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- Convenors:
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Ibrahim Natil
(Dublin City University)
Emanuela Girei (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Format:
- Paper panel
Short Abstract:
This panel aims to provide a platform for critical discussion and reflection on the third sector’s barriers, challenges and responses to increasingly polarised ideological and material conflicts. It aims to advance understandings of the sector grounded in solidarity, antiracism, and decolonisation.
Long Abstract:
Solidarity, antiracism and decolonisation have historically been key global themes for civil society organisations, and have recently gained a renewed interest in the CSO/NGO sector's attempts to address systemic global inequalities. Yet inequalities and injustices persist, worsen and increasingly intersect. This is most evident in current wars and conflict contexts, where humanitarian, social, environmental, geopolitical and economic crisis unfolds simultaneously in a broader, increasingly polarised, ideological global context.
The notion of polycrisis, where different risks/challenges/disasters coalesce, producing new forms and processes of oppression and inequalities, calls researchers and practitioners working with development CSO/NGO to rethink and reimagine solidarity antiracism and decolonisation.
This panel explores the notion of ‘polycrisis’ to share reflections and conversations on experiences and possibilities for advancing solidarity, anti-racism and decolonisation.
We are particularly interested in contributions exploring:
- Meanings, practices and experiences of solidarity, antiracism, and decolonisation (To what extent and how does the notion of polycrisis call for new conceptualisations and practices of solidarity, antiracism, and decolonisation? What do these terms mean? To what extent and how do they differ and intersect?);
- How expectations for CSO/NGO neutrality impact solidarity, antiracism, and decolonisation;
- What can we learn from current wars and conflicts to build and amplify solidarity, antiracism, and decolonisation;
- ‘Polycrisis’ and barriers to solidarity, antiracism, and decolonisation;
- Unintended consequences of solidarity, antiracism, and decolonisation.
This panel is organised by the NGO in Development study group. We welcome both empirical and theoretical contributions, and at various stages of development.