tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56518281907274717122024-03-12T18:29:04.313-07:00Democracy, Governance and DevelopmentIndrajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911867892546955432noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651828190727471712.post-50220739877825455682011-10-15T08:49:00.000-07:002011-10-15T08:49:11.530-07:00WORKING PAPERS UPLOADED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The first batch of the conference working papers are out. You can access them at <a href="http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/wps-from-2011-democracy-governance-and-development-conference-published">http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/wps-from-2011-democracy-governance-and-development-conference-published</a><br />
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<strong>Institutional Dimensions of Social Movements: Case Study of the Sanitario Movement and its Fight for Universal Access to Health in Brazil</strong>. <br />
Monika Dowbor (University of Sao Paulo).<br />
<a href="http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps187.pdf">http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps187.pdf</a><br />
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<strong>The Institutionalisation of ‘Noise’ and ‘Silence’ in Urban Politics: Case Studies from East Africa. </strong>Tom Goodfellow (London School of Economics and Political Science).<br />
<a href="http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps188.pdf">http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps188.pdf</a><br />
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<strong>Hybridity in Action: Translating Culture and Power Through the Human Rights Discourse.</strong> <br />
Máire Ní Mhórdha (University of St Andrews).<br />
<a href="http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps189.pdf">http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps189.pdf</a><br />
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<strong>Civil-society Building, ‘Advanced Liberal’ Governmentality and the State in Serbia. </strong>Marek Mikuš (London School of Economics and Political Science).<br />
<a href="http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps190.pdf">http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps190.pdf</a><br />
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<strong>Coping with Strangers in Africa: Tourism, Politics and Development in South-Western Ethiopia. </strong>Tamás Régi (University of Sheffield/Sheffield International College).<br />
<a href="http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps191.pdf">http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps191.pdf</a><br />
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<strong>The Micro-foundations of One-party Hegemony: Development and Clientelism. </strong>Aris Trantidis (London School of Economics and Political Science). <br />
<a href="http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps192.pdf">http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps192.pdf</a><br />
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<strong>'Everything Changed after the 26th': Repression and Resilience against Proposed Phulbari Coal Mine in Bangladesh.</strong> Samina Luthfa (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford).<br />
<a href="http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps193.pdf">http://www3.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps193.pdf</a></div>Indrajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911867892546955432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651828190727471712.post-11169792593424267042011-08-14T04:45:00.000-07:002011-08-14T04:45:59.415-07:00CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
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<div align="center" class="Default" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Democracy, Governance and Development:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div align="center" class="Default" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">June 27 & 28, 2011</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Byrne, Sarah.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>University of Zurich<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This paper explores how relationships between community forest user groups and the Nepalese state and Maoist movement were constituted, maintained and negotiated in order to fulfill the group‘s long-term development goals. Community forest user groups were among the few local governance institutions that remained effectively functioning throughout the ten-year civil conflict. This resilience has been attributed to their institutional set-up and the tactics used by the groups (Nightingale and Sharma 2011). In this paper, I seek to build on these insights and suggest that rather than (or in addition to) simply coping within the violently contested political environment, some community forest user groups continued to pursue their longer term objectives related to forest management and local development and negotiated this successfully with the conflicting parties. In the interest of maintaining their access to forest resources, community forest user groups employed a variety of strategies and practices. In this paper I consider whether these strategies and practices – and the power dynamics their employment illuminates – can be considered as resistance or compromise. The paper contributes to our understanding of the functioning of local participatory institutions and how they interact, in a situation of violent conflict and insecurity, with the governmental, economic and political projects (Li 2003) of the state as well as a large-scale political and social movements.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="" name="Das"></a><a href="" name="Byrne"><span style="mso-bookmark: Das;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Transnational Community Development Projects and the micro-politics of social life in the borderlands, Nagaland, northeast India</span></b></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: Byrne;"><span style="mso-bookmark: Das;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: Das;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Byrne;"></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Das, Debojyoti. