Book - CASID - ACÉDI 2010

Canadian Association for the Study of International Development
CASID/ACÉDI Association Canadienne d’études du développement international
2010 Conference 2010
Development in a New World Order

Le développement dans un nouvel ordre mondial
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Summary
A Message from the CASID President .................................................................................................5, 6
Welcome from the Conference Chair ...................................................................................................7, 8
Message of thanks ...................................................................................................................................9
BANQUET ..............................................................................................................................................64
General Assembly, Cocktail and Book Launch.......................................................................................43
Index of participants .............................................................................................................................101
CASID Panels
Panel 1 - Frontiers of Development I......................................................................................................11
Panel 2 - Gender & Development Issues in Africa..................................................................................13
Panel 3 - Polanyi-Levitt Prize Finalists ...................................................................................................14
Panel 4 - Le GRIOT : lieu de création de savoirs ...................................................................................14
Panel 5 - Geopolitics of Hunger..............................................................................................................17
Panel 6 - Keynote speaker Women’s studies society.............................................................................18
Panel 7 - Frontiers of Development II.....................................................................................................19
Panel 8 - Environmental governance and justice in development ..........................................................21
Panel 9 - Comparing the Perceptions of Teachers and Students on Education Reforms ......................22
Panel 10 - Les enjeux actuels de la coopération internationale..............................................................24
Panel 11 - Learning from the ground up.................................................................................................26
Panel 12 - Putting Culture in Development.............................................................................................28
Panel 13 - Sustainable development in the post-Copenhagen era.........................................................30
Panel 14 - Gender & Livelihood issues...................................................................................................31
Panel 15 - Griot: Commentaires et rétroaction selon trois axes d’analyse .............................................33
Panel 16 - Education, development and globalization............................................................................33
Panel 17 - Climate change in Bangladesh..............................................................................................35
Panel 18 - Lessons from 2 HD models; Kerala and Cuba ......................................................................36
Panel 19 - Gender and Environment ......................................................................................................37
Panel 20 - Development and the business sector ..................................................................................39
Panel 21 - GRIOT Conclusions ..............................................................................................................40
Panel 22 - Local, indigenous identities, land and nature resource defence strategies ...........................41
Panel 23 - Gender and Development in Central Asia.............................................................................45
Panel 24 - Security & Development in Fragile States.............................................................................46
Panel 25 - Water & Development Issues................................................................................................48
Panel 26 - Development theories and models in Latin America .............................................................49
Panel 27 - Développement, l'environnement & les OMD en Afrique ......................................................51
Panel 28 - Keynote Speaker...................................................................................................................53
Panel 29 - Development and Communication ........................................................................................54
Panel 30 - Round table on Haiti 1...........................................................................................................55
Panel 31 - Speaker from the South ........................................................................................................56
Panel 32 - Canadian NGOs & Development in Africa.............................................................................57
Panel 33 - Round Table on Haiti 2..........................................................................................................59
Panel 34 - Grassroots environmental initiatives in Brazil, Indonesia & Cameroon .................................59
Panel 35 - Pathways out of Rural Poverty ..............................................................................................61
Panel 36 - Creating Global Citizens........................................................................................................62
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Panel 37 - Food security and community development in Northern Manitoba .......................................63

Panel 38 - CIDA and aid effectiveness ...................................................................................................66
Panel 39 - Indigenous Issues in Latin America.......................................................................................68
Panel 40 - Critical analyses of development & globalization ..................................................................70
Panel 41 - Education & Development in Africa.......................................................................................71
Panel 42 - Rural issues in Development.................................................................................................72
Panel 43 - Human rights, international law and justice...........................................................................73
Panel 44 - CIDA in Practice : recent record and what next?...................................................................75
Panel 45 - Peace building & Development .............................................................................................77
Panel 46 - Legacies of the Slave Plantation ...........................................................................................79
Panel 47 - Ruling and development strategies in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean............................80
Panel 48 - French Keynote Speaker.......................................................................................................83
Panel 49 - Aid Effectiveness...................................................................................................................85
Panel 50 - Development in Venezuela ...................................................................................................86
Panel 51 - Participation, development and governance .........................................................................88
Panel 52 - Community and Family in Development................................................................................89
Panel 53 - African International Relations ..............................................................................................91
Panel 54 - Critical analysis of development............................................................................................92
Panel 56 - Beyond development and globalization.................................................................................93
Panel 56 - Micro-economic issues in development.................................................................................95
Panel 57 - Development in Afghanistan .................................................................................................96
Panel 58 - Doctoral Studies in IDS .........................................................................................................97
Panel 59 - Doctoral Studies in IDS .........................................................................................................99
Development Forums
1) The reconstruction of Haiti
2) Pathways out of Poverty
3) Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire pour l'Intervention,
l'Organisation et le Transfert en développement international (GRIOT)
4) Doctoral Studies in IDS
Joint Panels
1) Cynthia Enloe - Women's Studies
2) Climate Change in Bangladesh - ESAC
3) Reconstruction of Haiti - CALACS
4) Human Rights, International law and justice - Law and Society
5) Structures of Power in Early 20th Century in Latin America - CALACS
6) Legacies of the Slave Plantations - CALACS
7) Open Access : Transforming Research in the Developing World – Concordia University
8) Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan - CASCA
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A Message from the CASID President

It is a great pleasure, on behalf of the CASID Executive, to welcome you all to our 26th annual
conference at Concordia University.
In particular I would like to welcome our speakers, notably our Keynote Speakers, Jean-Pierre
Olivier de Sardan, Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS; Camilla Toulmin, Director of the
International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED); and Bina Agarwal, Director and
Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University.
I invite everyone to take full advantage of the rich conference program that provides CASID
members, both faculty, students and practitioners in the field, to report on their research, discuss
findings and exchange ideas with colleagues from across the country. There are numerous
panels and sessions of particular and general interest to members, but might I draw particular
attention to a panel featuring the work and latest publication of Kari Polanyi Levitt, Professor
Emeritus at McGill University and one of our most distinguished founding members. In addition I
would like to draw your attention to the panel on Canadian initiatives regarding interuniversity
cooperation in regard to establishing academic programs in IDS leading to the doctoral degree.
The panel will report on the proceedings of a recent workshop hosted by SGSID at the University
of Ottawa and funded by IDRC, which has provided significant support to CASID over the years.
There is also a panel on the Canadian Journal for Studies in International Development, for those
who might be interested in hearing firsthand about recent developments surrounding our journal,
which we propose to place among the most prestigious in the field worldwide. We are also very
pleased to have with us many graduate and undergraduate students of international
development whom each year organize their own Insight conference in parallel with the CASID
meetings.
Besides thanking IDRC, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and
Concordia University for their financial support, please join me in thanking our Conference
Coordinator, Charmain Levy, and her team for all their dedication and hard work.
Finally, I would like to invite all members to join us at the Annual General Meeting on the evening
May 31 where the affairs of the Association are decided on and where Kari Levitt’s book and
recently published books of other members will be launched. And also please join us on the
evening of June 1st at the CASID Banquet where, in addition to good food, conviviality and music
we have an opportunity to celebrate this year’s Kari Polanyi-Levitt prizewinner.
Henry Veltmeyer
CASID President
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Message du président de l’ACÉDI

C’est avec un immense plaisir, au nom du comité exécutif de l’ACÉDI, que je vous souhaite à tous et
à toutes la bienvenue à notre 26e conférence annuelle à l’Université Concordia.
Plus particulièrement, j’aimerais dire bienvenue à nos conférenciers, surtout nos conférenciers de
marque, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS; Camilla Toulmin,
directrice de l’Institut international pour l’environnement et le développement (IIED); et Bina Agarwal,
directrice et professeure à l’Institut de croissance économique, Université de Delhi.
J’invite chacun et chacune à tirer pleinement profit du vaste programme de conférence qui permet
aux membres de l’ACÉDI (professeurs, étudiants ou praticiens dans le domaine) de faire état de
leurs recherches, de discuter des résultats et d’échanger des idées avec les collègues à l’échelle du
pays. Il y a de nombreux groupes d’experts et sessions d’un intérêt particulier ou général pour les
membres, mais pourrais-je porter votre attention particulière à un groupe d’experts mettant à
l’honneur les travaux et la plus récente publication de Kari Polanyi Levitt, professeure émérite à
l’Université McGill et l’une de nos plus éminentes membres fondatrices. En outre, je tiens à porter
votre attention au groupe d’experts sur les initiatives canadiennes touchant la coopération
interuniversités en vue de l’instauration de programmes pédagogiques en études du développement
international menant à un diplôme de doctorat. Le groupe d’experts fera état des actes d’un atelier
récent organisé par la SGSID à l’Université d’Ottawa et subventionné par le Centre de recherches
pour le développement international (CRDI), qui a fourni une aide importante à l’ACÉDI au fil des
ans. On trouve également un groupe d’experts sur la Revue canadienne d’études en développement
international, pour ceux et celles qui seraient intéressés à entendre de première bouche des
nouvelles des derniers développements entourant notre revue, que nous proposons d’élever au rang
des plus prestigieuses dans le domaine à l’échelle du globe. Nous sommes également très heureux
de compter parmi nous un grand nombre d’étudiants des cycles supérieurs et du premier cycle en
développement international qui, chaque année, organisent leur propre conférence InSight
parallèlement aux réunions de l’ACÉDI.
En plus de remercier le CRDI, la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines et l’Université

Concordia de leur appui financier, veuillez vous joindre à moi pour remercier notre coordinatrice de
conférence, Charmain Levy, et son équipe de leur dévouement et de leur travail acharné.
Enfin, j’aimerais inviter tous les membres à se joindre à nous lors de l’Assemblée générale annuelle
au cours de la soirée du 31 mai, où on décidera des affaires de l’Association et du lieu de lancement
du livre de Kari Levitt et des autres ouvrages récemment publiés des autres membres. Veuillez
également vous joindre à nous le soir du 1er juin au Banquet de l’ACÉDI où, en plus des délices
culinaires, de la convivialité et de la musique, nous aurons l’occasion de célébrer le lauréat du prix
Kari Polanyi-Levitt de cette année.
Henry Veltmeyer
Président de l’ACÉDI
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Welcome from the Conference Chair
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this year’s CASID conference in Montreal. This year’s
theme is “Development in a new world order” and many panels reflect on the characteristics of this
world order, the role of both old and new actors, the winners and losers of globalization, as well as
solutions to both recurring and emerging development issues.
I am especially proud of this year’s conference as we have three renowned international keynote
speakers informing us on issues around climate change, gender and forest conservation and
governance. Another important aspect of this year’s conference is the amount of joint and cross
society panels. This year we organized panels with the Canadian Anthropology Association, Law and
Society, Women’s Studies, CALACS and Environmental Studies.
In addition to the high quality of subjects and speakers in our numerous panels, CASID also offers its
delegates four different Development Forums: 1) The reconstruction of Haiti; 2) Pathways out of
Poverty; 3) Groupe de recherche riterdisciplinaire pour l'intervention, l'organisation et le transfert en
développement international (GRIOT): lieu de création de savoirs; 4) Doctoral Studies in IDS. All of
these forums will result in a short, issue-oriented publication, by experts but for the general public.
This is my final year as Conference Chair and I would like to thank all of those who helped me in its
organization. Diane Pichette and James Gaede were very helpful dealing with many membership and
conference issues. I would also like to thank Jamie Robinson and Eleonore Gauthier for their efforts
as Local Arrangement Coordinators; Maurilio Galdino for his efforts as graphic designer of the CASID
conference program and my students Elise Landriault-Dupont and Margarita Rodriguez for their help
communicating with delegates. I would also like to thank the CASID colleagues who helped out with
their time and experience in evaluating panel and paper proposals and Kari Polanyi-Levitt Prize
Competition Papers.
I would finally like to thank our three keynote speakers, Camilla Toulmin, Bina Agarwal and Jean-
Pierre Olivier de Sardan for graciously accepting to travel many hours and participate in our annual
conference.
I would like to welcome the undergraduate student delegates of the Insight conference which takes
place concurrently with the CASID conference and congratulate the organizers of this conference.
Lastly, I would like to welcome next year’s CASID conference chair, Larry Swatuk of the University of
Waterloo, whose experience, enthusiasm, wit and creativity will make future conferences a pleasure
for its delegates and a success for our society.
Charmain Levy
CASID Conference Chair
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Mot de bienvenue de la part de la présidente de

la conférence
C’est avec grand plaisir que je vous souhaite la bienvenue à cette édition de la conférence de l’ACÉDI qui a
lieu à Montréal. Le thème de cette année est « Le développement et le nouvel ordre mondial » et bon nombre
de groupes d’experts y réfléchiront aux caractéristiques de ce nouvel ordre mondial, au rôle des anciens et
des nouveaux joueurs, aux gagnants et aux perdants du marché mondialisé, ainsi qu’aux solutions face aux
questions de développement récurrentes et émergentes.
Je suis particulièrement fière de la présente édition de l’événement puisque nous avons parmi nous trois
conférenciers de marque internationaux réputés qui nous renseigneront sur les enjeux liés aux changements
climatiques, aux sexospécificités, à la conservation des forêts et à la gouvernance. Un autre aspect important
de la conférence de cette année est la quantité de groupes d’experts conjoints et intersociétés. Cette année,
nous avons mis sur pied des groupes d’experts en collaboration avec la Société canadienne d’anthropologie
(CASCA), la Law and Society Association, l’Association canadienne des études sur les femmes (ACEF),
l’Association canadienne des études latino-américaines et Caraïbes (ACELAC) et l’Association canadienne
d’études environnementales (ACEE).
En plus de la qualité supérieure des sujets et des conférenciers dans nos nombreux groupes d’experts,
l’ACÉDI offre à ses délégués quatre forums différents sur le développement : 1) la reconstruction d’Haïti; 2)
les sentiers hors de la pauvreté; 3) le Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire pour l'Intervention, l'Organisation
et le Transfert en développement international (GRIOT) : lieu de création de savoirs; 4) les programmes de
doctorat en études du développement international. Tous ces forums mèneront à une publication courte et
ciblée sur les enjeux, que prépareront les experts mais qui s’adresseront au grand public.
Il s’agit de ma dernière année à titre de présidente de la conférence et je tiens à remercier tous ceux et toutes
celles qui m’ont aidée dans l’organisation des activités. Diane Pichette et James Gaede ont été très utiles pour
composer avec les nombreux aspects de la membriété et de la conférence. J’aimerais également remercier à
Jamie Robinson et Eleonore Gauthier pour leurs efforts à titre de coordinateurs locaux; à Maurilio Galdino
pour son travail de conception graphique du programme de la conférence de l’ACÉDI et à mes stagiaires
Élise Landriault-Dupont et Margarita Rodriguez pour leur aide lors des communications avec les délégués. Je
voudrais aussi dire merci à mes collègues de l’ACÉDI qui ont contribué de leur temps et de leur expérience à
l’évaluation des groupes d’experts et des projets de mémoires ainsi qu’aux dissertations présentées dans le
cadre du concours pour le prix Kari Polanyi-Levitt.
Aussi, j’aimerais remercier trois conférenciers de marque -- Camilla Toulmin, Bina Agarwal et Jean-Pierre
Olivier de Sardan -- pour avoir si généreusement accepté de se déplacer pendant autant d’heures pour
participer à notre conférence annuelle.
Je tiens à souhaiter la bienvenue à ces étudiants de premier cycle délégués issus de la conférence InSight qui
se déroule parallèlement à la conférence de l’ACÉDI et je félicite les organisateurs de cette conférence.
Enfin, j’aimerais souhaiter un accueil chaleureux au président de la conférence de l’ACÉDI de l’an prochain,
Larry Swatuk de l’Université de Waterloo, dont l’expérience, l’enthousiasme, l’intelligence et la créativité feront
des futures conférences un plaisir pour ses délégués et une réussite pour notre société.
Charmain Levy
Présidente de la conférence de l’ACÉDI
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Message of thanks
to IDRC, CFHSS and Concordia University
CASID would like to express its profound gratitude to the International Development Research Centre for its
generous financial support. Without this support, CASID could not have hosted a conference of this high
quality and diversity. We also appreciate the financial support and participation from Concordia University.
CASID would also like to express its immense appreciation of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and
Social Sciences (CFHSS) for its financial support of our speaker from the South and our French Keynote
speaker and for its active collaboration in the organization of the conference.
Message de remerciement
au CRDI, à la FCSH et à l’Université Concordia
L’ACÉDI tient à exprimer sa plus profonde gratitude au Centre de recherches pour le développement
international pour leur généreux soutien financier sans lequel l’ACÉDI n’aurait pas pu organiser une
conférence d’une telle qualité et diversité. Nous apprécions l’appui financier et la participation de l’Université
Concordia.
L’ACÉDI tient aussi à exprimer toute sa reconnaissance à la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines
(FCSH) pour le soutien financier accordé à notre conférencière du Sud et notre conférencier francophone et
son active collaboration à l’organisation de cette conférence.
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DAY ONE
Development in a new world order

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DAY ONE: CASID 2010 Conference Sessions

May 31st – from 9:00AM to 10:45 AM
Panel 1 - Local: LB-540

Frontiers of Development: The Contribution of Religious and Theological Studies to
International Development.
In answer to the question, 'What is development of the role of religion and culture in IDS. Though
studies?' the newly revised web-site of the Canadian begun, this dialogue remains fragmentary and is often
Association for Studies in International Development a monologue within the new silo of IDS. This raises
provides the following optimistic assessment of the an important question for Religious, Theological and
field of IDS: International Development Studies:
Luckily, what was once a fragmented topic, contained What, if any, contribution can Religious and/or
within the many 'silos' of different academic Theological Studies make to the interdisciplinary field
departments, has grown into an interdisciplinary field of international development studies?
that draws on knowledge from all of the social The papers in this panel approach this question from
sciences and humanities. the perspective of theological, religious and
Religious and Theological Studies are two silos that international development studies. Together they
till recently have not contributed to this growing offer an important model of the interdisciplinary
interdisciplinary conversation. This gap in theoretical contribution of religious and theological
international development studies is beginning to be studies to international development studies.
addressed through increase attention to the question
Pres.: Chris Duncanson-Hales - Université St. Paul University

Email: [email protected]
Discussant: Joanne B. Rennick - St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo

Courriel : [email protected]
Joseph Ogbonnaya – St Michael’s College

Theological Studies and Contemporary Themes in Development Discourse
Theology is a discipline that tries to understand and This paper will argue that theology does contribute to
determine the underlying truth of all reality. Being the interdisciplinary subject of international
anthropologically anchored, it is socially historical, development studies. The specific contribution of
dealing with the person as a social being engaged in theology to the discourse is an emphasis on the
a web of relationships. It reflects on common grounds finality of the human person and therefore on the
of human existence: meanings, truths, and values, importance of prioritizing human well-being in any
uncovering the universal in the particular that development discourse. Using themes of
provides unity and intelligibility to life through its development in Catholic Social Teaching to dialogue
transcendental analysis. On this account, theology with contemporary theories of development, this work
possesses the capacity to intersect with other will critique the philosophical anthropological
perspectives on the issues of the socio-historical backdrop of development as merely economic growth
condition of human existence. and suggest an integral developmental structure that
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takes care of human integral scale of values in order Methodologically, the work will draw on Lonergan’s
to provide schemes of recurrence for the provision of theological functional specialty ‘Foundations’ to
the human good for the development of the human emphasize the imperative of conversion for
person. development discourse.
Emeka Xris Obiezu – University of Toronto

Seeking Integral Fulfilment in Development Discourse:
Exploring Examples from African Inculturation Theology
Until recently, economics has been the sole They argue without denigration, that integral theories
dimension or approach in analyzing and evaluating of development enable the person to realize his/her
issues of development. Viewing the satisfaction of potentials and promote human wellbeing. Thus these
human needs from the narrow perspective of theologians consider economic values as only one
consumerism, economic theories of development aspect of development that must not be absolutized.
have concentrated on “having more” rather than Drawing on African anthropological concepts of life as
“being more” in postulating ideals of human ontologically “relational,” and ‘bound together” in a
fulfillment. However, for many African nations, such fundamentally communal perspective, they look
economic theories of development have failed to beyond economics in considering other existential
provide effective reconstruction, and these countries factors and issues, such as divisive social contexts as
have remained badly and bitterly underdeveloped. well as ideals of autonomy, relationality, solidarity,
This shows how ineffective and inappropriate this one peace, and the pursuit of the common good of
dimensional approach has been in responding to society.
issues of development. Based on African experience, this paper will explore
In beginning to participate in development discourse, and analyze how these various theological themes
African theologians have argued that a true African might contribute to the ongoing discourse of
development must above all be integral—they international development.
must “cater to all aspects of human life, including the Email 1: [email protected]
personal, social, economic, political, and religious.” Email 2: [email protected]
Ray Vander Zaag - Canadian Mennonite University

Understanding the Theologies of Faith-based NGOs
As part of the recent scholarship on the presented. The second part of the paper interprets
interrelationship of religion and development (eg. the range of theological understandings underpinning
Hayes, 2007; Deneulin, 2009), there has been the specific organizational forms, structures and
growing interest in faith-based NGOs and their roles policies of the diversity of faith-based NGOs. It
and approaches to international development emphasizes that the diversity among them (and
assistance (eg. Berger, 2003; Clarke, 2007; Clarke among non-faith-based NGOs) is more a matter of
and Jennings, 2008; Bradley 2009). The first part of how, rather than how much, faith or religious belief is
this paper critically reviews the literature which integrated with development programming. This
analyzes the diversity and characteristics of faith- raises critical challenges for all development
based development NGOs. Many approaches organizations that intervene cross-culturally,
appear to follow a type of 'secularization theory', regarding neutrality, genuine pluralism and
categorizing faith-based NGOs by the (declining) partnership, and culturally sustainable development. I
degree of integration of religious belief and suggest that the fields of Religious Studies and
development approach. From this review, a simplified Theology might help to understand these challenges
typology identifying and linking their key and so contribute to the field of IDS.
organizational features to their religious worldview is Email: [email protected]
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Panel 2 - Local: EV6-809

Gender & Development Issues in Africa
Chair: Rebecca Teissen - Royal Military College of Canada
Discussant: Lotsmart Fongjong - University of Buea, Cameroon

Shelley Jones - State University of New York, College at Potsdam

Daniel Ahimbisibwe - Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala - Uganda
Young women meeting the needs of young women through ICT and local knowledge: Explorations of a
grass-roots ICT-facilitated business enterprise in rural
The increasing ubiquity, accessibility and user- on meeting specific needs of girls and women. The
friendliness of ICTs potentially offers opportunities for business, which produces and supplies reusable
even the most marginalized populations living in poor, menstrual pads, employs “pro-poor”, “para-poor” as
rural areas of developing countries to participate in well as “per-poor” (Heeks, 2008) strategies: It has a
educational, political and economic activities hitherto website which, in addition to advertising the product
restricted by sever geographic, communication and line, raises awareness of the challenges faced by girls
cultural parameters. For girls and women, particularly, and women who cannot afford sanitary materials, and
whose onerous domestic obligations, cultural also provides opportunities for interested parties
restrictions on freedom of movement, and lack of throughout the world to buy products to support girls
opportunities to engage with the world at large, ICT in need of these products.
openness has particular importance for gender Mixed method data collection includes
equality and empowerment - socially, educationally, questionnaires, open-ended interviews and surveys
politically, and economically (Bakesha, Nakafeero that investigate the importance of ICT for the lives
and Okello, 2009; Hawkins, 2002; Jones and Norton, and livelihoods of these young women, viewed
2008; Mijumbi, 2002; Smith et al, 2008). through the intersecting theoretical perspectives of
This paper speak to the need for “micro” studies the capabilities framework (Sen, 1999), the imagined
concerning ICTs (Thioune, 2003), as well as studies communities framework (Anderson, 1991; Norton &
that consider “horizontal organizational structures” Pavlenko 2004), and a critical (digital) literacy
(Castells, 2000; Benkler, 2006) that respond to framework (Chivanga, 2000; Street, 2003).
specific local needs (Braga, 2007), by exploring how
ICTs have enabled young women in rural Uganda to Email: [email protected]
begin and sustain a small business that was founded Email:[email protected]
Theresa Ulicki - Dalhousie University

Perceptions and Responses: Why Policewomen Behave The Way They Do
Since 1994, the South African Police Service (SAPS) and choice, I explore policewomen’s responses to
has been confronted with the complex task of gender inequities and discrimination and the possible
organisational transformation. This transformation explanations for these responses.
project involves change both internally and in terms of I argue that policewomen’s decisions to speak out
its service delivery. This research, based on over 16 against gender inequities or to challenge
months of fieldwork and more than 100 interviews discrimination are influenced by the perceived ‘safety’
with policewomen and men, focuses on the process and success of doing so.
of gender equitable reform in the SAPS in the post- There has been no grassroots effort to collectively
apartheid period. Utilising the concepts of interests organise to promote policewomen’s interests. No
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feminist voice or collective action has emerged Genre et développement au Cameroun: Les femmes
among policewomen. Instead, gender equitable dans les métiers masculins
reforms have been legally and politically driven. I On a toujours pensé à tord que certains métiers sont
offer several possible explanations for this state of reservés aux hommes. Pourtant la femme est
affairs, all of which relate to an organisational and appelée à participer au développement au même titre
social environment that undermines the possibilities que les hommes. Au Cameroun et ce depuis
of gender solidarity and encourages women to seek quelques années, les pouvoirs publics et les ONG
individual solutions that will maximise their locales mettent en oeuvres différentes actions pour
professional and personal aspirations. Malla encourager les filles à élargir leur choix professionnel,
Sokoundjou – Ciford, Cameroun notamment les filières techniques, médicales, etc, à
Genre et développement au Cameroun: Les femmes partir des classes de CM2 dans le primaire, classe de
dans les métiers masculins 3ème et Terminale dans le secondaire.
Panel 4 - Local: LB 211

