Fw: H-ASIA: CFP: "Shifting Visions of Development: International Organizations,Non-Governmental Actors and the Rise of Global Governance, 1945-1990", Breman, Sep 29-30, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP: "Shifting Visions of Development: International
Organizations,Non-Governmental Actors and the Rise of Global Governance,
1945-1990", Breman, Sep 29-30, 2011

> H-ASIA
> February 14, 2011
>
> Call for papers CFP: "Shifting Visions of Development: International
> Organizations, Non-Governmental Actors and the Rise of Global Governance,
> 1945-1990", Jacobs University, Breman, September 29-30, 2011
> DEADLINE 15 MARCH 2011
> ************************************************************************
> From: Soenke Kunkel <s.kunkel@jacobs-university.de>
>
> CFP: "Shifting Visions of Development: International Organizations,
> Non-Governmental Actors and the Rise of Global Governance, 1945-1990"
>
> Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, September 29-30, 2011.
>
> Conveners: Marc Frey, Soenke Kunkel, and Corinna R. Unger (all Jacobs
> University Bremen)
>
> Sponsored by the German Historical Institute Washington, DC, the Bremen
> International Graduate School of Social Sciences, and the Research Group
> TEAMS at Jacobs University Bremen
>
> International Organizations and INGOs have played a leading role in the
> making of global development policies during the last fifty years.
> Powerful
> engines of globalization as much as global transmitters of ideas and
> knowledge, specifically organizations such as the World Bank, the United
> Nations and private foundations have left their footprints in fields like
> health, human rights, agriculture, labor, development aid, gender,
> demography, and ecology. Today, they manage and regulate large sectors of
> social activity across the globe, functioning as influential clearing
> houses
> of global governance.
>
> Historians have only recently rediscovered the history of those
> organizations. While most of them agree with social scientists that the
> postwar era marked the high point of international and non-state
> organizations in a global setting, much research remains to be done to
> better understand the role of those institutions with regard to
> policy-making and politics not only in the metropoles but also on the
> ?periphery?. How did they shape relations between North and South, East
> and
> West? What kinds of practices did they establish on the ground? Which
> difference did they make?
>
> The time seems ripe to take a more systematic look at the various fields
> of
> development and to bring together leading scholars to assess where we
> stand
> and what remains to be done. To that end, the conference will combine case
> studies with conceptual debates. We are particularly looking for
> contributions that deal with either one of the following aspects in
> relation
> to one or different international organizations and/or non-state actors:
>
> - Development policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary
> Fund: Concepts, projects, people, and problems
>
> - Environmental concerns and development: Norms, North-South conflicts and
> cooperation, institutional arrangements, specific policies
>
> - Gender and development: Discourses and normative concepts, local
> policies,
> global conferences, and activists
>
> - Human rights: history of organizations or particular activists,
> campaigns,
> policies, specific cases
>
> - Local perspectives: Histories covering experiences with development aid
> from the recipients' perspective
>
> The conference will take place on the campus of Jacobs University Bremen,
> Germany. Participants will be reimbursed for travel expenses and
> accommodation. We are planning to publish select conference proceedings
> with
> a well-established university press.
>
> Scholars interested in participating in the conference are asked to send
> an
> abstract (200 to 400 words, in English) and a short curriculum vitae to
> visions@jacobs-university.de before March 15, 2011.
>
> In order to facilitate scholarly interchange, participants will circulate
> their papers before the conference, and will give only very brief oral
> summaries. Final papers (7000 to 8000 words, fully footnoted) are due
> September 1 and will be available to conference participants only.
>
> Inquiries can be made to the conveners via the conference e-mail address:
> visions@jacobs-university.de
>
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