IKMAS Seminar Series No.6/2016

THE INSTITUTE OF MALAYSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (IKMAS) UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA cordially invites you to;

 

IKMAS SEMINAR SERIES NO.6/2016

Title            :     “Régulation Theory”, Diversity of Asian Capitalisms and the Malaysia-China relationship

Speaker     :     Dr Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

                        (Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia)

Date           :     26th May 2016 (Thursday)

Time          :      2.30 pm- 4.30 pm

Venue        :      IKMAS Seminar Room, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS)

 

Content

  1. A introduction to the French Theory de la Régulation;
  1. From Amable’s Diversity of Modern Capitalism (Oxford U. Press 2003) to Boyer, Uemura and Isogai’s, Diversity of Asian Capitalisms (Routledge 2012): Southeast Asia stays out of scope
  1. Malaysia-China Relationship: questioning the transformation of Malaysian capitalism

ABSTRACT

This research falls within the scope of a recent programme on the diversity of Asian capitalisms, framework of a global search in social sciences. The purpose is to understand the dynamics of the Asian economies from a comparative and historical standpoint for deducing their implications on the evolution of a global economy. Diversity of Capitalism’s programme emanates from the French theory of Régulation, a broad theoretical frame underlying old and new contributions for providing consistency to a political economy of Capitalisms; with enduring long-term relationships to history, political science, and sociology.  This presentation intends to introduce this 40 year-old theory to Malaysian scholars for nurturing a scientific discussion on the diversity of Asian capitalism through the Malaysian case. The speaker propose to take the current Malaysia-China rapprochement as a methodological object to deal with the definition and the characterization of transformation of Malaysian capitalism.

BIODATA

Dr. Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux has been leading the international 2-year MSH-B research Project (Asean versus UE); she teaches regularly in Vietnam (Master Degree, FTU-Rennes 2; JTD 2015, Danang) and is also supervising a PhD that compares the Chinese firm’s strategies in Malaysia and Cambodia. Her own PhD work was on the role of education in Malaysia’s development. The transformations of the Malaysia’s capitalism constitute her central field of research at the intersection of political economy and development studies. Her other major areas of research include the wage nexus i.e. the complex systemic articulation between wage, productivity, labour conditions, and education in an emerging economy embedded within long running policies of racial discrimination.

We look forward to your participation in this seminar. Confirmation of your attendance is greatly appreciated.  For further information please call 8921- 5839 or 8921-3782.