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies<span class="rwrro"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this paper I discuss how changes in farming practices introduced by transnational donor driven agricultural improvement programme are understood both by village beneficiaries and the project officials through the discourse of ‘representation’ and farmers ‘agency’- as beneficiaries in various GONGO (Government Organized Non-Government Organization) operated community development programmes. I locate my study among the Naga tribal’s in the upland areas of Northeast India (Naga Hills) that has attracted much scholarly attention in the last decade as a transnational upland massif ‘Zomia’ (Scott, 2009), and a ‘biodiversity hotspot’ region of the Eastern Himalayas (Myers <i>et al</i>., 2000). This is evident from global interest of donors and conservation NGOs in the region, who work to bring about improvement by integrating ‘communities social capital’ with ‘Indigenous Ecological Knowledge’ of the swidden <i>(jhum) </i>cultivators. By engaging with the project text and communities response to particular development intervention- in this case ‘micro-credit’ circulated through Revolving Fund, I demonstrate the moral economy of households and the micro-politics of everyday life through which the state becomes legible in people’s lives. The study is based on participant observation (ethnographic fieldwork carried over fourteen months in a Naga Village) and reflects on households respond to community let development interventions designed by ‘experts’- government planners working to promote sustainable agriculture in Naga Hills.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">The paper seeks to contribute to the debate of the repolitization of specific policy areas by analysing the case of the <i>Pingüino </i>movement in Chile. Composed by secondary school students and named after their penguin-like black and white school uniforms, the movement emerged in May 2006, only a few weeks after the ascension of President Bachelet who had based her campaign on a bottom-up discourse. Demanding to improve the quality of education and correct for the segregating effects of the education system, the movement forced the most significant debate on education since the re-establishment of democracy in 1990. Based on the case study of the <i>Pingüinos</i>, I argue that pressures from below can provide an important incentive to pursue reforms that have failed to be promoted from above. This way, social movements can constitute a central impulse to redefine the political agenda along the interests of civil society actors and through this, constitute a democratising force.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><a href="" name="Dowbor"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">Institutional dimensions of social movements: case study of the </span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: Dowbor;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;">sanitario </span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Dowbor;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">movement and its fight for universal access to health in Brazil</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The present article addresses the debate with social movement theory and, more specifically, with its propositions concerning institutionalization (Tilly & Tarrow 2007; Goldstone 2003; Tarrow 1998; McAdam 1996), emphasizing the theory’s incapacity to explain the continuity of the </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">sanitario </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">movement, which, since the 1970s, has fought for universal access to public health care in Brazil. Comprising networks of professionals, academics and intellectuals, this movement campaigns in an institutionalized way and has swiftly bureaucratized and professionalized its organizations. Despite these two institutionalized elements, the movement has neither demobilized not transformed into a political party or interest group, as the theory would predict. Quite the contrary, in fact, this is the most mobilized of all social movements of a national character in the health sector in Brazil.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><a href="" name="Frodin"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The art of the possible, the bullet or the ballot box: defining politics in the emerging global order<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></div><span style="mso-bookmark: Frodin;"></span> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the wake of globalization the last few decades different social science disciplines have found themselves entering into similar terrains of inquiry. However, each discipline tends to draw on different and often contradictory understandings of the political, and of related notions such as power. The lack of a shared notion of politics may prevent social scientists from gaining important insights from other disciplines. In this paper I therefore seek to demonstrate that seemingly contradictory notions of politics are better seen as different forms of political interaction. I define politics as activities through which people and groups articulate, negotiate, implement, and enforce competing claims. By distinguishing different types of claims made within different institutional circumstances, I outline three basic forms of political interaction: governance, stalemate and social dilemma, and give examples of how each of these forms of political interaction has emerged in response to the global integration of markets in different circumstances and areas of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="Default" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Suing dragons: why are Chinese lawyers suing the state <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Impact of repression on follow up protests is an area in social movement literature shadowed with contradictory findings. Whether any repression would result in a ‘backlash’ that increases protests instead of dampening it - is difficult to support or refute, due to the availability of findings that supports both effect. By exploring the aftermath of violent repression of a community resistance against an open cast coal mine in Bangladesh, this paper supports ‘backlash’ under certain conditions. The case illustrates that even after the violence, the community did not refrain from ‘costly’ high-risk protest behaviours. This paper provides two explanations basing its analytical construct on transversal politics: first, emotional stimuli over-shadowed costs of high-risk behaviours. Second, after being violated; it becomes part of each protestor’s community identity to stay together and keep protest alive. By using qualitative interviews of activists and company beneficiaries, and archival research including campaign documents, newspaper articles, government and company documents, I illustrate how after the violent repression community’s worldview and their perspective on their politics shifted to suit the need for unity and resilience.