Call for papers for an edited book
Encountering Deceptions of Development(s):
Exploring the Practices and Knowledge in Central Eurasia
NB: Our definition of Central Eurasia includes a variety of regions from the Caucasus to India (see http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/ces_definition.html)
Editors
Amiya Kumar Das, Tezpur University, India
Abel Polese, Dublin City University and Tallinn University
Anna Romanowicz, Jagiellonian University Poland
Rationale
Development, or better a normative understanding of what development should be, has been uncritically considered as a panacea for a range of social and political problems throughout the world. Critical views, often grounded on empirical studies showing the limits of this approach (Escobar 1994), have shifted attention towards resistances and counter-narratives from both the Global South and the Global North, which pose a series of challenges to traditional understandings of development.
Persuasive neoliberal agendas have shifted attention away from the social responsibility of the state, with citizens left to struggle to cope despite or beyond the state (Polese et al 2018). This proposed volume comes in response to the above tendency. We invite contributors to explore local knowledge in development practice and to examine how it encounters hegemonic notions of development and the developmental paradigm.
With this book, we seek to understand both formal and informal approaches to produce nuanced knowledge that can help develop critical ideas on how to better engage with development practice in various areas of the world, especially in the the non-Western world. We expect, with this proposed volume, to foster a dialogue on development ideas and practice encountered by various communities throughout Central Eurasia. Contributions may also delve into issues pertaining to people in their everyday lives in encountering with the promise and deception of development in the developing world.
We welcome case-study informed chapters fostering the understanding of issues including (but not limited to):
Contemporary Development discourse in southern countries
Resistance and alternatives to developmental projects and planning
Challenges to Neoliberal Regimes and Policies
Countering the state through informal governance
Limits to urbanism and planned cities
Ecological and environmental critiques of Development
Epistemological and ontological critiques of Developmentalism
Politics of Poverty, Hunger and (De)Growth
Performative development in the socio-cultural sphere
If interested, please send an abstract by the 5th of March 2019 to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Selected authors will be notified by the beginning of April. First drafts are due by the 31st of August, 2019
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