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Subject: Call for papers - Rural China under New Leadership. University
of Würzburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:56:12 +0000
From: Rebecca Favell <[log in to unmask]>
*“Rural China under New Leadership”*
April 11 through 13, 2013
University of Würzburg, Germany
*Call for Papers*
*FOR LATE SUBMISSION*
please contact Eva Wieland (*Description: Opens window for sending
email**eva.wieland@uni-wuerzburg* <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or
Björn Alpermann (*Description: Opens window for sending
email**[log in to unmask]*
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
*Background:*
Some ten years ago important leadership changes at the top of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and state paved the way for far-reaching
shifts in policy priorities with regard to rural development. Gradually,
significant individual policy initiatives coalesced into a major
programme called “Building a New Socialist Countryside”. This policy
shift has had enormous impact on diverse fields ranging from governance
and public finance through all fields of economic activity to social
policy. Under the decade-long administration led by Hu Jintao and Wen
Jiabao major progress has been achieved in a number of these areas
leading to the transformation of rural China. Yet, the consequences of
this modernization programme have not all been benign. For instance
rapid urbanization necessitated the conversion of huge swathes of arable
land and led to other social and environmental concerns. Significantly,
in early 2011 the National Statistical Bureau of China announced that
for the first time the share of China’s urban population surpassed that
of the rural. Thus, the next change in top political leadership,
scheduled for late 2012 and early 2013, provides an excellent
opportunity to take stock of these recent developments and analyse them
in larger contexts. Looking ahead, conference papers may also address
the challenges facing the incoming leadership and discuss their possible
solutions. As the previous change in leadership amply demonstrated, this
can be a crucial factor for policy innovation. So it is all the more
important to correctly understand the choices facing this new generation
of political leaders.
*Questions to be pursued at the conference include, but are not limited
to, the following:*
· What route has rural development taken in the past decade? How
have political goals been set, operationalized and received in society?
What has been the impact of these policies and what have been their
shortcomings? What might be potential solutions for current problems?
· How does the current approach to rural development mirror
earlier attempts to spur rural development and how does it differ? What
have been sources of rural change beyond the confines of state-set
policies? What roles do social actors play in the process?
· How does rural China relate to broad economic trends such as
the world food price crisis, world trade or globalization writ large?
What is China’s role in the outsourcing of agricultural production?
· What are the challenges in China’s countryside in terms of
social change, economic development, technology, ecological degradation
and political governance? How have efforts at establishing a rural
welfare system or achieving rural—urban integration played out? What are
the prospects for rural policies in the future?
Obviously, such broad questions can only be tackled from a
multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary perspective. Therefore, ECARDC
provides a platform for academic exchange beyond the usual confines of
scholarly conferences and elicits proposals for panels and individual
papers submitted from all disciplines, such as economics, political
science, sociology, anthropology, agronomics, geography etc. In
particular, ECARDC encourages the lively exchange between academics and
practitioners in development as well as between European and other
western participants and those from China and the global south. Young
scholars are specifically encouraged to submit proposals based on their
on-going researches.
*Topics to be addressed may relate to one or more of the following
subthemes:*
1. *Economic trends and organizations:* urban—rural inequalities;
integration in global trade and FDI (both incoming and outgoing);
development of agribusiness; farmers’ organizations; rural
industrialization; migration and labour market development; agricultural
R&D and extension etc.
2. *Rural policies and politics:* administrative and governance
reforms; the role of local state and social actors in development;
property rights and rural land; education, health and other social
policies; welfare finance and provision of public goods
3. *Social change and modernization:* the roles of religious,
lineage and other forms of rural social self-organization, social
contention, migration and off-farm labour; urban—rural integration and
reform of household registration; changes in social and political
values, gender and generational relations or familial and kinship structures
4. *Environmental challenges:* pollution, degradation and
mitigation; “cancer villages”, epidemics and other rural public health
issues; green and “low-carbon technologies”; rural energy and
sustainable development
*Panel and/or paper proposals*
It is possible to present an individual paper, or to propose a panel
with several participants. We welcome any paper or panel proposal that
touches on the theme of *ECARDC XI: Rural China under New Leadership* or
one of the subthemes listed above.
*Keynote Speakers*
On top of panel presentations leading experts on China’s rural
development will present their views on major issues in the field.
§ *Kevin O'Brien*, Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies &
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkley
§ *Thomas Heberer*, Chair Professor of Politics of East Asia at the
Political Science Department and the Institute of East Asian Studiews
(IN-EAST) at the University of Duisburg-Essen
§ *Scott Rozelle*, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and co-director of
the Rural Education Action Programm in the Freeman Spogli Institute for
International Studies at Stanford University
*Registration*
Participants who wish to present a paper and/or organize a panel must
submit a paper and/or panel abstract (max. 300 words) by *31 July 2012*.
The early deadline is necessary in order to ensure successful funding
applications. Participants will be notified of acceptance one month
later, and must confirm participation to the conference coordinator (see
the Organizing Committee below for contact details). Participants who
want to take part in the conference, but do /not/ wish to present a
paper are also kindly asked to register by 1 January 2013. For
registration, fill the form on the conference website
(*www.ecardc.uni-wuerzburg.de* <http://www.ecardc.uni-wuerzburg.de/>).
*Full conference papers and presentations*
The full papers must be submitted to the conference organizer by 1 March
2013 so they can be made available for the discussants and other
participants in good time. Those who cannot meet this deadline are
kindly asked to bring sufficient copies of their papers to distribute to
the other participants at the conference. Each individual presentation
of a paper will be allotted 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation+10
minutes discussion and debate).
*Publication*
ECARDC XI aims to publish a selection of high quality papers as an
edited volume or a special issue of a quality refereed journal. Former
conferences have resulted in several edited volumes or special journal
issues of selected papers that are well-received in scholarly circles,
in recent years including:
· Stig Thøgersen, Ane Bislev (eds.), /Organizing Rural China –
Rural China Organizing /(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
· Björn Alpermann (ed.), /Politics and Markets in Rural China/
(London and New York: Routledge, 2011).
· Heather Xiaoquan Zhang (guest editor), Special Issue
“Transforming Rural China: Beyond the Urban Bias?”, /Journal of Current
Chinese Affairs/, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2009).
Universität Würzburg Institut für Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und
Südasiens - Sinologie Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Tel. 0931/31
82202
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Careers, Alumni and Marketing
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield (Times Higher Education University of the Year)
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