Booklaunch: Capital and Knowledge in Asia
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ASiA (Asian Studies in Amsterdam) and ASSR (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research) cordially invite you the booklaunch of:
CAPITAL AND KNOWLEDGE IN ASIA.
Changing power relations
edited by Heidi Dahles and Otto van den Muijzenberg 1 OCTOBER 2003 | 17.00-18.00 hrs. | entrance free | Universiteit van Amsterdam | Heeren XVII Zaal, Oostindisch Huis | Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
The Research Project
Asia's economic 'boom' and recent economic crisis have drawn attention, once more, to the connections between global processes and local transformations. In unprecedented ways, global economic integration, widening communication networks, and government policies supportive of private enterprise are changing opportunities for accumulating wealth, status and power, and redefine the avenues of social mobility. This process is accompanied by the development, throughout provincial Asia, of highly sophisticated services enterprises (such as banking, insurance, accountancy, consultancy, law firms, and business schools), which provide access to resources required for a profitable connection to the wider world. The programme concentrates on the key role played by producer services in channelling the access to markets, capital, and commercial knowledge, and thus in shaping new business arenas and new patterns of social mobility. Geographically, it focuses on the provincial bridgeheads of this process: provincial cities that are centres of commercial and industrial activities. The emphasis on producer service enterprises at the provincial level, and their personnel, offers a unique vantage point from which to analyse changing linkages between provincial societies and the global economy, and the effects of these changes on social mobility.
The Book
"Capital and Knowledge in Asia; Changing power relations" is the result of an academic workshop organized by our research project in 2000. The volume consists of 13 papers grouped around "new economy and entrepreneurial elites", " new middle classes" and "producer services in transitional economies". This focus provides a novel approach to the study of social mobility and globalization in Asia. Taking the economic sector of "producer services" as a point of departure not only provides many opportunities for transnational comparison, it also links directly to the development of a distinct type of middle class. The trajectory of this development and the composition and background of this middle class tells us a lot about the dynamic of Asian societies in the past half century. The book is committed to a view "from below", meaning that it takes empirical data of local developments as a starting point but at the same time links this explicitly to fundamental questions of developments that are taking place around the globe. This local-global combination contributes significantly to the social science knowledge on Asia.
For an eBook sample, please follow this link: http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/?isbn=0203711785
The Program
- Opening by prof M. Rutten, Director of AsiA
- AV presentation by dr S. Visscher on the research program: Brokers of Capital and Knowledge; producer services and social mobility in provincial Asia, 1960-2000
- Introduction of the book by prof O. van den Muijzenberg
- Reaction to the book by prof H. van der Wüsten
- Presentation of the book by dr S. Noorda, Chairman of the University Board, to the first batch of ASiA MA students
- Closing remarks by prof Rutten
- Drinks
See for more information: Brokers of Capital and Knowledge site: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/asia/brokers/
or ASiA: http://go.to/asianstudies
Published on 01 October 2003 by RISQ
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