CfP "Development Alternatives within Contested Territories in Latin America" which will take place from 29-30 January 2020 at the University of Sheffield. 

Abstract submission deadline: 13 December 2019

We are able to offer up to five £100 bursaries for participants (please highlight in your application that you want to be considered for this bursary).

Keynote interventions by Miriam Lang (Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar), Catalina Ortiz (UCL), Leandro Minuchin (University of Manchester), and Claire Wright (Universidad de Monterrey)

Summary:
Recent political changes in Latin America point towards a return towards nationalist, (neo)colonial and neoliberal ideologies. Such trends are often accompanied by a deepening of intersectional inequalities, processes of democratic decline, and violations of human rights and rights to nature. Throughout the region, grassroots movements are actively involved in challenging such uneven patterns of development. This is evident in previous and current social uprisings and territorial struggles throughout the region which confront the exploitation of populations and nature, call for a reduction of inequalities, and advocate for development alternatives framed around, among others, the commons, degrowth, feminist and afro-descendent thought, as well as indigenous cosmovisions. Such alternatives possess the potential for sustainability and transferability across different contexts and provide innovative approaches to territory production and associated human-environment relations, values and knowledges. Yet, to date, such alternatives have been marginalised by policy makers and private sector representatives. Importantly, such approaches challenge dominant world-views and are orientated towards the Pluriverse – an understanding of reality that is constituted “not only by many worlds, but by many kinds of worlds, many ontologies, many ways of being in the world, many ways of knowing reality, and experimenting those many worlds” (Querejazu 2016).

This workshop will focus on the construction of development alternatives in the context of Contested Territories, focusing not only on previous and recent social uprisings in Latin America but also on the institutionalisation of development alternatives – for example, within Bolivia’s and Ecuador’s constitutions – as well as on more subtle conscious and unconscious day-to-day practices which put into question conventional forms of development.

In moments of crisis, we need to identify alternatives. Come and join us in the discussion and submit an abstract. For full details about this workshop and how you can contribute (in English/ Spanish or Portuguese) please see this link: https://whiterose.ac.uk/event/contested-territories-3rd-international-workshop/   

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