Panel 3 - Local: LB 619 - Polanyi-Levitt Le GRIOT: lieu de création de savoirs
Prize Finalists
Nicole St-Martin - Université de Sherbrooke
Ancienne Présidente du CA d’Oxfam-Québec
Chair: Ann Weston – IDRC Professeure chercheure et Directrice scientifique
Discussant: Kari Polanyi – McGill University Programme d'apprentissage expérientiel par
l'intervention communautaire (PAEIC)
Finalists:
Kim Burnett – University of Waterloo
Understanding the Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa through a Critical Political
Economy Lens
Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque – McGill

University
Confusions’ and Palava: The logic of land
encroachment in Lofa County, Liberia
Alison Kekewich – Dalhousie University

Parallel discourses of ‘liberation’ and
‘oppression:’ interrogating (re)productions of the
‘Other’ in Canadian discourses of the ‘War on
Terror’ in Afghanistan
Marianne Pemberton – University of Guelph

Playing Fair[trade] with Nestlé: The evolution of
an unlikely partnership in the conventional coffee
market
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Questionnées quant à leur pertinence et à l'état des Comme la pratique est source de connaissance, les
résultats de leurs actions, les Organisations Non chercheurs pourront y puiser la matière nécessaire à
Gouvernementales (ONG) de développement la construction d'un savoir formel qui leur sera utile
international doivent régulièrement ajuster leurs pour répondre aux exigences de leur champ
pratiques, développer de nouvelles approches, disciplinaire et aux aspirations de leurs étudiants. Ils
s'enrichir de savoirs et de savoirs faire pour mener pourront ainsi participer à l'émergence d'un nouveau
des interventions structurantes et mieux adaptées savoir constitué.
aux différents contextes en mutation. Ce Voilà le double niveau d'objectifs que poursuit Oxfam-
questionnement émane tout autant des partenaires Québec en créant le Groupe de Recherche
financiers, des partenaires dans l'action que des Interdisciplinaire pour l'Intervention, l'Organisation et
intervenants eux-mêmes. Pour atteindre le niveau le Transfert en développement international (GRIOT).
attendu, les expériences conduites par les ONG Soit de créer un lieu d'échange et de concertation
doivent être observées, analysées, documentées, entre des chercheurs et des praticiens pour élargir le
modélisées et partagées. Et, dans une approche champ des compétences pratiques et d'assurer la
itérative et continue, pourront être tirées des leçons rencontre des paramètres d'une organisation
qui, traduites en nouvelles compétences, seront apprenante et contribuer à la construction d'un
réintroduites pour l'action. D'un autre côté, les ONG nouveau savoir.
offre aux chercheurs un terrain riche pour
l'observation de même qu'un savoir pratique unique. Courriel: [email protected]
Olga Navarro-Flores – École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) - UQAM

Les ONG et leurs relations avec les entreprises privées : instrumentalisation ou co-construction d’une
nouvelle légitimité?
Depuis les désastres environnementaux de Bhopal en Inde (décembre 1984), de Tchernobyl en Russie (avril 1986)
et d’EXXON-Valdés en Alaska (mars 1989), les organismes non gouvernementaux (ONG) n’ont pas cessé de
dénoncer les multinationales dont les pratiques ont été jugées inacceptables sur le plan des droits humains, de
l’exploitation à outrance les ressources naturelles, ou du respect de la régulation en ce qui concerne le
développement durable. Plusieurs ONG existent depuis les années 1970, mais c’est avec l’arrivée de la
mondialisation que les ONG militantes et celles consacrées à la coopération internationale font front commun dans
l’organisation de campagnes de sensibilisation et de mobilisation de la population au Nord comme au Sud, afin de
faire connaître les manquements éthiques et de responsabilité sociale des entreprises multinationales, et
revendiquer une régulation plus sévère. Même si les ONG n’avancent nécessairement pas une définition précise de
la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise (RSE), elles ont été traditionnellement opposées aux « mesures volontaires »
des entreprises, optant plutôt pour un État qui assume son rôle de régulateur et une entreprise imputable envers la
société. C’est pourquoi, chercheurs, observateurs et militants affirment que la RSE constitue une des réponses de
l’entreprise aux interpellations des ONG, ou encore aux demandes d’une société civile sensibilisée et organisée par
les ONG.
Depuis le début du siècle, des chercheurs se sont penchés sur l’étude des rapports entre les entreprises et les ONG.
Une brève revue de littérature, principalement dans le Journal of Business Ethics, nous révèle des auteurs qui
soulignent les bienfaits de telles relations (Weyzig, 2008), d’autres ont une perspective plutôt critique (Hoggett, 2003;
Hommel, 2006). Il y en a qui s’attardent à expliquer comment réussir (Nijhof, Bruijn et Honders, 2007; Russo et
Tecanti, 2008), ou encore d’autres parlent de l’institutionnalisation de tels rapports (Wilburn, 2009;
Seitanidi et Crane, 2008). Cependant, la relation entreprises-ONG est loin de créer un consensus et le risque d’une
utilisation mutuelle, dévoyée d’une stratégie commune de développement durable, nous interpelle sur la capacité
réelle des acteurs à s’influencer mutuellement dans la co-construction d’une nouvelle pratique corporative ou sur
l’instrumentalisation des ONG par les multinationales dans la recherche de la légitimité.
Courriel: [email protected]
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Guy Debailleul - Université Laval

Titulaire de la Chaire en développement international
Les changements institutionnels dans l’aide au développement : nouveaux défis pour les ONG
En quelques années, le contexte institutionnel de Melinga Gates, Fondation One Drop, etc.. ) ou
l’aide au développement a été profondément d’agences publiques créées en parallèle aux
bouleversé. Alors que les pays du Nord tardent structures d’aide traditionnelles (Millenium Challenge
toujours à remplir leurs engagements quant au Corporation aux USA). Enfin les défis gigantesques
volume de l’aide publique à mobiliser, ils ont que pose la lutte contre les changements climatiques
profondément modifié les caractéristiques et les vont nécessiter le transfert massif de fonds vers les
objectifs de cette aide au développement : pays pays en développement destinés à assurer
ciblés, objectifs prioritaires. Dans plusieurs cas on l’adaptation des économies de ces pays, fonds dont
observe une intégration de cette aide à des stratégies l’utilisation pourrait bouleverser les stratégies
à caractère militaire. conventionnelles de développement. Toutes ces
Dans le même temps, à la suite de la Déclaration de évolutions interpellent les ONG quant à leur rôle,
Paris, les principaux pays bailleurs de fonds ont leurs engagements, leurs sources de financement,
commencé à mettre en place une plus grande leur indépendance. Elles leur imposeront des
concertation et une plus grande coopération avec les nouvelles formes de concertation et de coopération.
gouvernements des pays d’accueils, conduisant à Une plus grande concertation entre ONG et
une certaine division du travail entre les agences Universités permettrait de préparer les nécessaires
nationales de développement. On observe dans le évolutions.
même temps un accroissement de l’intervention de
certaines fondations privées (Fondation Bill et Courriel: [email protected]
Mohammed Chikhaoui – Directeur de Oxfam-Québec

Oxfam-Québec, une organisation apprenante et innovante
Au cours des dernières années, les nouveaux enjeux virage suppose notamment de redéfinir sa capacité
ainsi que les transformations profondes de l’économie d'améliorer continuellement son impact grâce à des
contraignent les organisations à dynamiser leurs idées, connaissances et apprentissages nouveaux.
pratiques en matière d’apprentissage et de gestion Pour y parvenir, une démarche de transformation a
des savoirs. Bien que ces préoccupations aient été été amorcée en 2004 par Oxfam-Québec. Cette
présentes au sein des entreprises privées, elles sont démarche visait à développer sa capacité d’anticiper,
de plus en plus ressenties par les organismes de d’améliorer, d’innover et de trouver de nouvelles et
développement international. En effet, la compétition meilleures façons de faire pour accomplir sa mission
accrue, la baisse de l’aide au développement, la de façon plus efficace et efficiente. À cet effet,
variété et la complexité des situations au sein plusieurs actions ont été menées à l’intérieur de
desquelles ces organisations interviennent justifient le l’organisation ainsi qu’en partenariat avec le CEFRIO
besoin, voire l’urgence de miser sur la capacité et une équipe de recherche de l’Université McGill.
d’apprentissage en vue de devenir plus efficaces et La présente communication met en contexte le virage
d’améliorer les résultats attendus par la qualité de entrepris par Oxfam-Québec en matière
leur travail. C’est précisément dans ce contexte d’organisation apprenante et, entre autre, de mise en
qu’Oxfam-Québec a souhaité entreprendre une place d’un groupe de recherche.
démarche d’organisation apprenante et innovante. Ce Courriel: [email protected]
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Geopolitics of Hunger
Chair: Joshua Ramisch - Université d'Ottawa
Discussant: Haroon Akram-Lodhi - Trent University

Nuah Makungu – Université d'Ottawa

Disparition des structures agricoles paysannes, diminution des disponibilités agricoles au Sud (Maniema,
Katanga et Kivu en RDC) et au Nord (Québec, Ontario et Nouveau-Brunswick au Canada)
Aujourd’hui, il faut produire ce que l’on veut bien Nouveau Brunswick au Canada, il faut davantage de
acheter et avoir un revenu. Partout le moyen, le terres pour des exploitations à la mesure des
paysan veut imiter ceux qui réussissent ambitions des grands exploitants, des agro-mangers,
financièrement. Pour cela il consent à détruire son alors que la population paysanne vivent de
mode d’existence. Au Sud, en RDC par exemple, la l’agriculture familiale. Les terres arables s’en vont ou
dépendance vis-à-vis des exportations du thé, du sont abandonnées, les élevages sont décimés dans
café, du coton, etc. est quasiment total pour certaines les exploitations de l’est du Canada. L’agriculture
provinces comme le Kivu (Nord et Sud), le Maniema familiale se « tiers-mondialise ». En même temps, les
et le Katanga. Certaines organisations aident fort gouvernements provinciaux encouragent la
bien le paysan, puisque l’on doit produire le café, le monoculture de la pomme de terre, du Canneberge,
thé, la banane, etc. pour exporter. Ainsi, la pratique du bleuet sauvage destinés à l’exportation. Les
des monocultures spéculatives destinées au marché secteurs maraîcher et animal sont marginalisés.
mondial se fait au détriment des cultures vivrières et Nous voyons ainsi des similarités entre le paysan du
de l’autoconsommation, alors que la Sud et celui du Nord. Appauvris, ils perdent leur
commercialisation et le profit échappent au paysan et patrimoine agricole et leur souveraineté alimentaire.
à sa famille. Cette situation et le manque de Les ressources du milieu sont dévalorisées et le
compétitivité du paysan sur le marché alimentent développement impulsé n’est pas durable.
l’exode rural.
Au Nord, par exemple au Québec, en Ontario et au Email: [email protected]
Leigh Brownhill - York University

New Relations, New Opportunities? Food Sovereignty in Kenya and Canada
This paper examines food sovereignty social In Kenya, residents of Huruma decided to grow their
movements in Canada and Kenya to assess their own food. Women’s groups took up the production of
potential contributions to ‘carbon-neutral development the needed compost to enrich the tired urban soil.
planning.’ These contributions are shown to have Soon the demand for fertilizer grew, as more took to
arisen in the first decade of the 2000s in two ‘social farming. And there was a huge supply of potential
movement outcomes’: (1) the democratization of compost right under the villagers’ noses: the trash
social relations broadly within and across countries heaps that line the streets of Kenya’s slums. For
via horizontal, consensus-based, participatory years, youth had employed themselves pulling
democratic praxis within the global movement of recycleables like glass, metal and paper from the
social movements; and (2) livelihood generation trash and selling it in the industrial area of the city.
strategies and new social enterprises focused on the Then the Huruma farmers began to employ the youth
carbon-neutral provision of life-goods and ecological to collect trash from homes and from the roadsides
reclamation. and river beds, where it was otherwise rotting and
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creating toxic messes, disease and methane revitalizing a local food system that takes account of
emissions. The compost enhances soil fertility and climate change, peak oil, social justice and health and
grows vegetables which go back to Huruma, where a nutrition. The paper examines the successes and
number of women and youth are employed in food challenges of these initiatives by inquiring into the
service and marketing. nature of participants’ cross-gender and cross-ethnic
In Canada, a growing network of ‘alternative’ farmers alliances and the extent of their institution of
- from organic, to urban to cooperative - in democratic community relations for the stewardship of
conjunction with consumers, environmentalists, the commons.
teachers, researchers, health workers, anti-poverty
groups and policy-makers is making headway in Email: [email protected]
David Kintu Nkwanga - Nature Palace Foundation, Kampala, Uganda

New Relations, New Opportunities? Food Sovereignty in Kenya and Canada
Challenges facing peasant farmers in Africa are tropics these crops are near their maximum
diverse. In Uganda, for example, the variability in temperature tolerance, and since dry land, non-
growing seasons and incidence of severe dry irrigated agriculture dominates, yields are likely to
seasons as effects of Climate change have made decrease with even small increases in atmospheric
rain-fed peasant farming less and less profitable and temperature. Poverty, limited resources and poor
more and more unreliable. It is a common thing to infrastructure constrain such countries like Uganda to
see peasant farmers leaving their gardens to go to invest in and develop technologies to enable
urban centres and engage in petty trade and casual adaptation to Climate Change. Our approach is
labour - opting to be buyers rather than producers of therefore to promote farm-level skills that promotes
food. On the extremes, the young generation, seeing the peasant farmers’ capacity to cope with Climate
the failing peasant farming system are selling off the Change which include Ecosystem-based (Ecological)
land and starting unsustainable petty business in and sustainable agriculture; promotion of diversity on
towns. Over-reliance on “exotic” crops like maize is the farm, promotion of indigenous crops and
also proving to be risky for peasant farmers in tropical traditional Soil and Water conservation techniques.
Africa. Research has indicated that in most of the Email: [email protected]
DAY ONE: CASID 2010 Conference Sessions

May 31st – From 10:30AM to 11:45 AM
Panel 6 - Local: H 435

Joint Session with Women’s Studies
Cynthia Enloe - Clark University, Worcester
Picking Up the Pieces: Making Feminist Sense of Post-War Politics
From so many feminist historians we are learning wartime trauma, as long as families struggle to care
anew how long, how very long, any "post-war" can go for a war's survivors, and as long as politicians assert
on. It goes on as long as people debate the design of lessons from the last conflict. Yet each and every one
public memorials, as long as photos of dead soldier of these is gendered. Each depends on women's
sons remain fading on mantle pieces, as long as privatized care and women's selective silences, on
children try to make sense of their memories of the heroization of some masculinities, the denigration
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of others. Without multi-disciplinary feminist Women's Studies, International Development, and

curiosities about post-war gendered lives and post- Conflict and Cooperation Studies. In consultation
war gendered politics, we will once again with the Canadian Association for Studies in Interna-
underestimate the kinds of power at work in this world tional Development (CASID - Assn # 225) and
of ours and the true costs of those workings. attending to our mutual interests, CWSA/ACEF has
It is time we began to think about the transformative organized Enloe’s delivery of our keynote lecture to
aspects of war. War is not simply a conflict between coincide with the day our associations’ meetings
two parties that has a well demarcated beginning and overlap. Enloe's discussion of the gendered nature of
end, while its impact on people, ecological systems, post-war politics is deeply germane to both
politics, economics, social organization – all of which associations, and her lecture will provide an important
are gender coded – is limited to the space or time of occasion to foster greater interdisciplinary
war. The Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Congo, and collaborations across our intersecting interests on
now Pakistan tell us otherwise. these pressing questions.
Cynthia Enloe is a leading scholar of international
repute whose work resonates across the fields of
DAY ONE: Conference Sessions

May 31st – From 1 1 : 0 0 A M t o 1 2 : 4 5 P M
Panel 7 - Local: LB-540

Frontiers of Development II
The late Dr. Farouk Afshar identified the following three frontiers as being neglected by International Development
Studies, the frontier of the North, the frontier of well-being, happiness and spirituality, and the frontier of
contemplation and knowing
The papers in this panel address these frontiers as they reassess the orientation, priorities and epistemological
assumptions of International Development. By bringing together insights from African, Judeo-Christian and First
Nation’s theological and spiritual perspectives; international development studies can in the words of Dr. Afshar
“deepen its method of knowing --- deeper then empiricism of the senses and the reasoning of the mind --- to
contemplation as the timeless way to wisdom” (2005, 527).
A significant portion of time has been set aside to encourage a dialogue between the presenters and the audience.
Chair: Chris Duncanson-Hales - Université St. Paul University

Discussant: Joanne B. Rennick - St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo

Almas Zakiuddin - University of British Columbia

‘Modernising’ Women & Islam: A case study of development interventions in Bangladesh
This paper analyses the complex ways in which in the predominantly Muslim society of Bangladesh. I
discourses of international development draw on fieldwork undertaken for my doctoral
simultaneously harness and decry religious interests dissertation to demonstrate how development agents,
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supported by a patriarchal Bangladeshi state, have theoretical questions regarding the proper place of
involved Muslim imams or male prayer leaders, and secularism and religiosity in societies of the
various Islamic institutions, in grassroots issues which 21stcentury. How do we understand these alliances
influence and regulate women’s lives and bodies. At between religious, patriarchal and state interests in
the same time, religion and specifically Islam, as a Bangladesh and what are their likely consequences
system of thought, as culture, tradition, and social for women? Furthermore, how might the insights
institution, is disparaged, often by development gained here inform and influence Muslim societies
agents themselves, because it is seen to challenge and Muslim women’s issues in South Asia and in
and curtail women’s empowerment and desired general? My paper seeks to explore these and other
‘advancement’ towards modernity. The situation is questions in order to unpack the complex
complicated by geopolitical concerns regarding the relationships between religion, gender and
so-called political ‘resurgence’ of religion, especially development especially in societies of the South.
of radical Islam, in our times, and attendant Email: [email protected]
J. I. (Hans) Bakker - University of Guelph

International Development: Weber's Oscillation Thesis and Modern Capitalism
The world capitalist system grew out of the Patrimonial-prebendalism eventually gave way to
globalization of "modern capitalism." Development Patrimonial-feudalism, which eventually led to the
requires that a modern nation-state participate in the emergence of the modern nation-state and the
global "modern capitalist" system. capitalist bourgeoisie. In China no such gradual
To understand the emergence of modern capitalism transformation ever took place, with proto-feudal
in the sixteenth century we have to examine Max periods being regarded as "warring states." Today the
Weber's oeuvre and not just his essays of 1904-1905- People's Republic of China is based on Patrimonial-
1906. Particularly important is his theory concerning prebendal principles, which means that democratic
traditional legitimate authority and domination dissent is viewed as a violation of centripetal aspects
(Herrschaft)in Economy and Society. Weber presents of domination. China is not the only contemporary
a view of the oscillation of centrifugal and centripetal country that lacks a long term evolution of democratic
forces, utilizing his Ideal Type Models of Patrimonial- principles. Many underdeveloped countries in Asia,
prebendal and Patrimonial-feudal political economic Africa and Latin America retain a prebendal rather
systems. The world religions have all emerged than a modern model of legitimate authority. The case
primarily as Patrimonial-prebendal systems. Two of Indonesia is interesting since to some extent
cases in point are the Roman Catholic Church in Indonesia has managed to escape its neo-patrimonial
Europe and the Empire of China, both of which were vestiges better than the PRC or other countries.
at their height in the thirteenth century. In Europe Email: [email protected]
Nathan Loewen - Vanier College

A Review of Religious Studies theories potentials as analytical tools for Development Studies
Two approaches to religion tend to be taken by religious studies has established other approaches to
development studies scholars; one is (M. Weber) understanding the religious dimensions of social,
social-scientific and the other is philosophical (R. material, economic and political contexts (M. Taylor,
Otto). Both are intended to support analyses of R. King, J. Butler, B. Lincoln). This paper will review
whether religions work for or against some given several theories of religion that enable a wider
construal of development. They depend on what are analytical range for the development studies scholar.
called ‘classic’ theories of religion, but do not consider Rather than focusing on the discrete complexities of
the reflections of these theories’ inheritors (C. Geertz, these approaches, the paper will focus upon some
M. Douglas, P. Bourdieu, T. Asad). This is to say that salient points that each approach might offer for doing
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development studies. The analytical testing ground Institutions (FJEI), will be used to illustrate the
for the course of the paper is that of the increasing potential of religious studies theories for doing
involvements of India’s Jains in development-related development studies analyses. On these grounds,
initiatives. A preliminary study of a Pune-based NGO, religious studies contributes to the interdisciplinary
the Bharatiya Jain Sangathana (BJS), and its field of international development studies.
educational wing, the Federation of Jain Educational Email: [email protected]

Environmental governance and justice in development
Chair: Blane Harvey - University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Discussant: Pablo S. Bose - University of Vermont, USA

Talia Meer - Dalhousie University

Finding the community in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: The case of Ndumo Game
Reserve, South Africa
Community-based Natural Resource Management structured interviews with local and provincial
(CBNRM) has gained popularity in recent years as a government personnel and game reserve officials, as
mechanism for achieving both environmental well as participant observation.
conservation and poverty reduction simultaneously. I will use these findings to critically evaluate the
In the South African context, CBNRM is further being success of this project using a combination of
touted as a means of providing recompense to conceptual frameworks, incorporating both insights
communities that were forcibly evicted from their from Adams and Hulme (2008) into what constitutes
traditional land under the conservation program of the ‘success’ in community-based conservation, and
apartheid regime, and has emerged as the dominant critiques leveled by political ecologists that CBNRM is
approach to conversation in the new South Africa. another instance of neo-liberal attempts to commodify
This paper investigates whether the reality of CBNRM nature to the detriment of those living nearby (Igoe
in South Africa matches the rhetoric. I focus in on the and Brockington, 2008). Preliminary findings suggest
case of Ndumo Game Reserve, located in the far that there are a number of tensions between the
north of KwaZulu Natal, below the border with environmental, economic and development
Mozambique. My goal is to critically evaluate the imperatives of this CBNRM initiative, which cast doubt
costs and benefits associated with CBNRM for the over whether all can be achieved simultaneously in
Mbangweni and Mathenjwa communities that Ndumo. I conclude with reflections on how
neighbour the reserve, based primarily on fieldwork communities can increase their stake and voice within
undertaken from June to August 2009, which included Ndumo and in South Africa more broadly.
thirteen semi-structured interviews with headmen and
elders in these communities, and twelve semi- Email: [email protected]
Lance W. Robinson - Vancouver Island University

King, Leslie A. - Vancouver Island University
Where Development meets Environment: Governance Matters
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It is widely recognized that environmental produces effects. Sustainable Livelihoods thinking

sustainability and the reduction of rural poverty are provides a framework for identifying impacts at the
inextricably linked: extreme poverty undermines household level; however, the Policies, Institutions
environmental sustainability and degraded natural and Processes (PIP) component of the sustainable
environments exacerbate poverty. Indeed, it is this livelihoods framework remains something of a “black
recognition that lies at the foundation of the box”. This paper uses a governance framework to
sustainable development paradigm. On the other open up that black box. It is based on emerging
hand, doubts have been cast on the effectiveness of finding from Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, including
the work over the past thirty years to combine research undertaken in the Protected Areas and
conservation and development. Institutions, policies, Poverty Reduction project. In the paper we identify a
accountability, participation, and power relations are number of pathways by which governance produces
only a few of the variables mediating the environment and livelihood outcomes. These
environment-development connection. These pathways highlight a number of dimensions and
variables are increasingly being looked at together elements of governance that tend to receive little
under the overarching umbrella of governance. attention, and thereby suggest possibilities for more
Governance is receiving growing attention in relation nuanced and sophisticated policy and development
to protected areas for example. programming.
However, research on governance is just beginning to Email: [email protected]
investigate precisely how it is that governance Email: [email protected]
Neera M. Singh - University of Toronto

Reducing Emissions from Forest Degradation: Equity and Justice Challenges
This paper explores equity and justice concerns of governances. Drawing from my research on cross-
within REDD. Drawing from principles of justice, viz. scale organizing of forest communities in Orissa,
distributional justice, procedural justice and India, I suggest that REDD regimes need to be
recognition of local people’s identities, knowledge complemented by mechanisms to safeguard local
systems, and visions, the paper suggests a focus on rights and include local voices at different spatial
equitable distribution of benefits, fair access to scales of governance. In this context, cross-scale
decision-making and governance processes and organizing of forest peoples becomes one of the
recognition of forest people’s identities and means to facilitate improving of their collective
relationship with forests. Based on a review of trends bargaining position in the emerging climate change
from implementation of REDD schemes from the mitigation strategies. In addition to monitoring carbon
perspective of local rights, the paper suggests that gains, we need to be vigilant and monitor social gains
local rights need to be safeguarded as well as space or equity impacts of REDD regimes.
needs to be provided for local rights at multiple scales Email: [email protected]

