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Dear all,
I would like to invite you to the 2012 EASA workshop:
*The anthropology of "emerging donors" and the uncertainty of developmental
futures (W114)*
We invite papers exploring how anthropology can unpack the phenomenon of
"emerging donors", attending to the ways this undermines certainties about
the norms of international development assistance and cooperation, such as
who belongs in categories of donor and recipient, and how aid may be given.
Abstract:
The twentieth-century development paradigm conveyed great certainty about
both the modernizing potential of developmental schemes and the intended
targets of such schemes, even as it was deployed to address global
uncertainties such as poverty and hunger. What has lingered into the
twenty-first century is a conviction that particular geographical locations
and populations are in need of development, while particular other
geographical locations and populations are destined to deliver aid. Yet the
defining moment of global development at the start of this century is the
phenomenon of "emerging donors", countries whose governments have begun to
actively pursue programmes of international development assistance and
cooperation, sometimes in defiance of global norms about who may give and
how such giving should proceed. In this context, the dominance of the
"global North" is seemingly challenged by "south-south cooperation", while
some eastern donors have been accused of providing "authoritarian aid" that
"undermines democracy". It is partly because development studies has for so
long tended to look from the perspective of the ("Western") donor and from
deep within assumptions of the manifest dominance of "Western" notions of
global capitalism that these "emerging donors" appear to be a novelty; but
there is a much more complex and rich story to tell, one that
anthropologists are particularly well-suited to tackle. We invite papers
that explore the changing global configuration of donors and recipients at
any level, and particularly those that unpack the discourses of development
in order to get to a critical anthropology of the practices underneath.
TO PROPOSE A PAPER follow the link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1044
Ela Dr±¿kiewicz-Grodzicka
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El¿bieta Dr±¿kiewicz
Phd Candidate
Dept. of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Pembroke College
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