Lecture: "The Political Economy of Knowledge Production: Knowledge Economy as a Tool for Authoritarian Governance"

Featuring Behrooz Morvaridi, professor of international development studies and director of the Rotary Peace Centre, University of Bradford. The lecture is based on a paper co-written with Caroline Hughes, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, and will explore the effectiveness of knowledge economy aspirations in disarming critics, channeling societal aspirations into particular types of socio-economic activity and defusing demands for political change in Iran, Turkey and Hong Kong.

All are welcome.

Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.