Comparing the Perceptions of Teachers and Students on Education Reforms in Five
Countries (Brazil, Jamaica, China, Sierra Leone and Canada - Ontario and Quebec)
Chair: Melanie O'Gorman - University of Winnipeg
Discussant: William J. Egnatoff - Queen's University

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Peter Joong - University of West Indies, Jamaica

Perceptions of Teachers and Students on Education Reforms in Five Countries
Objective of this study is to examine how and to what resources in teaching strategies, classroom
extent teachers have implemented secondary management, and computer applications. It is
education reforms in Jamaica. Major sources of data recommended that teachers receive more training
are surveys for teachers and students in 24 sample and do more activities, group work, and performance-
schools. The study concluded that teachers were based assessment. Ways to reduce discipline issues
satisfied with their reform initiatives. Perceptions of include getting students more involved in the lessons,
teachers and students revealed that most teachers reinforcing the rules, and getting support from
were able to make changes that include curriculum, administrators and parents. Technical education is a
varied teaching strategies, and student evaluation. great initiative in Jamaica with support and resources.
Classroom management is a major issue for students But much more can be done and parents have to be
and teachers partly due to large class sizes. Teachers convinced that technical education is good for many
claimed the special education is not an issue due to students. The exam system is of high standard.
few in number and integration of technology is However, it does not cater to the needs of all
impossible due to lack of computers. Teachers lacked students. Jamaica is at a crossroad of deciding what’s
resources and in-service training, especially in the more important, education of the children or exam
rural areas. E-learning is an effective method. results. The colonial days are no longer with us.
Teachers wish more professional training and Email: [email protected]
Xiong Ying - Guangxi University, China

Perceptions of Teachers, Parents and Students on Education Reforms in China
The objective of this follow-up study was to examine Urban teachers had sufficient in-service professional
how and to what extent secondary teachers have development and resources. Teachers experienced
implemented educational reforms in China. Major difficulties that arose from the conflict between
sources of data are surveys for teachers and students activity-based learning and exam-oriented systems.
in eight sample schools in two provinces. The study Parents and society need to change their mindsets of
concluded that teachers were satisfied with their valuing exam achievements. Chinese educators are
reform initiatives. The survey concluded that teachers at the crossroads of whether the ‘quality’ movement is
and parents liked the reform initiatives. Most teachers what the students and society need at this time or
were able to make changes that supported the make changes in the high stakes examination.
reforms that include curriculum planning, teaching Leaders who want to implement change will have to
strategies, student evaluation, and special education. pay attention to the voices of stakeholders.
Thomas Ryan - Nipissing Univeristy, North Bay

Perceptions of Teachers and Students on Education Reforms in Ontario
The three studies in this panel presentation illuminate both countries (Jamaica and China) were satisfied
educational reforms that impacted teachers and with the reforms. However, teachers in both countries
students in Jamaica, China and Canada (Ontario). had difficulty altering current teaching praxes (teacher
Highlighted areas include curriculum planning, talk) and student assessment/evaluation modes
teaching strategies, student evaluation, integration of (tests). They had difficulty with transitioning from
technology, special education programs and high- teacher-directed to student-centred lessons. Tension
stakes testing. Notably, a majority of the teachers in was uncovered with in-service professional
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development that was lacking as well as resources in students and society need at this time or make
rural areas. This situation hampered implementation changes in the high stakes examination. Leaders who
hence this inquiry reflects a fragile new teaching want to implement change will have to pay attention
arrangement evidenced in both countries. Educators to the voices of stakeholders,
in both countries are at the crossroads of whether the
reform to student-centred learning is what the Email: [email protected]
Panel 10 – Local: LB 211

Les enjeux actuels de la coopération internationale
Linda Anne Vaillancourt - Université Laval / CUSO-VSO
Recherche, coopération et participation pour instaurer un modèle de développement durable par la gestion
des aires protégées au Costa Rica
Depuis les deux dernières décennies, la conception l’Environnement du Costa Rica (MINAET), le Centre
de la conservation implique de plus en plus que les international de recherche et d’enseignement
aires protégées ne soient pas isolées du monde qui agronome tropical (CATIE) de même que
les entoure. Leurs connexions et interactions avec le l’organisation de coopération internationale
paysage environnant sont essentielles pour assurer canadienne CUSO-VSO, le projet implique
un fonctionnement équilibré des écosystèmes de maintenant une grande variété de partenaires, du
même que la distribution et la survie des espèces. À local au global, incluant des organisations de
l’initiative de la Forêt modèle Reventazon, au Costa Corridors biologiques; l’Institut costaricain du
Rica, la recherche-action participative introduit un Tourisme (ICT); l’Institut national de la Biodiversité
processus de prise de conscience et de décision (INBio) appuyant les communautés locales dans leurs
collectives dans le contexte de trois aires protégées efforts de conservation, de valorisation de la culture
situées dans la Province de Cartago. et diversification des projets économiques de leur
Le projet consiste à impliquer les communautés territoire.
locales dans l’élaboration et l’éventuelle mise en La présentation traite des opportunités et défis qui se
œuvre du Plan de gestion de deux Parcs nationaux posent quand il s’agit d’associer les communautés
(Catégorie II de l’UICN) et une Zone protectrice locales et les gestionnaires des aires protégées dans
(Catégorie VI de l’UICN). Chaque aire protégée est la prise de décisions avec une perspective qui tient
située dans un environnement différent : une banlieue compte de la qualité de vie et des valeurs culturelles
urbaine de la capitale, une zone rurale agricole et un traditionnelles des habitants de même que de la
territoire indigène. protection des écosystèmes de leur territoire.
Initialement supporté par les membres fondateurs de
la Forêt modèle Reventazon, incluant le ministère de Courriel: [email protected]
Johanne Boucher - Université de Sherbrooke

Vers une nouvelle gestion des connaissances dans les réseaux d'aide au développement
Cette recherche s’intéresse aux interventions des ONG et leurs multiples partenaires et la mise en
organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) place, par l’ONG canadienne, de pratiques de gestion
canadiennes d'aide au développement auprès de des connaissances destinées à stimuler le partage et
leurs partenaires. Axées sur le renforcement des la création de connaissances entre les membres du
capacités, ces interventions valorisent et utilisent la réseau amènent à se questionner sur la contribution
connaissance locale dans le design et la mise en de ces pratiques au renforcement des capacités des
œuvre des programmes. Dans ce cadre, l’adoption
croissante d’un fonctionnement en réseau entre ces
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partenaires. Le terrain de recherche est constitué par

une ONG canadienne et trois de ses partenaires L'intérêt de la recherche est de permettre une
d’Afrique de l’Ouest impliqués au niveau national et meilleure compréhension des interrelations entre le
régional dans des réseaux centrés sur la question de processus de développement des capacités des
l'égalité entre les sexes. L’étude vise à décrire le partenaires et les pratiques de gestion des
processus de développement des capacités des connaissances mises en place au niveau d'un réseau
partenaires dans un contexte de réseau et les et de dégager des pistes de réflexion et d'action aptes
conditions qui l’ont influencé. Elle cherche également à guider les praticiens dans l’amélioration de leurs
à identifier les pratiques ou configurations de façons de faire.
pratiques de gestion des connaissances de l’ONG Courriel: [email protected]
canadienne qui ont été les plus porteuses dans ce
processus.
Gabriel C. Goyette – Chaire sur la gouvernance et l'aide au développement, UQAM

Législation sur l’aide au développement canadienne et son impact sur les ONG de coopération
internationale
Le 16 octobre 2007, la trente-neuvième législature dans d’autres secteurs et sur des mécanismes
adoptait à l’unanimité le projet de loi C-293 intitulé Loi novateurs, nous souhaitons contribuer à la mise en
concernant l’aide au développement officielle fournie œuvre optimale de cette législation et à l’amélioration
à l’étranger pour encadrer la fourniture de l’aide des pratiques en matière d’APD au Canada afin d’en
publique au développement canadienne. Cette accroître l’efficacité et, in fine, l’atteinte des objectifs
législation est exemplaire en ce qu’elle constitue une de développement.
initiative multipartite à laquelle se sont associés tous Cette législation est fondamentale pour les ONG
les partis politiques et de nombreuses organisations canadiennes puisqu’elle définit désormais les
de la société civile grâce à la direction du Conseil modalités d’allocation de l’APD canadienne et que
canadien pour la coopération internationale. Cette donc, elle s’applique indirectement à toutes celles
législation novatrice comprend trois axes principaux : recevant des fonds qualifiés d’« aide publique au
un axe substantif exigeant que l’APD canadienne développement » de quelque ministère ou agence
contribue à la réduction de la pauvreté, prenne en que ces fonds proviennent (ACDI, Ministère des
compte le point de vue des pauvres et soit compatible Finances, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et
avec les droits humains, un axe définissant les Commerce international Canada). Tant et si bien que
conditions de diffusion de l’information sur les actions le Conseil canadien pour la coopération internationale
en matière de développement par le Canada et un (CCCI) a créé un comité de suivi de cette législation
axe sur la consultation publique en matière d’aide et tenu des activités pour sensibiliser ses membres
publique au développement. Ce cahier de recherche aux implications de cette législation pour eux et que
se veut une contribution à la nécessaire réflexion sur l’Association québécoise des organismes de
les modes de mise en œuvre optimaux des trois coopération internationaux (AQOCI) songe à faire de
volets de cette législation. En se basant sur des même.
mécanismes internationaux, des initiatives de l’ACDI Courriel: [email protected]
Kénel Délusca - Université de Montréal

Évaluation des impacts des changements climatiques sur les rendements agricoles :
état des lieux et perspectives
Compte tenu de la forte sensibilité de l’agriculture au potentiels des changements climatiques sur
climat et surtout de son importance socio- l’agriculture mondiale. Pour avoir fourni les premières
économique, d’énormes efforts ont été déployés au idées sur les directions et l’ampleur des impacts des
cours des deux dernières décennies en vue de fournir changements climatiques sur l’agriculture à l’échelle
des informations sur l’envergure des impacts globale, ces différents efforts, matérialisés à travers la
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réalisation d’études d’impacts, ont été grandement caractérisées essentiellement par l’adoption d’une
utiles à plusieurs égards, notamment les premières approche autre que celle du "fermier conservateur" et
réflexions sur les adaptations possibles ou par l’implication de l’agent humain dans les toutes les
envisageables au niveau de ce secteur. Néanmoins, étapes essentielles du processus d’évaluation des
certaines approches, méthodes et technologies impacts des changements climatiques sur les
utilisées dans la réalisation de ces études sont soit rendements agricoles. Avec la considération de ces
désuètes ou difficilement applicables dans certains nouvelles approches et méthodologies, des nuances
contextes. sur l’ampleur et voire la direction des impacts
Cette communication présente les principales anticipés des changements climatiques sur les
limitations des celles-ci tant au Canada que dans les rendements agricoles ont été mises en relief.
pays en voie de développement et identifient les
différentes solutions de rechange. Celles-ci sont Courriel : [email protected]
Panel 11 – Local: EV2-776

Learning from the ground up
Chair: Aziz Choudry - McGill University
Discussant: Martha Stiegman - Concordia University

Aziz Choudry - McGill University

Dip Kapoor - University of Alberta
Learning from the Ground Up: Global perspectives on knowledge production and social movements
The dynamics, politics and richness of knowledge in varied contexts in Asia/Pacific, Africa, the Americas
production in social movements and social activist & the Caribbean, including our own practice.
contexts is often overlooked in scholarly literature on Our paper will articulate and document instances of
development and social change. This paper draws knowledge production, informal learning and
from our forthcoming book, which engages and education work that take place in the everyday worlds
elaborates on understandings that are rooted in the
contexts of a number of recent or contemporary social
struggles, and which explore their knowledge, of social activism, highlight linkages between such
learning and educational dimensions. We contend knowledge(s) and praxis/action, and illustrate
that some of the most radical critiques and tensions over whose knowledge and voice(s) are
understandings about dominant ideologies and power counted in development debates and practice. In
structures, and visions of development and social doing so, this paper discusses the following
change, have emerged from those spaces. We will questions:
also challenge ways in which grassroots/movement • What is the nature of knowledge production and
voices are often overwritten or otherwise education in social movements and how do these
marginalized-subalternized in the context of processes contribute to/inform social
‘alternative’ ‘civil society’ networks/NGOs, as well in change?
the scholarly literature. We draw upon contributions • What are some of the major tensions and power
by authors located within, or working closely with, a dynamics around the
range of anti-colonial/anti-imperialist social politics of these forms of knowledge production
movements, communities and popular mobilizations and how do they
challenge/relate to dominant/professionalized
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forms of knowledge? adult education be informed by epistemologies of

What is the significance of these tensions and knowledge and theory
contests over knowledge emerging from social action contexts, and vice
for social movements and social change? versa?
• How might scholarly research into social Email: [email protected]
movements and critical
David Austin - Independent

Vanguards and Masses: Global Lessons from the Grenada Revolution
Between March 1979 and October 1983, the tiny intervention in Grenada, the revolutionary
Caribbean island of Grenada engaged in a leadership’s messianic faith in Marxist-Leninist theory,
revolutionary process that inspired individuals and and its blind dependence on vanguard politics
movements across the globe. It was a short-lived distanced it from the majority of Grenadians,
process that traumatically imploded in a manner even profoundly shaping the direction that the revolution
more dramatic than its ascendance on the world would ultimately take.
stage, due in part to inexperience and the pressures Lastly, I will argue that if existing and future social
inherent in attempting to carry out a revolution in the movements and socialist governments can learn from
United States’ “back yard”. But brief as it was, the this revolution’s inspiring but tragic experience, then
Grenada Revolution was no fleeting moment. In this perhaps they will avoid many of the pitfalls that beset
paper I will demonstrate that this revolution embodied Grenada. Lessons from the Grenada Revolution are
in microcosm many of the challenges that confronted not only important to the revival of the Caribbean Left.
20th century socialism and social movements, and Grenada was a microcosm of the world in which Cold
that, as such, Grenada’s experience has profound War politics played themselves out with both inspiring
and universal implications for our understanding of and tragic consequences, and the world, particularly
social transformation and the dynamics of liberation. the generic left, has much to learn from Grenada’s
I will suggest that, without ignoring the role played by experience.
the pressures of the Cold War and the threat of U.S. Email: [email protected]
Shannon Walsh - McGill University

Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Xenophobia and Survival in the Post-Apartheid State
In May 2008, South Africa was racked with the worst events as the work of criminals or a third force. Yet
xenophobic violence since the end of apartheid. In the these explanations were difficult to sustain as images
space of a few weeks, over sixty people-- of death mounted in the newspapers.
overwhelmingly migrants from other African countries- While the violence simmered, the ‘knowledge
-were viciously attacked and killed by bands of industry’ of research institutes and non-governmental
vigilantes. Tens of thousands of people were organizations (NGOs) attempted to come to grips with
displaced, many seeking protection outside local
police stations, community and church halls and both the root causes of the violence and the local
temporary, precarious camps constructed throughout sparks that lit it. Rarely were those subjected to the
the country. violence heard from, even though many of them knew
The camps became the most lasting visible reminder their attackers.
of the violence. Hemmed in by barbed wire, the Throughout this presentation we explore how the
former township residents braved the winter in the underlying meaning and contradictions that the
Cape and Gauteng. In many cases their possessions refugees posed for the South African state were
were lost and their shacks burnt to the ground or covered over and controlled by a stranglehold on
taken over by former neighbors. Initially the state knowledge production that silenced the voices and
responded with denial, or tried to characterize the first-hand accounts of refugees themselves. The
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xenophobic violence and official responses to it open increased inequality and worsening conditions for the
an important window into South African that poorest sections of society.
challenges a transition that has seen fifteen years of Email: [email protected]
May 31st – 12:45 PM

Local: EV 2-776
CJDS Information Session
Moving Forward
Stephen Baranyi – Ottawa University

Haroon Akram-Lodhi - Trent University


May 31st – From1:45 PM to 3:30 PM
Panel 12 – Local: LB540

Putting Culture in Development / Development in Culture
Chair: Abigail Bakan - Queen’s University
Marcus Taylor - Queen’s University

Conscripting Competiveness: Culture, Institutions and Capital in Contemporary Development
Urging countries worldwide toward the inexorable a profound reshaping of the practices, values and
pursuit of competitiveness has become a mantra for conduct of postcolonial citizenries. In conditions of a
leading international institutions such as the OECD, liberalised economy, the triumvirate of good
World Bank and IMF. Predicated on the governance, formalised property rights, and the
modernisation script of the new institutionalist lubricant of (micro)credit are envisaged to cut through
economics, competitiveness is to be achieved the suffocating bonds of informal social institutions to
through encompassing institutional reforms that elicit unleash a hitherto constrained culture of
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entrepreneurship among the popular masses. The a result, although framed in terms of equity and
latter are then charged with pulling themselves out of freedom, subjects who are structurally unable to
poverty. The fractures of the project result not simply embrace the conduct of competitiveness must be
from the failure of reformers to overcome entrenched reformed, restrained or coercively removed. Violence
interests or the intransigent resistance of its intended emerges as the inevitable yet silent concomitant of
protagonists, but because capitalist development is competitiveness.
intrinsically uneven, leaving a growing tract of
humanity as surplus to the accumulation of capital. As Email: [email protected]
Ritu Verma – Out of the Box Research and Action

A View from Inside the Machine: Culture, Power and Development Disconnect in Madagascar
Development projects have profound impacts on practitioners at the same time, and in the same way
people and their enivornments the world over. we study the lives of rural farmers, different domains
Anthropologists, for instance, have demonstrated the of relations, negotiations, conflicts, meanings and
way they fail to achieve their intended goals on a decision-making come into view that were not part of
regular basis, and the way they unleash a whole host the frame before. It highlights how social and cultural
of unintended consequences. The focus of much of worlds influence (and are inextricably intertwined
the analysis has been on development discourses, with) working worlds, and vice versa. It illustrates
interventions, policies and projects and the way the how decisions and life choices made in the social
lives of the « the target population » is most affected lives of development practitioners shape their working
by them. These studies have revealed a great deal lives. And because development practitioners are
regarding disconnects in knowledge, science and advantaged in terms of power and access to
power. This paper argues that what has often been resources, these decisions also shape the way
left out of the analysis are the lives of those women development is actually conceptualized, configured
and men who are doing the actual « targeting ». That and reproduced. It becomes apparent that the social
is, the development practitioners and experts who and cultural lives of development practitioners,
make up the massive industry called development. although normally considered as “private” and
Based on multi-sited and multi-ethnographic fieldwork “unofficial” domains of development, have profound
in the Central Highlands of Madagascar, this paper effects on the way development is deployed, lived
focuses on development disconnects within and experienced.
intercultural encounters between and among
development practitioners and rural farmers. By Email: [email protected]
studying the social and cultural lives of development
Maureen Sioh - De Paul University, USA

The Hollow Within: Anxiety and Performing Postcolonial Financial Policies
Abstract: In 1997-98, East and Southeast Asia implementing currency controls during the crisis, I
experienced a region wide financial crisis that saw argue that the debate over ‘Asian values’ can be
national currencies lose 75 per cent of their value and understood as performances to challenge and defend
stock markets wiped out. The financial crisis became psychologically the conventional hierarchy of
an antagonistic and racialised referendum on ‘Asian international relations that followed its symbolic
values’ between certain Asian governments and their disruption due to the economic success of the
Western critics. What was the larger political regional economies prior to the crisis.
significance of this focus on ‘Asian values’? Focusing
on the Malaysian government’s controversial decision Email: [email protected]
to go against the international financial community by
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Mitu Sengupta – Ryerson University

A Million Dollar Exit from the Anarchic Slum-World: Slumdog Millionaire's Hollow Message of Social Justice
British director Danny Boyle's hugely popular and characters and spaces that signify Western culture
multiple award-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire, has and Northern trajectories of ‘development,’ I also
received acclaim for not only its entertainment value, engage with some of the troubling issues raised by
but its so-called realism and humanism. I contest the the film's success, which call to mind the important
latter characterisation, arguing that the film's reductive question of who is looking at whom, or the
view of slum-spaces will more likely reinforce relationship, in other words, between the
negative attitudes towards slum-dwellers, along with object/culture of the camera's gaze and the
lending credibility to the sorts of policies that have subject/culture involved in the gazing.
historically dispossessed them of power and dignity.
By drawing attention to the film's celebration of Email: [email protected]

Sustainable development in the post-Copenhagen era
Chair: Lance W. Robinson - Vancouver Island University
Discussant: Larry Swatuk - University of Waterloo

Alejandra Roncallo - York University

The Fourth Moment of the New World Order: Obama, the Environment and a Shift
in Capitalist Accumulation
This paper will argue that there is a fourth moment of his focus on the Environment and the Copenhagen
capitalist accumulation emerging and that it is based debate towards the Post Kyoto Protocol Agreement. It
on a market approach to the environment. The paper will finally touch on Indigenous perspectives on the
will be focused on the Americas. It will first address Environment and more particularly on Copenhagen.
President Obama s policies towards the region, then Email: [email protected]
Beth Jean Evans - Dalhousie University

North-South Relations under the Clean Development Mechanism:
Bridging the Divide or Widening the Gap?
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the been analyzed from isolated economic,
Kyoto Protocol has been hailed as the grand environmental, or developmental perspectives; as
compromise of the North-South divide over climate such, its efficacy in bridging the North-South divide
change mitigation for its ability to reconcile the remains poorly understood. This research examines
environmental and economic demands of the North the CDM in a holistic manner acknowledges the
with the developmental needs of the South. However, broad range of factors affecting nations’ decisions to
despite its important role in demonstrating the participate in an international agreement to which
reconcilability of Northern and Southern interests in they are not legally bound. The CDM is therefore re-
climate change mitigation, the CDM has primarily conceptualized as a mechanism which is designed
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not to provide cost-efficient emission reductions or to significant trade-offs exist between Northern and
facilitate sustainable development, but rather to Southern interests under the Mechanism and
increase the likelihood of future Southern nation suggests that the latter are often sacrificed. On this
cooperation in climate change mitigation efforts by basis, conclusions are drawn which point to the need
demonstrating that their developmental aspirations for increased attention to, and accommodation of, the
would be enhanced, rather than inhibited, by interests of Southern nations in the CDM specifically,
participating. An empirical examination of the CDM’s and global climate change mitigation and sustainable
project-type and project-location distribution trends development efforts more broadly.
analysis of a number of procedural issues shows that Email: [email protected]
Julie Drolet - Thompson Rivers University

Climate change, disasters and sustainable development:
Beyond the Copenhagen Accord ridging global and local community responses
Climate change is the most significant environmental, the fiscal capacity of all levels of governments.
social, cultural and economic threat facing Prevention/mitigation strategies can reduce or
humankind. In 2007, the United Nations prevent disasters, losses and emergency response
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) and recovery costs that would otherwise be incurred.
concluded that evidence of global warming is British Columbia (BC) is feeling significant effects of
unequivocal: that it is caused by greenhouse gas global warming. From fires in the Okanagan, to
emissions from human activity and that it is severe wind and rain storms on the west coast and
threatening ecosystems, societies, cultures and Vancouver Island, to flooding in Squamish, British
economies worldwide. Rising sea levels, increased Columbians are seeing increasing evidence of how
heat waves and drought occurrences, and increased weather change can adversely affect our lives. The
extreme precipitation events have the potential to paper presented will discuss preliminary findings of
devastate our quality of life. The United Nations this SSHRF funded study that aim to better
Framework Convention on Climate Change defines understand the impacts of climate change on small
climate change as "…a change of climate which is cities and rural communities in BC by focusing on
attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that community responses and adaptations. The global
alters the composition of the global atmosphere and climate negotiations in Copenhagen will be critically
which is in addition to natural climate variability reviewed in order to better understand how local
observed over comparable time periods." Nationally communities view problems and solutions and to
and internationally, the frequency of natural disasters identify innovative ways to moderate and adapt to
is increasing. The cumulative effect of these climate change.
disasters produces a significant personal, material
and economic strain on individuals, communities and Email: [email protected]

Gender & Livelihood issues in Iran, Bangladesh and Cameroon
Chair: Fiona MacPhail - University of Northern British Columbia
Discussant: Denyse Côté - Université de Québec en Outaouais

Email : denyse.côté@uqo.ca
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Roksana Bahramitash - University of Montreal

Zohreh Fanni - Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Women’s Self-Employment and Cooperative in Low-Income Neighbourhoods of Tehran
This paper focuses on self-employed women of low suffering from poverty. The informal sector, credit
income neighborhood of south Tehran. The work has clubs and other sources of funds are critical to
been based on a research which has incorporated poverty alleviation. Such efforts are outside of state
formal data extracted from the latest census with that sponsored welfare program and are highly vital to
of field local data, complied in 2009. Women from survival strategy of those live in the worst economic
these households find employment in the informal conditions. The paper brings together quantitative
sector since this sector provides more opportunities data together with that of qualitative and case study in
for employment than that of the formal sector. order to shed light on the importance of ways in which
Moreover, many women mange to raise funds and women from low income household empower
credits through their informal network such as themselves economically.
cooperative funding institutions. These are Email: [email protected]
credit/saving clubs popular particularly among those Email: [email protected]
Shah Md Nawaz - Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from a Village Study in Bangladesh
The main target of microfinance programs is women To evaluate the impact of microfinance on its
and one of the objectives of microfinance is to borrowers, a village in the Comilla district of
empower them. Due to the compatibility of Bangladesh was selected where the Grameen Bank,
microfinance with current development ideologies, it BRAC and ASA have been operating for more than
has been favoured in the last two decades as an five years. This study used various empowerment
instrument of development and women’s indicators to measure the impact of microfinance on
empowerment. However, studies of microfinance the borrowers. Although both quantitative and
programs around the world show that there are qualitative information show that over a period of
debates over their impact. Although some studies three to six years there were increases in these
show that microfinance has the potential to empower indicators both for the microfinance borrowers and
women, this finding is questioned by some non-borrowers (the control group), the increase was
researchers, while others show that microfinance also greater in the case of microfinance borrowers. It is
has the potential to disempower women. Using a argued that the difference between the borrowers and
village study in Bangladesh, this research attempts to the non-borrowers is a consequence of microfinance.
determine whether involvement in a microfinance The study concludes that microfinance has had a
program has led to greater empowerment of women, moderate impact on the empowerment of women. To
and if it has, the processes through which this make microfinance a more effective means of
empowerment has occurred. It also examines, under women’s empowerment, other services such as skills
which circumstances microfinance could fail to training, education and gender related strategies
improve the position of women borrowers? should be included with microfinance.
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Lotsmart Fongjong - University of Buea, Cameroon

