PSA Annual Conference Panels

PSA Annual Conference 2007, University of Bath

PSA Annual Conference 2005, University of Leeds

PSA Annual Conference 2004, University of Lincoln

PSA Annual Conference 2007, University of Bath

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Panel on "Neoliberalism, Politics and Development"

Chair: Andrew Wyatt (Bristol)
Presenters:

Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews): "From financial crisis to neoliberal reform? Economic governance and social policy in post-crisis Indonesia"
Andrew Wyatt (Bristol): "Neoliberalism in India: A Regulationist Interpretation"
Pia Riggirozzi (Sheffield): "The Return of the State in Argentina"

Panel on "Gendered Development: Discourse, Institutions, Policy"

Chair: Andrew Wyatt (Bristol)
Presenters:

Kate Bedford (Colombia, US): "Embracing The Other Half of Gender? Why The World Bank Cares About Men in the Post-Washington Consensus Era"
Julie Newton (Bath): "Gender mainstreaming in Ethiopia: translation of policy into practice and implications on the ground"
Carole Spary (Bristol): "Heteroglossia and Hierarchy: The Constitution of Women as a Gendered Category in Indian Development Policy"

Panel on "Wellbeing, Politics and Poverty"

Chair: Geof Wood (Bath)
Presenters:

Rebecca Schaaf (Bath Spa): "Constructing Wellbeing through Community Groups: a view from Northeast Thailand"
James Copestake (Bath): "Non-Material Aspects Of Social Assistance And Its Reform: The Case of Peru’s ‘Glass Of Milk’ Programme"
Ian Gough (Bath): "Policy Regimes and Wellbeing: A Comparative Analysis"
Joseph Devine (Bath): "Wellbeing and Why Politics Matters: Evidence from Bangladesh"

Panel on "International Democracy Promotion"

Chair: Christine Cubitt
Presenters:

Christine Cubitt (Bradford): "Democracy promotion in Africa: a panacea for conflict torn societies? Focus on Sierra Leone"
Jeroen de Zeeuw (Warwick): "Democracy Promotion, Conflict Management and Political Parties"
George Lambie (De Montfort): "Globalisation, HegemInternational Democracy Promotion: Globalisation, Hegemony and the Limits of Procedural Democracy"
Robert Pinkney (Northumbria): "International democracy promotion: the end of the road or the discovery of new pathways?"

Panel on "Political Economy of Development in Asia"

Chair: Lawrence Saez
Presenters:

Manja Jonas (Duisberg-Essen, Germany): "Direct investments as an engine of technological change in Malaysia: The role of networked policy"
Lawrence Saez (LSE): "The political economy of corporate structure in transition economies: A comparative analysis of Indian and Chinese multinationals"
Ipshita Basu (Bath): "The Politics of Redistribution and Recognition in Jharkhand, India"

Panel on "External Interventions, Governance and the Politics of Development"

Chair: Ben Thirkell-White
Presenters:

Oisin Tansey (Nuffield College, Oxford): "Democratic Transition in the Context of International Administration"
Mark Duffield (Bristol): "Development and Emergency: Blurring the National/International"
Ben Reid (Bath): "From Cross-Over to Double-Cross: Civil society participation, the post-Washington consensus and the new security agenda in the Philippines"

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PSA Annual Conference 2005, University of Leeds

Roundtable 1: Discussion of Graham Harrison's book: The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Governance States, (Routledge, 2004)

Convenor & Chair: Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews)
Discussants:

Paul Cammack (Manchester Metropolitan)
Penny Griffin (Bristol)
Graham Harrison (Sheffield)
David Williams (Oxford)

Roundtable 2: The Imagined Economies of Globalization

Discussion of Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan's book: The Imagined Economies of Globalization, (Sage, 2004).
Convenor & Chair: Andrew Wyatt (Bristol)
Discussants:

Angus Cameron (Leicester)
Juanita Elias (Manchester)
Jutta Weldes (Bristol)
Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews)

Panel 1: Governance and the World Bank

Convenor & Chair: Ben Thirkell-White (St Andrews)
Presenters:

Heather Marquette (University of Birmingham): "The "New" Politics of Development? The World Bank's Contribution to the Discourse"
David Williams (Oxford): "Good Governance And Global Governance"
Andrew Wyatt (University of Bristol): "The World Bank and the Governance of Development in India"

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PSA Annual Conference 2004, University of Lincoln

Panel on "Neoliberalism and Development":

Convenor & Chair: Ben Thirkell-White
Presenters:

Richard Robison (ISS): "Neoliberalism and the anti-politics of development"
Artemisa Montes-Sylvan (Bristol): "Building public support for neo-liberal ideas during the Mexico crisis in the 1980s"

Panel on "Development Politics - South East Asia":

Convenor: Ben Thirkell-White
Chair: Richard Robison
Presenters:

Ben White (Sheffield): "Locating Islam in Contemporary Malaysian Politics"
Martin Gainsborough (SOAS): "Business-State Relations in Vietnam"

Roundtable: The Politics of the Informal Economy: Discussion of Barbara Harriss-White's book India Working

Convenor & Chair: Andrew Wyatt (Bristol)
Discussants:

Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford)
Lawrence Saez (LSE)
Vibha Pingle (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex)
M. Vijyabaskar (Madras Institute of Development Studies)

Panel on "Development Politics: South Asia"

Convenor: Katharine Adeney
Chair: Andrew Wyatt (Bristol)
Presenters:

G. Subrahmanyam (LSE): "Schizophrenic governance and fostering global inequalities in the British Empire: the UK domestic state versus the Indian and African colonies, 1890-1960"
M. Vijayabaskar (Madras Institute of Development Studies): "Peripheral Labour in the new Economy: Employment and Work Patterns in the Indian IT services sector"

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