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Dear friends and colleagues,
Paper submission deadline for the ECAS 2013 conference is 16 January.
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We welcome abstracts for the following Panel:
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*Convenors*
Fabiola Mancinelli (Universitat de Barcelona)
Valentina Mutti (Universitá di Milano Bicocca)
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*UN POLICIES AND LOCAL REALITIES IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA*
If the UN and its agencies are an important force of present-day
globalisation, it is also true that their universalist goals are conceived
and delivered through a Western epistemological order and language. How are
this language and policies met, adapted and accommodated to local needs and
expectations? What kind of ambiguities or contradictions emerge in the
relationship with national and local systems of knowledge and power
management?
In order to better understand the impacts of the many projects pursued
under the UN umbrella, we need to pay attention to the interplay between
several aspects - on both institutional and local scale , the details of
which are often little known.
On the one side, action plans, guidelines for each country and funds'
allocation influence the planning of interventions, together with other
external factors (e.g. initiatives such as the Millennium Development
Goals). Which instruments are implemented by UN Programmes (peer education,
mentorship, in-job trainings, etc.)? Which kind of local participation they
actually foster, behind the theory of "participatory development"? How are
results and sustainability evaluated over time? How are potential unwanted
effects in the field dealt with?
On the other side, at a national and regional level, how are UN Programmes
accommodated, resisted or criticised? How is their idea of development
locally perceived, interpreted and evaluated? Is there, according to
different contexts, a dynamic of change and mutual adaptation over time?
The panel welcomes ethnographic contributions about UN policies and local
arenas of implementation: "succesfull" and "unsuccesfull" case-studies,
examples of good practices along with critical analysis and interpretations
are all welcome.
To upload an abstract for this panel, please, click on the following link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2061
Best wishes
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