CASID / ACÉDI News

Dear CASID Community,

I hope you will join me in congratulating our three shortlisted candidates for this year's Kari Polanyi-Levitt Prize for best graduate paper:

  • Armel Brice Adanhounme: Assessing Chinese Investments in sub-Saharan African Countries: An Institutional Perspective
  • Sheena Cameron: Development Discourse and Canadian Identity: Mainstream Media Representation
  • Colin Scott: Violence and Public Opinion in Central America's 'Northern Triangle': How a Preference for Authority is Confounding the Institutionalization of Democracy in the Region

While 14 great papers were submitted for the prize (and all should be congratulated on their individual submissions), these 3 papers were judged strongest by the adjudicating committee, Dr. Olga Navarro-Flores (UQUAM), Dr. Dip Kapoor (U of Alberta) and Dr. Blane Harvey (IDRC, formerly IDS-Sussex). I would like to take this opportunity to thank the adjudicating committee for their hard work in coming to this decision.

CASID is conducting an election for three positions on the board: Vice-President, and two Members-at-Large. Below are the candidates that were nominated for the positions.  You can view their profiles, bio's and personal statements y clicking on their names.

This poll will only be active until May 31, 2013 so vote now! Results will be announced at the Annual General Meeting, to be held during the 2013 CASID Annual Conference at the University of Victoria, BC, June 4 – 6, 2013

*Please Note: You must hold a valid CASID Membership to vote and you must be logged in to see the poll. If you are a member but cannot vote, please contact the system administrator.

Dear CASID members,

We are pleased to announce that issue 34(1) of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies has appeared online. Go to:http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcjd20/34/1

**   Special section (Policy Forum): Emerging Transnational Responses to Global Extractive Industries   **

Guest editors: Alexander Dawson and Fabiola Bazo

Regards / Cordialement,

Martha Snodgrass
Administrative Editor
CJDS / la Revue
email: cjds@sfu.ca

The preliminary programme for the 2013 Annual Conference is now available for download as a pdf, either from the sidebar to the right or below at the bottom of this post.  

There are a total of 40 panels and two Keynote presentations over the course of three days, with four sessions per day.  Please note the AGM and Book Launch taking place Tuesday evening and the banquet dinner Wednesday evening.  If you would like to attend the banquet, please make sure to pay the banquet registration fee ($35) at the CANFED registration site

Also, please note that all presenters must be valid members of CASID at the time of the Conference.  You must make sure to pay both registration fees as well - one for CASID's conference, and the one for the CANFED Congress as well.  The fees are: 

  Congress CASID
Regular $160 $45
Student / Other $60 $20

CASID will confirm these fees were paid when we process our travel grant submissions after the conference, so make sure you do it before the event!

If you have any other questions or concerns about the programme, or would like to withdraw your paper from the agenda, please contact the Conference Coordinator as soon as possible. The agenda is likely to change from now until the Conference, so please remember this is preliminary and that you'll want to keep an eye on our website, Facebook, Twitter feeds and in your email for notice of the final program.

Dear colleagues

You received notice of this special issue on Land Grabbing when it came out, in January.
I draw your attention to the free access token, available until 31 May. It will be of interest particularly to your colleagues outside the CASID network who do not have easy access to our online journal articles. Please forward this message.

Martha Snodgrass
Administrative Editor
Canadian Journal of Development Studies /
Revue canadienne d'études du développement


Land grabbing in Latin America

Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 33(4)

Guest Editors: Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Sergio Gómez and John Wilkinson

The issue’s Table of Contents is at the end of this message. In addition to introducing a previously under-explored geographic region into the emerging land grab literature, these articles provide insights into the distinct political economy of the region.

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Canadian Journal of Development Studies

For paper submissions and all other inquires regarding the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, please use the cjds@sfu.ca address.

The Development Forum

(Vol. 4, no. 2), is now available!