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Call for papers International Workshop Imagining Development Comparing Theory and Practice of Development in the Post-socialist World Institute of Governance and Political Science, Tallinn University, Estonia 8-9 November 2013 Details This workshop is part of the Marie Curie Project PIRSES-GA-2013-318961 (PSDEV): “Imagining Development: A multidisciplinary and multilevel analysis of development policies and their effect in the post-socialist world.” PSDEV is coordinated by the Institute of Governance and Political Science at Tallinn University and features seven other partners: University of Birmingham, Centre for Eastern European and Russian Studies University of Fribourg, Seminaire d'anthropologie University of Latvia, Centre for Gender Studies Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Humanities Moscow Higher School of Economics, Laboratory for Business Communication Renmin University of China, School of International Studies Guangdong University of Foreign Studies We will have participants from all our partner institutions but would like to use this workshop also as a networking event. Therefore, we would be happy to hear from scholars outside the network who would like to present their research and to network with the prospect of a follow-up project in the coming years. The workshop will be composed of two parts: Young scholars section: PhD students and recent PhD graduates will have the opportunity of presenting their research and get feedback from more senior scholars. Networking section: Participants will have the chance to present briefly their research and meet with other scholars from a wide network of universities. In addition to the project partners, we will invite scholars from two more networks Tallinn University is coordinating plus from other major European universities. Focus of the workshop The workshop will explore the way development (be this local or national, political or social) in a series of post-socialist states has been conceived, implemented and applied to different political, economic and geopolitical realities across the region and the response that has generated from this implementation. The three guiding research questions are: First, what are the main features of development policies conceived in the past 20 years in and towards the post-socialist region? What have been their main achievements and limits? Second, what have been the effects of development policies conceived at the national and international level on the different segments of a society or a given local territory? Whilst policies may be regulated in details, and its rules are findable among official documents, little is known about the extent and the way in which those instructions are renegotiated and alternatives channels of distribution created in the cases where formal and informal rules do not overlap. Third, what are the new interactions being created and what is the relationship with traditional spaces of economic development policies? Often failure to deliver the expected results is ascribed to the wrong measures adopted or the result of incompetence (or corruption). Those two interpretations fail to consider the case when such irregularities persist in time and bring different results but not necessarily worse than the ones envisaged when conceived given policies or actions. Technical details There is no registration fee; we are unable to cover travel costs but we will provide accommodation and food for selected speakers (8-10 November). Deadline for submission of abstracts (with a short bio) is September 25, 2013. Send everything to Emilia Pawlusz [log in to unmask] (cc to Abel at [log in to unmask] ) NB: If you are interested and learn too late about this workshop, there are chances that we can still accept 1-2 abstracts but we cannot guarantee accommodation for late comers or non-speaking attendants.