- Speaker
- Date
- Thursday 5 Sep 2019, 16:00 - 17:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 3.14
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On 5 September, Assistant Professor Burak Gürel of Koç University in Turkey will give a special seminar at the International Institute of Social Studies on the collectivist legacy of Chinese agriculture between 1978 and 2005.
In the seminar, Gürel will argue that the construction of a robust agricultural infrastructure during the period enabled later governments to significantly reduce their infrastructural spending.
He will further show that the collectivist economic organization remained in tact in to the beginning of this century, thus arguing that Chinese agriculture acquired a semi-collective/semi-private character in which collective organizations established during the previous decades played key developmental roles.
- More information
This seminar is organized by the Political Ecology research group.