Saturday 25 June 2011

CONFERENCE PROGRAM






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