The Paradox of Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership and
Women’s Contributions to Poverty Alleviation in Cameroon
Land is the bedrock of the dominantly agrarian women work on it. The logical outcome is that any
Cameroonian economy. It is therefore an important long term or major investment on the land must first
factor of production to both men and women receive the blessing of the men, no matter how useful
particularly in the rural areas. Women constitute the such activity might be for the wellbeing of the family.
majority of rural dwellers who as peasant farmers Although women continue to operate under this
exploit the land for family welfare. These women feed prevailing situation, they have put on a number of
their homes, educate the children, and pay medical quiet resistances in the face of persistent poverty.
bills amongst many other services from the land. This paper highlights some of the arguments of
Women are therefore the livewire of rural households customary practices that violate women’s land rights
and key players in the struggle against poverty. and the various forms of resistances from women. It
Unfortunately, most Cameroonian women in rural examines the role of landless women in poverty
areas work on land they do not owned and over which alleviation and advocates for gender mainstreaming
period they cannot determine. Customary practices in in land reforms as one of the ways forward for poverty
some localities deprive women from inheriting and alleviation particularly in rural areas.
buying land. The men thus own the land while the Email: [email protected]

Griot : Commentaires et rétroaction selon trois axes d’analyse
Dominique Caouette - Université de Montréal
Harley Jonhson - Indépendant
Hélène Jolette – UPA-DI

Education, development and globalization
Chair: Peter Joong – University of West Indies, Caribbean
Discussant: Nina Di Stefano – Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada

Tejwant K. Chana - University of Alberta

Educational Perspectives of Globalization and Development in India
The world has undergone a “great transformation” dissertation in which I explored the perspectives of
(Polanyi, 2001; [1944]) which has resulted in an neoliberal globalization post-1991 economic reforms
economically interconnected globalized world. This in Delhi, India in 2009 within the field of education. A
paper focuses on the research findings of my doctoral total of 128 participants were involved of which 75
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secondary education students and 13 post-secondary citizenship. This research provides an opportunity for
students participated in a focus group, and the educators and developmentalists to (a) access
remaining 40 participants 11 teachers, 3 school current understandings and perspectives of
Principals, 7 academics from higher education, 6 globalization from a South nations’ perspective, and
academic educational administrators and planners, 6 (b) the role of education in reproducing poverty and
curricula developers, 7 key individuals and inequality, and (c) the educational prospects that exist
organizations involved in educational reform) were in ameliorating inequality and poverty in India. I draw
individually interviewed. Key findings centre around upon Wallerstein’s world-systems theory to both
(a) understandings and perspectives of globalization, position the rationale of my research, and its analysis.
(b) the impacts of globalization, and (c) local-global Email: [email protected]
Shelley Jones - State University of New York, College at Potsdam

Internationalism, ‘development’ and global citizenship: reflections through
an international transdisciplinary online course
“Development”, especially in reference to countries would include critical awareness of dilemmas and
and cultures in the South from the purview of the possibilities of volunteering abroad, for example. As
North, is most often constituted in terms of prevailing instructors who reflexively consider the impact of the
neoliberal discourses that dominate the media. Often, course on our own identity formation and lived
it is not until essentializing assumptions and agenda- experiences, we encourage participants to
laden misrepresentations are deconstructed through development ‘reflective judgment’ (King & Kitchener,
reflexive and critical discourse analysis that deeper, 1994) that might lead to active, justice-seeking
more complex understandings emerge. This community-oriented engagement. In so doing, we
necessarily involves creating critical dialogical spaces attempt to provide a supportive pedagogic commons
for multiple perspectives, incisive analysis of issues of for them to engage in transformative learning
agency, position and power, and emphasis on experiences that shape their outlook on
historical contextualization of issues that reference interconnected global and local issues, but are also
‘development’. In this paper, two instructors of action-oriented and enabling. Through critical textual
Perspectives on Global Citizenship, an online analysis of discussion forums (Macfadyen & Hewling,
interdisciplinary and international distance education 2009), we consider the ways in which students who
course offered through the Department of Sociology have taken this course have developed their
at The University of British Columbia, reflect on the understanding of their roles and responsibilities as
relationship between student experiences in this global, active, participatory citizens, particularly
course and the development of their critical around issues of equity, and ecological and social
awareness of and commitment to global citizenship, justice.
even as they embrace the contradictions and ethical
dilemmas of such a commitment (Swanson, in press). Email: [email protected]
Through a focus on a pedagogy of ‘glocalization’, this
Melanie O'Gorman - University of Winnipeg

Public Education Expenditure Prioritization in the Developing World:
Is Universal Primary Education an Optimal Policy?
Over the last decade, the achievement of universal International Monetary Fund and World Bank funding.
primary education (UPE) has steadily built momentum While renewed support for UPE and the introduction
as a focus for action within international fora. UPE of PRSPs can be viewed as welcome initiatives in
targets feed into Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers their own right, the implication of their interaction has
(PRSPs), which are national development plans not been fully taken into account in the literature. The
whose focus is on both economic growth and poverty new prioritization of primary education has called for a
reduction. PRSPs are in turn used as the basis for uniform ratio of expenditure on primary relative to
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post-primary education across countries. In this which views education as a process of long-term
paper, I investigate the consequences of such rule- human resource development. This model highlights
setting, given incentives for countries in achieving how primary, secondary and tertiary education may
targets required for additional finance from the be prioritized by developing country governments,
international financial institutions. Such a rule is likely and how private incentives are affected by the public
sub-optimal in a wide range of countries, given the provision of education in varying degrees and
wide variation across countries in the existing qualities in a country. I then highlight how the
provision and quality of primary relative to post- predictions of the theoretical model are borne out in a
primary education. In order to illustrate this, I develop number of Sub-Saharan African countries.
a model of private and public financing of education Email: [email protected]
Panel 17 – Local: EV1-605 - Joint session CASID-ESAC

Climate change in Bangladesh
Chair: Nilfur Ahmad - World Bank
Iqbal Alam - Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Fellow

A Method to Analyze the Role of Social Capital and Gender in Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
This paper presents the findings of the scoping study researchers of the study team made preliminary visits
designed to test the study locations and to the sites to get an overview of the village
methodologies to be used in the project ‘Gender, community and verify the appropriateness of the site
Social Capital, Local Governance and Climate selected. Qualitative and quantitative tools designed
Change Adaptation in Bangladesh’ (GSCC). The for the study were pre-tested in some of the locations
linkages between the livelihood capital assets before embarking on the actual study. The main
possessed by a community and their adaptive EACC study was conducted in eight hotspots across
capacity provided the opportunity to understand the the country, each being vulnerable to one of the
strengths and limitations of the methodological tools climate change related hazards in Bangladesh. Apart
used and the sites selected. While conducting the from the field work, the study also involved
study, it was borne in mind that the findings and ‘Participatory Scenario Development’ (PSD)
lessons learned from the study will contribute towards workshops at national, regional and local levels. The
the scoping of an applicable approach to gender GSCC Study aims to understand the differential
dimensions of adaptation to climate change. Before impacts of climate change on men and women and
commencing the actual field work in the eight disparities between their adaptive capacities.
selected study locations or ‘hotspots’, field
Shirley Thompson - Natural Resources Institute

Preliminary findings from the gender, social capital, local governance and climate change adaptation in
Bangladesh Study
Focused adaptation measures are needed for women of their marginalized status and dependence on local
who are more vulnerable than men to climate related natural resources. Hotspots were defined as an area
impacts due to their social status, cultural norms, lack most vulnerable to a particular type of climate change
of access and control over resources and lack of related hazard. The hazards in thèse hotspots include
participation in decision making processes. This study river flood, flash flood, tidal flood, cyclone, salinity
of ten climate change hotspots in Bangladesh intrusion, waterlogging, drainage congestion and
considered that women bear a disproportionate drought. A rural livelihoods framework and method
burden of consequences of climate change because was applied that recognized social capital as an asset
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that households can draw upon in constructing their networks and channels through which government
livelihood strategies, enhancing their capacity to programs can effectively support rural communities in
adapt climate change scenario. At a broader scale their efforts to adaptation to climate change.
social capital contributes to the effective operation of
Durdana Islam - Natural Resources Institute

Rural livelihoods in Bangladesh

May 31st - F r o m 3 : 4 5 P M t o 5 : 3 0 P M

Lessons from 2 HD models: Kerala and Cuba
Chair: Bina Agarwal - Delhi University, India
Joseph Tharamangalam - Mount Saint Vincent University

Lessons from Two Human Development Models: Kerala and Cuba
This paper will present the main findings of a three democratic public participation involving considerable
year comparative study of Kerala and Cuba, two public discourse and public reasoning. It will also
societies of the global south well known for their examine the new challenges faced by them in the
human development (HD) achievements despite low wake of globalization and market reforms and
economic growth and incomes. It will highlight some attempt to assess how they are facing these
foundational and critical elements behind their high challenges.
HD achievemens which include the central role of the
state and related public insitutions, high degree of Email: [email protected]
Henry Veltmeyer - Saint Mary’s University

Rethinking human development: Deconstruction of a Deficient Model
The UNDP in its annual Human Development Reports model of Sustainable Human Development from a
has formalised a conception of development as ‘critical development’ standpoint. It is argued that the
freedom, advocated by Amartya Sen, that has been limitations of this model as a guide to development
widely used as a means of giving development a practice stems from several conceptual deficiencies.
social dimension and capitalism a human face. This
paper will deconstruct the thinking behind the UNDP’s Email: [email protected]
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Mark Rushton – Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

Cuba as a socialist model of human development
This paper argues that the Cuban revolution is based ‘special period’ and managed to sustain the
on a socialist model of human development, and that achievements of the Revolution into the new
crucial features of this model were responsible for the millennium.
way in which Cuba weathered the storm of the Email: [email protected]

Gender and Environment
Chair: Eugenia Pearson – Quick P.R. Consultant Services
E-mail: [email protected]
Discussant: Douglas Brown – York University

Christine Gibb - University of Guelph

The Gender of Trees
This study explores gendered local knowledge was not uniformly distributed in content and depth,
systems in a Ghanaian forest fringe village, but instead corresponded to engagement in daily
elucidating linkages among environmental subsistence and commercial activities. Opportunities
degradation, loss of local knowledge and gender. It to engage in these activities were influenced by the
investigated the content and processes of acquisition gender division of labour, gender roles and gendered
and transmission of tree-related knowledge, and how resource tenure systems. Third, study participants’
these areas differed among community members. commitment to tree management was affected by a
Qualitative data were collected in semi-structured variety of factors – engagement with trees,
interviews, participant photography and workshops. awareness of trees and their uses, ability to mobilize
Research findings confirmed the centrality of resources, personal need and/or use for the benefits
biophysical and social environments, local practices, derived from trees – and was balanced with other
belief systems, gender and informal and non-formal commitments. Moreover, their commitment to
learning experiences in shaping tree-related management and conservation efforts was usually
knowledge and management strategies. First, despite limited to familiar species exhibiting desirable
the increasing formalization of knowledge and characteristics. Fourth, while there was a potential for
emphasis on formal schooling, and the deteriorating formal education to supplement the tree component
state of the biophysical environment, most of what of local knowledge systems, it cannot be a perfect
community members know about trees was learned substitute because of the importance of place. These
through social and experiential learning within the findings underscore the importance of beginning
local ecosystem. As such, place and personal agroforestry projects with an understanding of within-
experiences in informal and non-formal learning community differences in preferences and needs.
environments continued to play vital roles in shaping
local knowledge systems. Second, local knowledge Email: [email protected]
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Ishara Mahat - University of Western Ontario

Gender, Energy and Human Freedom in Nepal
Rural energy in general and biomass, in particular, about providing better energy services but also
has a great impact on people’s wellbeing especially enhancing the human capabilities that are deprived,
on the life qualities of rural women as they are directly which could be strengthened for the well being of
involved in production and management of household women and their families. The challenges are then to
energy system. Energy poverty involves multiple identify energy options that help to address both
deprivations such as economic, social, cultural and energy poverty as well as human poverty so as to
ecological. Using biomass as exclusive source of increase the human freedom and their capabilities for
energy in rural areas of Nepal has a major effect on the well being of rural households.
human capabilities especially of women due to the This paper aims to analyze the deprivations of energy
social and cultural deprivation. For instance, poverty that are more detrimental in achieving human
increased use of biomass fuel consumes maximum freedom and human development. This will help to
women’s time and labor and affects children and provide an impetus for developing most appropriate
women’s health limiting the production and energy strategies and policy measures for alleviating
reproduction capacities of women (e.g. inability to be energy deprivations and there by to promote the
involved in other social and economic activities), human freedom as well as sustainable energy
which, in turn limits their capacities to access better development.
energy services impacting negatively on the overall
live qualities of rural population. Energy is not only Email: [email protected]
Marie Fall - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Salmata Ouedraogo - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Femmes et changements climatiques en Afrique subsaharienne
Selon la Banque mondiale, « le territoire africain est Cette communication s’intègre dans le thème «
particulièrement vulnérable aux changements Femmes, genre et développement ». Les femmes
climatiques, et ce pour des raisons multiples : hyper sont des acteurs clés du développement
dépendance vis-à-vis des ressources naturelles, socioéconomique des communautés. Leurs activités
manque d’infrastructures, étendue de la pauvreté et de production sont très dépendantes des ressources
faible capacité de réaction des institutions ». Les naturelles. Les politiques de lutte contre les
changements climatiques sont aujourd’hui une réalité changements climatiques et l’adaptation des
et les femmes en subissent grandement les communautés doivent par conséquence prendre en
conséquences. Eu égard à leur statut et leur rôle compte leurs besoins et leurs spécificités. Après avoir
dans le développement des communautés, elles se présenté les manifestations des changements
trouvent démunies ou impréparées face à certains climatiques en Afrique subsaharienne, nous
défis majeurs. Les analyses sur les changements analyserons leurs impacts sur les femmes et les
climatiques ne prennent pas toujours en compte la actions ou initiatives pour améliorer leur capacité
dimension du genre. Or, les femmes, en raison de d’adaptation. Pour ce faire, nous ferons une revue
leur rôle clé dans les communautés africaines, sont des données et des politiques relatives aux
celles qui supportent la plus grosse part des changements climatiques, particulièrement les
externalités négatives que ce phénomène entraîne impacts et les moyens mis en œuvre en Afrique
(désertification, déforestation, évènements climati- subsaharienne.
ques extrêmes, accentuation des tensions autour des Courriel: [email protected]
ressources naturelles, rareté de l’eau, etc.). Courriel: [email protected]
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Development and the business sector
Chair: David McDonald – Queen’s University
Email: McDonald [email protected]
Discussant: Delaney Greig – University of Toronto

Ahmed T. Rashid - University of Ottawa

Aga Khan - University of Ottawa
A “fair” business: Skin whitening cream and the ethics of marketing in South Asia
Beauty products such as the skin-whitening creams ethical dimensions which are in fact disempowering
are increasingly popular in many countries in for women. In particular, questions needs to be asked
Southern Asia. In India for example, skin-whitening or about marketing and selling the whitening creams to
the `fairness` industry is growing at 15-20% every the poorer segment of the population. Skin-lighteners
year catering to mainly women, and increasingly, generally contain toxic materials like lead,
men. Broadly, the phenomenon of using skin- corticosteroids and hydroquinone, which pose a
whitening products can be seen from two divergent serious health threats such as skin diseases, etc. The
perspectives. On the one hand, these products poor are especially vulnerable with very little
reinforce a historical pre-occupation with fair skin in consumer protection clauses. Furthermore,
contexts such as India and are manifestations of expenditure on skin care products means poor spend
racism and sexism expressed through existing less on other basic needs. The advertisements of
cultural and social mediums. On the other hand, the skin-whitening products portray a highly negative
products can be seen as a tool of empowerment by perception of women with darker complexion and thus
helping to women to become whiter, which in turn, could have a very damaging psychological effect on
can serve as a cultural capital in some social millions who cannot afford to buy the products. All
contexts. This particular discourse of empowerment these factors highlight how the retailers of skin-
has been forwarded by large multi-national retailers whitening products are benefiting from a historical
who are driving the demands for these products in bias for fairer skin and perpetuating a process of
many countries in the South. This paper traces the `unethical consumption`.
tensions between these two perspectives and argues
that the view of skin-whitening products as Email: [email protected]
empowering hides the underlying economic and Email: [email protected]
Marta Rohatynskyj - University of Guelph

Cyber-relationships, Cause Marketing and International Development
The eighth Millennium Development Goal of corporations has resulted in a ‘moral capitalism’
emphasizes the importance of a partnership with the that requires corporations to police themselves to
corporate world in order to attain the preceding behave in a socially responsible and ethical manner.
goals. This emphasis on the role of corporations in A debate continues about whether the corporation
development is seen by many as a result of the can find common interest with the poor and act in a
neoliberal agenda which has diminished the role of manner that would promote both the interests of the
government and the state in providing services to corporation and the interests of the poor. This debate
citizens and in spearheading economic development signals the pervasiveness of a sea change in
efforts. Further, it is argued that the minimization of development discourse as experienced in the cyber
the role of the state and the maximization of the role reality of everyday life. The particular aspect to be
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addressed in this paper is the nature of the its product will be donated to a cause in an
relationships formed by citizens of developed underdeveloped community. This paper points out
communities with members of underdeveloped the fuzzy line between corporate gain and the
communities whose cause has been taken up by common good as promoted by a neoliberal discourse
corporate/NGO partnerships. Of particular interest that encourages the development of shared values
here are microfinance institutions which make it between corporations and civil society. It is argued
possible for donors to guarantee loans for micro- that given the development of the internet individual
borrowers in underdeveloped communities on the to individual relations promoted by these development
internet. A second type of instance is found in what mechanisms mask the structural features of economic
is termed cause marketing where a corporation underdevelopment.
through its partnership with an NGO promises that a
certain proportion of moneys gained through sales of Email: [email protected]
Mizan Rahman - University of Lincoln

Ahmed T. Rashid - University of Ottawa
How Social Marketing Achieves Public Health and Development Goals in a Developing Country
The paper illustrates how a socially motivated Bangladesh by complementing the public sector
organisation in Bangladesh, namely SMC (Social distribution with private sector social marketing
Marketing Company), went through a journey of model. In 2008, SMC provided 3.97 million Couple
commercial and non-commercial activities in the path Years of Protection (CYP) through offering three
of sustainability. modern methods – oral pills, condoms and
As an organisation, SMC is unique. It is regarded as indictables. The products are targeted at different
the largest privately-managed not-for-profit segments of consumers of varying socio-economic
organisation in the world for a single country. The background. The poor citizens specially benefit from
Company is registered under the Companies Act, these as family planning is a way of fighting poverty.
1913 in Bangladesh and is governed by a voluntary Linkages and inter-connectivity in brand development
Board of Directors. Social marketing in Bangladesh of a social marketing company and the way forward is
was initiated 35 years ago to challenge the rapid the subject matter of this paper. It intends to illustrate
population growth by marketing contraceptive that socially motivated enterprises can thrive in
products widely accessible at a price affordable to the different forms (company), modes of branding
general population and bring about behavioural (individual/umbrella branding) and organisational
change through extensive mass promotion. The major (same/new organisation) growth and direction. The
social marketing programmes SMC implements sustainability issue is compared and contrasted
include family planning, child survival, maternal and keeping donor funding continuity and commercial
child health, institution and STD/AIDS prevention activities in mind. It is interesting to appreciate the
programme. In addition, SMC implements customer involvement of the private sector in solving national
education and health communication programmes. public health problems.
SMC is now regarded as a significant contributor to
the reproductive and child health services in Email: [email protected]

GRIOT: Conclusions
Nicole St-Martin - Université de Sherbrooke
Olga Navarro-Flores – UQAM
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Local, indigenous identities, land and nature resource defence strategies
This panel forms the backdrop of a book project that in the face of external NGO support for organic
aims to provide a rich array of recent case studies of farming practices; the search for leadership and
local and Indigenous communities in various contexts patrimonial champions in the face of community
in Africa, Asia and the Americas who are using exclusion from a protected nature reserve; and,
different strategies, and facing different challenges in ongoing discursive struggles in the maintenance of
defending their relationship with the land and local communal access to a salt flat. It is hoped that panel
natural resources. The three case studies provided in discussions will deepen the interconnected analysis
the panel presentation reveal some of the complexity of these case studies, and invite connections to other
inherent in this multi-faceted topic: community agency potential contexts.
Chair: Jonathan Langdon - St. Francis Xavier University

Discussant: Dip Kapoor - University of Alberta

Blane Harvey - Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Community-NGO partnerships for sustainable rural agriculture: Unpacking the impacts of alliance
This paper explores the conflicting impacts that evolving to such an extent as to rupture the continuity
Community-NGO partnerships have in shaping the of their cooperation, or each other’s raison d’être.
use and defence of rural livelihoods in the face of However, in a region where food insecurity and
globalisation and neo-liberalism. It takes as an poverty are daily realities, the risk and complexity of
example a partnership in eastern Senegal which disengaging or destabilising these forms of
could, on many levels, be seen as a model of partnership must first be appreciated from the
community-level engagement, and examines the perspective of community collectives themselves.
ways in which these relations impose new forms of This tension presents an important site for critical
ruling relations (Smith, 2005) upon communities. collective reflection, and a potential opportunity to
Drawing upon Agrawal’s (2005) conception of reshape their engagement in new ways. However,
“environmentality” and Foucault’s analysis of micro- the increasing external coordination that community
technologies of power (1977), it explores how this members face also colonises the physical, temporal,
partnership has introduced new forms of extra-local and conceptual spaces fundamental to these types of
coordination upon communities, embedded within a critical reflection and learning (Cornwall, 2004)
discourse of local empowerment, enhanced thereby weakening their capacity to re-imagine the
livelihoods, and environmental sustainability. Finally, terms of their engagement with the outside support
it considers how such relations discursively “invent that has so shaped them. This invites the question of
the peasant” (Harvey, 2009) along lines that serve to whether/how communities or collectives engaged in
further entrench the roles and identities of both initiatives established from the outside can secure the
members of the partnership, incrementally improving critical distance needed to meaningfully engage in
the quality of their livelihoods and embodying the praxis around their own environmental development.
agreed-upon principles of “good practice”, without Email: [email protected]
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Scott Matter - McGill University

“We have no leaders:” fighting for land and development at Enoosupukia, Kenya, through patrimonial
democracy
Residents of Enoosupukia, a highland former forest in Enoosupukia in particular and in Kenya more
Narok District, in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, deal generally.
with a great deal of insecurity and hardship in their This paper examines the multiple strategies of
daily lives, much of which centres around contested political engagement used by residents of
ownership and control of approximately 2,750 Enoosupukia as they seek to build and nurture
hectares of land. The land in question has been connections with the political elite and the state in
subject to tenure transformation since the 1960s and order to secure their claims to rights in land and
was reclassified as a conservation forest in 1993, access financial resources for local development. In
resulting in repeated threats of eviction and perpetual particular, I make use of material gathered through
insecurity. When asked about the source of hardship, participant-observation and informal interviews during
people routinely respond that “we have no leaders,” local campaigns for Kenya's 2007 General Election to
by which they mean elected representatives and discuss both public performances of patrimonial
administrative officials. This statement not only relationships and clandestine negotiations with
mirrors that of Chabal and Daloz (1999) who state candidates. I argue that, for people at Enoosupukia,
that in patrimonial politics, “the truly destitute are rights in land and the ability to pursue development
those without patrons” (42), but also alludes to the depends on both negotiation of local cultural politics
importance of patronage networks in gaining and and integration into Kenya's political culture.
maintaining access to land and other resources at Email: [email protected]
Jonathan Langdon - St. Francis Xavier University

