Annual Workshops

PSA Development Politics Group 1st Annual Workshop

Held at Department of Politics, University of Bristol
Friday 20 January 2006

Panel 1: NGOS, Governance and Development Politics

Chair: Andrew Wyatt (University of Bristol)

Rosaleen Duffy (Manchester), 'Global Environmental Governance and NGO Politics in Madagascar'
Julie Hearn (Lancaster), 'African NGOs: The New Comparadors?'(Recently published in Development and Change, 38/6, pp. 1095-1110, November 2007)

Panel 2: Civil Society and the Politics of Development

Chair: Vernon Hewitt (University of Bristol)

John Harriss (LSE), '"Politics is a dirty river": but is there a 'new politics' of civil society?'
Namawu Alolo (Birmingham), 'Fighting Public Sector Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Gender Matter?'

Panel 3: Development Politics: Global Problematics

Chair: Heather Marquette (University of Birmingham)

April Biccum (Lancaster), 'Popular Spectacles of and for Development: Live8 as Commodity Fetish'
Graham Harrison (Sheffield), 'From the global to the local? Governance and Development at the state-citizen interface: reflections from Tanzania'
Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews), 'International Institutions, Governance and Development'

Panel 4: Development and Re-Construction

Chair: Heather Marquette (University of Birmingham)

Mark Duffield (Bristol), 'Development, Territories and People: Consolidating the Sovereign Frontier'
Tim Edmunds (Bristol), 'Security Sector Reform in Transforming Societies'
Caroline Hughes (Birmingham), 'From Comrades to Citizens: National and Ethnic Identity after the Wars in Cambodia and Timor'

15.30-16.00 Closing discussion

With financial support from the Political Studies Association and the University of Bristol Alumni Foundation