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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Anthropologists criticised it as </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʻ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">NGOisation </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʼ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> and building of a </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʻ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">project society</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʼ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">. This paper deals with latest stages of civil-society building in Serbia, typified by the development of </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʻ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">public advocacy</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʼ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʻ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">local fundraising</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʼ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">. In my anthropological work-in- progress, I study public advocacy and local fundraising programs of the Balkan Community Initiatives Fund, a Belgrade re-granting foundation, and its grantee organizations in Serbia. These initiatives introduce </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʻ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">advanced liberal</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʼ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> governmentality to Serbia which constructs relationships of civil society and </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʻ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">political society</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʼ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> (the state and political organizations) in a depoliticised manner consistent with the assumptions of good governance and New Public Management. Taking my cues from the polity approach, governmentality theory and anthropology of the state and postsocialism, I subject practices and discourses of advanced liberal governmentality to a political analysis. I show how civil society interacts with the state when being </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Arial Narrow"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʻ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">developed</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">ʼ</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> in a context with its own history of thinking and practicing civil society. I argue that studying public advocacy and local fundraising necessitates going beyond (civil) society/state binaries and analyzing how state and civil-society actors, as well as individuals, informal networks and companies, form (or fail to form) political alliances in order to perform governance. These processes, not devoid of transformative potential, are ridden with paradoxes inherent to the multilayered legacy of past forms of rule as well as to the advanced liberal governmentality itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">According to a report, made for the UK Department for International Development: “among the top 40 recipients of DFID bilateral aid, tourism is significant” (DFID 1999, p.9). However, while the tourism sector increasingly contributes to most developing countries’ GDP it does not necessarily mean that international tourists also foster microeconomic stability. Local perceptions of tourism and development often alter from the supra regional political and economic views. This paper explores how tourism, as a new source of wealth, is perceived in a small scale localised community and how Western tourists generate new supra-local political movements in an East-African pastoral society. The paper discusses how relatively new forms of contacts give ground to emerging political institutions that begin as tentative interest groups and become protagonists in local politics. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Governance and its discontents<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Chair: Sofia Donoso<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 304.75pt;" valign="top" width="406"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Access to power: how institutions and culture shape governance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Ijlal Naqvi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 304.75pt;" valign="top" width="406"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The institutionalization of ‘noise’ and ‘silence’ in urban politics: case studies from east Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Tom Goodfellow, University of London/ London School of Economics and Political Science, UK<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td rowspan="3" style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 169.6pt;" valign="top" width="226"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Participation and institutionalization of politics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Chair: John W. Givens</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 305.3pt;" valign="top" width="407"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Post-transitional social movements in Chile and the repolitization of pending development tasks: the case of the pingüino movement and education<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Sofia Donoso, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College, UK<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 305.3pt;" valign="top" width="407"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Which is the fake? Participation as “political rights” or as connectedness in urban and