Reconfiguring colonial history in Ada, Ghana:
Local natural resource use and contesting development in the new world order
The research presented here is one outcome from Key to unpacking this conclusion is the way in which
participatory research with Ghanaian activist the struggle of the Ada movement has historically
educators collectively analyzing social movement contested the topographical power of the state
dynamics and learning in Ghana since the return to (Ferguson, 2006) in dictating the way in which the salt
democracy in 1992. This presentation will focus on a flat was to be embedded within a development-
local social movement in Ada, Ghana, that is through-modernization agenda. Instead, the
defending communal ownership and access to a salt movement has consistently presented an alternative
flat, a key natural resource for livelihood in the area. model of national access to the resource that remains
This aspect of the research draws on the work of Peet embedded in traditional communal management
and Watts (2003) as well as Kapoor (2007) in practices. Added to this, the most recent struggle of
suggesting first that local relationships with and the movement uses a revised account of colonial
defense of natural resources are a key area of study, history that downplays the role of chiefs to destabilize
and that the movements that evolve from these current attempts by local chiefs to enclose the salt
struggles draw strength from the way they are flats in the name of local entrepreneurial
embedded in people’s livelihoods as well as cultural development. However, in both articulations of
identity. One of the key conclusions of this struggle what is ultimately being contested are
participatory study is that defending a communal attempts to immerse this natural resource into the
relationship with a salt flat also has deep implications marketized logic of the neo-liberal new world order.
on the ways in which development is being conceived
locally, nationally and within the new world order. Email: [email protected]
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DAY ONE
May 31st - 6 P M
General Assembly, Cocktail and Book Launch
Local: EV2-204/238/260
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DAY TWO: Conference Sessions

June 1st - From 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM

Gender and Development in Central Asia
Chair: Roksana Bahramitash – University of Montreal
Discussant: Nipa Banerjee – University of Ottawa

Shama Dossa - University of Toronto

Troubling Empowerment Narratives
The narrative of empowerment when told appears constructed; how they are constituted and
solid on the surface, a story you can hold on to, one transformed; how a narrative can be a source of both
you can stand tall on, test your weight on and know simultaneous empowerment and disempowerment
that the surface will hold. It generally evokes a vision and both engender and deflect resistance. Using a
of a revolutionary grass roots participatory process transnational feminist lens I attempt to examine a
which is inclusive and provides a voice to particular meta narrative of WEMC (Women’s
marginalized people (particularly women) Empowerment in Muslim Contexts) ( 2009) , a
strengthened by collective organizing and solidarity multisite feminist activist and academic endeavor
(Parpart et al 2002). Tongues and textbooks grounded in the Pakistani context. I draw on WEMC
enunciate concrete words such as autonomy, as an example to explore how the warp and weft of
freedom, self esteem, social transformation, poverty neoliberal, feminist and politico-Islamic narratives are
alleviation, local indigenous bottom up strategies and entangled in the production and consumption process
participation. However when probed with a stick the of this narrative. I believe that these entanglements
narrative uncoils itself to reveal an amalgam of have significant discursive and material implications
constructs encompassing a multiplicity of truths, for the politics and ethics of knowledge production
knowledge constructs and power relations; diverging and consumption within development and feminist
violently and unpredictably I might add when it comes discourse.
to their material outcomes. The purpose of this paper
to consider how narratives of empowerment are Email: [email protected]
Aamir Jamal - University of Calgary

Gender, education and development: Engaging men for gender equality and girls’ education
in the Pashtun tribes of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
The aim of this study is to analyze how male culture and politics that have shaped male
discourses of power construct barriers to girls’ perceptions of women’s role in education. The focus
education and to co-construct ways of overcoming of my study is Pashtun men, who have the power to
those barriers through the participation of Pashtun create obstacles to women’s education as well as
men. The research focuses on identifying the remove them. Men are the ‘gatekeepers’ of gender
contradictory ideas and stereotypes from religion, initiatives and are potential resistors of change and if
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we do not effectively involve men in gender equality sampling to construct a multi-disciplinary group
programs, most of our efforts will be either rejected or (fathers, community leaders, religious leaders,
simply ignored by the community. A qualitative Delphi academics and gender and development
method is used to answer the following key questions: professionals) for the Delphi panel. Qualitative
How do Pashtun men perceive girls’ education? What observations and preliminary interviews have been
are the major factors restricting girls’ education in the conducted in the tribal region of North West Frontier
Pashtun tribes? How do Pashtun men perceive the Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. In view of the
role of the international non-governmental international community’s increased involvement in
organizations (INGOs) in gender development the reconstruction and socio-economic development
issues? How can development organizations most of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the findings of this
constructively engage men in girls’ education research will help non-governmental development
initiatives/projects? How can international community, organizations in designing effective policies as well as
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), policy- formulating efficient implementation strategies for
makers, and the community work together to ensure gender related programs in the region.
Pashtun girls’ access to quality education? Twenty
experts have been recruited through purposive Email: [email protected]
Maliha Crishti - Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education (OISE)/University of Toronto
Gender and the Development Battlefield in Afghanistan: Nation-Builders vs. Nation-Betrayers
This paper explores the impact of the War on Terror that Afghan women are caught in the front lines of a
on international development interventions in "post- new development "battlefield", and are projected as
conflict" Afghanistan. Both Afghan men and women both "nation-builders" and "nationbetrayers" as each
continue to face formidable challenges in efforts to side is vying for greater influence and control over
collaboratively build sustainable peace across the Afghan women to serve their ideological and political
country. This paper challenges any claims about the agendas. On the one hand, imperialist forces
neutrality or impartiality of postconflict aid encourage women to be active participants in the
interventions in Afghanistan, and will critically focus nation-building efforts of their country in order to
on the violent campaigns waged by extremists demonstrate western politico-military and ideological
against the diverse forms of international aid defeat over Islamic extremism, while simultaneously,
interventions across the country. many Afghan women and girls are being actively
Drawing from a feminist, post-colonial framework, this discouraged and publicly threatened for "betraying"
paper examines the politics of development their culture and traditions if they are linked to
interventions as sites for the continued conflict "imperialist" aid projects, whether as organizers or
between anti-government factions and Western participants. This paper highlights the implications of
governments. In examining the policy statements of ideologically motivated, militarized aid to Afghanistan.
western governments and through interviews with
Afghan women activists, this paper centrally argues Email: [email protected]

Security & Development in Fragile States
Chair: Peter Tamas - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Discussant: Anil Varughese – University of Toronto

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Stephen Baranyi (& Jennifer Salahub) - University of Ottawa

Police reform and democratic development in lower-profile fragile states
Over the past five years, OECD donors have approaches to SSR have more scope for application
formulated guidelines and a handbook to orient their in fragile states that are not on the front lines of the
increasing involvement in security system reform “war on terror”. Yet even in such lower-profile
(SSR) throughout the South and particularly in so- contexts, the case studies suggest that key factors
called “fragile states”. These normative instruments converge to complicate their application. A social
recommend a range of measures to ensure that constructivist perspective will be used to explain how
donor involvement reinforces human development agency and institutional dynamics at the national and
goals such as national ownership, democratic international levels, and structures such as the
consolidation and gender equality. However Mark enduring legacy of patrimonial politics, shape the
Sedra and other analysts have cogently argued that prospects for developmental approaches to SSR in
this model is in “crisis” in high-profile fragile states these contexts. The paper will end by relating these
such as Afghanistan and Iraq, where counter- nuanced findings to wider debates on the challenges
insurgency strategies distort or even negate of putting the vision of effective development
democratic development approaches to SSR. cooperation, codified in the Paris Declaration, into
Drawing on original cases studies of police reform in practice in the new world (dis)order.
Burundi, Haiti and Southern Sudan, our paper will
demonstrate that democratic development Email: [email protected]
David Gillies (Abraham Sewonet and Simon Lubang) - North-South Institute

Policing and Security System Reform in Southern Sudan
This paper will do two things. First, in the context of insecurity, the paper will examine current policing
OECD guidelines on holistic approaches to security approaches and the potential for police reform.
system reform, the paper will briefly survey current Policing is an aspect of SSR that is relatively
SSR priorities as they are articulated by aid donors neglected in the current priorities of international
and sub-national government in one post-conflict partners and the sub-national government. These
setting, namely Southern Sudan. The paper will draw two strands of inquiry will enable some initial
out the rationale for prioritizing the modernization of observations to be made about the relationship
the army as the first order of business and examine between generic SSR policies and real world practice
the implications of this choice for the overall in a lower profile conflict situation.
architecture for SSR in a fragile, insecure but
nominally post-conflict environment. Second, drawing Email: [email protected]
on field research of citizen perceptions of security and
Rosario Adapon Turvey - Nipissing University

Economic Security, Development and Fragile States
Across the globe, basic rights to life and security are help policy makers with informed decisions on how
violated in fragile states where over 500 million best to engage fragile states with unique problems
people live in extreme poverty. Although each that pose challenges to conventional solutions. This
situation varies from state to state, their geographies paper stresses the need for research for a
of representation in the world economy and the constructive engagement with fragile states to
political arena are constructed as spaces of investigate the spatial dynamics of how local
development and precarious states at risk from institutions, actors and initiatives contribute to building
failure, i.e., where livelihoods and income sources economic security (ES) at the community level. By
have eroded dramatically. Understanding state examining the spatial variables on state fragility in
fragility in development and the security field could economic security, the study expects to provide
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insights, lessons learned and evidence on how local explanations are insufficient bases for understanding
people and institutions in selected study countries why an increasing number of fragile states are ‘falling’
have adapted to crises and post-conflict settings to and situated at the bottom of the world’s development
escape the ‘fragility trap.’ The objective is to create spectrum. The task is to understand the nature and
opportunities and non-mainstream interventions direction of development in fragile states vis-à-vis
based on proactive, systematic and prevention economic security. Researching ES and state fragility
measures, rather than ad-hoc, piece-meal in spatial terms is of theoretical and practical
approaches for designing ‘stability response importance for promoting the economic well-being of
frameworks’. The theoretical base is to account for more than forty fragile states and the overall security
the spatial dynamics of fragility as informed by of the rest of the world.
securitization theory and geography. Current political Email: [email protected]
Panel 25 – Local: EV 11-119

Water & Development Issues
Chair: Terisa Turner - University of Guelph

Discussant: Gabriela Silva – Université du Québec à Montréal

Larry Swatuk - University of Waterloo

Msimbithi Ntloko - University of Waterloo
Institutional Change for Effective Water Governance in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Since 1994, South Africa has thoroughly revamped its toward matching service delivery/management
legal and institutional frameworks for water resources agencies with river basins. In addition, the entire
management. New water laws are in place; new process has been transparent, guided by ideals of
processes of decision-making have been created inclusivity, participation and subsidiarity.
along with new lines of authority. Today, the Despite such concerted efforts at fundamental
Department of Water Affairs bears little resemblance transformation, outcomes have yielded limited
to its apartheid predecessor. Inequality of access to positive results. As shown in our paper, this is due to
adequate quality and quantities of water was a a combination of three socio-political factors: limited
hallmark of the apartheid system. To move toward human resource capacity; bureaucratic inertia;
redressing past inequalities and preparing the future political changes external to the water sector.
for sustainable, equitable and efficient water resource Locating our analysis within the complementary
use, the first post-apartheid government theoretical frameworks of good water governance and
fundamentally transformed the structure and stakeholder participation in water management, the
functioning of the relevant Ministry and its key
paper:
Department. Internal transformation occurred at
several levels. Institutional change reflected the aims • Describes the establishment of WMAs and
and objectives of the new Water Act, whereby water CMAs
resources management was to be undertaken within • Examines the performance of this particular
the context of 19 Water Management Areas institutional set-up in delivering effective
(corresponding more or less to natural or functional water governance
watersheds) that would eventually give rise to 19
• Evaluates the place of stakeholder
Catchment Management Agencies. Several internal
as well as external factors were driving this move participation in the new institutional set-up
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• Identifies the problems and successes of the literature review; (ii) key stakeholder interviews;
shift away from apartheid style water (iii) snow-ball process of stakeholder
governance; and identification for further interviewing/fact-checking
• Makes several suggestions and and acquisition of additional secondary data sets,
recommendations for improved water policy documents, and so on. Nvivo software was
management and governance utilized in the coding and organization of
The paper’s findings are derived from a primarily interview data.
quantitative methodology combining standard Email: [email protected]
elements of data triangulation: (i) extensive
Govind Gopakumar - Concordia University

Reforming Water Supply Infrastructure Regimes in India:
Do Public Private Partnerships have a role to play?
In the international development discourse, Public the dynamics of partnership efforts in different urban
Private Partnerships (PPP) have emerged as an contexts – how will these efforts affect existing
important governance strategy for enhancing the infrastructure regimes? will partnerships facilitate or
access of marginalized residents to essential urban weaken neoliberal reforms in water supply regimes?
infrastructures such as water supply. With the Reviewing some of the recent literature on urban
inception of neoliberal economic reforms in India, in political analysis, this paper uses a comparative
Indian cities too, PPP have become an innovative approach to understand the dynamics of water supply
approach to expand coverage of water supply and and sanitary infrastructure development in the Indian
sanitation infrastructures. Instead of making context. In order to do so this article will develop a
infrastructures more participative, critical voices have framework to understand the empirical case of five
argued that partnerships are precursors to reforms water supply and sanitation partnerships in three
that will eventually privatize these essential metropolitan cities in India.
infrastructures. However there has been little study of Email: [email protected]

Development theories and models in Latin America
Chair: Susan Healey - Senior Consultant, Harry Cummings and Associates
Discussant: John Cameron - Dalhousie University

Hepzibah Munoz Martinez - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Matamoros

Crisis, Maquiladoras and the Failures of Mexico’s Development Model
The credit crisis in the United States has had major sector was already in crisis because of the lack of
impact on Mexico’s export-oriented economic model, technological innovation in the sector (Carrillo y
particularly in the maquiladora or in-bond plants, due Hualde, 1997; Gereffi, 2001; Hualde 2002) or the
to the dependency of this model on American absence of linkages to the national economy and the
markets. Prior to this U.S. economic downturn, low added value of this industry (Alarco Tosoni, 2006;
several analysts considered that the maquiladora Mercado Celis, 2004; Dussel Peters, 2004; Villarreal,
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2005). These explanations emphasize how development strategy in Mexico. This paper explores
competition from China and the current U.S. credit the financial operations of Delphi, GM’s main supplier,
crisis only intensify the decline of this in-bond in international financial markets and its relationship
industry. Indeed, these approaches provide insights to Delphi’s plant closures and further restructuring in
into the dependency of the maquiladora on American its maquiladoras in Matamoros, Mexico. Such a focus
markets and the relationship of this sector to the on the relationship between global finance and local
national economy. However, it also needs to be productive processes in maquiladoras is central to
explored the articulation that global finance has with promote policies that not only emphasize added
local productive processes in assembling plants in the value, technological innovation and linkages to the
Mexican border with the US. This paper argues that national economy but also address the negative
the financial exposure of multinational companies impact that excessive financial operations have on
linked to maquiladoras have put enormous pressure labour rights and wages.
on labour restructuring and wages, reproducing and Email 1: [email protected]
intensifying the failures of the export-oriented Email 2: [email protected]
Colin Hamlin - Saint Mary’s University

Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contours of a Paradigmatic Synthesis
Latin America has practically served as a laboratory how neostructuralism views the balance between the
for various approaches to development in the last state and the market in the development process.
quart of the twentieth century, having witnessed Neostructuralism has a more comprehensive theory
several drastic and rapid changes in its policy of the agency of the state than does neoliberalism,
orientations. Since 1990, a new paradigm for but at the same time neostructuralism largely limits
economic development as emerged in Latin America the state to a stabilizing force, making sure that
that promises to combine reactivated economic markets function smoothly, and that transnationalized
growth with social equity and political democracy. export production continues to expand. The limit of
Latin American neostructuralism constitutes a the neostructuralist synthesis is found to be its
pragmatic paradigm for development that overcomes tendency to reduce the complexity of development
the revolutionary and fundamentalist idealism that issues to mechanical problems, curable by simply
had earlier characterized development approaches in implementing enlightened policies alone.
the region. The evolution of the neostructuralist Neostructuralism is found to be a useful reference
synthesis is traced through the development crisis of point for development actors in the region, but its
the 1980s and into the restructuring of the 1990s. excessive cooperative focus must be complimented
The integrated policy framework is deconstructed to by other perspectives that address power relations,
show how neostructuralism justifies its policy anti-developmentalist forces, and strategies to
recommendations, revealing its core assumptions and overcome them.
contradictions. Particular attention will focused on Email: [email protected]
Patrick Clark - University of Waterloo

Manuel Larrabure - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto
The Social Economy and Development in ‘Twenty-First Century Socialist’ Venezuela
My recent research has examined both theoretical ‘endogenous development’ plan. The Major Research
and practical dimensions of the ‘twenty-first century Paper I completed for my Master’s degree
socialist’ development model in Venezuela, its incorporates fieldwork that I conducted this past
relation to the other new left governments in Latin summer while visiting Venezuela focused on the
America and to global politics more broadly. However, state-sponsored ‘social economy’ initiatives including
my focus within the Venezuelan case is on the state- national the Ministry of the Communal Economy and
fostered social economy initiatives which are being the government’s Plan Café, which targets small-
promoted by the Chavez government as part of its scale producers. Through my research, I have strived
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to critically evaluate some specifics around public through participant observation and interviews in
policies and the social economy in Venezuela in Venezuela, an examination of relevant government
relation to broader theoretical and political themes. policy documents and an extensive literature review
My research is theoretically informed by some of the on Venezuelan history, politics and the rise of the left
recent literature which has emerged on post- in Latin America. It is my intention to continue this
neoliberalism, the social economy as well as some research into doctoral studies next fall. The Bolivarian
more conceptual issues around social democratic Revolution has deeply impacted inter-American
politics and participatory democracy and governance. relations and public policies related to development in
In my paper I critically examine the discrepancies the region. A critical understanding of the specific
between the discourse, policies and practices of the successes and challenges of the ongoing
Chavez government development strategies and the transformation in Venezuela is thus indispensible for
contradictions and successes of the development development scholars and practitioners alike.
model playing out on the ground in Venezuela. My
research methodology is a combination of fieldwork Email: [email protected]

Développement, l'environnement & les OMD en Afrique
Chair/Discussant: Boubacar Oumarou
Marie Fall (et Mamadou Dimé) - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement à réévaluer ?
Alors que jusqu’aux années 90, la réalisation du incidences que la crise financière aura sur les OMD.
développement était le slogan des politiques et des Notre communication vise à les cerner à l’échelle des
actions des États africains, aujourd’hui la lutte contre pays d’Afrique subsaharienne. Elle s’appuiera sur les
la pauvreté semble être le facteur essentiel pour sortir données macro-économiques disponibles dans les
du sous-développement. La massification de la rapports et études de la Banque mondiale et du
pauvreté a contribué à la placer au centre des Fonds monétaire international ainsi que de ceux des
préoccupations, des discours et des agendas des institutions spécialisées des Nations unies pour
acteurs du monde du développement : États, répondre à la question de l’éventuelle réévaluation ou
institutions internationales, organismes spécialisés non des OMD à la lumière du nouveau contexte
des Nations Unies, bailleurs de fonds, organisations économique international.
non gouvernementales. Nous aborderons les points suivants : 1) la
La prise de conscience des proportions de la massification de la pauvreté et l’adoption des OMD
pauvreté s’est matérialisée en septembre 2000 par en Afrique subsaharienne : rôles et responsabilités
l’adoption des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le des acteurs, agenda des réalisations ; 2) la crise
Développement (OMD) qui ont été établis suivant des financière actuelle : significations, causes,
scénarios optimistes et une répartition des manifestations ; 3) les répercussions de la crise
responsabilités et des engagements qui en appelaient financière en Afrique subsaharienne ; 4) des OMD
au devoir de solidarité des pays riches. Ils reposent devenus hors d’atteinte ? : les impacts de la crise
sur l’impérieuse nécessité de combattre l’extrême financière sur les OMD ; 5) réévaluer ou renforcer les
pauvreté. À la lumière de l’intensité de la crise OMD : esquisse de scénarios pour le futur en matière
actuelle et de l’ampleur de ses conséquences de lutte contre la pauvreté.
actuelles et anticipées, il est opportun d’examiner les Courriel: [email protected]
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Denise Piché (Jessica Gagnon, Émilie Pinard, Ayao Missohou et Évariste) - Université Laval
Entre prédation et production : les villes peuvent-elles opérer un renversement
dans leur rapport à l’agriculture?
L’expansion urbaine au vingtième siècle s’est le plus l’expansion urbaine leur impose et sur les adaptations
souvent faite aux dépens des terres agricoles, possibles dans les modes de production ainsi que
l’urbanisation étant d’ailleurs habituellement vue en dans la gestion foncière et la structuration du cadre
opposition territoriale et sociale avec la paysannerie bâti. Il s’agit à la fois de maintenir une production
et la production alimentaire. Le vingt-et-unième siècle alimentaire au sein du tissu urbain afin de rapprocher
sera-t-il celui d’un espace rurbain productif au plan les sources vivrières des populations et de soutenir
alimentaire? La communication présente les résultats des pratiques qui sont source de diversité écologique
de travaux sur les conditions et les modes de la et culturelle.
production maraîchère et, surtout, de l’élevage dans
la périphérie de Dakar, sur les contraintes que Courriel: [email protected]
Mebometa Ndongo - Université du Québec à Montréal

L’intervention de la Banque Mondiale et la reconfiguration institutionnelle au niveau local :
la construction d’Une gouvernabilité au Sénégal
Les institutions qui gouvernent les territoires se facilitateur/accompagnateur par l’acteur local se
construisent sous l’emprise du contexte. À l’heure de conjugue avec celui d’instigateur par l’acteur mondial.
la mondialisation, la construction institutionnelle, celle Il en résulte une dynamique normative, rationnelle et
de la gouvernabilité, est un processus bidirectionnel. théorique incluant un processus de re-scaling.
La conjugaison de l’influence globale et la force locale L’environnement structurel, l’apprentissage
crée l’institutionnalité orientée par la globalisation. opérationnel et la gouvernabilité constituent la
Ainsi sous l’effet du contexte global, resurgit une triangulation ayant valorisé le contexte d’un projet de
géographie d’interactions correspondante à celle développement urbain par la gestion, le bilan, les
d’acteurs territoriaux. Celle-ci s’imbrique dans la objectifs et les stratégies opératoires dans
configuration préexistante créant un nouveau schéma l’interprétation de sa dynamique. Dessinée
et un système différent où les acteurs mondial et local progressivement par l’ajustement municipal, une
permettent le processus de gouvernabilité induit de version territoriale de l’ajustement structurel,
manière programmée. l’exportation, l’importation et l’implantation des savoirs
L’intervention urbaine en quatre décennies par la marquent cette dynamique. Traduite par le cycle des
Banque Mondiale au Sénégal montre une projets, celle-ci se cristallise par des jalons
reconfiguration où continuité et rupture jalonnent conceptuels encastrés dans l’évolution de la Banque,
l’évolution de huit projets déconstruits et reconstruits un processus de transformation, d’internalisation,
soumise à la consultation d’experts, après l’examen d’endogénéisation et d’inculturation institutionnelle,
du contexte, des objectifs, des stratégies opératoires un contact interactioniste inégalitaire entre l’acteur
et du bilan. Cette intervention illustre la greffe qui local et l’expert externe, et la construction d’une
implante l’idéologie néolibérale véhiculée sur le institutionnalité locale dans la structure politico-
territoire sénégalais. Elle permet de constater administrative imposée par le néolibéralisme
comment le Sénégal facilite et accompagne les occidental.
mécanismes afférents à cette greffe. Ce rôle Courriel: [email protected]
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Panel 28 – Local: MB1/210

June 1st – 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM Keynote Speaker
Camilla Toulmin
Climate Change in Africa
Changement Climatique en Afrique
Chair: Henry Veltmeyer – CASID President

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Discussant: Kevin Dunn
Hobart & William Smith Colleges, USA
Camilla Toulmin, International Institute for Environment and Development
Climate change is a major challenge focus all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat and
will hit the poorest hardest. Camilla Toulmin will talk about a range of threats and opportunities from natural
disasters to biofuels; from conflict to the oil industry and asks what future there might be for Africa in
carbon-constrained world.
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June 1st - From 1:45 PM to 3:30 PM

Development and Communication
Chair: Conny Davidson – University of Calgary
Discussant: Becky Lentz - McGill University

Cassandra Eberhardt - Queen’s University

Latino Identity and Spanish Language Ethnic Media: The Latin American Community in Toronto
Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of has ethnic media maintained, transformed, and/or
international migration, with many countries (re)produced Latino ethnic identity? Grounded in
experiencing an influx of transnational migrants from transnationalism and identity politics, this study
non-traditional sending countries. Stemming from explores the diasporic media space of the Latin
changes to immigration policy, Canada has also American diaspora. The research questions are
experienced a significant influx especially in the designed to detect the shifting and fragmented
number of Latin American immigrants however there character of Latino diasporic identities; and to reveal
is still a relative dearth of research on this diaspora. the influences, if any, ethnic media have over
This study is set in the diasporic context of Canada diasporic imaginations of what it means to be a
with a focus on the Latin American `community` in member of the Latin American `transnational
Toronto and their ethnic media. It explores the community` in Canada. These questions are
contested terrain of the term `Latin American` as an addressed through a detailed analysis of Latin
identity and how Spanish-language ethnic media Americans` settlement in Canada and a content
constitutes as a space where ambivalent and analysis of Spanish-language ethnic newspaper, El
unstable points of personal and ethnic identities are Correo. It is hypothesized that ethnic media can
(re)negotiated. The aim of this paper is to address constitute a space within which ethnic identities may
two key questions: (1) What are the processes develop and emerge.
through which Spanish-language ethnic media has
developed as a ‘community of practice?’ and (2) How Email: [email protected]
Louisa Nakanuku - Carleton University

