Dear critters, another CFP ...
Call for Papers
Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)
Annual Conference 2014, 26-29 August, London
The Rising Powers as International Development Partners: Challenges and
Opportunities for Civil Society Organisations
Conveners: Emma Mawdsley (Geography, University of Cambridge) and Albert
Arhin (Geography, University of Cambridge)
This session will investigate the opportunities and challenges that the
emerging geographies of South-South and Triangular Development
Cooperation bring for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working in
international 'development'. This includes how they are being
incorporated within (or excluded from) theories and discourses of
South-South partnership, to their instrumental and political positioning
within emerging structures and processes of SSDC and TDC.
To date the focus of analysis on South-South Development Cooperation has
been on the roles and relationships of states (extending to state-owned
enterprises), and increasingly on 'private sector-led' development.
Little research exists on (a) whether and how Southern development
partners choose to work with or through their own CSOs or those in
partner countries; (b) whether and how CSOs are theorised within SSDC;
or (c) CSO activism within and across 'donor' and 'recipient' countries
as they seek to hold state and non-state Southern development actors to
account. How are different sorts of CSO - trades unions, development
NGOs, advocacy organisations and others - deepening, re-shaping or
contesting the changing geographies of power, new forms of exploitation
and/or solidarity, and changing economic opportunity and exploitation?
In this session we invite papers on any aspect of how civil society
organisations - transnational, 'Northern' or 'Southern' (with obvious
acknowledgement of the problematic nature of these designations), are
responding to the challenges and opportunities of the rising powers as
increasingly important and influential development actors, and
concomitant changes in the international development landscape.
We invite paper abstracts of 100-200 words by 7 February 2014. If you
have any queries please feel free to email Emma Mawdsley
([log in to unmask]) or Albert Arhin ([log in to unmask]).
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