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Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South: Intersectionality, Inequalities, and Community
Edited By Andrea Rigon, Vanesa Castán Broto
Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South emphasizes the importance of the neighbourhood in urban development planning, with case studies aimed at transforming current intervention practices towards more inclusive and just means of engagement with individuals and communities. The chapters explore how diversity of gender, class, race and ethnicity, citizenship status, age, ability, and sexuality is taken (or not taken) into account and approached in the planning and implementation of development policy and interventions in poor urban areas. The book employs a practical perspective on the deployment of theoretical critiques of intersectionality and diversity in development practice through case studies examining issues such as water and sanitation planning in Dhaka, indigenous rights to the city in Bolivia, post-colonial planning in Hong Kong, land reform in Zimbabwe, and many more. The book focuses on radical alternatives with the potential to foster urban transformations for planning and development communities working around the world.
This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them.
The idea of corporate philanthropy stretches back a long way, with the late 19th industrialist Andrew Carnegie seeing it as an important obligation of the very wealthy. In the modern day, Bill Gates has taken up this call, suggesting that the very wealthy should donate half their wealth to philanthropic causes, and endowing his own foundation with something in the order of $50 billion. This book brings together case studies of the most influential of these foundations over the last one hundred years: the Rockefeller, Ford, and Gates' Foundations, investigating their impact on education and research, health and agriculture. The book concludes by asking whether global south foundations such as Al Waleed Philanthropies, Tata Trusts, and those from China may point to the future of global philanthropic foundations.
The sheer scale of resources that foundations can devote to their work results in significant influence in global politics, to the point that Foundations can drive and even set government policy. This influence is likely to grow in the post-Covid environment, making this book an important resource for researchers, practitioners and policy makers working on global development. See link:
Philanthropic Foundations in International Development: Rockefeller, F (routledge.com)
Book event: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
Speaker:
Robtel Neajai Pailey, London School of Economics and Political Science
Panellists:
Thabani Mutambasere, University of Sussex
Kirstie Kwarteng, SOAS, University of London
Natasha Dyer, University of Edinburgh
Sibongile Zulu, University of Oxford
Chair: Laura Hammond, SOAS, University of London
In Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Robtel Neajai Pailey draws on rich life histories from over two hundred in-depth interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America to examine socio-economic change in Liberia, Africa’s first black republic, through the prism of citizenship. Marking how historical policy changes on citizenship and contemporary public discourse on dual citizenship have impacted development policy and practice, Pailey reveals that as Liberia transformed from a country of immigration to one of emigration, so too did the nature of citizenship, thus influencing claims for and against dual citizenship. She develops a new model for conceptualising citizenship within the context of crisis-affected states while offering a compelling critique of the neoliberal framing of diasporas and donors as the panacea to post-war reconstruction.
During this Development Studies Association 2021 pre-conference event, Pailey will converse about the major findings of her monograph with early career scholars in UK-based Development Studies/International Development departments.
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Book event: Marx in the Field
Chair: Alessandra Mezzadri
This session introduces the key features of the book Marx in the Field (Anthem, 2021), its relevance for Development Studies and Economics, and will offer insights from some of the contributors to the volume. The objective of the book, as well as this presentation, is stressing the centrality of Marx's concepts and approach for concrete field-based research on the global development process. The contributors who will intervene in the session are listed below.
Lorena Lombardozzi is a Lecturer in Economics at the Open University and has held teaching positions at SOAS and City, University of London. Lorena has also worked as a development economist in Argentina and Uruguay in 2014, in Uzbekistan for UNODC Central Asia from 2010 to 2012, and between 2007 and 2010 with the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her research interests include theories of international political economy; growth and distribution in post-Soviet spaces, planned economies, and Europe; and feminist economics, labour and industrial policy.
Alessandra Mezzadri is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, London, UK. Her research interests focus on global commodity chains and labour regimes; the global garment industry; labour standards, CSR, Modern Slavery and ethical consumerism; feminisms in development and social reproduction approaches; and India’s political economy. She is the author of The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments 'Made in India' (Cambridge University Press, 2017, 2020). She is the editor of Marx in the Field.
Farai Mtero is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa where he undertook research for his PhD. Farai’s research focuses on redistributive land reform, rural livelihoods, class formation and agrarian change. His work uses political economy theory and analysis to understand processes of agrarian change in contemporary societies. He is currently working on land reform in South Africa and is investigating who is benefitting from land redistribution and the nature and extent of elite capture of land reform.
