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- Convenor:
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Indrajit Roy
(University of York)
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- Chair:
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Sam Hickey
(University of Manchester)
- Discussants:
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Giles Mohan
(The Open University)
Naomi Hossain (SOAS University of London)
Kate Meagher (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Format:
- Roundtable
- Stream:
- Politics in and of Global Development
- Location:
- B303
- Sessions:
- Wednesday 26 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
This Roundtable will introduce and discuss a new textbook for postgraduate students, forthcoming with Routledge titled Global Development Politics. Co-authored by Indrajit Roy and Sam Hickey, the textbook deepens and furthers a “global” approach to development.
Long Abstract:
This Roundtable will introduce and discuss a new textbook for postgraduate students, forthcoming with Routledge titled Global Development Politics. Co-authored by Indrajit Roy (York) and Samuel Hickey (Manchester), the textbook deepens and furthers a “global” approach to development that dismantles the hierarchical binary between the global North and global South that has framed the study of development. In thinking about the politics of global development, the book departs from the Eurocentric tendency to think about the discipline as a series of experiments on the world’s poor, aided by the benevolence of powerful actors in rich countries. Instead, it foregrounds the dynamic interplay between the international, national, and sub-national actors that are shaping a changing world, thus highlighting the ways in which what Adrian Leftwich (2013) called “rules of the game” and “games within the rules” shape one another.
Inspired by emerging field of “global studies”, Global Development Politics is careful not to replace Eurocentric perspectives with Sinocentric, Indo-centric, and Afro-centric ones. Instead, it explores the “connected politics” that shape development practices in a world facing interlinked challenges. Global Development Politics shines a light on the new actors in the global South whose development interventions are profoundly transforming the world order, thus making it imperative to reimagine the discipline. Discussants will include a diverse range of leading development scholars with differing perspectives on global development, international development, and development studies.
PS: Professor Samuel Hickey is co-convening this panel with me but the system would not let me "add" him as co-convenor.
Accepted contributions:
Session 1 Wednesday 26 June, 2024, -Nilima Gulrajani (ODI)
Contribution short abstract:
A reflection on the ways the global development paradigm impinges on Northern donor policies and institutions, including what may be gained or lost in the process.
Contribution long abstract:
I will likely raise more questions than provide definitive answers in my remarks. Nevertheless, my aim is to bring this discussion on global development into dialogue with ongoing policy reflections about the changing role and functions of Northern providers of concessional finance (ie "donors").
Some of the questions I would like to reflect on:
Does global development point to dissolution, reform or radical transformation of donors? What does it imply for the allocation of concessional aid? How does it shift the locus of engagement across government actors? What kind of knoweldge and expertise might be required and where should it sit? What channels and interlocutors become more relevant?
Drawing attention to such questions can help identify new topics for research that straddle the academic-policy divide.
Lerato Tsebe (University of Johannesburg)
Contribution short abstract:
I would like to bring in more nuances perspectives from the global South and see how they can contribute to the entire notion of development as a whole, especially in informing the interplay between the Global North and the Global South.
Contribution long abstract:
REDEFINING DEVELOPMENT, REINFORMING GLOBAL POLITICAL POWER.
The prevailing deterioration of the global political order has propelled the state of multilateral institutions has brought to a ground halt the various ways in which development theories and functions operate on a multilateral institutional stage. Never before in history has the United Nations system, as a whole been under such duress, nor has any of the political ideologies that have bound it as a cohesive force been under such severe threat and sustained pressure. This is attributed to the fact that the political theory that informed the Post- World War II consensus are dismantling, with a ground swell of pressure coming in from the Global South demanding that there be a structural and fundamental change in the form and substance of the global governance architecture.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) are indicative of measurable targeted goals, that when operating in unison should enhance the development of individual states. However, as the end of the UNSDG draws near, it is time for a new framework, for a developmental trajectory to be engineered less so reliant on aid and targeted development goal milestones, but rather operating on the premise that the mere notion of what development means and infers differs from global north and global south. Furthermore, in global international politics, it is more often than not that how development is framed that also consequently shapes global politics and the North/ South divide.