Stockholm
University, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency invite
abstracts from all disciplinary backgrounds for the
?Development Research Conference on "Global Visions
and Local Practices" to be held in Stockholm,
22-24 August, 2016.
Deadline
for abstract: 21 March 2016
AIM: The aim of this
conference is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum
for networking and intellectual exchange among scholars
who conduct research in and of relevance to low-income
countries and/or engage in capacity-building collaborations.
Researchers and research students will present ongoing
and completed research, including projects funded
by Sida and the Swedish Research Council. The conference
also intends to offer a platform for dialogue and
strengthen the relation between development research
and policy makers.
THEME: Development visions
have gained momentum with the setting up of a new
global agenda. While significant international consensus
was attained around a set of normative goals (the
SDG's), their materialization calls for serious reflection.
One critical set of challenges relates to bridging
global goals and visions, on the one hand, and local
practices, realities and conditions, on the other.
Ultimately, the outcomes of this global agenda depend
upon the processes through which it is implemented
and embedded in concrete settings. Global visions
are modified by local contexts, producing a range
of unintended and diverse outcomes. Local settings
are characterized by an immense diversity in modes
of life, physical environments and technical systems,
which invites a consideration of a diversity of paths
towards improved futures. Actors at the local level
may embrace, appropriate or resist global agendas.
Opportunities and risks for marginalized and vulnerable
groups – the key targets of the new global agenda
– are of particular concern. Also important is how
their own innovations and everyday practices in a
wide range of spheres (environmental, health, social
and other practices) can be harnessed, their capacities
and knowledges mobilized and how they can influence
strategies and interventions seeking to materialize
global development goals.
An emphasis on the encounter between current global
visions and local contexts does not, however, entail
that the great global-local challenges of our time
can be solved at one specific scale. It rather actualizes
long-standing questions about processes, structures
and relations at multiple scales that work against,
or alternatively open new avenues towards more just
and sustainable futures.
There is an acute need for reflection concerning the
role of knowledge production in the new policy context.
How can the competences of a broad and diverse Swedish
academic community be mobilized and shape Swedish
global policies and interventions? Can opportunities
for critical independent research be secured? Researchers
may contribute to the development of indicators, to
the assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts
relating to the new global agenda, but they may also
reflect upon the assumptions and notions of progress
underlying their own work and the new agenda and its
implementation.
Prominent keynote speakers will be invited to address
this thematic area.?
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – deadline
21 March 2016
Abstracts are invited from all disciplinary backgrounds
to the panels listed at the end of this call and at
www.su.se/devres2016.
Please submit only one abstract to the conference
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail both to the
panel convener/s and to devres2016@humangeo.su.se.
Abstracts should have a maximum length of 250 words,
in plain text, and be saved in Word format. Name the
file by stating the number of the panel you are submitting
to, followed by your surname, ex 12_Surname.docx.
Please adhere to the following format:
- Name of the panel
- Title of the abstract (lowercase letters)
- Author's name and e-mail
- Author's institutional affiliation
- Body of the abstract
The selection of abstracts will be made by the panel
convener/s and the organizing committee. Abstract
authors will be notified during the second half of
April and accepted abstracts will be published on
the conference webpage. Panel Conveners will organize
their sessions and coordinate the submission of full
papers.
Some limited travel funding will be available for
researchers from a selection of countries – list available
atwww.su.se/devres2016. It can be applied for in connection
with the abstract submission, by stating this in the
abstract and by enclosing your CV and a letter of
motivation (including whether the applicant has other
funding available). Successful applicants will be
notified during the second half of April.
REGISTRATION
DEADLINE: 15 June 2016
Registration is to be done through the conference
web page. Registration will open in mid-April. There
will be no registration fee, but the participants
have to cover their own costs of travel and lodging.
The conference starts on the 22nd August at 13.00
(please note that registration is to be done before
that) and ends on the 24th August at 16.00.