rural Tianjin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Sophia Woodman, University of British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 305.3pt;" valign="top" width="407"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Institutional dimensions of social movements: case study of sanitario movement and its fight for universal access to health in Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Monika Dowbor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div></td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 35.05pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 305.3pt;" valign="top" width="407"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shirking the <i>basha</i>: youth encounters with the everyday security state in Cairo</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">James Sunday, University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies<span class="rwrro">, UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 305.3pt;" valign="top" width="407"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Coping with strangers: invented political institutions and concealed resistance in south-western Ethiopia<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tamás Régi <span class="rwrro">, </span>University of Sheffield/ Sheffield International College, UK<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The state and its subjects<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Chair: Olle Frödin<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Concluding remarks 3:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Professor EVK Fitzgerald, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Head of the Department, Oxford Department of International Development and <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Professor of International Development Finance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">University of Oxford, UK<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div></td> </tr>
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</div></div>Indrajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911867892546955432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651828190727471712.post-23149704544370364862011-05-25T15:48:00.000-07:002011-06-03T04:31:25.050-07:00DGD CONFERENCE PROVISIONAL PAPER TITLES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>PROVISIONAL PAPER TITLES: DGD CONFERENCE</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>1. Amy Niang, University of Edinburgh <br />
Marginality as governance: the boundaries of the decentred state<br />
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2. Aris Trantidis, University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
The politics of discretion and selectivity: clientelism and the micro-foundations of hegemony <br />
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3. Christopher Kutarna, University of Oxford/ St Antony's College<br />
What can it mean to be free? The several meanings of ‘reform and opening’ within China’s emerging middle class -- a new methodological approach<br />
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4. Debojyoti Das, University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies <br />
Transnational community development projects and the micro-politics of social life in the borderlands, Nagaland, northeast India<br />
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5. Ijlal Naqvi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill <br />
Access to power: how institutions and culture shape governance<br />
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6. Indrajit Roy, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College <br />
Dissensus: constructing political subjects in Bihar <br />
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7. James Sunday, University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies <br />
Shirking the basha: youth encounters with the everyday security state in Cairo<br />
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8. John W Givens, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College <br />
Suing dragons: why are Chinese lawyers suing the state<br />
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9. Máire Ní Mhórdha, University of St Andrews <br />
Hybridity in action: translating culture and power through the human rights discourse<br />
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10. Marek <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Mikuš</span>, University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
Civil-society building, liberal subjects and the state in Serbia<br />
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11. Monika Dowbor, University of Sao Paulo <br />
Institutional dimensions of social movements: case study of sanitario movement and its fight for universal access to health in Brazil<br />
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12. Olle Frödin, University of Oxford/ Queen Elizabeth House <br />
Governance, stalemate and social dilemma: political responses to the global order<br />
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13. Oliver Murphy, University of Oxford/ Christ Church College <br />
Title TBC<br />
14. Peter Redvers-Lee, Vanderbilt University <br />
The serpent of shame: economic and community development in the Afro-ecuadorian communities of northern esmeraldas<br />
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15. Prashant Sharma, University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
The right to information act in India: economic liberalisation, democratic deepening and a state in retreat<br />
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16. Samina Luthfa, University of Oxford/ St Cross College <br />
"Everything changed after the 26th”: repression and resistance against proposed Phulbari coal mine in Bangladesh<br />
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17. Sarah Byrne, University of Zurich <br />
Beyond tactics: the “place-ness” of forest user groups and their strategic negotiations during and after the maoist conflict in Nepal<br />
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18. Shandana Mohamand, University of Sussex/ Institute of Development Studies <br />
The variable burden of history, and other stories: non-state dispute resolution in three regions of South Asia<br />
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19. Sofia Donoso, University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College <br />
