Alexander L.Q. Chen (University of Copenhagen), Anil Shah (Universität Kassel), Xiao Alvin Yang (Universität Kassel)

This event is co-presented by International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel.

In a comparative spirit, Alexander Chen and Anil Shah will present the variegated approach to Chinese capitalism and the postcolonial approach to Indian capitalism respectively.

Chen theorizes capitalism as a historically and geographically contingent system that must be analyzed through a relational and processual lens. He posits that capitalism is a polymorphic system in which the logic of uneven development is structurally inscribed. More specifically, he argues that China’s current efforts to rebalance its institutional geography (during its so-called ‘new normal’) can be analyzed as a transitional process towards post-industrial development.

With:
Alexander L.Q. Chen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Anil Shah, Universität Kassel, Germany

Moderator: Xiao Alvin Yang, Universität Kassel, Germany/York University, Canada