CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Democracy, Governance and Development:
Between the Institutional and the Political
| Day 1: June 27, 2011 | |
| Registration 8:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m/ Welcome remarks 9:00 a.m.- 9:15 a.m. Dr. Dawn Chatty, Director of Doctoral Research, Oxford Department of International Development, University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford, UK | |
| Conceptualizing politics and hegemony 9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Chair: Indrajit Roy | Governance, social choice and dilemma Olle Frödin, Lund University/ University of Oxford (QEH), UK |
| Governance, Technology and Reconfiguring the State Swagato Sarkar, Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India | |
| The politics of discretion and selectivity: clientelism and the micro-foundations of hegemony Aris Trantidis, University of London/ London School of Economics and Political Science, UK | |
| Tea Break 10:45 a.m.- 11:15 a.m. | |
| The law and rights 11:15 a.m.- 12:45 p.m. Chair: Samina Luthfa | Hybridity in action: translating culture and power through the human rights discourse Máire Ní Mhórdha, University of St Andrews, UK |
| The Right to Information Act in India: economic liberalisation, democratic deepening and a state in retreat Prashant Sharma, University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics, UK | |
| Suing dragons: why are Chinese lawyers suing the state John W Givens, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College, UK | |
| Lunch Break 12:45 p.m.- 2:15 p.m. | |
Community and meanings of development 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Chair: Christopher Kutarna | Negotiating Development: Nepalese Community Forest User Groups’ Resistance and Compromise During the Maoist Conflict Sarah Byrne, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| The serpent of shame: economic and community development in the Afro-ecuadorian communities of northern esmeraldas Peter Redvers-Lee, Vanderbilt University, USA | |
| Transnational community development projects and the micro-politics of social life in the borderlands, Nagaland, northeast India Debojyoti Das, University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies, UK | |
| Tea Break 3:45- 4:15 p.m. | |
| Governance and its discontents 4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Chair: Sofia Donoso | Access to power: how institutions and culture shape governance Ijlal Naqvi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA |
| The institutionalization of ‘noise’ and ‘silence’ in urban politics: case studies from east Africa Tom Goodfellow, University of London/ London School of Economics and Political Science, UK | |
Day 2: June 28, 2011 | ||
| Participation and institutionalization of politics 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m. Chair: John W. Givens | Post-transitional social movements in Chile and the repolitization of pending development tasks: the case of the pingüino movement and education Sofia Donoso, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College, UK | |
| Which is the fake? Participation as “political rights” or as connectedness in urban and rural Tianjin Sophia Woodman, University of British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Institutional dimensions of social movements: case study of sanitario movement and its fight for universal access to health in Brazil Monika Dowbor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Tea Break 10:30 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. | ||
| Resistance, encounters & repression 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Chair: Swagato Sarkar | Shirking the basha: youth encounters with the everyday security state in Cairo James Sunday, University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies, UK | |
| Coping with strangers: invented political institutions and concealed resistance in south-western Ethiopia Tamás Régi , University of Sheffield/ Sheffield International College, UK | ||
| “Everything changed after the 26th”: repression and resistance against proposed Phulbari coal mine in Bangladesh Samina Luthfa, University of Oxford/ St Cross College, UK | ||
Lunch Break 12:30 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. | ||
| The state and its subjects 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Chair: Olle Frödin | What can it mean to be free? Ideological camps inside China’s emerging middle class generations Christopher Kutarna, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College, UK | |
| Civil-society building, liberal subjects and the state in Serbia Marek Mikuš, University of London/ London School of Economics and Political Science, UK | ||
| Dissensus: constructing political subjects in Bihar Indrajit Roy, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College, UK | ||
| Concluding remarks 3:00 p.m. Professor EVK Fitzgerald, Head of the Department, Oxford Department of International Development and Professor of International Development Finance University of Oxford, UK | ||
