- Convenors:
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Keetie Roelen
(The Open University)
Jennifer Agbaire (The Open University, UK)
Alison Buckler (The Open University)
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- Format:
- Paper panel
- Stream:
- Reimagining development: From global cooperation to local agency
Short Abstract
Drawing on lessons from across high, middle and low-income countries and across sectors, this paper panel explores the potential for centring the global challenge of promoting wellbeing to help us reimagine and offer alternative paradigms for development and social justice.
Description
This paper panel explores the potential for centring the global challenge of promoting wellbeing to help us reimagine and offer alternative paradigms for development and social justice.
From addressing learning loss following the Covid-19 pandemic, seeking ways to provide quality care to ageing populations and tackle health challenges, to overcoming persistent poverty, efforts to advance wellbeing increasingly ask for an approach beyond conventional geographical and sectoral boundaries. This panel explores how those boundaries can be challenged and disrupted by critically engaging with lessons learned from lived experience, efforts and initiatives (i) across geographical boundaries, thereby furthering scholarly debate on the merits and challenges of a ‘global development’ framing and (ii) across international development and sector-oriented scholarship, including (international) education, public health, migration studies and social policy, thereby extending our conceptualisation of wellbeing across SDGs. In combination, this allows for reflecting on and rethinking meanings of development and notions of social justice.
For this panel, we invite papers that explicitly explore learning from across low, middle, and high-income country divides, and are especially interested in contributions that are grounded in or connect strongly with sectoral literature and experiences. We welcome contributions that are conceptual or empirical in nature as well as early ideas for debate. From a methodological perspective, we are open to all methods and particularly receptive to proposals that are based on collaborative research or co-production of knowledge. We invite all contributors to reflect critically on ethics and power in the process of cross-context and cross-disciplinary research and learning.