Post-transitional social movements in Chile and the repolitization of pending development tasks: the case of the pingüino movement and education<br />
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20. Sophia Woodman, University of British Columbia <br />
Which is the fake? Participation as “political rights” or as connectedness in urban and rural Tianjin<br />
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21. Swagato Sarkar, Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore <br />
The metrics of politics<br />
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22. Tamas Regi, University of Sheffield/ Sheffield International College <br />
Coping with strangers: invented political institutions and concealed resistance in south-western Ethiopia<br />
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23. Tim A. Balag'kutu, West Virginia University <br />
More windows, less break-ins: strengthening democratic governance through timely popular representation<br />
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24. Tom Goodfellow, University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
The institutionalization of ‘noise’ and ‘silence’ in urban politics: case studies from east Africa<br />
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</div>Indrajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911867892546955432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651828190727471712.post-8220858885208900452011-04-16T19:16:00.000-07:002011-05-17T10:09:22.699-07:00DGD Conference Participants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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1. Amy Niang University of Edinburgh<br />
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2. Aris Trantidis University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
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3. Debojyoti Das University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies<br />
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4. Ijlal Naqvi University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<br />
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5. Indrajit Roy University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College<br />
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6. James Sunday University of London/ School of Oriental and African Studies<br />
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7. John W Givens University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College<br />
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8. Máire Ní Mhórdha University of St Andrews<br />
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9. Marek Mikus University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
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10. Maura Duffy University of Manchester<br />
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11. Monika Dowbor University of Sao Paulo<br />
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12. <span _ao="3" _dn="Olof Frödin" _e_onclick="selEm(_this);" _e_oncontextmenu="onRwCm();" _e_ondblclick="onDblClkRcp();" _em="o.frodin@gmail.com" _fjnk="1" _rt="SMTP" class="rwRRO" id="spnFrom" title="o.frodin@gmail.com">Olle Frödin </span>University of Oxford/ Queen Elizabeth House<br />
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13. Peter Redvers-Lee Vanderbilt University<br />
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14. Prashant Sharma University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
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15. Samina Luthfa University of Oxford/ St Cross College<br />
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16. Sarah Byrne University of Zurich<br />
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17. Shandana Mohamand University of Sussex/ Institute of Development Studies<br />
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18. Sofia Donoso University of Oxford/ St. Antony’s College<br />
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19. Sophia Woodman University of British Columbia<br />
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20. Swagato Sarkar Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore<br />
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21. Tamas Regi The University of Sheffield/Sheffield International College<br />
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22. Tim A. Balag'kutu West Virginia University<br />
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23. Tom Goodfellow University of London/ London School of Economics and Politics <br />
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</div>Indrajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911867892546955432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651828190727471712.post-22359299776569497072011-03-27T03:46:00.000-07:002011-03-27T03:46:56.833-07:00IMPORTANT UPDATE: DECISION ON ABSTRACTS TAKEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Many thanks to those who submitted their abstracts for this Conference. We were overwhelmed by the number of abstracts we received. <br />
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We have now been able to take a decision, and those whose abstracts have been shortlisted have been informed via email. Abstracts were shortlisted on the basis of the closeness of fit with the conference themes, especially its focus on "popular politics". Obviously, given that there were only a finite number of places, we were only able to shortlist the ones that most closely spoke to the questions in the CFP. <br />
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Please feel free to get in touch should you have any questions/ clarifications, of if you have not heard from us yet. You may also want to check your junk box in case any of the conference-related messages ended up there!<br />
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Cheers,<br />
</div>Indrajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01911867892546955432noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651828190727471712.post-84674722807559894642011-02-14T22:17:00.000-08:002011-02-14T22:19:08.817-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">Oxford Department of International Development and St Antony’s College Conference on </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">“Democracy, Governance and Development: Between the Institutional and the Political?”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">For Doctoral Students/ Post-doctoral Scholars</div><br />
