From The Global To The Local: How Power In The 'North' Affects Lives In The 'South'
This year’s conference seeks to tackle the broad theme of North-South power relations within development. The aim of this broad approach is to maximise active participation from as diverse an array of presenters as possible. As in previous years we hope to combine postgraduate students presenting their own work in a relaxed environment of research-exchange with a number of speakers from both academic and practitioner backgrounds.
Students for Development (SfD)
3rd Annual Conference
Queen Elizabeth House
University of Oxford
Tuesday, June 22nd 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
From The Global To The Local:
How Power In The 'North' Affects Lives In The
'South'
Following the success of the first two SfD Conferences, organised by postgraduate students
at QEH in 2002 and 2003, this year’s conference seeks to tackle the broad theme of North-
South power relations within development. The aim of this broad approach is to maximise
active participation from as diverse an array of presenters as possible. As in previous years
we hope to combine postgraduate students presenting their own work in a relaxed
environment of research-exchange with a number of speakers from both academic and
practitioner backgrounds.
The central theme of the conference concerns how asymmetric power relations often
favourable to actors such as the nation-states and multinational corporations of the 'North’,
affect the lives of those in the 'South'. How do policies, strategies or cultural influences,
initiated by those in a position of global influence, alter the lives of those excluded from the
decision-making process? What influence do environmental, economic, migratory, healthrelated,
and technological policies, for example, controlled by the domain of the 'North',
have on lives in the South? How do cultural and religious influences convey similar
relations of power? Is the process unidirectional or are those assumed to be subjugated by
Northern hegemony in fact using their own agency to define strategies of resistance or
appropriation? Should the very concept of the 'global' be contested? These are amongst
the questions that this year's conference seeks to explore. It invites proposals for the
presentation of postgraduate students' work from any discipline or perspective that relates
to these broad questions.
Abstracts of around 250-words should be sent to
[email protected] by 31st May 2004.
The best contributions will be considered for publication in a special edition
of The St Antony’s International Review.
Those who wish to attend without presenting their own work are also
extremely welcome and more details will be available shortly. Please see the
conference website at: http://www2.qeh.ox.ac.uk/sfd/
Stop Press: We are still seeking non-academic
keynote speakers: NGO and IFI workers,
politicians and activists. Please e-mail with
suggestions