Deadline- 3 June 2013
Call for Papers are invited for conference on 2nd Nordic Conference for Development Research which will be conducted in Espoo, Finland from 14-15 November 2013. The objective of this conference is to make dialogue between different methodologies and discussion on their potentialities and limitations in addressing the riddles of intended change which is at the heart of development practice.
The Second Nordic Conference for Development Research provides a platform for researchers, government representatives and NGO-practitioners to address the dilemmas of knowledge production in and for development.
Thematic areas-
- Empowering social and political perspectives in research on environmental changes
- Reconciling the part with the whole? Promises and pitfalls of encounters between the local and the global
- Aid in fragile contexts
- Pro-poor development through sustainable tourism
- Knowledge of and for civil society in development
- Development hegemony
- African crossroads: The politics of development and conflict
- Higher education and development
- Planning, monitoring and evaluation of complex processes of social change
- Policy coherence for development (PCD): What coherence, for whom and with whom?
- Critical examination of the role of the private sector in development
- The informal city in Nordic development research
- Prospects for development research communication
- Facilitating knowledge creation in organisations
- Communications for development (C4D) – the role of the media in achieving development goals
- Does it work? Communication for development in a critical vein
- Achieving the promise of connectedness: Evaluating effectiveness and sustainability of global knowledge production networks
- Environment, knowledge and power
- Rebels in power
- Postcolonial (bio-)politics and law
- Youth and political engagements in contemporary Africa
- Impact of knowledge? Revisiting the research-policy nexus
- Critical reflections on REDD+: Whose knowledge? Whose results?
Eligibility & Criteria-
The working groups represent the main bulk of academic debates during the conference. They are organized thematically and open to all registered participants in the conference, including those who do not present a paper. The working language is English.
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