Dear All,
This call for papers might of your interest. We look forward to read your
submissions,
Ela Drazkiewicz and Artemy Kalinovsky
*‘Second World’ in the ‘Third World’: development cooperation between the
socialist camp and decolonising world. *
In the last decade development experts have been closely watching the
increase in global activity by countries such as Russia, China, Brazil and
the New Member States of the European Union. The interest of these
countries in development and foreign aid is often discussed with some
suspicion as a curious novelty, and they are classified as ‘emerging’ or
‘new’ donors. These categorisations reflect the existing distribution of
power in global governance and the tendency of Western actors to claim
unassailable
status as global leaders. They also reflect internal frictions within the
European Union between ‘Old’ vs. ‘New’, or ‘Western’ vs. ‘Eastern’ members.
Together with *New Perspectives* we are issuing a call for articles
concerned with the way these reformulations of the global development
apparatus suggest a disjuncture with the past. Even though the history of
development is rooted, in part, in the rivalry between the Western world
and the Soviet Bloc, this past is often neglected in politically-orientated
assessments of current changes. Such communal forgetting has profound
effects upon current policy-making in development governance: Firstly, it
contributes to the polarisation of stakeholders representing ‘traditional’
and ‘emerging’ donors (both within the EU and between the EU and Russia),
as well as among stakeholders pressing competing claims to embody ‘best
practices’ in the field (e.g. the EU vs. USA). Secondly, it results in
discourses that suggest both historical Western monopoly and contemporary
Western superiority in the field of international development, assigning
neophyte status to formerly socialist actors in this arena. Finally, it
facilitates the fashioning of Western development schemes as depoliticised
endeavours motivated by predominantly altruistic goals.
Therefore, the objective of this Call is to reconsider the history of
foreign aid and its implications for contemporary changes in global
governance and the international development apparatus. In order to grasp
the nuanced mechanisms involved in this process and to avoid crude
interpretations, we look for the papers that will examine development as a
set of cultural practices deeply embedded in particular local, national and
shared international histories. We are interested in papers that push
beyond what are often politically motivated analyses that devalue the
development experiences of former COMECON countries (Council for Mutual
Economic Assistance), and which are taking these varied experiences
seriously.
We look for the papers that will make an original contribution to
scholarship on the history of development during the Cold War, and will
move beyond the approach which tends to explain the international
activities of Soviet allies solely through the lenses of politics, ideology
and macroeconomics. We are interested in papers that examine how the
different values, worldviews and agendas of various stakeholders (for
instance political leaders, economists, experts, project participants, and
all those influenced by the cooperation etc.) impacted decision making and
development collaboration between different societies, both at micro and
macro levels.
We are also seeking contributions which examine how the individuals and
institutions who are today responsible for creating the contemporary
development mechanisms of former socialist countries use and reflect upon
their pasts as both donors and whether they offer alternatives to the
dominant ways of thinking about development cooperation.
Possible topics may include but are in no way limited to:
· Historical analysis of the past development projects undertaken
by the ‘Second World’ in the ‘Third World’,
· Studies problematising the notion of development and
investigating it different variants among non-Western donors, and across
different time-frames,
· inquiries examining the after-life of socialist development
projects,
· comparative studies examining differences and similarities
between the Soviet-era and neoliberal paradigms of progress, development
and modernity,
· studies concerned with the back stages of Second-Third world
cooperation: examining personal and professional trajectories of people
involved in these processes,
· analysis of these forms of collaborations which are usually
omitted in the main-stream approaches to development but constitute an
important part of the relationships linking the Socialist Camp and the
decolonising world (for instance academic and economic partnerships).
· Studies examining continuity and disjuncture with the past in the
contemporary development cooperation models undertaken by the
(re-)‘Emerging’ Donors.
New Perspectives is a multidisciplinary journal, scholars representing both
humanities and social sciences are encourage to submit their proposals.
Papers which combine historical as well as contemporary studies, are
particularly welcomed. There is no regional restriction in this call, and
we hope to put together a collection of papers which will represent the
past East-South collaboration in all its thematic as well as regional
diversity.
Article’s abstracts of longer than 300 words should be submitted to Dr
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz [log in to unmask] and Dr Artemy Kalinovsky
[log in to unmask] by 1st of July 2016. Please include in the subject
line: “Special Issue NP”
Decision regarding accepted articles will be made by the end of June, full
papers should be submitted by the end of March 2017.
We look forward to reading your proposals,
Ela Drazkiewicz (Maynooth University) and Artemy Kalinovsky (University of
Amsterdam).
--
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, PhD
Marie Curie Fellow,
Anthropology Department
Maynooth University, Ireland
www.eladrazkiewicz.com
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Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, PhD
Marie Curie Fellow,
Anthropology Department
Maynooth University, Ireland
www.eladrazkiewicz.com
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