NETWORKING SPACE – deadline
15 June 2016
There will be an opportunity for organizing meetings
aimed at developing networks, as well as other events,
during the last day of the conference. Propositions
of such a meeting or event should be sent to devres2016@humangeo.su.se
by 15 June and state the theme and purpose (between
50-150 words), the potentially interested audience
at the conference, as well as the name and institutional
affiliation of the initiators. These meetings and
events will be announced in the conference program
and website.
VENUE: The Conference
will be held at Stockholm University Campus, not far
from the center of Stockholm, in the Aula Magna and
the Geo Sciences Building.
LANGUAGE: English
FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACTS
On the conference web page there will be suggestions
concerning accommodation and other important information:www.su.se/devres2016
Conference administration:
Questions concerning registration, technical arrangements
and logistics should be sent to devresreg@konf.su.se,
Conference Services at Stockholm University.
For inquiries relating to the conference program,
content and sessions:
E-mail: devres2016@humangeo.su.se,
Lena Fält, Tel. +46 (0)8 164842.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ilda Lindell (chair), Department of Human Geography,
Stockholm University
Lisa Román, the Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency
Kerstin Sahlin, the Swedish Research Council
Anna Herou, the Swedish Research Council
Henrik Berglund, Stockholm University
Johan Lindquist, Stockholm University
Vesa-Matti Loiske, Södertörn University
Steve Lyon, Stockholm University
David Nilsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Karolinska Institutet
Lena Fält (conference administrator), Stockholm
University
LIST OF PANELS
Panel descriptions and contact details for conveners
are available at www.su.se/devres2016
- Starting from the local: avoiding, accommodating
and/or overcoming global visions for science and
development
- Where are we now? The past and the future of Swedish
development research collaboration
- Environmental migration and governance in Africa
- Is "Precarity" a useful concept for
understanding development in Asia?
- Infrastructure and the political ordering of development
- Antibiotic resistance and measures to control
its consequences – need for a multidisciplinary
approach
- Contested urban visions in the Global South
- Land and resource tenure rights in the context
of new global development agendas
- The sustainable development goals: from global
to local governance
- Establishing participatory processes in ecosystem-based
agricultural management strategies
- From the failures of anti-politics to the promise
of cash transfer: James Ferguson and the development
encounter
- The donor-recipient relationship: national ownership
and extensive donor presence
- Looking for opportunities and creating new urbanism
in the developing countries: local dynamics and
policy implications
- Vaccine production from bench to market using
novel and appropriate technologies
- Migration and development
- Pneumonia in children below the age of five and
their mothers
- Transformation of knowledge to enhance local capacity
for sustainable water development
- How can research on links between ecosystem services
and human wellbeing support poverty alleviation?
- Traditional knowledge and biodiversity: sustainable
development, rights and equity
- Air quality and climate effects in low income
countries: from observations to policy in a post-COP21
world
- Ecosystem services and disservices from a farmer's
perspective in agro-ecological landscapes
- Everyday practices in global development institutions:
process and power
- The politics of hybridity in everyday Africa:
informalization and security and development
- The rural household – an energy and food security
nexus of global importance
- Violence as a threat to mental health, economic
growth and social stability, with intergenerational
effects
- Understanding behaviour and choice in context:
accessing local knowledge to enhance energy access
and sanitation interventions
- Democracy and development revisited
- Seeking assistance: inequalities in accountability
and service provision
- 29. Food security and improved nutrition for the
poor – a multidisciplinary research task
- Peacebuilding amidst violence – localizing the
security-development nexus
- Global challenges for development research: lessons
from North-South collaborations
- Aid in local contexts
- Climate information for food security in developing
countries
- Bridging the gap between water, sanitation and
food production for improved food and nutrition
security
- Air quality and well being in cities
- Food and water security via viable business models
- Culture & media for development
- Combining outreach and academia - understanding
the role of religion in development
- One health
- Sheltering and development
- Prediction and preparedness against emerging zoonotic
infections
- Disaster and health
- Improving school education outcomes: evidence,
knowledge gaps, and policy implications
February
29, 2016.
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