Dear All,
Sorry to keep sending emails about this. But as the deadline is upcoming this week, I thought I would highlight again the upcoming day-long academic workshop, BRICS: Unpacking land-use transformations being organized at the University of Oxford's Department of International Development (QEH) on June 14, 2019.
Nearly 20 years have passed since the acronym BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) was brought into our popular vernacular by Jim O’Neill, an economist at Goldman Sachs. Much anticipation was placed on this emerging bloc of nation-states and its potential future impact on the global economy, hopes even going so far as to predict that these countries would overtake the six largest industrialised western economies by 2041. In the years since, these countries have undergone dramatic land-use transformations in the name of economic ‘growth’ and ‘development:’ China’s attempts at reestablishing the Silk Road Economic Belt across Europe, Asia and Africa; in India, the Modi Administration’s plan to develop 100 smart cities connected by bullet trains; Moscow’s aspiration to build the Russian Far East into a ‘new economic bridge’ between Europe and Asia through the development of Advanced Special Economic Zones; the expansion of industrial large-scale farming in Brazil and South Africa, are all in many ways manifestations of the BRICS visions for ‘sustainable’ and ‘smart’ development.’
These dramatic land transformations are also spaces of contestation: between the planned and unplanned, formal and informal; the rural and urban; of shifting economic interests and priorities; of imaginations about futures and understandings of the present and past. The negotiations within these contested spaces merit our attention. It is here, in these ‘in-betweens,’ that contemporary social, political and economic trajectories begin to materialize, drawn out, unevenly and piecemeal.
Kindly find further details in the attached CfP.
The workshop is designed to create a space to receive detailed feedback and discussion among senior academics and colleagues. Select papers from the workshop will be invited to contribute to a peer-reviewed Special Issue of the Oxford Development Studies.
Papers for the workshop should be an original piece that has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Please send an abstract of 500 words or less by 12pm (noon), 15 March 2019 to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> together with a short bio. Limited funds will be available to cover travel expenses. Please add a budget if you require assistance funding your trip to Oxford along with the relevant quotes.
If you could kindly circulate this information among your students and faculty, we would be grateful.
Sincerely,
Mihika Chatterjee & Ikuno Naka
DPhil Candidates in Department of International Development
University of Oxford
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