{"id":486,"date":"2024-11-05T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/?p=486"},"modified":"2024-11-05T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:05:48","slug":"upcoming-dr-balihar-sanghera-forum-for-uzbek-and-silk-road-studies-virtual-seminar-on-3-dec-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/upcoming-dr-balihar-sanghera-forum-for-uzbek-and-silk-road-studies-virtual-seminar-on-3-dec-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming: Dr Balihar Sanghera \u2013 Forum for Uzbek and Silk Road Studies Virtual Seminar on 3 Dec 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join our next virtual seminar \u2013\u00a0<strong><em>Forum for Uzbek and Silk Road Studies Virtual Seminars<\/em><\/strong>. The speaker is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/school-of-social-sciences\/people\/1562\/sanghera-balihar\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/school-of-social-sciences\/people\/1562\/sanghera-balihar\">Dr Balihar Sanghera<\/a>\u00a0from the University of Kent, with a presentation titled\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cThe digital economy in Kazakhstan: neofeudalism, rentierism, and precarity\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: The paper examines how digital platforms can create economic dispossession and precarity for gig workers and retail merchants. Owners of platforms, or \u2018digital landowners\u2019, often dominate their sectors, shaping the conditions of labour and exchanges of goods and services. Lacking alternatives, gig workers and retail merchants have little choice but to submit to the demands of platform companies. Arguably, platforms can be characterised as \u2018virtual land\u2019 that enables owners to extract rent from users by mere virtue of having property rights to online sites. Like feudal lords, they receive unearned income, contributing little to nothing to wealth creation. The paper will argue that digital platforms have neofeudal features, in which platform owners extract rent and impose exacting conditions of work and services on platform users. The study is based on 34 qualitative interviews with gig workers and retail merchants in Astana, Kazakhstan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 3, 12:00PM London time \/ 17:00PM Tashkent time<\/strong><br><strong>Registration link:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZYrfuurpjMpGtGmHg9NQ91O0BawQKc_JkMu\"> https:\/\/wiut.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e868d86a7ec9c1d101f8245ba&amp;id=fe8c3e4cac&amp;e=9a2261749e<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join our next virtual seminar \u2013\u00a0Forum for Uzbek and Silk Road Studies Virtual Seminars. The speaker is\u00a0Dr Balihar Sanghera\u00a0from the University of Kent, with a presentation titled\u00a0\u201cThe digital economy in Kazakhstan: neofeudalism, rentierism, and precarity\u201d. Abstract: The paper examines how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":871,"featured_media":349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/wefusrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}