Susan Newman is Professor of Economics at the Open University, UK. She held prior posts at the University of the West of England, at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands, and at the University of Witzwaterstrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Susan has published articles on the political economy of agricultural commodity chains as well as post-Apartheid industrial development in South Africa. Her work critically engages with mainstream economic approaches and draws from various traditions in classical political economy, including Marx. It has been published in numerous academic journals, like Development and Change, Economic Geography, Journal of Social and Economic Policy and Review of Radical Political Economics. She has contributed to the Elgar Companion to Marx’s Economics.
Sara Stevano is a development and feminist political economist, with interdisciplinary skills in the field of anthropology. She is a Lecturer in Economics at SOAS, London, UK, after holding different teaching and research positions the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, and King’s College, London. Her areas of study are the political economy of labour, food and nutrition, social reproduction, gender analysis and research methodology (including mixed methods) for political economy. Her work focuses on Africa, in particular Mozambique and Ghana, and has been published in international journals including The Journal of Development Studies, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Feminist Economics and World Development.
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Opening words on behalf of Journal of Development Studies by Oliver Morrissey
Historical perspective on pandemics across disciplines
Bringing together a development studies researcher who works on recovery from disasters with a historian, a novelist and a public health professor to look at the role of history and art in understanding and responding to Covid-19.
Keynotes:
Mark Bailey is a Professor of Late Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. In 2019 he was the James Ford Lecturer in British History at the University of Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, exploring the impact of the Black Death on the society and economy of fourteenth-century England.
Sarah Hawkes is the Director of the Centre for Gender and Global Health, and a medical doctor with a degree in sociology and a PhD in epidemiology. She is Professor of Global Public Health at University College London where she leads a research theme analysing the use of evidence in policy processes, particularly in relation to gender and health, and sexual health. She has lived and worked for much of the past 20 years in Asia, where she has gathered evidence, built capacity and helped develop policy for programmes focusing on gender, sexual health and human rights. She works closely with national governments, research organisations, WHO and UNFPA in Asia and the Middle East.
Paul Heritage is the Director of the People’s Palace Projects and Professor of Drama and Performance at Queen Mary University of London. For over three decades, Paul Heritage has created cultural projects as an investigation of the power of the arts in social change, including award-winning HIV/AIDS, education and human rights work. Paul is noted for his arts-based prison projects in Britain and Brazil and his work with AfroReggae in Brazil and the UK from 2001-2012. In recent years, he has focused increasingly on the relationships between arts and wellbeing, Creative Economy, preservation and artistic exchange between artists and cultural agents in Brazil and the UK and indigenous communities in Central Brazil. This included arts-based engagements with women’s experience of gender violence and acting as producer for a group of homeless choirs, Corais Uma Só Voz.
Chair:
Teresa Armijos Burneo is a Lecturer in Natural Resources and Development at the School of International Development. She is a social scientist, with more than 10 years of experience in interdisciplinary research that critically explores the intersection between the environment and development. Her research combines approaches from political ecology, development studies, history and decolonial theories to study disaster risk, and the politics of resource management. Teresa’s research applies participatory methodologies and the creative arts to co-produce knowledge with those most affected by environmental change. She has worked in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, St. Vincent, Montserrat and Guatemala.
Sponsored by Journal of Development Studies
Opening words on behalf of Oxford Development Studies by Nandini Gooptu
In this Development Studies Association 2021 closing plenary, co-founders of the Race and Development Working Group discuss insights gleaned from their three-part Roundtable Series examining the nexus between race and development, with an emphasis on 1) racialised ways of knowing development; 2) racial capitalism, imperialism and development; and 3) race, racism and the everyday in development. In particular, they converse with Christian Aid chief executive officer Amanda Khozi Mukwashi on how centring race can challenge mainstream and critical frameworks of development, and invite scholars, practitioners and policymakers to engage in self-reflexive thinking about the need for individual and institutional transformation.
Speakers:
Kamna Patel, University College London
Jenna Marshall, University of Kassel
Kalpana Wilson, Birkbeck, University of London
Althea-Maria Rivas, SOAS, University of London
Discussant:
Amanda Khozi Mukwashi is CEO of Christian Aid. Her career spans intergovernmental and non-governmental spaces, including the United Nations, VSO International and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa in Zambia. She is author of But Where Are You Really From? (SPCK, 2020).
Chair:
Robtel Neajai Pailey, London School of Economics and Political Science
Sponsored by Oxford Development Studies
Delegates are invited to join in the House of Games social event, a fun way to get to know others and share a virtual drink with one another!
Denys Lasdun created UEA's campus. It is an extraordinary piece of work by the postwar British architect. Inspired by his commitment to universal, challenging spaces, and a good amount of concrete we have put together a quiz like no other. We will be organised into teams, there will be activities, and spaces for political critique. There will even a chance to show off your knowledge of one of the finest medieval cities in Northern Europe, the storied home of Alan Partridge, and birthplace of the foundational sociologist Harriet Martineau.