Call for papers - International Congress of Development Studies: Challenges of Development Studies
Posted October 13th, 2011 by karenbahr
Organized by the newly founded Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES), which aims to facilite interdisciplinary study.
This Congress will be will a space for reflection and a meeting-place for researchers in Development Studies. It will also provide an open forum for researchers from other disciplines wanting to better familiarize themselves with Development Studies in Spain, Europe and Developing Countries –especially Latin America.
We are currently accepting papers that analyze any problem around Development Studies within any of the following parallalel sesssions:
A: Political economy of development
B: Sustainable development
C: Population and development
D: Politics, civil society, and development
E: Education for development
F: Ethno- and post-development
Papers must be submitted before 20 December, 2011, to the following address: catedracoiba@unican.es.
Note that papers proposals must be sent in PDF format and must include: (1) the paper’s title; (2) name(s) of author(s); (3) an abstract of no more than 300 words; and (4) the parallel session in which the paper would be included.
Paper proposals will be evaluated by an expert using academic quality criteria (pertinence of research, clarity of hypotheses, and/or objective of the investigation and quality of the analysis method).
Results of the selection process will be announced on 30 January, 2012.
The descriptors of the parallel sessions are listed below:
Session A: Political economy of development
The current economic and financial crisis is transforming the global context of development processes, as well as their limits for both developed and developing countries. Besides changing the map of world economic power, this crisis feeds the debates on the paradigms and national models of development and on the system of international architecture and governance. Proposals analysing this new context (from a political economy approach) along with its implications for development – development models, processes and policies and proposals of global governance– are welcome. Communications emphasizing public policy issues and/or including the international dimension (external economic relations and flows) are strongly encouraged.
Session B: Sustainable development
We encourage papers on the definition of the concept and indicators of sustainable development; instruments in national policies for sustainable development (environmental taxes, tradeable emissions permits, standards, planning; international agreements for sustainable development); criteria for the definition and assessment of policies and strategies for sustainable development (efficiency, effectiveness and distribution); distributional international aspects and
sustainable development (definition of strategies and facilitating instruments); negative and positive interactions of policies and instruments for sustainable development; sustainable development and technological innovation; adaptation
and mitigation to climate change and sustainable development; social preferences on sustainable development; sustainable development and interaction with other policies and objectives of the public sector; sustainable development and biodiversity; sustainable development and energy; socio-political constraints to sustainable development strategies; Global Change.
Session C: Population and development
Population analysis is obligatory in any development policy, but it should overcome purely descriptive or demometric perspectives in order to analyze the close relationship between population and development, population and
environment, population and social structure, or population and territory. Of all these relationships, the link between population and social development is, without doubt, of the greatest interest and requires further analysis. Excessive
population growth can be an economic barrier and plunge affected areas into a real “demographic trap”. On the other hand, reductions in childbirth rates and the so-called “demographic dividend” are necessary but not sufficient for economic and social development. This paper invites you to analyze these issues from an integrated, applied, and multi- and inter-disciplinary point of view. Dynamics and demographic structure, economic development from a spatial perspective, territorial structures, social development, social planning, and demographic perspectives and prospects constitute the conceptual, methodological, and thematic framework, either from theoretical deepening of these relationships or from case studies of specific spaces.
Session D: Politics, civil society, and development
We encourage papers that primarily connect politics and civil society. Public policy formulations regarding development are the goal of this session. Agenda setting, legislative performance, and implementation are areas of significance.
The role played by political parties and by social movements channelling citizen initiatives is also important: international organization, programmatic proposals and their level of intervention in different political and social arenas. Papers are
not geographically limited and may concern local, national, or supranational actors and problems.
Session E: Education for development
Without any doubt, the greatest challenges being faced in our time (climate change, poverty, global insecurity, etc.) need solutions that go beyond national purview. Moreover, if persons with fewer opportunities are to be shielded from
the consequences of these challenges, we must think in terms of global solutions for addressing social justice worldwide. In seeking such solutions, education around global citizenship plays an essential role. In this panel, we would like to explore proposals and reflections related to the educational perspective. We encourage papers which link educational processes with other strategies such as advocacy, raising of awareness, research and communication for development.
Research on intercultural, gender, sustainability, and human rights perspectives of development education are also welcomed.
Session F: Ethno- and post-development
Ethno-development (or development with identity) is one of the alternatives proposed to the paradigms of universal development supported by international agencies (seen as economic growth or expansion of capacity). In this sense, ethno-development is a response to the ethnocentric orientation of the hegemonic development model in its successive versions, as seen from a constructionist perspective of ethnicity. Ethnicity is understood here as an efficient resource for designing and implementing development with identity, incorporating by way of the cultural control group resources both home-grown and appropriated. This panel will welcome proposals for papers that provide ethnographic experiences of endogenous development programs based on the premises of ethno-development, in order to contribute to the debate on the possibilities and limits of development with identity. Also acceptable are approaches to analyzing the subversion and resistance of local populations vis-à-vis development interventions, as well as alternative strategies produced by social movements.