When: June 27 & 28, 2011<br />
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Where: St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford<br />
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<strong>Background</strong> <br />
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Calls to ‘politicize’ development have increased in prominence ever since James Fergusson’s scathing critique of the ‘depoliticization’ inherent in the development machinery in Lesotho. Research on this agenda have persuaded policy-makers, donors, academics and activists to recognize that ‘political’ lenses needs to be integrated with development policy formulation, interventions, and analysis. These add value to the hitherto politically anemic descriptions of ‘good governance’, active civil society, participatory development, deliberative democracy, social capital, etc. Some authors have built on the initial criticisms, calling for “democratizing democracy” (see for instance the collection of papers in Santos, 2005) and moving beyond the confines of liberal democracy. Others have taken up the challenge of grounding these calls and grounding discussions of participation and popular politics in the context of development. This literature may be further classified into institution-focused approaches (see for instances the readings in Fung and Wright, 2005; Houtzager and Moore, 2003; Harriss et al, 2004) and movement-focused approaches (Webster and Engberg-Pedersen, 2002 ). Others have been more eclectic, and not shied away from exploring the creative tension between the two approaches (the collection of papers in Hickey and Mohan, 2004). <br />
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What has hitherto been less represented in the literature on politics and development is the ways in which ‘micro-politics’ (adapting from Scott, 1990- who deploys the term “infrapolitics”) interact with and inform the working of both institutions and movements. A focus on the ‘everyday politics’ of those who are impacted by and who in turn impact these provides insights into supporting conceptions of legitimacy, justice and governance. Such approaches have been fruitfully deployed by scholars working in diverse parts of the world, such as recent work on “political society” in India (Chatterjee, 2004), “the politics of the informal people” in Iran and the Arab world (Bayat, 1997), “multiple social contracts” in Somalia(Leonard and Samantar, forthcoming), the “informalization” of politics in sub-Saharan Africa (Chabal and Daloz, 1999), and “urban popular mobilization” in Latin America (Roberts and Portes, 2006). These perspectives are no longer confined to ‘anarcho-communitarian’ or ‘suablternists’ alone, but are recognized as critical by ‘mainstream’ development agencies and analysts as well (Leftwich, 2010; Unsworth, 2010). <br />
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<strong>Aims</strong><br />
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This conference aims to bring together high-quality academic research on precisely this concern- the ways in which popular political processes ( a term we are deploying to refer to what has been variously called ‘subaltern politics’, ‘informal politics’, ‘micro-politics’ and ‘infra-politics’) interact with discourses, policies and practices of development. A common thread will be the ways in which these processes negotiate with neoliberal structures, the national and sub-national polity, participatory institutions, political parties and populist mobilization. The conference is specifically targeted towards doctoral students in the final stages of writing their thesis and post-doctoral scholars who have recently completed their dissertation. It is envisaged that the conference will provide the basis for continued intellectual collaboration and networking on core themes that emerge from the papers. <br />
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<strong>Conference concerns</strong><br />
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The Conference’s two thematic concerns are: <br />
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1). Popular politics and institutions; and <br />
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2). Popular politics and social and political movements. <br />
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Papers in Theme 1 will emphasize how institutions- both formal and informal- are interpenetrated and, indeed, constituted by the popular political processes. These papers will share the motivation of the daily-level political practices that make such institutions ‘legible’ to ordinary people (rather than making ordinary people legible to institutions). Possible topics could be: corruption in local government; the discursive construction of the poor through anti-poverty programs; perceptions of legitimacy and justice vis-a-vis non-state governance institutions; persuasion and coercion by political parties; and intra-household negotiation over developmental resources. <br />
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Papers in Theme 2 will emphasize the negotiations between the popular political processes discussed above and supra-local political and social movements. These papers will be bound together through their interest in understanding how and why ordinary people participate in, or resist participation in, political and social movements. Indicative topics could be: romance of resistance among youth participants in armed ‘liberation’ movements; non-participation of the poor (or participation of the non-poor) in movements articulating claims of social justice; the discursive construction of identities and related claims to development resources; and claims of reason and unreason in political movements. <br />
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Across both these themes, the Conference intends to discuss the following substantive issues: How do participatory development, participatory governance and participatory democracy relate to one another, and with popular democracy and populist political practices? How do such practices articulate with liberal-democratic and authoritarian regimes? What are the prospects for institutional arrangements that arise out of such practices and politics, which may be neither ‘rational’ nor ‘reasonable’? Or is talking about such practices and politics merely anarchist utopia? By focusing on multiple pluralities and contesting hegemonies, do such actions subvert emancipatory politics as has sometimes been alleged, or do they contribute to the fulfillment of their agenda? Does the increasing concentration of capital and economic power make such localized, fragmentary political practices redundant?<br />
