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Conference Announcement Theme: Post-Development Subtitle: Decolonial Alternatives to Development Type: International Conference Institution: University of Kassel Location: Kassel (Germany) Date: 10.–11.9.2019 __________________________________________________ Post‐Development critique has sparked debate in development theory and policy rejecting the paradigm of ‘development’ all together. This conference however seeks move beyond this academic critique, interrogating the multiplicity of strategies, practices and institutions that gesture towards decolonial alternatives to development. The conference is a space for researchers and activists to present their work, receive feedback and exchange ideas with colleagues from Germany and around the world on these innovative and exciting alternatives. Conference Programme Tuesday, 10th September 2019 12:30pm Registration 1:30pm Welcome and Opening Remarks Aram Ziai, Chair for Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kassel 1:45pm Keynote Address Ashish Kothari, Founder-member of Kalvapriksh Action Group 3:00pm Coffee Break 3:30pm Panels 1. Theoretical approaches for a new understanding of 'development' 'Development and Post-Development: A Critical-Realist Perspective' Felix Hauf (Goethe University Frankfurt) 'Needs and satisfiers a tool for exploring alternatives' Bettina Mahlert (RWTH Aachen) 'Sustainability and difference a promising yet ambivalent relation. Insights from good living paradigms in highly diverse societies in the Latin American Andes' Isabella Radhuber (Vienna University) 2. Living Alternatives 'Performing alternative futures: The Green Camp Gallery Project as green lifestyle hub in Durban' Antje Daniel (Vienna University) 'Good governance and development: an african-centred and decolonial worldview' Damola Adejumo Ayibiuwo (University of South Africa) 'Comparing Post-Utopian Realities of Alternative Development in Mongolia and Latin America' Wolfram Schaffar (Vienna University) 'Rethinking "community" through permaculture initiatives in Zimbabwe: pathways to alternative futures' Pamela Richardson-Ngwenya (University of Kassel) 5:30pm Break 6:00pm Book Launch Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (with three of the editors Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh and Alberto Acosta) Wednesday, 11th September 8:30am Alternatives to Development Network Meeting with breakfast 9:30am Performance of decolonial artist collective 10:30am Coffee Break 10:45am Panels 3. Buen Vivir: Diverse Perspectives on a possible alternative concept 'Sumak kawsayBuen vivir in indigenous communities of Amazonas in Ecuador-Colombia, in Water and food, model for the world' Eduardo Erazo Acosta (Universidad de Nariño) 'The concept of Buen Vivir: A decolonial feminism perspective' Dennis Lucy Avilés Irahola (University of Bonn) 'Good living, Development and state planning: empirical evidence from the Ecuadorian case' Jorge Enrique Forero (ICDD, University of Kassel) 4. How to give a 'post-developmental turn' to 'development' practice 'Post-development, Post-colonialism and writing (on) Enda Graf Sahel' Hajer Kratou and Khadija El Alaoui (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University) 'Greening the anti-politics machine: Deand repoliticizing African renewable energy transitions' Franziska Müller (University of Kassel) 'What insights does the concept of "civic space" offer to Postdevelopment theory?' Julia Schöneberg (University of Kassel) 'Post-Development Theorists and the Desire for Development' Sally Matthews (Rhodes University) 12:45pm Lunch Break 1:45pm Panels 5. Questioning the foundations of development: Different Perspectives 'Differential belonging: Learning from Conversations around Caring for Country and Earthothers' Wendy Harcourt (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague) 'Pachakutik: An Andean concept of space and time, which radically breaks with the coloniality of power' Gregor Seidl (Vienna University) 'One head does not go to council indigenous political authorities in Ghana between coloniality and alternatives to development' Joshua Kwesi Aikins (University of Kassel) 6. Activism 'Encounters towards the pluriverse? Post-development as negotiated discourse' Johanna Leinius (University of Kassel) 'Trouble with 'Progress': Serbia, Development and its Narrative Ruptures' Jelena Vicentic (University of Belgrade) 'Redemptive subjects: Pan-African pedagogical activism and the politics of development in the Anglo-Carribean' Jenna Marshall (University of Kassel) 3:45pm Coffee Break 4:00pm Plenary Talk Sarah Radcliffe, University of Cambridge 5:00pm Fishbowl and closing remarks 6:15pm End of the conference Registration If you want to take part in the conference, please register online: https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb05/fachgruppen/politikwissenschaft/entwicklungspolitik-und-postkoloniale-studien/post-development-conference/registration.html Please note that there is a conference fee. It is - 30€ for students and people without waged employment - 60€ for PhD students and part-time employees - 100€ for full-time employees The conference fee includes the conference catering. Registration closes by 31st August 2019. If you have questions or want further information please do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected] Conference website: https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb05/fachgruppen/politikwissenschaft/entwicklungspolitik-und-postkoloniale-studien/post-development-conference.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
