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I am Jojo Nem Singh from the University of Sheffield and I am writing as Convenor of the Development Politics Group in the Political Studies Association (PSA). The Annual Meeting of PSA will be held in March 25-27, 2012 at Cardiff. I would like to invite those who might be interested to organise panels on development politics. This is an excellent opportunity to provide development politics/IPE with more visibility within the PSA and to encourage links across these two Associations by creating partnerships across our research working groups Development Politics, and International Political Economy Group. I encourage everyone to send me a paper or panel abstract and I will try my best to organise a series of panels for the annual event to further these links. Please note that the deadline is October 14 so please send me an email expressing your interest as soon as possible. Any query should be directed to [log in to unmask] . Best wishes Jojo About the Conference The theme of the 2013 Political Studies Association Annual Conference, The Party's Over?, speaks to a number of senses in which assumptions and modalities that have hitherto underpinned political life, and political analysis, may no longer be sustainable. The collapse of the developed world's dominant macro-economic growth models have brought down with them the assumptions of prosperity that underpinned the main political agendas of both right and left. What political-economic options remain viable? The apparent inability of mainstream politics to offer solutions, beyond endless austerity, to current problems offers to contribute further to the long-term decline in the popularity and social reach of leading political parties in many states. What future is there for representative politics? A dominant feature of political life for half a century has been European integration. As one of the most visible manifestations of that process, the Euro, now struggles for its very existence, what prospects – if any – does this project still have? As the dominance of the 'West' over global politics is rapidly eroded, what implications do the movement of power and wealth eastwards have for global politics? And what will replace Pax Americana? The crisis of esteem faced by much of the established news media, symbolised and crystallised by the Leveson Inquiry, has perhaps obscured a longer-term, deeper collapse of the economic basis underpinning much of the conventional news media. How will future generations be informed about politics? And what forms of politics will these media favour? What does Political Studies have to say about these, and many other, questions that arise from a sense that, in many respects, The Party's Over? Call for Proposals for Panels and Papers We invite paper and panel proposals on any topics related to the conference theme, as well as on other topics spanning the entire range of political studies. For details of submission procedures, and to submit a panel or paper proposal, please see here. Any questions about any aspects of the submission process should be directed to the academic convenors at [log in to unmask] The final deadline for submission of all proposals is 14 October 2012. Earlier submission of proposals is encouraged. -- Jewellord T. Nem Singh Research Fellow Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) University of Sheffield 219 Portobello Road Sheffield, S1 3DP United Kingdom Telephone: +44-114-222-8348 Latest Publication: 'Who Owns the Minerals? Repoliticizing Neoliberal Governance in Brazil and Chile', Special Issue, The New Politics of Mineral Extraction in Latin America, Journal of Developing Societies, 28 (2): 229-256. http://jds.sagepub.com/content/28/2.toc Reconstituting the Neostructuralist State: Political Economy of Continuity with Change in Chilean Mining Policy, Third World Quarterly, 31 (8): 1413-1433. http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0143-6597&volume=31&issue=8&spage=1413