Oxford Department of International Development and St Antony’s College Conference on
“Democracy, Governance and Development: Between the Institutional and the Political?”
For Doctoral Students/ Post-doctoral Scholars
“Democracy, Governance and Development: Between the Institutional and the Political?”
For Doctoral Students/ Post-doctoral Scholars
When: June 27 & 28, 2011
Where: St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
The Conference’s two thematic concerns are:
1) Popular politics and institutions; and
2) Popular politics and social and political movements.
Papers in Theme 1 will emphasize how institutions- both formal and informal- are interpenetrated and, indeed, constituted by the popular political processes.
Papers in Theme 2 will emphasize the negotiations between popular political processes and supra-local political and social movements.
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?
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.
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.
Important dates for your diary:
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.
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