This Congress will be will a space for reflection and a meeting-place for researchers in Development Studies. It will also provide an open forum for researchers from other disciplines wanting to better familiarize themselves with Development Studies in Spain, Europe and Developing Countries –especially Latin America.
We are currently accepting papers that analyze any problem around Development Studies within any of the following parallalel sesssions:
A: Political economy of development
B: Sustainable development
C: Population and development
D: Politics, civil society, and development
E: Education for development
F: Ethno- and post-development
Papers must be submitted before 20 December, 2011, to the following address: catedracoiba@unican.es.
Note that papers proposals must be sent in PDF format and must include: (1) the paper’s title; (2) name(s) of author(s); (3) an abstract of no more than 300 words; and (4) the parallel session in which the paper would be included.
Paper proposals will be evaluated by an expert using academic quality criteria (pertinence of research, clarity of hypotheses, and/or objective of the investigation and quality of the analysis method).
Results of the selection process will be announced on 30 January, 2012.
The descriptors of the parallel sessions are listed below:
Session A: Political economy of development
The current economic and financial crisis is transforming the global context of development processes, as well as their limits for both developed and developing countries. Besides changing the map of world economic power, this crisis feeds the debates on the paradigms and national models of development and on the system of international architecture and governance. Proposals analysing this new context (from a political economy approach) along with its implications for development – development models, processes and policies and proposals of global governance– are welcome. Communications emphasizing public policy issues and/or including the international dimension (external economic relations and flows) are strongly encouraged.
Session B: Sustainable development
We encourage papers on the definition of the concept and indicators of sustainable development; instruments in national policies for sustainable development (environmental taxes, tradeable emissions permits, standards, planning; international agreements for sustainable development); criteria for the definition and assessment of policies and strategies for sustainable development (efficiency, effectiveness and distribution); distributional international aspects and
sustainable development (definition of strategies and facilitating instruments); negative and positive interactions of policies and instruments for sustainable development; sustainable development and technological innovation; adaptation
and mitigation to climate change and sustainable development; social preferences on sustainable development; sustainable development and interaction with other policies and objectives of the public sector; sustainable development and biodiversity; sustainable development and energy; socio-political constraints to sustainable development strategies; Global Change.
Session C: Population and development
Population analysis is obligatory in any development policy, but it should overcome purely descriptive or demometric perspectives in order to analyze the close relationship between population and development, population and
environment, population and social structure, or population and territory. Of all these relationships, the link between population and social development is, without doubt, of the greatest interest and requires further analysis. Excessive
population growth can be an economic barrier and plunge affected areas into a real “demographic trap”. On the other hand, reductions in childbirth rates and the so-called “demographic dividend” are necessary but not sufficient for economic and social development. This paper invites you to analyze these issues from an integrated, applied, and multi- and inter-disciplinary point of view. Dynamics and demographic structure, economic development from a spatial perspective, territorial structures, social development, social planning, and demographic perspectives and prospects constitute the conceptual, methodological, and thematic framework, either from theoretical deepening of these relationships or from case studies of specific spaces.
Session D: Politics, civil society, and development
We encourage papers that primarily connect politics and civil society. Public policy formulations regarding development are the goal of this session. Agenda setting, legislative performance, and implementation are areas of significance.
The role played by political parties and by social movements channelling citizen initiatives is also important: international organization, programmatic proposals and their level of intervention in different political and social arenas. Papers are
not geographically limited and may concern local, national, or supranational actors and problems.
Session E: Education for development
Without any doubt, the greatest challenges being faced in our time (climate change, poverty, global insecurity, etc.) need solutions that go beyond national purview. Moreover, if persons with fewer opportunities are to be shielded from
the consequences of these challenges, we must think in terms of global solutions for addressing social justice worldwide. In seeking such solutions, education around global citizenship plays an essential role. In this panel, we would like to explore proposals and reflections related to the educational perspective. We encourage papers which link educational processes with other strategies such as advocacy, raising of awareness, research and communication for development.
Research on intercultural, gender, sustainability, and human rights perspectives of development education are also welcomed.
Session F: Ethno- and post-development
Ethno-development (or development with identity) is one of the alternatives proposed to the paradigms of universal development supported by international agencies (seen as economic growth or expansion of capacity). In this sense, ethno-development is a response to the ethnocentric orientation of the hegemonic development model in its successive versions, as seen from a constructionist perspective of ethnicity. Ethnicity is understood here as an efficient resource for designing and implementing development with identity, incorporating by way of the cultural control group resources both home-grown and appropriated. This panel will welcome proposals for papers that provide ethnographic experiences of endogenous development programs based on the premises of ethno-development, in order to contribute to the debate on the possibilities and limits of development with identity. Also acceptable are approaches to analyzing the subversion and resistance of local populations vis-à-vis development interventions, as well as alternative strategies produced by social movements.
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