Public Engagement in Development
DSA Annual Conference
Connecting people and places: challenges and opportunities for development
September 7th – 9th 2005, Open University, Milton Keynes
Public Engagement in Development parallel sessions
Call for papers:
‘Understanding Connections to Distant Strangers’
Public Engagement in Development
This study group (formally called ‘The Public Faces of Development’) focuses on the conceptual and practical challenges surrounding Public Engagement in Development. The group has been established to provide a forum for exploring forms of engagement and the ways it is engendered by diverse organisations including NGOs, schools, government agencies, businesses and the media.
Recent meetings and publications have addressed the ways the construction, mediation and representation of development in the north connect to forms of Public Engagement through volunteering, fair trade, development education, advocacy, fundraising and campaigning.
The group provides an opportunity to build and consolidate research in this important but neglected area of development and we welcome both practitioners and academics interested in research and practice.
If you have any further comments, suggestions or ideas in relation
to this study group, or if you would like to present at the parallel
sessions at the DSA 2005 conference, please do not hesitate to get in
touch with the convenors.