10 - 12 November 2011
Organized and hosted by the Department of Development Sociology
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Organized and hosted by the Department of Development Sociology
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Instructions for submission of abstracts:
Please send abstracts to RethinkingDevelopment2011@gmail.com
Include full contact details (email, affiliation and contacts)
Notifications and initial programs will be sent out in early September
Note: A conference fee of $25.00 will be applied to full-time faculty in tenure track positions. Travel grants will be provided to some participants, but they are limited. Please specify whether you would like to be considered for full or partial funding. During the conference, all meals and materials will be provided for participants.
For more information and clarification, please send an email to the address above and one of the conference organizers will be in touch.
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The Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, in conjunction with the Development Sociology section-in-formation of the American Sociological Association, is organizing a conference on “Rethinking Development” to be held 10 - 12 November 2011 at the ILR Conference Center on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, NY.
This is a challenging time to be working on issues of economic, social, political and cultural well-being or improvement – what has been popularly called “Development” for more than a century. After the crises of the 1980s, when Human Development Indicators across the globe stagnated or declined, and the long neo-liberal 1990s, which were dominated by a narrow set of policy tools, the most recent decade has witnessed a flowering of ideas that are re-shaping the debates and possibilities of and for Development. Encouraged by the rise of new social movements as well as local and multi-national initiatives for tackling poverty and injustice, academics, activists, politicians and practitioners are increasingly creating and working in a diversity of transnational arenas to challenge established ways of thinking about socio-economic change and international relations. And new ideas are desperately needed in the face of seemingly insurmountable contemporary challenges. Global climate change, historic levels of international and intra-national inequality, rising levels of absolute poverty, global food vulnerabilities, traditional energy shortages and associated ecological degradations, global economic stagnation, and political instability, social injustice and mal-distributions of various sorts – all of these demand re-thinking Development and imagining bold new articulations of state, society, market and nature in the future.
With this in mind, the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University invites papers that critically re-think Development policies and programs as well as the framework as a whole. Contributions that engage in original ways both empirically and theoretically with key ideas, practices and categories of Development at different or multiple scales will be privileged. The following themes will guide the selection of abstracts although we are open to work that does not immediately seem to fit:
1) Visions and Theories: Old and New Conceptual Frameworks of Development
2) Peoples in Motion: Migration, Dislocation, and Resettlement in Development; Life Course Frameworks and Comparisons
3) Order/Disorder: New Understandings of the State and Development
4) Crisis: Challenge and Opportunity; The New “Subsistence Crises”: Food, housing, land and water; Re-Imagining Development:
5) Social Mobilization: New Opportunities and Challenges; Alternatives, Grounded Utopias and the Future; Agrarian crisis and resistance; Anti-neo-liberal rebellions
6) Trading Up: Assessing Trade: Free, Fair and Local; Evaluating Charitable Capitalism: Fair Trade Not Aid
7) Environmental Challenges and Crisis: Political Ecologies of Development; The Climate Change Challenge to Development; New Environmental Determinisms
8) Properties of Development: Land Tenure, Titles and Teleologies
9) Development (and anti-Development) Cultures: Practitioners and Practice
10) Neglected Subjects: People, Perspectives and Places
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