Capitalism as a Mode of Colonizing the Future, Prof. Timothy Mitchell: MISR Conversation 1

The Makerere Institute of Social Research hosted this seminar on zoom. Professor Timothy Mitchell teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include Colonising Egypt; Rule of Experts; and Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil.

[@mmendi1114]

Thank you

[@ramseypietronasser2]

Great lecture

[@sandeepvk]

Dr Timothy Mitchell has presented a very novel concept of Oil producing countries being more autocratic in nature and coal producing nations being more democratic, however I am trying to wrap my head around some peculiar cases here. Norway is a major oil producing nation yet one can hardly say it is not democratic, on the other hand China is mostly reliant on coal yet it is hardly a democracy. How do you reconcile this lacuna ?

[@knopeace]

Can we link the two papers that Prof Mitchel shared please

[@ianoakseer]

Is there a way to access the mentioned papers of Professor Mitchel??