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SUMMARY:Uneven and Combined (State) Capitalism
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DESCRIPTION:Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon\, Maastricht University\n\nThis we
 binar contributes to the development of state capitalism as a reflexivel
 y critical project focusing on the morphology of present-day capitalism\
 , and particularly on the changing role of the state. We bring analytica
 l clarity to state capitalism studies by offering a rigorous definition 
 of its object of investigation\, and by demonstrating how the category s
 tate capitalism can be productively construed as a means of problematisi
 ng the current aggregate expansion of the state’s role as promoter\, sup
 ervisor\, and owner of capital across the world economy. Noting some of 
 the geographical shortcomings of the field\, we outline an alternative r
 esearch agenda – uneven and combined state capitalist development – whic
 h aims at spatialising the study of state capitalism and revitalising sy
 stemic explanations of the phenomenon. We then offer a geographic recons
 truction of the current advent of state capitalism. We identify the dete
 rminate historical-geographical capitalist transformations which underpi
 n contemporary state capitalism. Such processes include: the acceleratin
 g unfolding of the new international division of labour\; technological 
 modernization and industrial upgrading culminating in the Fourth Industr
 ial Revolution\; an unprecedented concentration and centralisation of ca
 pital\; and a secular shift in the centre of gravity of the global econo
 my from the North Atlantic to the Pacific rim. The political mediation o
 f these processes results in new geographies of intervention\, which dev
 elop in combinatorial and cumulative forms\, producing further state cap
 italist modalities. This is a particularly potent dynamic in contemporar
 y state capitalism\, and its tendency to develop in a spiral that both s
 hapes and is shaped by world capitalist development. \n \nRegister here:
  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtf-Gprz0oGtZqHgIZoB3vjRJNfl4VFfkW
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