Modernity, Communication and Development: One Interlinked Historical Process
This essay aims to illustrate the concepts of historical process rooted in the enlightenment grand-
modernity and development, and assesses how they narrative.
are intricately linked to communication. The essential History is continuous. Thus, times gone by are not
premise is that modernity, communication, and times truly past, as in obsolete, but are threaded
development have developed through one interlinked through in different formats into the present. In the
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same sense, the concept of development, as we mid-nineteenth century; (2) The Globalization as
understand it today, is not a new phenomenon, but Imperialism Agenda from roughly the late-nineteenth
can actually be traced back to the seventeenth century toward the end of World War II (WWII); (3)
century. Using Escobar’s (1995) three main features The Modernization Agenda from WWII until the end of
of development that are subjected to change with the Cold War; and (4) The Multilateral Agenda from
each adoption of a new developmental concept – that the Cold War up to our present development concept.
is, the forms of knowledge, subjectivity, and systems The results of this essay essentially set development
of power – I am suggesting four distinct periods of as a series of discourses. This allows us to
time that indicate a shift of development from understand the ambiguity of development today and
evolution of humanity to one that has been forced, to find new ways of imaging modernization. This is an
first by open aggression and thereafter by gentle especially pressing moment in which to do so
persuasion, until it finally became normalized. Based because non-Western countries have started to
on the analysis of key texts, these phases are: (1) create their own form of modernity that in ways reflect
The Western Religious Missionary Agenda from their own social systems.
roughly the seventeenth century onwards until the Email: [email protected]
Conférence Conjointe - ACELAC – ACÉDI

Joint Conference - CALACS – CASID
Local: FG-C070
Horaire: 13h à 14h
Franklin Midi - Département de sociologie - Université du Québec à Montréal
Haïti post-séisme:
Reconstruction nationale, intégration régionale latino-caribéenne
et configuration d’un nouveau monde américain
Panel 30 – Local: EV3-635 – Table Ronde sur Haïti 1

Horaire: 14h à 15h30
L’avenir d’Haïti :Points de vue sur le rôle de la recherche et de la formation universitaires
Regards des universités: Comment les universités canadiennes et haïtiennes s’impliquent-elles, ensemble,
dans la reconstruction d’Haïti? Comment la recherche, la formation et la réflexion critique universitaires
peuvent-elle contribuer à la reconstruction du pays?
Chair: Denyse Côté – Orégand - Université du Québec en Outaouais
Mireille Mathieu - Université de Montréal

Vice-rectrice aux relations internationale
Déléguée à l’Agence universitaire pour la Francophonie
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Gonzalo Lizarralde - Université de Montréal

Professeur à l’école d’architecture
Coordonnateur du groupe de travail interuniversitaire et interprofessionnel
«Haïti initiative 2010: reconstruction viable à Haïti»
Jean-Marie Bourjolly - Université du Québec à Montréal

Professeur au département de management et technologie
Membre du sous-groupe de travail sur l’éducation supérieure du
« Groupe de réflexion et d’action pour une Haïti nouvelle »
Laurier Turgeon – Université Laval

Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine ethnologique
Coordonnateur d’un groupe de travail sur le patrimoine matériel et immatériel d’Haïti
Panel 31 - Local: EV1/615

Speaker from the South
Gender and forest conservation: The impact of women's

participation in community forest governance
Bina Agarwal - University of Delhi, India
The impact of women's participation in community forest governance
Economists studying environmental collective action and governance
have paid little attention to gender, while research on gender and the
environment in other disciplines has focused mainly on women's
near absence from such governance institutions. Bina Agarwal’s
recent work reverses the focus by examining the impact of women’s
presence in community forestry institutions. A central question she
explores is: would enhancing women's presence in such institutions
improve forest conservation and regeneration?
Chair: Ben White - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Discussant: Jane Parpart - University of the West Indies
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June 1st - From 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM

Canadian NGOs & Development in Africa
Chair: Marie Fall - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Discussant: Robert Hazel - Consultant

Dominic Hakim Silvio - Dalhousie University

The role of Canadian NGOs in protection of human rights and encouragement of conflict settlement in the
Sudan between 1980&2004: Any significant impacts?
The 1980s marked a shift in Canadian foreign policy This paper will investigate the level of involvement of
towards the Sudan as the Canadian government Canadian NGOs in the Sudan in terms of protection
became much more concerned with the Sudan as the of human rights, and encouragement of conflict
human death toll from the war and famines in the settlement or peace and national reconciliation. It will
South of the country, West (Darfur) and East of the also assess whether their involvement had significant
country brought the Sudan into the spot light of impacts on the lives of ordinary Sudanese during the
international issues. This concern for the welfare of North-Sudan conflict. The time covered in the study is
the Sudanese found its first expression in CIDA’s twenty four years, from 1980 to 2004, because during
programmes of assistance to the Sudan. Just before this period the Sudan began its ugly downward
the recurrence of the civil war in 1983, Canadian aid trajectory into what has been termed as the longest
to the Sudan jumped to more than CA$20million and war in the history of Africa. The study will draw on the
continued at or above that level well into the 1990s. review of the projects of these NGOs, their reports
Much of this aid involved either bilateral food aid or and mandates in the Sudan. Apart from consulting
humanitarian assistance administered by international these documents I shall also draw on my experience
relief organizations (INGOs). The question is, does this as a former young activist in the Sudan who had a
increase in aid by the Canadian government critical eye towards these NGOs. The paper hopes to
encourage Canadian NGOs in the Sudan to also highlight the continuities and discontinuities of
promote Canadian foreign aid policy which advocated Canadian NGO involvement in the Sudan as well as
for peace and national reconciliation or was it only for the underlying role of politics in development work.
the provision of humanitarian assistance? If yes, how
significant was their involvement and what forms did it? Email: [email protected]
Heather MacKenzie - Dalhousie University

An Alternative Relationship? Foriegn Participation in the Zambian Community School Movement
This study is an exploration and analysis of the Movement (CSM) in Zambia. This study revolved
participation of foreigners in the Community School around the Racecourse Community School (RCS) as
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a case study and included some Zambians who have concluded that foreign involvement in the RCS has
founded and are running that school, and some been a largely positive experience for those involved
Canadians who have been participating in their and foreigners have provided sustained support that
activities. The Primary Research Question stemmed has enabled the Zambian participants to carry out
from Post Development Theory, which is highly their goal of providing quality education to orphans
critical of the development industry and the role that and vulnerable children. Therefore, there are a
“Westerners” have traditionally played in the number of ways in which foreign participation in this
“developing world”. Viewing the CSM as a potential movement may be considered appropriate. Aspects
alternative to traditional development methods, the of the relationship between foreigners and Zambians
study asked the question, are there appropriate ways in the CSM serve as examples of how “Westerners”
for foreigners to participate in the CSM? The term might participate in alternatives to development.
‘appropriate’ is meant to encompass forms of There is, however, room for improvement particularly
involvement that tend to empower the people who are in the areas of race-relations and global inequalities.
running the CSM to achieve their goals, and forms of The significance of this research lies primarily in its
involvement that break down hierarchical race contribution to scholarly study on how foreigners
relations and global inequalities generally. might contribute to alternatives to traditional, expert-
The research methods included semi-structured lead, modernist, linear development, such as social
interviews and focus groups, as well as participatory movements.
observation in Canada and Zambia. The study Email: [email protected]
Hugo Pollender - Université Laval

Évaluation de la pérennité du programme de SUCO au Mali :
Étude de cas d’une Association de Développement Villageois de la commune de Soye
Un grand nombre de programmes se déroulent dans est-ce que ces associations, qui ont émergé grâce à
les pays en voie de développement. Trois, cinq ou SUCO, sont, après dix années d’appui, aujourd’hui
encore dix années d’activités nous portent à croire pérennes ? Cette recherche évaluative avait deux
que leurs actions ont su changer les choses et que objectifs :
ces changements s’inscrivent dorénavant au cœur 1) Explorer ce qui a pu participer à la pérennité d’une
des collectivités appuyées. Pourtant, des études nous des ADV de la Commune;
démontrent que la pérennité des programmes est 2) Évaluer la pérennité actuelle de ladite ADV.
fragile, et que souvent, après le retrait de l’appui et du Nous avons privilégié pour cette étude de cas une
financement, ils ne survivent généralement que démarche exclusivement qualitative de nature
quelques années. exploratoire. À partir de la littérature sur la pérennité,
Cette communication propose d’illustrer le nous avons élaboré un cadre conceptuel nous
déroulement d’une recherche évaluative de la permettant, nous croyons, de répondre aux deux
pérennité du programme de l’ONG canadienne objectifs cités ci-dessus. À cette fin, ont été menés :
SUCO (Solidarité Union et Coopération) qui a été six focus group, cinq entretiens individuels, 3
menée au Mali en 2009. C’est au cœur d’une entretiens auprès d’informateurs et une revue
commune extrêmement enclavée de la cinquième documentaire.
région du Mali, que 26 villages gèrent, à travers leur Les résultats nous suggèrent que la pérennité doit se
Association de Développement Villageois (ADV) et préparer dès la conception et l’implantation du
leur Association Intervillageoise (AIV), plus de programme, et qu’elle doit faire l’objet de suivi-
400 000 $ CA entièrement dédiés à leur évaluation en possédant ses propres indicateurs.
développement. De notre position de jeune chercheur Courriel: [email protected]
en évaluation de programme, une question se posait : Courriel:[email protected]
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Panel 33 – Local: EV3-635 – Table Ronde sur l’Haïti 2

Regards sur les universités depuis le terrain
Quels sont les besoins immédiats et stratégiques que les universités canadiennes et haïtiennes devraient
contribuer à combler dans la reconstruction d’Haïti? Comment peuvent-elles le mieux harmoniser leurs
interventions avec les acteurs des institutions, des ong et de la société civile qui sont en action sur le
terrain?
Chair: Denise Piché – Université Laval
Louis Verret - Directeur de la programmation, Programme d'Haïti (ACDI-CIDA)
Stephen Baranyi - Université d’Ottawa,

Haïti aujourd'hui, Haïti demain : Regards croisés
Martine Hubert - CEGEP de Lévis-Lauzon

Professeure du Cegep et Administratrice à Abri-Rooftop International
Tom Tunney – Entraide universitaire mondiale du Canada (EUMC)

Gestionnaire en chef de la programmation universitaire et collégiale
Commentaires et points de vue depuis Haïti

Émile Brutus - PAPDA
Directeur du Programme de démocratie participative au sein de la
Plate-forme haïtienne de plaidoyer pour un développement alternatif (PAPDA)

Grassroots environmental initiatives in Brazil, Indonesia & Cameroon
Chair: Neera Singh - University of Toronto
Discussant: Deborah Simpson - University of New Brunswick

John F. Devlin - University of Guelph

Contention, Participation and Mobilization in IA: Contrasting Experiences from Canada and Brazil
The paper approaches impact assessment (IA) characteristics of the public mobilizations that take
processes as examples of contentious politics. The place around each particular assessment process. A
paper suggests that although IA regulatory regimes framework is presented which suggests how
often give scope for public participation the variations in civil society and state actors and in their
effectiveness of public participation is conditional relationships might influence impact assessment
upon characteristics of the political regime and processes, environmental and social management
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plans, and follow-up programs. The framework is then upon the characteristics of the political context in
used to contrast the public participation processes, which impact assessments and follow-up programs
management plans and follow-up programs that are implemented. Both companies were successful in
arose around the operating license renewal for an their applications and their success was dependent
iron ore mine in Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil and the upon concessions made to public demands. But the
approval for the start up and operation of the EKATI apparently successful and effective public
Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. mobilization during the impact assessment process
Two of the largest mining companies in the world, led to quite ambiguous outcomes during the follow-up
Vale and BHP Billiton, were involved in these period. The paper argues that the evolving dynamics
projects. Their contrasting engagement with their host of contention is central to the explanation of these
communities suggests the wide variation that can be ambiguous outcomes.
found in mine/community relationships depending Email: [email protected]
Lotsmart Fonjong (& William T. Markham) - University of Buea, Cameroon

Environmental Organizations in Cameroon: Contributions to Environmental Protection
The last two decades have seen increasing emphasis broad enough to cover the full range of such
on environmental NGOs as key players in solving organizations and grounded in and consistent with
Africa’s problems in the areas of environment and existing research findings. We bring together insights
although questions have also been raised about their from work on environmental organizations from
effectiveness. Researchers have responded with a Europe and the U.S and data from previous studies of
growing number of studies of international, national international NGOs, local or regional NGOs, and
and local environmental but the development of Village Development Associations (VDAs) in
rigorous theoretical models suitable for analyzing the Cameroon. Specifically, the paper looks at how
goals, strategies, and structures of environmental and relevant background factors, including environmental
other NGOs, the effects of external factors on them, conditions and degradation, economic and political
and their interactions with one another has lagged institutions, population size and composition, and the
behind. A good bit of the available research about more general social structure of ethnic, gender, and
environmental NGOs consists of relatively family relations, influence the choices various types of
atheoretical case studies, which provide useful source NGOs make and their relationships with one another.
material but do not advance the development of In short, we seek to develop a theoretical model that
theory. Other literature views environmental NGOs is a) focused on explaining the behavior of NGOs in
“from the top down,” in recent years most often as Cameroon, and b) capable of making predictions that
contributors to the development of civil society. Such are useful in policy-making and NGO administration
models are unfortunately not well-suited to analyzing and testable in future research. The study concludes
why NGOs behave as they do, and the problems are that the resulting model provides a clearer
exacerbated when researchers rely on normative explanation over existing theories of civil society
models of how NGOs should act to foster civil society which can be used to refine them in an effort to
rather than on how they actually make decisions. combat environmental degradation in developing
This paper attempts to develop a comprehensive countries.
model of how environmental organizations choose the Email: [email protected]
strategies, goals, and structures that they do that is Email: [email protected]
Pélagie Lefebvre - International Development Research Centre

Recycling Waste Locally, Reducing Carbon Globally:
The Overlooked Contributions of Waste Pickers in Indonesia
Informal waste recovery is an integral, but often countries. However, with current opportunities of
overlooked, component of most municipal solid waste selling carbon emission reduction credits from waste
management (MSWM) systems in developing management activities through the Clean
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Development Mechanism (CDM), municipal these strategies comes with different implications for
governments and the private sector may now be the informal waste recovery system. The research
compelled to take the informal system into account. sets the stage for a renewed discourse of the
Looking at MSWM CDM projects in Indonesia, this contribution of the informal waste sector in reducing
research elucidates three different strategies used by environmental burdens not solely locally, but globally
project developers to engage (or not) with informal as well.
waste recovery actors: (1) “status quo”; (2) “formal
integration”; and (3) “informal integration”. Each of Email: [email protected]

Pathways out of Rural Poverty
The proposed session will explore a theme that is at the centre of the current international development studies
agenda, namely, different paths that the rural poor are taking out of their poverty. Although the developing world is
increasingly urban, rural poverty remains a critical issue in development dynamics across the developing world, even
in Latin America where most societies have both globalized and crossed the threshold of urbanization,
industrialization, modernization and capitalist development—what some historians have termed ‘the great
transformation’. The fact is that rural poverty is endemic and resistant as ever to diverse efforts by the internal
development community to redress it. However, the rural poor themselves have found and are finding out and taking
paths of their poverty, paths that the World Bank in its most 2008 World Development Report (Agriculture for
Development) places into three categories: labour, migration and agriculture. The aim of this session is to explore the
dynamics of these pathways out of rural poverty in the Latin American context.
Chair: Henry Veltmeyer - Saint Mary’s University

Discussant: Norman Girvan - University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Anthony H. O’Malley - Saint Mary’s University

Dynamics of diverse pathways out of rural poverty
This paper will review the conceptual framework and pathways out of rural poverty available to, and taken,
findings to date related to a comparative study by the rural. research project on the theme ‘pathways
underway in various countries in Latin America out of poverty’.
(Bolivia, Chile, Mexico) on the dynamics of diverse Email: [email protected]
Raul Delgado Wise - Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

Dynamics of the labor and migration pathways out of rural poverty in Mexico
The author will report on the latest state-of-the-art Delgado Wise will report on the dynamics of the
research on this theme in the context of Mexico, labour and migration pathways out of rural poverty
which, according to ECLAC (2002) now has up to available to and taken by the rural poor in Mexico and
30% of its citizens living abroad—having chosen the Latin America for generally.
international migration path out of rural poverty. Email: [email protected]
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Igor Ampuero – St-Mary University

Agrarian Reform in Bolivia
The author will report on the dynamics of the 2006, and the diverse collective and individual
agriculture pathway out of rural poverty in Bolivia, with household strategies pursued by the indigenous rural
particular reference to the agency of the current poor.
government of Bolivia headed by Evo Morales, in the
context an Agrarian Reform program launched in Email: [email protected]

Creating Global Citizens
Chair/Discussant: Shelley Jones - State University of New York, College at Potsdam
Barbara Heron - York University

Investing in Global Citizenship: Views from the Other Side
Why young people should be encouraged to acquire Canadians who go to “developing countries”. In this
experiences in “developing countries” is quite widely presentation the investment in the notion of global
understood in countries like Canada. The citizenship is taken up from the view point of the other
transformative value of short-term exposure to other side, as it were, meaning from the perspectives of
cultures and realities is captured in the concept of local staff who work in indigenous NGOs in seven
global citizenship. Global citizens are thought to be different countries: Guatemala, Peru, Jamaica, South
concerned about the world, possessed of a desirable Africa, Malawi, Zambia, and India. It is argued that
breadth of outlook, involved locally and globally (i.e., despite critiques of the (Northern) concept of global
active citizens of the planet). All of this is readily citizenship, and in some instances even a rejection of
assumed to be true and is backed up by various the term itself, there tends to be a parallel investment
scholarly research. The result is an investment in in the possibilities of realizing the effects that global
global citizenship as a realizable and desirable goal citizenship implies, although for more broadly
for our young people. The “Creating Global Citizens?” transformative purposes than individual change. The
project funded by IDRC seeks to interrogate and contextual specificities that contribute to variations in
examine the justification for such assumptions, and to investments in some notion of global citizenship are
understand the impact of short-term volunteering, also discussed.
internship, and practicum placements on young Email: [email protected]
Rebecca Tiessen - Royal Military College of Canada

Understanding Gender Inequality in the Context of Learning/Volunteer Abroad Programs in Developing
Countries
Research for this paper is based on interviews carried Canadian youth between the ages of 18 and 30
out with young Canadians who travel abroad for 3-6 uncover how gender inequality and power relations
months on learning and volunteer opportunities in the impacted them directly and how they made sense of
developing world. In this paper, I examine perceptions the local cultural practices and power dynamics within
of gender inequality as it relates to their own personal the host communities. The paper draws on feminist
experiences and to what they observed in the and critical race literature to contextualize the
communities during their time as volunteers or interns struggles, reflections and experiences of (mostly
in developing countries. The findings from returned
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female and white) Canadian youth who have traveled Email: [email protected]
to less developed countries.
Katie MacDonald - York University

What just happened? Student volunteer experiences of volunteering abroad
With increasing frequency, young students are disruptive moments between their expectations and
traveling abroad to volunteer in international their realities can be used to trouble the ways we both
development. These programs are thought to make understand the world, and our places within. I aim to
Canadians global citizens, empathetic, and make room in stories of time abroad for nuanced and
concerned with social justice. Examining formal and alternative or dismantling articulations of
informal education of volunteers, I hope to explore the development. Through an employment of poetry to
ways that dominant discourses frame and alter their (re)tell stories of 'what just happened' which were told
articulations and understandings of experiences to me in interviews, and critical discourse analysis, I
overseas. it is often these discourses-- found in will problematize the assumed benefits of these
places like UN documents, World Vision commercials projects and try to elucidate how we may empower
and the 'Because I'm a Girl" campaign -- which shape volunteers to consider their positions and ways of
volunteer expectations. In searching for moments acting in the world differently.
where they ask things such as 'What just happened?"
about their experiences, I hope to discover how these Email: [email protected]

Food security and community development in Northern Manitoba
Chair: Shirley Thompson - University of Manitoba

Discussant: Myrle Ballard - University of Manitoba

Kimlee Wong –University of Manitoba

Community worker, Four Arrows Regional Health Authority
As we enter into the 21st century, it is becoming their modern conveniences and lifestyles. Aboriginal
increasingly difficult for Indigenous peoples to have women are considered to be the stewards of their
the same relationship with their land as they did in land. Women have been the caretakers of the land
preceding generations. Indigenous peoples are as their role caring for their families depends on their
striving towards becoming self sufficient and self- knowledge of the land. The research focuses on
governing nations once again. They are still Indigenous women from my community - Lake St.
practicing their IKS while participating in modern Martin First Nation - in the Interlake region of
economic activities. Language which was once the Manitoba. This dissertation tries to understand the
base of a culture steeped in tradition is now on the positions, views, values, visions and ideas of women
verge of being lost as modern lifestyles and of local First Nation communities in Manitoba in
conveniences compete with the ‘simplistic’, yet regards to food, land and forest issues in their
physically demanding, traditional way of life. traditional land-use territories, based on language
However, Aboriginal women’s traditional knowledge which is the key to Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
systems are still part of their world and co-exist with
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Asfia Gulrukh - University of Manitoba

Northern Manitoba Food Insecurity
Rural livelihoods analysis can empower rural specialisation in any one set of activities can facilitate
communities and policy advisers by identifying the investment in other forms of capital from which future
attributes of adaptive capacity that can be enhanced livelihoods can be derived. This approach
through individual and collective action. This study complements more dynamic concepts of resilience for
looks at the application of this analysis to gendered which specific understanding of causal relationships
impacts of climate change in ten Bangladesh and local thresholds or “tipping points” is required.
hotspots. Hotspots were defined as an area most Why are people in Northern Manitoba eight times
vulnerable to a particular type of climate change more likely to be food insecure than other
related hazard. The hazards in thèse hotspots include Canadians? A recent (2009) survey of 534
river flood, flash flood, tidal flood, cyclone, salinity households in First Nation Reserves and Aboriginal
intrusion, waterlogging, drainage congestion and and Northern Affairs communities by University of
drought. Adaptive capacity is an emergent property Manitoba found 75% food insecurity. This rate can be
that depends on the diversity of assets and activities compared to 9.2% for the rest of Canada. This rate
from which rural livelihoods are derived, and the reveals a food security crisis. This study is the first to
flexibility to substitute between them in response to rates of food insecurity on reserve. Rights to food
external pressures. Diversification at a household or and other basic needs will be discussed.
business level often complements economic
specialisation within a household, and economic Email: [email protected]
Vanessa Lozecznik - University of Manitoba

Growing Hope using participatory video
Many Aboriginal people in the north told their stories Affairs communities are growing hope by: planting
of the barriers of extremely high food prices, poverty gardens, starting greenhouses, teaching children and
and either lack of healthy choices in stores or lack of families traditional Aboriginal ways and gardening,
a store in many First Nation and Northern Affairs involving elders and sharing the feast through
communities. Through video this message was taken traditional community freezers and community
across the north to amplify the voices of people in the dinners. Trying to get the message right by replaying
remote communities, most of who suffer from food and revisiting communities resulted in not only a
insecurity. Despite poverty, these people in small movie but a charter of rights.
northern First Nation communities and Northern
DAY TWO: BANQUET

June 1st - 6PM
Spanish Club (4388, St-Laurent Street)
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DAY THREE

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DAY THREE: Conference Sessions

June 2nd - From 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
Joint Session CALACS/CASID

Local: FG-C070
Sweetness & Power in Early 20th-Century Latin America
Chair/Discussant: Gillian McGillivray - York University
Marc McLeod - Seattle University

The Comparative History of Sugar in Modern Latin America
Patricia Juárez Dappe - California State University, Northridge

María Celia Bravo - Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Sugarcane Planters in Tucumán, Argentina: Discourse and Action in the Consolidation of a
Cañero Identity, 1880-1930
José O. Solá - Seattle University of Puerto Rico's

Place Under the Sugar Sun: “Colonos” and Workers in the formation of the Modern
Sugarcane Industry in Caguas Puerto Rico, 1906 to 1928
Luis González - Indiana University

Political Struggles in the Sugarcane Fields of Brazil: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1900-1950

CIDA and aid effectiveness
Chair: Nilima Gulrajani - London School of Economics, UK
Discussant: Hunter McGill - University of Ottawa

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Liam Swiss - University of Ottawa

Gender, Security, and Instrumentalism: Canada’s Foreign Aid in Support of National Interest?
Recently, Canadian development assistance has impact of the securitization of Canadian aid by
become more closely aligned with the achievement of examining how this trend has affected the overall
security-related foreign policy objectives. The impact delivery of ODA by CIDA and other Canadian
of this ‘securitization’ of Canadian aid has not been stakeholders. Results will demonstrate how the
examined in terms of its overall effects on other securitization of aid has undermined Canada’s focus
Canadian aid priorities. Are other sectors where on development priorities more closely related to
Canada has conventionally been a leader poverty reduction and humanitarian concerns.
internationally – like women and gender – being Conclusions about the overall impact of the
marginalized because of the increasing securitization of bilateral development assistance
instrumentalization of aid as a foreign policy tool? generally will be drawn from the Canadian case,
Drawing on various theoretical perspectives on the suggesting that the instrumental use of aid as a tool
motivations for aid provision and applying a mixed to promote security objectives has a negative impact
methods analysis of ODA statistics, recent policy on the overall effectiveness of development
documents, and data collected through interviews assistance.
with Canadian aid officials, this paper examines the Email: [email protected]
Stephen Brown - University of Ottawa

