ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2005

In association with Development Policy and Practice and the International Development Centre at the Open University

Milton Keynes, UK
7th-9th September 2005

Connecting people and places: challenges and opportunities for development

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With international speakers including

The Right Honourable Hilary Benn M.P., Secretary of State for International Development
Derek Hanekom, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa
Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics and Political Science
Maureen Mackintosh, The Open University
Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science
Lynn Mytelka, Director of the Institute for New Technologies, United Nations University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Gita Sen, Sir Rata Tata Chair, Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India

Conference theme

Contemporary globalisation has highlighted the movement of people, capital, knowledge and ideas. New links, networks and partnerships have been formed between North and South, East and West, urban and rural. How can we understand these changes? What challenges do they present to theory, policy and practice? What are the opportunities for new thinking and action?

The 2005 DSA Conference calls on academics, policy-makers and practitioners to contribute to meeting these challenges and opportunities. With the DSA’s commitment to multi-disciplinary approaches to development, papers are invited from different perspectives and standpoints. Some questions for the conference are:

How are we to understand the movement of people, capital, knowledge and ideas? How significant are they for development?
What implications do these processes have for how we conceptualise development?
What impacts do they have on poverty and inequality, and on related issues such as the environment, rural and urban livelihoods, corporate social responsibility, conflict and security, and HIV/AIDS?
What are the implications for communities beyond nation states?
What kinds of networks are created? How do they operate? What is their significance?
What types of knowledge are produced, who is included or excluded, and how is new knowledge being used? What role is being played by international education?
What roles are played by information technologies? What issues are raised by other types of technological change?
To what extent do these new connections between people, capital, knowledge and ideas change the nature of power, politics and governance from local to global scales?
What kinds of partnerships can be forged for development?

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