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CASID Conference 2012  

CROSSROADS: RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD

29-31 May 2012

Universities of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) graciously invites you to participate at its 2012 meeting, as part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, at the Universities of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Academics (faculty and students), practitioners, the policy making community, NGOs and community groups are all welcome to attend and participate actively.

The theme for the 2012 Congress is ‘Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World’ which reflects, in part, the dramatic events taking place across the world – global financial crises; climate change facts and unending debates; struggles for democracy and change across the Arab world; the Occupy Wall Street global social movement, to name several. (See http://congress2012.ca/about/ ). 

Within this context, CASID 2012 aims at exploring a large range of issues that include poverty and inequity, the environment and development especially resource extraction, human rights and social exclusion, violence, democracy and social movements, food security and rural development, cities and migration, health and education. Given that this year’s meeting is being held on the historical lands of the Six Nations people, this year we would also like to continue with last year’s focus on indigeneity and the interface between the local and global in development. 

The Conference annually gathers IDS theoreticians and practitioners with an interest in understanding and explaining these issues from an IDS perspective. We particularly seek to include delegates from different disciplines and sub-disciplines – political sciences, anthropology, sociology, economics, history, film studies, women’s studies and geography. CASID expects this conference will stimulate a critical, democratic and constructive dialogue among its participants. As such, we encourage you to submit paper and panel proposals relevant to the theme of this conference.

Please keep in mind that CASID attracts a wide audience and we thus encourage you to relate your specific research and development experiences to more general themes. Papers on geographic areas (Asia, Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe) are also welcome and encouraged. Suggestions for certain themes of interest this year are:

• Aboriginal and Indigenous issues and approaches to development
• Revisiting development theory 
• Sustainable development and natural resources (fisheries, forests, water, tourism) 
• Canadian foreign policy and international cooperation
• Canada in Haiti and Afghanistan 
• Women, gender and development 
• Culture and development 
• Explaining poverty, solutions to poverty (health, education, revenue and employment) 
• Democratic development and human rights 
• Security issues 
• Fragile and failed states 
• Youth, children and childhood 
• Economic growth and development 

This year we will organize several joint panels with other societies. If you are interested in a joint panel please indicate it in the paper proposal form.

• History
• Peace Research
• Food Studies
• Film Studies
• Sociology
• Canadian Association for Social Work Education 
• Philosophy
• Environmental Studies 
• Geography
• Education

Abstract submissions (250 words) should be sent in by January 15, 2012. The abstract should include a description of your object of study, your theoretic frame, your methodology of research, your conclusions and how this research or experience relates to larger development issues. If your paper is accepted, you will be expected to send in an integral version of your paper before the conference. All papers will be evaluated by a CASID conference committee and acceptance emails will be sent out in mid-February.

You must be a CASID member in good standing to present a paper or panel at the conference. All presenters must also register in the congress. Registration begins in March 2012. Travel grants will be available to CASID panel participants (see travel grant form). You must fill out and submit the form before the due date to be eligible for a travel grant.

In early February 2012 more information will be sent out on the conference (registration, accommodations, etc.) through the CASID listserve. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Larry Swatuk, Ph.D.

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