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