Aid Effectiveness and the Framing of New Canadian Aid Initiatives
This paper analyzes the main trends in Canadian Canadian government is increasingly seeking to
development assistance policy since 2000-01 in the instrumentalize CIDA and its aid programs, including
context of a pivotal ‘international moment’ that pulled through a cross-departmental policy coherence
ODA simultaneously in two new directions: a mechanism known as the ‘whole-of-government
preoccupation with the immediate and medium-term approach’, to reflect non-developmentrelated
needs of the poor embodied in the MDGs and the interests.
donor countries’ own security concerns in the post- This paper’s analyzes the politics of aid effectiveness
9/11 era. It argues that shifts in Canada aid policy by examining in turn the main components in the
reflect the government’s broader foreign policy effectiveness discussions that have been part of
concerns, especially a preoccupation with prestige Canadian aid policy initiatives in recent years: the
(the quest for a personal legacy under Chrétien and untying of aid, the questioning of impact and search
for Canada’s place among peers and in the post-9/11 for results, the issue of aid volume, the ‘focus on
world under Martin and Harper) and most recently focus’ (fewer recipient countries and economic
commercial self-interest, with the new geographical sectors), and the coherence between aid policy and
focus on the Latin America and the Caribbean. The policies in other areas. It then explores the
language used, however, generally frames the motivations that underpin recent Canadian aid policy
changes as improvements in aid effectiveness and initiatives. The conclusion summarizes the main
thus as being for the benefit of poor countries. With argument and speculates on the effect of global
no more than one exception, however, the various changes on Canadian foreign aid in the years to
initiatives’ impact on effectiveness would be unclear come.
or even detrimental. Through the new priorities, the Email: [email protected]
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Indigenous Issues in Latin America
Chair: Susan Healey – Senior Consultant, Harry Cummings and Associates
Jackie McVicar - St. Francis Xavier University

Criminalization of Rural Indigenous Women in Guatemala: Threats and Strategies for Resistence
Since the 1996 Peace Accords, and a new wave of Specifically I will highlight the role of State and media
democracy in Guatemala, conditions have been in the criminalization process and share examples of
created to increase foreign investment in natural the collective responses of rural indigenous women in
resources, including a mining law that requires an light of this threat.
only 1% royalty from the company to be left in the This research is important in setting a context of why
country. Today, the World Bank prescribed economic and how indigenous women are particularly affected
development strategies that benefit multi-national by criminalization in Guatemala. It will further explore
corporations threaten natural resources and ancestral the long-term results of criminalization. Drawing from
lands. Indigenous leaders who defend their rights this and learning from their struggle I will present
and denounce aggressions have been targeted and recommendations for Canadian solidarity
indigenous women who have been at the forefront of organizations working with grassroots movements in
defending lands and protecting natural resources are Guatemala and other Central American countries
specifically targeted. In this paper I will explain how where similar strategies are being used to oppress
rural indigenous women in Guatemala mobilize to populations in resistance.
defend their rights and denounce aggressions in light This research is a result of documentation review,
of a criminalization process led by State interests and secondary research gathered from national and
multi-national corporations, abusing legal international human rights organizations and reports
mechanisms to threaten, intimidate and silence the from public and private sector, and key-informant
voice of opposition to mega-projects, economic interviews as well as my own work with indigenous
development strategies designed to exploit natural women over the past five years in Guatemala.
resources and de-stabilize indigenous communities. Email: [email protected]
Jorge Nállim - University of Manitoba

Javier Mignone - University of Manitoba
Health, Power, and Indigenous Health Organizations in Colombia
Indigenous organizations have used the legal their goals, while simultaneously affecting and being
framework of Colombia’s 1993 neoliberal healthcare affected by the institutionalization of their spaces of
reform to create health insurance and health delivery struggle. It examines the numerous tensions that
entities, thus achieving more autonomy and control arise and the power relations at play vis-à-vis the
over their community’s health than before. While a state and other players, and assesses the
number of tensions and limitations persist, their implications of indigenous self-governance in health
experience raises a series of provocative questions care. The paper's theoretical frame draws from the
on how they redefined power relations with the state, intersection of politics, history, contemporary
within the health care system, and among different indigenous movements, and self-governance in
indigenous groups. The paper analyzes de health care. The indigenous groups' experience with
experience of Indigenous Health Promoting health care, one of the key areas in the field of
Enterprises (Empresas Promotoras de Salud – EPS) development, is related to broader frameworks of
from the theoretical perspective of examining how health care reform, neoliberal policies, and
popular organizations utilize institutional reform for contemporary indigenous struggles involving
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redefinitions of concepts of power and citizenship.

The paper’s methodology involves the use of three Email 1: [email protected]
case studies of indigenous EPSs in Colombia, while Email 2: [email protected]
locating them in broader historical and political
frameworks at national and international levels.
John Cameron - Dalhousie University

Indigenous Autonomy in the Andes:
New Paths towards Indigenous Self-Governance in the Context of Bolivia’s 2009 Constitution
This paper project will analyse the progress made and Indigenous rights praise Bolivia’s new
and challenges faced by new institutions of Constitution, advocates of liberal conceptions of
Indigenous Autonomy in Bolivia that have been made citizenship highlight the threats which it poses to
possible by the country’s 2009 constitution. individual rights and human freedoms – particularly of
Unprecedented in the Americas, Bolivia’s 2009 women.
Constitution and supporting legislation enable On December 12, 2009, twelve predominantly
Indigenous groups to create their own autonomous Indigenous municipal governments in Bolivia held
institutions - designed and managed in accordance legally-required referendums on their conversion to
with traditional modes of Indigenous governance - to the new institutional category of ‘Indigenous
administer decentralized public goods and services Autonomy.’ If supported by a majority of local voters
financed by the central government, including these referendums will authorize Indigenous
education, health care and public infrastructure. municipalities to cast aside state-mandated municipal
The provisions of Bolivia’s new constitution that allow institutions and to develop new institutions, based on
for increased self-governance by Indigenous groups Indigenous modes of decision-making to administer
represent an important step forward to the resolution state resources and responsibilities.
of centuries old conflicts between Indigenous peoples Based on past and on-going field research, this paper
and the state. At the same time, however, the will analyse the early experiences of the new
creation of Indigenous Autonomies will generate Indigenous Autonomies created after the December
difficult practical and conceptual challenges as 12, 2009 referendums as well as the theoretical
Indigenous groups seek to combine customary challenges which Indigenous Autonomies face – such
modes of decision-making with the administrative as the tensions between collective and individual
logic of a modern state and as the collective right to rights and between western and non-western modes
self-governance comes into conflict with individual of governance.
rights. Indeed, while proponents of multiculturalism Email: [email protected]
Conny Davidsen - University of Calgary

Amazon Indigenous Protests and Socio-Environmental Conflict in the Media
The Amazon has become the centre of a volatile than thirty people died due to a violent response of
socio-environmental renewal debate between global local police forces, triggering international petitions
climate change concerns, neoliberal state interests in and national demonstrations against the government.
natural resource exploitation, unresolved indigenous The protests are embedded in a long history of
territorial claims, local environmental rights and global resource conflicts in the Amazon, but are boosted and
climate justice alongside future perspectives on global re-interpreted by new influences of global media
environmental services, conservation and today. Extensive media coverage of international
‘megadiversity’. news channels generated political momentum by
When recent governmental reforms in Peru seeked to directing the public attention to long-standing and
allow the privatization (‘sell-out’) of public rainforest unresolved issues around environmental exploitation,
lands, a wave of indigenous resistance and indigenous resource use and local rights in general.
polarization developed in which tens of thousands of The paper analyzes the use of global and digital
Amazon Indians protested against the reforms. More media and their framing of key issues across the
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different scales of conflict. It highlights the potentials the media towards digital democracy, global-local
and challenges of broader public engagement environmental citizenship, and new participatory tools
towards socio-environmental democratization in the towards sustainable local environmental stewardship.
Global South, and discusses the potential future of Email: [email protected]

Critical Analyses of Development & Globalization
Chair: Anthony O'Malley - Saint Mary’s University
Discussant: Dimitri Della Faille - Université du Québec en Outaouais

Babatope Akinwande – Tearfund, London, UK

Development Aid is Dead Aid: Is Dambisa Moyo Stating the Obvious?
In 2009, Dambisa Moyo authored “Dead Aid: Why Aid on their feet unless they make a clean break from
is Not Working and How There is Another Way for development aid. It appears that Moyo is adding her
Africa”. This book has generated a lot of debate in the “African voice” to issues raised by authors like William
international development . Moyo describes the state Easterly and Peter Bauer who have argued that
of postwar development policy in Africa and development aid does more harm than good in Africa.
unflinchingly debunks one of the most-held beliefs in This paper will attempt to look at the issues raised by
international development: that billions of dollars in Moyo and other authors to see if they are stating the
aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African obvious that development aid does not work or if they
nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase are reckless contrarians/theoreticians who do not
growth. Moyo posits that despite the millions of appreciate the reality on the ground. It is hoped that
development aid sent into these countries “poverty the paper will encourage exchanges that will help
levels continue to escalate and growth rates have advance the debate.
steadily declined- and millions continue to suffer”. Email 1: [email protected];
Moyo continues that African countries will never get Email 2: [email protected]
Heidi Monk - Saint Mary’s University

Human development and economic growth in a finite world
The biophysical limits to the earth are becoming research. It is found that the diminishing returns to
increasingly evident. It is clear that pursuit of a income which is reflected by the calculation of the
Northern model of production, consumption and Human Development Index is representative of the
economic growth is neither feasible nor desirable in diminishing returns to income in the pursuit of human
the long term. It is with this in mind that the present development in general. Thus, theoretically,
paper explores the relationship between human plateauing levels of income per capita should not
development and economic growth. While human conflict with the expansion of human flourishing. It is
development separates itself from economic growth in accepted that human development is dependent upon
its conceptual foundations, it relies on a specific type a natural resource base which economic growth can
of economic growth to achieve material aspects of erode. This should spur human development to
human flourishing. The extent to which human explore the possibilities for human flourishing at levels
development relies on economic growth is explored of economic activity. However, human development
by tracing theoretical arguments and empirical has not completely separated itself from neo-
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liberalism and this connection results in a hesitation

for a full theoretical exploration of levels of economic Email: [email protected]
activity (rather than economic growth) and their
relation to human development.
Carolyn Bassett – University of New Brunswick

Knowledge about the impact of the global crisis on South Africa
One of the foundational elements of the debate about question of how knowledge becomes authoritative,
the relationship between globalization and focusing on three debates: the employment of
development has been the status of knowledge about discourses from mainstream economics; the use of
the economy and the role of that knowledge in statistics as evidence; and the role and significance
development strategy and planning. Using the recent accorded to experience and voice. I find that
global economic crisis as a starting point and South development knowledge is not productive of material
Africa as a case study, this paper examines two realities or government programs, rather, it provides a
questions: what is the nature of the crisis; and what legitimizing discourse intended to reconcile the
needs to be done to address its effects. Our interest dramatic inequalities and socio-economic injustices in
is who has produced knowledge about the crisis, and South Africa.
who has produced authoritative knowledge –
knowledge that is acted upon. We then turn to the

Education & Development in Africa
Chair: Terisa Turner – University of Guelph
Discussant: Larry Swatuk University of Waterloo

Faisal Islam - McGill University

New teachers for new times: a school-university partnership for educational change in
South African rural schools in the era of globalization
Since the beginning of post-apartheid era in South service teacher education can help in broadening the
Africa in 1994, not much has changed with respect to traditional notions of novice teacher education in
historically poor and deprived schools in rural areas South Africa. Drawing from the three cohorts of pre-
Nelson Mandella Foundation, 2004). In addition to the service teachers who performed their teaching
growing inequalities between the rich and poor, one practicum in rural schools and lived together in rural
key reason of this failure is that the South African areas, I offer evidences how the group work helped
teacher education is less relevant to local needs and the novice teachers to tackle and challenge the
lacks contextualization in relation to the ground issues around the schools in rural areas. The data
realities of poverty, HIV and AIDS, gender violence, reported in this paper was collected over a period of
and lack of resources at schools. three years from 2007 to 2009 using participatory
Based upon the Wenger’s concept of ‘community of evaluation. The data include interviews, participatory
practice’, which emphasizes that learning is situated workshops, focus group discussion with
in ‘collaboration’ and ‘social practice’, this paper approximately 60 novice teachers, 20 mentor
examines how a school-university partnership for pre-
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teachers, two school principals, and the project staff On the other hand, it highlights uneven benefits
members from the university. spread across the novice teachers and the schools,
The key findings suggest, on one hand, the which raises important question marks related to the
partnership project helped the novice teachers to: broader unequal socio-economic and education
understand the complex context of rurality; improve system in South Africa.
their teaching and pedagogical skills,; and develop
their professional identities with respect to the Email: [email protected]
realities in rural areas and other challenging context.
George J. Sefa Dei - University of Toronto

African Indigenous Philosophies and Education as Broadly Defined: A Ghanaian Case Study
This paper examines an aspect of African Indigenous cultural knowledges herald the spiritual and cultural
Philosophies focusing on local proverbs and folktales foundations upon which the survival of local
for their pedagogic, instructional and communicative communities rest. Validating Indigenous knowledge
relevance in understanding the link between local can thus only contribute to the search for “home
cultural knowledge, education and development. It is grown Indigenous perspectives steeped in culture-
argued that the link between development, education specific paradigms” (Yankah, 2004: 26). What can
and Indigenous knowledge is often assumed rather schooling and education in African contexts be re-
than theorized. In helping to concretely theorize the visioned to engage such local cultural resource
link the paper brings a more nuanced, expanded and knowledge base for their contributions to the
inclusive definition to the concept of Indigenous and development process? The paper is informed by the
Indigenity. It is enthused that the term ‘Indigenous’ is findings of a longitudinal Ontario Literacy and
highly contested. It is not homogenous and, in fact, Numeracy Secretariat-funded study that has focused
may defy a uniformly accepted definition. There are on how and what African Indigenous Philosophies
also tensions, ambivalences and contradictions in [specifically Ghanaian proverbs] can critically teach
claiming ‘Indigenous’. While there are no universal about culture, identity, self, group, community, social
definitions of the ‘Indigenous’, the term, nonetheless, responsibility, accountability and probity to learners.
speaks of the collective voicing of experience, history, In the discussion, the paper discusses ways to rethink
culture and identities. When situated within recurring schooling, education and local knowledge so as to
debates about ‘African development’ the ‘Indigenous’ contribute to the African development process. The
reaffirms a need for a Indigenous consciousness to paper also extends the discussion to suggest ways to
cultivate local knowledges to contribute to the search enhance learning and education for meaningful
for home-grown solutions to local problems and development in Southern contexts.
challenges about ‘development’.
No Indigenous cultural knowledge is alien to its Email: [email protected]
particular socio-cultural and political milieu. Local

Rural issues in Development
Chair/Discussant: Haroon Akram-Lodhi - Trent
University
Matthew Schnurr - Dalhousie University

The Significance of South African Success for
Africa’s Green Revolution
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South Africa became the first nation in Africa to African farmers with GM cotton and how their story is
legislate the dissemination of Genetically Modified represented in both the academic and popular
(GM) crops in 1996. One year later, the American literature. Drawing on workshops undertaken with
biotech giant Monsanto completed its government- over one hundred farmers, alongside thirty individual
regulated trials and made its patented Bt cotton seeds interviews with government officials, union leaders,
available to farmers in the Makhathini Flats, a low- and industry representatives, this paper seeks to
lying area just south of the border with Mozambique, contextualize the success claims that have
targeting especially those with holdings of only a few accompanied the introduction of GM cotton in South
hectares. After only two growing season, adoption Africa. It investigates how the broader legacies of the
rates among these smallholder farmers swelled to region’s history and geography frame the dominant
nearly 100%. Proponents concluded that every representation of Makhathini as a prototypical
farmer in Makhathini was choosing to grow GM over example of the potential offered by GM technology for
traditional non-GM varieties. Pro-GM lobby groups African farmers. I conclude with reflections on the
and websites seized on this South African success implications of South African success for two of the
story as a prime instance of how GM crops can make most promising sites of Africa’s Green Revolution,
a sizeable difference for farmers throughout the Kenya and Uganda.
continent.
This paper focuses on the experiences of South Email: [email protected]
Adam Sneyd - University of Guelph

African Cotton and nongovernmental organizations: North-South relations and South-South possibilities
Geneva-based nongovernmental organizations multilateral engagement on cotton. The trade-centric
(NGOs) have offered cotton-specific policy advice and analysis and interventions that these organizations
provided trade-related technical assistance and have proffered and executed have effectively
capacity building services to the governments of the bolstered the legitimacy of the World Trade
most cotton dependent countries in West Africa since Organization. Down to the present this narrow
2001. In this context, multilateral and bilateral donors analysis has also imbued South-South
have focused increasingly on the cotton issue area. intergovernmental discourses and reform priorities on
These organizations and agencies have encouraged cotton in Africa. However, the interaction of African-
their African partners to ensure that poverty reduction based nongovernmental organizations, international
strategies and agricultural sector development organizations and officials in East Africa to develop
programmes improve cotton production and and implement an East African Organic Standard
marketing systems for the 20 to 30 million Africans (EAOS) has been an exception to the North-South
that depend directly or indirectly on the crop. asymmetries that have plagued responses to Africa’s
However, the drive to scale up flows of cotton-specific cotton conundrum. The instructive case of the EAOS
aid for the improvement of African cotton systems has detailed in the second half of the paper indicates the
been outstripped by an NGO-led push to remove possibilities associated with South-South cooperation.
subsidies and trade barriers that distort the global While subject to various weaknesses and threats, the
cotton market and consistently reduce Africa’s export EAOS model, if replicated at the global level, could
earnings from cotton. align development cooperation more fully with poverty
Drawing upon field research conducted in Tanzania reduction imperatives and improve the development
and Senegal, this empirical paper details the ways effectiveness of governance initiatives in this area.
that Geneva-based NGOs have altered the terms of Email: [email protected]
Panel 43 – Local: H-625

Joint Session: CASID/Law and Society
Human rights, international law and justice
Chair: Aristide Nononsi – McGill University
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Jing Guan - McGill University

Lip Service or True Commitment? Reassessing the “Responsibility to Protect”
After the 2009 UN General Assembly Debate
The “responsibility to protect” (R2P) is a relatively the conclusions of the World Summit, but implement
new concept unanimously adopted by world leaders R2P in a fully faithful and consistent manner. His
at the 2005 UN World Summit. Its central theme is report “Implementing the R2P” went through a heated
“sovereignty as responsibility” – the idea that UN General Assembly debate in July 2009. Now is an
sovereign states have a responsibility to protect their opportune time to reflect on the development of R2P
own populations from mass atrocities, but that when and reassess its strengths and limits in order to set a
they are unwilling or unable to do so, that clearer basis for further discussion and actions. This
responsibility must be borne by the international paper contributes to such an endeavor with a focus
community. Despite the ostensible unanimous on states’ positions towards R2P during the 2009
adoption at the World Summit, complex moral, legal, General Assembly debate, and argues that R2P
political and operational questions surrounding R2P’s currently remains a vague political commitment
rhetoric and efficacy emerge one after another. While lacking enough political will to be turned into a binding
what R2P really entails for each individual state and legal obligation any time soon. But its potential for
the international community as a whole remains reinforcing existing mass atrocities related human
vastly unclear, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rights and humanitarian obligations for states should
currently urges states not to reinterpret or renegotiate be further explored.
Dulce Maria Cruz Herrera - Université Paris X-Nanterre

Le droit international au développement revisité par la CIISE dans l’énoncé de «la responsabilité de
protéger» en 2001
En dépit de l’absence de références explicites dans le international, considéré ici comme un corps de règles
rapport sur la «Responsabilité de protéger», publié en visant à encadrer les relations entre acteurs
2001 par la CIISE, le droit international au internationaux. Reprenant les mots de Kofi Anan
développement et les différentes approches prononcés en 1999 : «(…) aux questions complexes,
contemporaines du développement international sont réponses complexes s’imposent donc, et action
au cœur de la démarche de cette commission, née interdisciplinaire (…)», nous endossons entièrement
grâce à une initiative canadienne. L’axe opérationnel l’interdisciplinarité, appuyée sur un cadre théorique
«à l’abri du besoin», développée dans le rapport de la propre au droit international public non sans tenir
CIISE, a été retenue dans le cadre de cette compte des rapports multiples que cette discipline
communication afin d’expliquer l’influence de grands entretient avec le domaine d’étude des relations
principes du droit international au développement sur internationales dans son ensemble, largement
le travail de la CIISE. Partant des interfaces complexifiés à l’heure de la mondialisation des
communes possibles entre le droit au développement échanges.. Notre argumentaire reposera
comme droit de la personne et l’axe «à l’abri du essentiellement sur une grille des concepts bien
besoin», cette communication propose des pistes de établis par le droit international des droits de la
réflexion autour de l’approche contemporaine du personne, le droit international de l’environnement et
développement international, sous l’angle du droit le droit du commerce international.
Penelope Simons & Lynda Collins – University of Ottawa

Participatory Rights in the Ontario Mining Sector: An International Human Rights Perspective
Recent developments in law and policy, including the Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian
outcomes of the National Roundtables on Corporate Extractive Sector in Developing Countries, and Bill C-
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300, signal a growing domestic concern with respect exploration. In addition, Ontario mines produce one
to the environmental and social impacts of Canadian third of Canada’s mineral output. Little academic
extractive companies operating extraterritorially. research has been conducted on the human rights
Canada is home to over 75 per cent of the world’s impacts of Canadian provincial and territorial mining
largest exploration and mining companies and a regimes and, where research has been undertaken, it
significant number of Canadian extractive companies has focussed on environmental issues. Thus while
operate in developing countries. These developments the federal government, industry and other members
are based on the policy imperative that Canadian of civil society are focussing on non-mandatory
corporations operating abroad should comply with the regulation of corporate impacts abroad, and the
same environmental and social standards to which provincial and territorial governments are beginning to
they are legally bound in Canada, and that these revise their mining regimes, it is pertinent and timely
standards are reflective of Canada’s international law to consider the extent to which international human
and international human rights obligations. This view rights (including indigenous peoples’ rights and
is expressed in recent Parliamentary debates and, in environmental human rights) are respected and
a bill tabled by the NDP on June 16, 2008. However, protected in the domestic Canadian mining sector.
recent disputes concerning lack of public consultation This paper will examine participation rights: the
on proposed large mining projects, and concerning general environmental right to participation in
peaceful protest and Aboriginal rights in lands subject environmental decision-making; the right of aboriginal
to mining claims have highlighted significant human communities to free prior and informed consent; and
rights concerns associated with Canada’s own the right of peaceful assembly. It will consider their
provincial and territorial mining regimes. relationship to each other and how these rights have
Canada has some of the highest mineral exploration been treated in domestic mining legislation as well as
activity in the world within its own borders. In 2005, it by the courts in current disputes over mining activity
was host to nineteen per cent of total global mineral on land subject to aboriginal title claims.
DAY THREE: Conference Sessions

June 2nd - From 11:00 AM to 12:45 PM

CIDA in Practice: recent record and what next?
Chair: Stephen Brown - University of Ottawa
Nilima Gulrajani - London School of Economics, UK

The Strategy of Focus: Examining Canadian aid allocation in comparative historical perspective
The need to make Canadian aid “strategically The paper begins by providing some historical
focused” is perennial preoccupation of government perspective on the nature of geographic focus of
policy in the last decade. This paper aims to explore Canadian official development assistance (ODA).
what a formal strategic focus policy has achieved for Using OECD‐DAC data, we trace the evolution of net
Canada’s aid allocation decisions, as well as ODA from Canada in comparison with the UK since
considering what it might potentially achieve in the 1960, highlighting that until 1997 the UK had a more
future. widely dispersed aid programme than Canada’s.
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Canada has continually disbursed smaller amounts “Development Partners” and the 2009 Conservative
across a larger percentage of its total aid recipients government list of “Countries of Focus.” We
than the UK. Since the 1980s, the concentration of investigate whether these strategic targets have been
Canadian aid in the top 20% of its aid recipients is an impetus for improving focus, a means of reducing
well below the UK, DAC and G7 averages. This gaps between the reality of aid allocation and
suggests in the last decade especially there has been government policy, or simply a poor predictor of future
limited geographic focus in Canadian aid in terms of dispersion. Initial evidence suggests that Canada’s
programme size and scope. strategic geographic targets have only partly driven
After looking at the history of focus in Canadian aid in the focus agenda in the last ten years, serving instead
comparative perspective, we examine Canadian as retrospective justification for aid allocation
geographic aid allocation trends post‐1997. decisions. Canadian aid thus has a long way to go
Specifically, our interest is in the strategy of targeting before it is either strategic or focused.
resources in the 2005 Liberal government list of Email: [email protected]
Molly den Heyer - Dalhousie University

