DKU Talks: «Behind the nation-building policies: the birth of oil monopolies in late- and post-Soviet Kazakhstan»

DKU Talks:

«Behind the nation-building policies: the birth of oil monopolies in late- and post-Soviet Kazakhstan»

by PD Dr. Irina Morozova (University of Regensburg, Germany)

Date and time:

21.02.2024, Library, #405, Nazarbaev Ave.173, 16.30−18.00

DKU is pleased to invite all to the next DKU Talk on «Behind the nation-building policies: the birth of oil monopolies in late- and post-Soviet Kazakhstan». This talk will explore the correlation between nation-building policies and the rivalry between international companies and the Soviet and Kazakhstani elite for ownership of the oil fields in Western Kazakhstan in the 1980s and 1990s. In particular, the discussion will highlight the choice of resource development path that crystallised at the time of perestroika, analyse the role of the Kazakhstani republican and regional elite and international companies, and delve into the depths of the post-colonial debate on resource governance. Finally, it looks at the production of the poetry of Kazakh oil in the 1990s.

Speaker:

Irina Morozova is a historian of modern and contemporary Central Asia. After obtaining her PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2002, she continued her academic career in the Netherlands (Leiden University, University of Amsterdam) and Germany, where she had positions at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, Humboldt University in Berlin, Leibniz Institute for South and East-European studies in Regensburg and University of Gottingen. Currently she is a Privat Dozent at the University of Regensburg, conducting research and teaching at the Chair for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge. Her recent Habilitation project was on economic reform and public debate in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1980−90s.

Languages: English/Russian