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We are interested in papers that are based on original research in any part of the ‘developing’ world. This research could be qualitative or quantitative, present ethnographic or survey data, or use archival data (including analysis of newspapers). At the same time, papers are expected to interact with the relevant thematic and geographic literature. <br />
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<em>Important dates for your diary:</em><br />
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The Conference is scheduled for June 27 & 28, 2011. Please submit your abstract to indrajit.roy@qeh.ox.ac.uk by March 2, 2011. Authors of shortlisted abstracts will be informed by March 15, 2011. Final papers are due by June 1, 2011. <br />
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<strong>Conference plan</strong><br />
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Each paper will be presented by someone (‘the presenter’) other than the paper-writer (10 minutes). Thereafter, it will be commented upon by a discussant (10 minutes), and the paper-writer will have the opportunity to respond (10 minutes). The floor will be open to Q&A thereafter (15 minutes). Since this conference will depend intensively on participants’ active engagement with one another’s work, preference will be given to those who are willing to take on all three roles. <br />
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<strong>Abstract guidelines</strong><br />
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Please use the abstract submission form to submit your abstract.<br />
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<em>Content:</em> Your abstract should describe which of the two themes the paper is more closely aligned with, and why. It should also indicate the analytical literature that the paper is likely to refer to, as well as the research method(s) used. Also, please also indicate while applying whether, in addition to writing a paper, you will be willing to act as a discussant or presenter, or both.<br />
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<em>Word limit:</em> Maximum 500 words, excluding bibliographic reference.<br />
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<em>Keywords</em>: Abstract keywords (not exceeding four) should include country/ region of focus. These should help us understand what the paper is about, so please avoid generic terms such as ‘governance’, ‘state’, ‘politics’ (which are likely to be applicable to all papers!)<br />
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<strong>Logistics:</strong><br />
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We are happy to be able to take care of the accommodation and meals of the paper-presenters for the two days of the Conference. <br />
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Papers presented at the Conference will be eligible to be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Oxford Development Studies, subject to the standard procedures.<br />
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<strong>REFERENCES:</strong><br />
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Bayat, A (1997) Un-civil society: the politics of the ‘informal people’, Third World Quarterly, 18(1): 53-72<br />
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Chabal, P and J-P Daloz (1999) Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument. Oxford and Indiana: James Curry and Indiana University Press.<br />
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Chatterjee, P. (2004) The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. New York: Columbia University Press.<br />
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Fung, A. and Wright, E. (2003) Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance. London: Verso.<br />
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Harriss, J., K. Stokke and O. Tornquist (2004) (Eds.) Politicising democracy: The new local politics of democratization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.<br />
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Hickey, S. and G. Mohan (2004) (Eds.) Participation: from Tyranny to Transformation. London: Zed.<br />
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Houtzager, P & M. Moore (2003) (Eds.), Changing paths: International development and the new politics of inclusion. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.<br />
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Leftwich, A. and K. Sen (2010) Beyond Institutions: Institutions and organizations in the politics and economics of growth and poverty reduction- a thematic synthesis of research evidence. Accessed from http://www.ippg.org.uk/8933_Beyond%20Institutions.final%20(1).pdf. February 5, 2011.<br />
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Leonard, D. and Samantar, M. (forthcoming) 'What Can the Somalis Teach Us About the Social Contract and the State', Development and Change, 42(2)<br />
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Roberts, B and A. Portes (2006) Coping with the Free Market City: Collective Action in Six Latin American cities at the End of the Twentieth Century, Latin American Research Review, 41(2): 57-83<br />
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Santos, B. (2005) Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon. London: Verso.<br />
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Scott, J. (1990) Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press.<br />
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Unsworth, S. (2010) An Upside View of Governance. Accessed from <a href="http://www2.ids.ac.uk/gdr/cfs/pdfs/AnUpside-downViewofGovernance.pdf">http://www2.ids.ac.uk/gdr/cfs/pdfs/AnUpside-downViewofGovernance.pdf</a>. <br />
February 4, 2010<br />
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Webster, N. & L. Engberg-Pedersen (2002) (Eds.) In the name of the poor: Contesting political <br />
space for poverty reduction. London: Zed Books.<br />
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