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British Academy Conference: "After 2015: Development and its Alternatives"

Dates:10 September 2014 - 11 September 2014
Times:All day
What is it:Conferences
Organiser:External organiser
How much:£50 / There is a reduced fee of £20 for the unwaged, for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for Fellows of the British Academy.
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Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 September 2014 The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

Convenor: Dr Clive Gabay, Queen Mary, University of London

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will expire in 2015, with mixed results. This conference takes a social and political perspective on why development fails, and how local knowledge might inform a post-MDG environment more sensitive to those structurally disadvantaged by the global economy. Within mainstream debates there has been little room for the developmental alternatives lived by people in conditions of poverty and thus no space for exploring more critical and alternative paradigms of development to the orthodox neoliberal-MDG paradigm. This conference brings together leading critical scholars on development, and activists from the global anti-poverty, buen vivir and degrowth movements.

Speakers include: Dr Kate Bedford, University of Kent Amitabh Behar, Global Call to Action Against Poverty Dr Carl Death, University of Manchester Professor David Hulme, University of Manchester Dr Wendy Harcourt, International Institute for Social Studies Dr Nora Mckeon, Building Global Democracy Professor Philip McMichael, Cornell University Professor Ashwani Saith, International Institute for Social Studies Professor James C Scott, Yale University Professor Frances Stewart, University of Oxford Bob Thomson, Degrowth/Decroissance Canada Dr Karen Tucker, University of Bristol Jan Vandemoortele, former director of the Poverty Group at the United Nations Development Programme Dr Heloise Weber, University of Queensland Dr Aram Ziai, University of Kessel

Please see http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/After_2015_Development_and_its_Alternatives.cfm for full details and how to register.

Price: £50

Concessions: There is a reduced fee of £20 for the unwaged, for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for Fellows of the British Academy.

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