Academics from the Global Development Institute are presenting papers and convening panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place 6-8 July 2022. This year’s conference adopts justice and equity as central normative lenses to explore just futures in an urbanising and mobile world, facing a climate and ecological crisis in a pandemic or post-pandemic context.
Below we have highlighted the panels involving GDI colleagues.
Wednesday 6th July
Parallel Panels 1 11:50 – 12.30
P11a The Political economy of urban reform in Africa: from analysis to action
Convenors: Sam Hickey, Diana Mitlin, Tim Kelsall (ODI), Aabdul-Gafaru Abdulai (Uni of Ghana, Business School)
Papers
“Reframing the politics of urban development in Africa: a political political settlements perspective” (Sam Hickey, Diana Mitlin, Tim Kelsall, Seth Schindler)
P52a The Politics of Economic Transformation: Finance and Industrial Policy I
Convenors: Pritish Behuria & Tom Goodfellow (Uni of Sheffield)
Parallel Panels 2 13:00 – 13.50
P11b The political economy of urban reform in Africa: from analysis to action
Convenors: Sam Hickey, Diana Mitlin, Tim Kelsall (ODI), Aabdul-Gafaru Abdulai (Uni of Ghana, Business School)
Papers
“Understanding the Political Settlements and Collaborative Responses to COVID-19 in African Cities” (Alice Sverdlik)
“The politics in the ‘Covid policy domain’ in Uganda” (Badru Bukenya)
P52a The Politics of Economic Transformation: Finance and Industrial Policy I
Convenors: Pritish Behuria & Tom Goodfellow (Uni of Sheffield)
P30 Development perspectives on transforming economies for nature, climate and society
Papers
“Banning mining in El Salvador: why environmental policy does not always follow business interests” (Clare Cummings)
Parallel Panels 3 13:50 – 14.30
P11c The political economy of urban reform in Africa: from analysis to action
Convenors: Sam Hickey, Diana Mitlin, Tim Kelsall (ODI), Aabdul-Gafaru Abdulai (Uni of Ghana, Business School)
Papers
“The contribution of reform coalitions to pro-poor change: lessons from practice” (Diana Mitlin)
Workshop 15:00 – 16.00
W02 Reimagining the International NGO (RINGO): Transforming INGO systems and global civil society
Convenors: Nicola Banks and Deborah Doane (Rights CoLab)
Fri 8th July
Parallel Panels 6 11:00- 11:40
P03a The Rise of China and the re-scaling global development politics
Papers
“China, capital markets and the sovereign debt crisis amid fraying universalism” (Nick Jepson)
Papers
“Strategic Response to Clientelism: seeking formal housing through partisanship by quiet encroachers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia” (Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael)
Parallel Panels 7 11:50- 12:30
Papers
“Being young and rural in the city: a longitudinal study of gendered livelihood strategies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia” (Elizabeth Dessie)