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Dear colleagues,
Below is a call for abstracts for a panel at the ASA Conference, Durham 4th - 7th July 2016, "Research as Development".
P39 Research as Development
Convenors: Salla Sariola (University of Oxford) and Justin Dixon (Durham University)
Chair: Bob Simpson
Since the 1990s there has been a substantial increase in the volume of medical research being conducted in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Despite travelling with explicit epistemological purposes, medical research shapes and constructs local realities in the same moment that it strives to 'measure' them. Material improvements, capacity building, even nation-building - aspirations such as these are woven into research cultures in ways that unsettle abstract biomedical futures. Mainstream bioethics has begun to acknowledge that researchers should contribute to improving local circumstances as well as ensuring access to licensed products. Indeed, capacity building and benefit sharing are now standard features of research initiatives, and the research enterprise more generally has become entangled in discourses of development.
Yet the idea of development as progress is problematic. What problems arise when practices that rely on inequities in health and wealth to generate data become engaged in their alleviation? Who gets to define what development means and how? To what extent do transnational research collaborations have genuine transformative potential? Or do developmental practices function to exacerbate existing inequalities and even generate novel ones? Answering these questions requires close attention to the everyday interactions between researchers, their local collaborators, and study populations, as well as the futures and moral visions that they enact. We therefore invite papers that grapple with the predicament of research as development - its possibilities and limitations, inclusions and omissions - and what this might mean for more responsible and responsive medical research in LMICs.
Abstract Submission
The abstract can submitted online at: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4285
Proposals must consist of:
- a paper title
- the name(s) and email address(es) of author(s)
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words
Abstract Deadline: 15th February 2016
Abstract Notification: 25th February 2016
If you have any questions regarding the panel, please feel free to contact us:
Salla Sariola & Justin Dixon
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