DKU Talks:
"Behind the politics of state-building: the birth of oil monopolies in late and post-Soviet Kazakhstan"
Dr. Irina Morozova PhD (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Date and time:
21.02.2024, Library, No. 405, 173 Nazarbayev Ave, 16.30-18.00
DKU is pleased to invite everyone to the DKU Talk on "Behind the Politics of State Building: the Birth of Oil Monopolies in Late and Post-Soviet Kazakhstan". This talk will examine the relationship between the politics of state-building and the rivalry between international companies and the Soviet and Kazakh elite over the ownership of oil fields in Western Kazakhstan in the 1980s and 1990s. In particular, we will talk about the resource development choices that crystallized during perestroika, analyze the role of Kazakhstani republican and regional elites and international companies, and explore the depths of postcolonial discourse on resource management. Finally, in this talk we will discuss the poetry around Kazakhstani oil in the 1990s.
Speaker:
Irina Morozova is a historian of modern and contemporary Central Asia. After receiving 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 held positions at the German Institute for Global and Regional Studies in Hamburg, Humboldt University in Berlin, the Leibniz Institute for Southern and Eastern European Studies in Regensburg, and the University of Göttingen. She is currently a Privat Associate Professor at the University of Regensburg, conducting research and teaching in the Department of Transregional Cultures of Knowledge. Her recent habilitation project focused on economic reforms and public debates in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1980s-90s.
Working languages:
English / Russian
