies and Development

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MS Teams

Industrial policy is in the news again across the world especially in the context of environmental concerns and the sustainability of such efforts by the state and other actors. What would such an industrial policy look like? How should different country experiences be accommodated? Do the old forms of manufacturing-led industrial policy continue to dominate? Are we in a multilateral era of industrial policy design and pressures of sustainability that requires new institutional or evolutionary perspectives? 

IKD seminar series: Digital Silk Road - Digital Roads of Kazakhstan: Technological Lock-ins and Local Agency

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MS Teams

Much of the discourse on US-China tech decoupling has centered on trade and geostrategic analysis, while often overlooking ground-level realities of countries in the Global South, their positioning within the global technological landscape, and their strategic digital choices. To bridge this gap, in this presentation we discuss how Kazakhstan is (re)shaping its own digital eco-system while balancing historical legacies and challenging geopolitical constraints.

IKD seminar series: Quo Vadis Development Studies? Changing dynamics in a contested field

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Online via Microsoft Teams

Abstract

The field of Development Studies has always been contested by different visions ranging from those that conceive it as project of the global North developing the South to those that view it as a project of Southern emancipation from colonial subordination and a means to structural transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic once again motivated calls for the field of development studies to be recast.

Drawing from recent publications below, the seminar explores the role of critical development policies, and emergent theoretical paradigms.

IKD Seminar Series: Beyond Climate Fixes: From Public Controversy to System Change

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Held of MS Teams

In the Global North, governments have made strong commitments to reduce GHG emissions.  Yet such reductions have been slow or patchy.  Why? 

Power, Urgency and Legitimacy: Reimagining African Women in Science

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Location: Online MS Teams

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