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- Convenors:
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Romain Chenet
(University of Warwick)
Maria Gavris (University of Warwick)
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- Format:
- Experimental format
Short Abstract:
This panel considers alternative approaches to conceptualising, pursuing, and expressing ‘development’, seeking to build on legacies of critical development thinking and scholarship while also exploring new ideas emerging out from the crises that mark our era.
Long Abstract:
Physical, epistemic, and psychological violence inflicted by dominant exertions of power across development eras has prompted repeated attempts to engage constructively with alternatives to the mainstream paradigm, responding to community experiences and diverse cultures.
Working with an overarching theme of ‘polycrisis’ and challenges / opportunities this presents for development studies, this panel invites a playful and generative approach in seeking paths past rightful but disempowering frustrations, desperation, and identity crises that – like in the 1990s – appear to be gripping our sector again. Stepping ‘out’ from what has been called our interregnum or, in Tibetan terms, our bardo, we include contributions from a plurality of sources to explore perspectives that marginalised ontologies, epistemologies, and human groupings can offer into development studies.
Our panel’s aim is to rearticulate and potentially discover new development aspirations for our common but differentiated futures. We share inputs from a diverse and evolving canon of post-development, pluriversal, degrowth, decolonial, ‘alternative’, and otherwise critical approaches to development studies. We encourage participants to also engage with temporal, dialectical, and/or discursive relationships between alternative approaches to development and overlapping crises: how do these crises shape meanings we give ‘development’, and how can these alternative meanings in turn influence our understanding of the polycrisis?
Regarding format, we are open to theoretical, conceptual, artistic, and practical / case-based responses to this panel, which can be experimental or ‘conventional’ in form (depending on proposers’ wishes in terms of how their contributions can best be articulated in the allotted time).