CIDA’s Engagement in Tanzania: Negotiating our Way
Over the last five to ten years, the way in which of Tanzania. This places an increasing emphasis on
Canadian aid is administered in Tanzania has field-based Canadian staff negotiating or harmonizing
changed in response to a complex array of and aligning policies on a country-specific basis. This,
influences. These influences stem from international in turn, presents a serious challenge to CIDA
aid effectiveness discourse, the Tanzanian dialogue headquarters’ legitimacy to draft broad-based
structure, and the political atmosphere in Canada. policies, and it may also accentuate existing
The paper used interviews, policy reviews and a administrative difficulties. The findings illustrate how
focus group to determine how, in this case study, Canadian aid delivery is increasingly focused on
CIDA’s field office navigates the various demands negotiations and policy development at the recipient
and what impact this has on policy formation. The country level. It is argued that the process of
data show that the workload in the Tanzanian field negotiation is key to understanding policy formation,
office has changed from a focus on project country ownership and CIDA’s engagement in
implementation to one of interpreting CIDA policy and Tanzania.
coordinating it with other donors and the Government Email: [email protected]
Bill Morton - North South Institute

Strengthening Canadian Aid
Canadian aid policy has been under intense scrutiny This paper will explore some of the key factors that
throughout this decade. Canada is on track to fulfill could lead to a strengthened Canadian aid program.
important commitments on aid quantity, but there is In particular, it will consider whether the “ODA
no budgetary plan past 2010, and compared to other Accountability Act” represents a means for this to
donors, Canada is an average rather than leading occur. It will examine the government’s record so far
performer. On aid quality, successive Peer Reviews in implementation of the Act; whether the government
have identified important factors that undermine the has established a forward-looking agenda regarding
effectiveness of Canadian aid, and the 2009 Auditor the Act; whether it views the Act as an opportunity for
General’s report identified crucial weaknesses in the change or simply as a matter of compliance; whether
areas of aid effectiveness and corporate the Act will lead to greater openness and
management. Overall, Canada’s aid program remains transparency regarding Canadian aid; and whether it
strongly driven by political factors, and lacks an will provide an effective means for holding the
overarching policy framework to guide its programs Government to account. The paper will also discuss
and operations. four other areas that will play an important role in
strengthening Canadian aid: 1) the need for high level
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political support and backing; 2) the need for policy commitment on aid quantity. The paper will conclude
leadership and vision; 3) key areas for improvement with recommendations.
in aid quality, and 4), the need for a long-term
Chris Brown - Carleton University

Edward T. Jackson - Carleton University
CIDA: Reform and Renewal
In previous work (How Ottawa Spends, 2009-2010, Would it be more effective than the current CIDA? We
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009, Ch. 6, pp. argue that there is still a place for development
151-174), we argued that CIDA is broken and needs assistance at the centre of Canadian foreign policy,
to be fixed. One of the reform options mooted in that but that dramatic reform is necessary for it to be
paper was the creation of a new Department for effective. Achieving the type of renewal that we are
International Co-operation, with a legislated mandate, proposing will require significant mobilization among
to implement Canadian ODA policy. In this paper, we civil society groups and others interested in
examine more closely the argument for such a development assistance, as there is no sign that the
Department. Why is such a dramatic change needed? current government is interested in fixing CIDA.
What form would such a Department take and how
would it relate to other government agencies? What Email 1: [email protected]
would its mandate be, and how would it operate? Email 2: [email protected]

Peace building & Development
Chair: Carolyn Basset – University of New Brunswick
Discussant: Eric Abitbol – Concordia University

Email : [email protected]
William J. Egnatoff - Queen’s University

Peter Joong – University of West Indies
Collaboration in Building Peace Education Capacity
This paper reports on international collaboration in Development and Peace Education (cdpeace), Sierra
building peace education capacity through design Leone, Egnatoff’s studies of the impact on teachers
research. The approach is longitudinal, beginning with and students of collaboration between Canadian and
background studies to understand a variety of local Sierra Leonean school communities, and work at the
contexts, followed by participatory, collaborative University of West Indies related to peace education
grassroots interventions to develop guiding principles and conflict resolution in Jamaican High schools. The
for extending the work to broader contexts. The work paper reviews recent literature on peace education
builds on Joong’s studies of perceptions of students and analyzes approaches to peace education through
and teachers in five countries (Canada, China, Sierra character education (Canada), national peace
Leone, India, and Jamaica) concerning reform education curriculum initiatives (Caritas Sierra Leone
associated with Education for All, Thompson’s study and Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union/Sierra Leone
of youth marginalization in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ministry of Education ; national peace education
Turay’s capacity building work of The Centre for curriculum developed by cdpeace for Liberia) and the
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work of Missionaries of the Poor (Jamaica) with Studies of this work are conducted by international
homeless and incarcerated. At the centre of the work teams of researchers, each of whom has an
is linkages between school communities (pupils, understanding of a particular local context. Findings
teachers, parents, community leaders) based on are fed back into the participating communities to
matters of mutual interest and concern—bi-national strengthen their work. Findings are also reported to
curriculum shaped by collaboration between teachers key educational decision makers in order to influence
in two or more countries. That work is coupled with policy.
associated professional development on international Email 1: [email protected]
collaboration for pre-service and in-service teachers. Email 2: [email protected]
Brie A. McMahon - St. Francis Xavier University

Community-Driven Peace Education and Non-Violent Conflict Resolution Methods:
The Case of Koche, Ethiopia
Peace-building has long been viewed as a reactive development sector, and analyzes how applicable this
response to violent conflict. However recently, due approach is for the peace and conflict sector. Drawing
largely to UNESCO’s Culture of Peace, peace- from 27 interviews with adult residents of Koche
building is recognized as a more holistic approach to about peace-building in the family, associations,
building peaceful societies and achieving schools, and community, this research clearly
development. Peace education is a critical element in demonstrates that the people of Koche have high
building these communities, yet there is very little levels of knowledge about peace and conflict, as well
discourse on peace education for adults, particularly as highly sophisticated methods of building peace
with regards to community initiatives. and educating about, and for peace. Their
In order to inform the practice of peace and explanations on peace, conflict and a peaceful society
development, research was conducted which aimed paralleled those found in the literature, and their
to identify the peace-building and non-violent conflict peace education methods addressed adult education
resolution methods that occur organically in local principles. Accordingly, it is argued that outside
communities using the community of Koche in South- intervention is not needed to create methods of
Western Showa, Ethiopia (a region known more for building peace; rather the role of the peace
violence than peace) as a case study. It also practitioner is to support the community in their peace
examined how these methods are learned within the efforts. This approach of appreciating and building on
community, focusing on how adults are educated what is present in a community is not only applicable
about, and for peace. The study analyzes what peace to identifying peace building methods, but is an
practitioners can learn from local methods and how approach which should be utilized by researchers,
they can apply this knowledge in their peace-building peace and development practitioners.
work elsewhere.
The research employs an appreciative inquiry, Email: [email protected]
strength-based approach commonly used in the
Jules Sisk - McGill University and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre

Peacebuilding as Social Transformation
The purpose of this paper is to call upon the fields of to the building of roads. As such, practically any
peace and security, development studies, activity undertaken in an area recovering from armed
behaviourist psychology, critical pedagogy and conflict qualifies as ‘peacebuilding’. The intent of this
sociology, and develop a multi-disciplinary definition paper is to refine the understanding of peacebuilding
of peacebuilding as a psycho-social process that is to that of a value-driven process that seeks to change
both meaningful and practical. Given the current state how people in a conflict-affected society think, act and
of affairs, peacebuilding is currently used to mean any interact, so that a return violence ceases to be a
number of things, from post-traumatic stress recovery possibility. By separating this process of social
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transformation from value-neutral re-construction examination of new tools and actors within the
activities, such as the building of bridges or digging of peacebuilding process, such as teachers as key
wells, a major step forward can then be taken in agents for peace.
developing policies that target the psycho-social roots
of conflict. As such, it can open the door to the critical Email: [email protected]
Panel 46 – Local: FG-C070

Joint Session: CASID/CALACS
Legacies of the Slave Plantation on Contemporary Socio-Economic and Cultural
Landscapes in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Southern United States
For more than four decades Kari Polanyi Levitt’s work on the specific structural characteristics of the
tropical agricultural export economies of the Caribbean region has offered unique insights into the historical
and contemporary dynamics of subordination and dependency between plantation economies and
dominant metropoles. On the occasion of the publication of Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy:
A Historical and Institutional Approach to Caribbean Economic Development by Levitt and Lloyd Best, this
Roundtable will explore the contribution of Levitt to the study of export-oriented agriculture in general, and
Caribbean development in particular.
Chair: Marc McLeod - Seattle University
Discussant: Kari Levitt-Polanyi – Karl Polanyi Institute/Concordia University

Haroon Akram-Lodhi – Trent University

The Work of Kari Polanyi on Plantation Economies
For more than four decades Kari Polanyi Levitt’s work Economy: A Historical and Institutional Approach to
on the specific structural characteristics of the tropical Caribbean Economic Development by Levitt and
agricultural export economies of the Caribbean region Lloyd Best, this Roundtable will explore the
has offered unique insights into the historical and contribution of Levitt to the study of export-oriented
contemporary dynamics of subordination and agriculture in general, and Caribbean development in
dependency between plantation economies and particular.
dominant metropoles. On the occasion of the
publication of Essays on the Theory of Plantation Email: [email protected]
Norman Girvan - University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Contemporary Relevance of the Theory of Plantation Economy of Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi Levitt
The theory of Plantation Economy is part of the economy and organisation it sought to analyse was
tradition of critical analysis of the emergence, spread itself unique and sui generis.
and consolidation of world capitalism from its original Plantation economy theory can be located within the
mercantile form to its present form of globalised context of the critical discourse on global capitalism
finance capital in crisis. It employed a unique blend of and the alternative non-neoliberal paradigms,
different approaches and the specific form of capitalist including Marxism and neo-Marxism, evolutionary
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economics, institutional economics, structuralism and

neo-structuralism. Its approach and insights can be Email: [email protected]
tapped as part of the critical discourse on
globalisation and neo-liberalism.
Franz Voltaire - director of CIDICHA, Montreal

Haiti, espace et liberté : les travaux de Georges Anglade
« Il n'y aura pas de happy end, le deus ex machina de développement, et non surimposer technologies,
n'est pas de l'ordre du social et du spatial ; les capitaux et organisations d'un autre contexte. »
éléments de la difficile solution sont toujours-déjà-là, Georges Anglade et sa femme Mireille sont morts
sur place. À ne pas partir des savoir-faire du MPHs brutalement, avec d'autres membres de leur famille,
qui regorge de pratiques acceptables, on se enfouis sous les décombres de leur maison, lors du
condamne à affronter des écueils qui ne sont pas tremblement de terre qui a dévasté Port-au-Prince le
ceux du niveau de nos ressources matérielles et 12 janvier 2010. Georges Anglade vivait entre Haïti et
humaines. Il me semble qu'il faut partir des Montréal après avoir pris sa retraite de Professeur de
fondements de cette géographie politique et l'UQÀM.
économique de la survie pour engager le processus

Ruling and development strategies in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean
Chair: Maureen Sioh – De Paul University, USA
Discussant: Shama Dossa - University of Toronto

Anil Varughese – University of Toronto

Incongruous Allies: The Rural and the Big Business in India’s Ruling Coalition
This paper argues that the victory of the Congress more and more sections of the economy to the free
Party in the Indian Parliament elections of 2009 was interplay of global market forces while striving to
underwritten by a dichotomous social coalition that protect the rural poor from it. Its two flagship
included the most rich and the most poor—the programs for the poor—the farm-loan waiver scheme
proverbial aam aadmi (common man) and the India and the rural employment guarantee scheme—
Inc. (corporate India). This was facilitated by a committing massive resources, underline the
politically astute strategy to alternate between centre- paradox. The policy support for the rural poor also
right and centre-left positions by the Congress Party serves as a legitimation-mechanism for the growth
during its rule between 2004 and 2009. While process that has caused considerable dispossession
continuing to aggressively defend and expand and disempowerment in rural India.
policies of economic liberalization as demanded by Against explanations that ascribe the workings of
the big business, the Congress-led coalition of 2004- Indian democracy to dynastic charisma and caste-
2009 made the protection of the rural poor from religion permutations, this paper identifies the
bearing the social costs of liberalization a bigger emergence of a semblance of class-based electoral-
priority than in the past. As a result, the total policy coalition building, albeit dichotomous, pursued by the
package of the UPA government has been janus- Congress Party, departing marginally from its past
faced, containing the paradoxical impulses to open practice of relying on caste and community vote-
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banks. India, it appears, may be finally ready for

developmental politics. Email: [email protected]
Mohammad Ehsan - Dalhousie University

Rhetoric and Reality of Corruption Control in Bangladesh:
The Case of the Interim Caretaker Government (2007-2008) from an Implementation Perspective
Corruption, be it political or bureaucratic, is believed abovementioned actors; rather explores only the
to be a governance issue, a sign of poor governance, government’s role. In particular, the paper looks at a
a failure of institutions and a reflection of lack of particular period in the history of Bangladesh (the
capacity to manage society by means of a framework interim caretaker regime of 2007-2008), which is
of social, judicial, political and economic checks and perceived to be a time that came out as a response to
balances. While the extent of corruption is apparently eliminate widespread corruption and analyzes
less in the developed world, it often seems to be a whether it made any difference. It hypothesizes that
way of life in developing countries. In the past few failure in combating corruption in Bangladesh can be
decades, diverse actors, including the state associated, among others, with weak policy design,
(government), non-state organizations (civil society) inappropriate strategies, techniques, mechanisms
and development partners (donors), have thus been and tools used to combat corruption. Overall, anti-
seen to actively engage in the effort to reduce corruption initiatives have not been successful in
corruption in developing countries. However, despite developing countries like Bangladesh due to
myriads of attempts taken, the problem is prevalent incoherent policy design which turns into a policy
and appalling cases of corruption are reported from failure or even disaster at the policy implementation
diverse countries. In fact, there is no credible sign of level. Unfortunately, this is also the case for this
reduction in corruption, let alone its elimination. special period too when the caretaker government
Questions thus arise, whether we can realistically get violated constitutional jurisdictions in so many ways.
rid of corruption and if so, why we have not been able This period exemplifies and this paper strongly
to contain it yet? argues that nothing legitimate, no matter how sacred
Against this background, this paper looks at a an intention is, can come out from an illegitimate
developing country, i.e., Bangladesh and regime.
contextualizes the question in the perspective of the
country. It, however, does not look at all the Email: [email protected]
Dennis C. Canterbury - Eastern Connecticut State University, USA

The Bases for Alternative Development in the Caribbean
What should be the bases for alternative development this position however is that it is being encouraged for
in the Caribbean – a turn from the US due to its the wrong reasons. The decline in the US and its slow
faltering economy to embrace China because of its rate of recovery from the crisis compared with China
fast recovery from the current crisis and its growing should not be the underlying factors for such a
economy, or a turn to the emerging economies as a transformation. Instead, the change must be
means to transform the forces and means of promoted on the bases of the pushback against EU
production in the region? A viewpoint, which is and US hegemony in the region; the securing of more
gaining momentum in the Caribbean, is that the favorable economic relations from the emerging
region should reconsider its economic relations with economies; and finding development alternatives to
the US in the light of the economic fallout from the the existing capitalist productive relations that would
global financial crisis and the recovery process. The meaningfully transform the forces and means of
belief is that the Caribbean should take necessary production in the Caribbean.
actions to become more engaged with the emerging
economies and in particular China. The problem with Email: [email protected]
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Panel 48: French Keynote Speaker

Session ACÉDI - CASCA
Local : MB1-210
Horaire : 11 h
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS
Développement, modes de gouvernance et normes pratiques

(une approche socio-anthropologique)
L’étude empirique des modes de délivrance des biens et services publics et collectifs en Afrique par
diverses institutions, révèle des écarts importants entre la gouvernance officielle et la «gouvernance réelle
»: la compréhension des normes pratiques qui régulent les comportements des acteurs concernés devient
alors un programme de recherche, qui peut permettre aussi de poser de façon nouvelle le problème des
réformes «vues de l’intérieur »
Discussant / Commentateur :
John Galaty – McGill University
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Wed June 2nd – From 2:30PM to 3:30PM

LB building - De Sève Cinema
Conference: Transforming Research in the Developing World
(Open Access)
Canadian Association of Research Libraries

Concordia University
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Access to knowledge is fundamental to all aspects of developing world means much of the research done
human development, from health to food security, and there remains Œinvisible¹ to the rest of the world. This
from education to social capacity building. Yet access panel will bring together experts to explore the
to academic publications is severely restricted for potential impact of Open Access on the developing
many developing countries. As well, the prohibitive world.
cost of publishing and distributing journals in the
Haroon Akran-Lodhi - Trent University

Buhle Mbambo-Thata - UNISA Library, South Africa
Leslie Chan - University of Toronto
Hebe Vessuri - Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research
Conférence : Moteur de développement pour les nations en émergence

(Libre accès)
Association des bibliothèques de recherché

Université Concordia
Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines
L¹accès au savoir est indispensable pour toute forme dans ces régions signifient qu¹une grande partie de la
de développement humain, de la santé à la sécurité recherche qui y est réalisée n¹est pas connue ailleurs
alimentaire et de l¹éducation à la formation des dans le monde.
capacités sociales. Pourtant, l¹accès aux publications Cette table ronde rassemblera des experts qui
académiques est fortement restreint dans plusieurs réfléchiront sur l¹impact du libre accès dans le monde
pays en voie de développement. De plus, le coût en développement.
prohibitif de la publication et la distribution des revues
Haroon Akran-Lodhi - Trent University

Buhle Mbambo-Thata - UNISA Library, South Africa
Leslie Chan - University of Toronto
Hebe Vessuri - Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research
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Day Three: Conference Sessions

June 2nd - From 1:45 PM to 3:30 PM
Aid Effectiveness
Chair: Stephen Brown - University of Ottawa
Discussant: Brian Tomlinson - Canadian Council for International Cooperation

Evelyn Noy - Deakin University (Australia)

Aid Effectiveness in the Grey Zone: A Case Study in the DRC
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ground, as transition-zone assistance programs have
suffered two major wars, first in1996 and then again generally not fed into analytical studies. Nonetheless,
between 1998 and 2003. Peace agreements were the relationship between development assistance and
signed in 2002 and a transitional government was emergency relief remains one of the most important
instated in Kinshasa in 2003. Despite this, the debates within the donor community.
situation in Eastern DRC remains volatile, with the UN This paper examines one such case study;
still officially classifying it as a complex emergency. specifically, a community-based water, sanitation and
The Kivu provinces were at the heart of the conflict hygiene education (WASH) program that was
and the most violent part of the Congo during the last implemented in the South Kivu province between
four years of war. With end of the war and a newly, 2004 and 2007. Sector-specific literature on relief
democratically elected government, donors and aid and development assistance has been reviewed and
agencies alike now consider the DRC as moving applied to develop a framework for classifying the
towards stability and thus transitioning from relief aid type of aid observed on the ground. Field research
to development assistance. was undertaken and interviews were conducted with
Academic literature on the transition zone, or grey both aid workers and beneficiaries and the impact of
zone, tends to focus on peacekeeping, reconciliation, this program was assessed. The study finds that
and reconstruction of the state. Very little academic prolonged relief aid in non-emergency contexts can
literature focuses on how aid programs should be cause harm, and calls for tighter criteria for
implemented at the community level within these determining when relief vs. development approaches
countries during this period. There is also a gap should be implemented.
between academic discourse and practice on the Email: [email protected]
Fahim Quadir - York University

Aid Effectiveness and the Return of the Technocratic Rationality Narrative: what prospects for autonomous
development in the 21st century?
Given increased emphasis on fostering a ‘culture of on results through a new style of management can
results’, this study aims to examine a broad range of make better policy decisions and help design better
fiercely debated contemporary issues that seemed to strategies that contribute to improving the poverty
have shaped the practice of development in recent conditions in much of the developing world. This
years. In particular, it seeks to elucidate the general study calls into question the assumption that
meanings and practical implications of the widely “managing for results” will make development efforts
stated but largely unexplored assertion that focusing more effective in achieving the Millennium
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Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. It claims that grassroots and community-based organizations to
increased efforts to manage for results have created look outside for their own development. It argues that
a new development narrative which has in effect the changing development narrative is likely to restrict
rekindled and renewed the spirit and vision of the and limit the political space necessary for civil society
modernity discourse that once legitimized the associations, especially people’s organizations, to
dominant role of technocrats and bureaucrats in the promote “autonomous” development aimed at
development process. Instead of creating viable strengthening local people’s self-management
popular organizations capable of promoting enabling capacities.
settings for people’s self-development, the new
language of development necessitates the need for Email: [email protected]
Getachew Mequanent - Canadian International Development Agency (as an individual)

Measuring Development Results and Sustainability: Lessons from Ethiopia
The difficult and complex task of gathering, attempting to “economize” the use of fertilizers on
aggregating and analyzing data to measure and their cultivated farmlands (i.e., how much to use and
communicate development results and their for which crop variety). Farmers’ capability to make
sustainability has continued to generate a heated needs based, autonomous choices of fertilizer use
debate in the academia and boardrooms of (indicating the integration of a “modern” practice into
governments, donor agencies, NGOs and local knowledge) can be considered as an indictor of
corporations. A large part of this can be attributed to one aspect of government policy effectiveness. In this
articulating result measurement methods within a context, a result measurement exercise aims to
broad framework of development goals like food identify and measure the factors or elements that
security, economic development, social development created the formative conditions of change in farming
and sustainable environment. This paper contributes practices in highland Ethiopia, as well as assess
to an understanding of how result measurement strategies that support the continuity of efforts to
methods could be defined in a specific and narrow sustain the change and promote the progressive
scope to gain full insight into processes of change realization of rural development goals. Such practical
and the progressive realization of development goals and situationally appropriate result measurement
– or sustainability. The paper is based on the study of method is important at a time when the concept of
fertilizer promotion efforts by the Ethiopian sustainable development has been widely applied to
government in the Northern highland areas. Years of serve as a parameter of measuring policy, program
intense farmer “agitation” and provision of inputs and and project results and their sustainability.
technical advice have resulted in the effective
promotion of fertilizer use, so that today farmers are Email: [email protected]

Development in Venezuela
Chair: Jesus Rojas - Communal Council Los Olivos,Venezuela
Discussant: Colin Hamlin – St-Mary University, Halifax

Manuel Larrabure - University of Toronto

Participatory Democracy and Learning: Examining Venezuela’s Socialist Production Units
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Venezuela is currently undergoing a transition into namely through everyday practices. Using a Marxist
what its controversial president Hugo Chavez and his theoretical framework, my paper examines these
supporters call ‘socialism for the 21st century’. three aspects of SPUs by outlining the contradictions
Central to this transition are organizations known as found in their material reproduction, how their
Socialist Production Units (SPUs). SPUs are non- participants experience these contradictions, and
profit productive enterprises managed by their whether or not democratic participation helps
workers, local communities and the state. Their goal participants learn to challenge dominant market
is to provide affordable goods to communities in relations. Briefly, my findings demonstrate that SPUs
need. SPUs possess three important characteristics. simultaneously reproduce and challenge capitalist
First, they operate on the basis of participatory social relations of production and that this dynamic
democracy. This means that participants make between reproduction and transformation is reflected
decisions collectively and directly, without the use of in participants’ experiences and learning within their
representatives. Second, SPUs are part of organizations. This paper is based on ethnographic
Venezuela’s ‘popular’ or ‘social’ economy, as they fieldwork conducted at three SPUs in Venezuela
operate within a market economy but have social between June and September of 2009.
goals that go beyond generating a profit. Third, in
both organizations learning happens informally, Email: [email protected]
Patrick Clark - University of Waterloo

The Social Economy and Development in ‘Twenty-First Century Socialist’ Venezuela
My recent research has examined both theoretical more conceptual issues around social democratic
and practical dimensions of the ‘twenty-first century politics and participatory democracy and governance.
socialist’ development model in Venezuela, its In my paper I critically examine the discrepancies
relation to the other new left governments in Latin between the discourse, policies and practices of the
America and to global politics more broadly. However, Chavez government development strategies and the
my focus within the Venezuelan case is on the state- contradictions and successes of the development
fostered social economy initiatives which are being model playing out on the ground in Venezuela. My
promoted by the Chavez government as part of its research methodology is a combination of fieldwork
‘endogenous development’ plan. The Major Research through participant observation and interviews in
Paper I completed for my Master’s degree Venezuela, an examination of relevant government
incorporates fieldwork that I conducted this past policy documents and an extensive literature review
summer while visiting Venezuela focused on the on Venezuelan history, politics and the rise of the left
state-sponsored ‘social economy’ initiatives including in Latin America. It is my intention to continue this
national the Ministry of the Communal Economy and research into doctoral studies next fall. The Bolivarian
the government’s Plan Café, which targets small- Revolution has deeply impacted inter-American
scale producers. Through my research, I have strived relations and public policies related to development in
to critically evaluate some specifics around public the region. A critical understanding of the specific
policies and the social economy in Venezuela in successes and challenges of the ongoing
relation to broader theoretical and political themes. transformation in Venezuela is thus indispensible for
My research is theoretically informed by some of the development scholars and practitioners alike.
recent literature which has emerged on post-
neoliberalism, the social economy as well as some Email/Courriel: [email protected]
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Participation, development and governance
Chair: Alain Boutet – Saint Mary’s University, Halifax
Discussant: Rany Ballout – University of Montreal

Erin Sirett – McGill University

From Conscientization to Struggle:
A case study of people’s participation in Bangladeshi NGO Nijera Kori
People’s participation in international development – needs) to understand and demand that their rights as
broadly characterized as the use of “bottom-up” rather citizens be respected. Due to its socially constructed
than “top-down” approaches – is considered by many nature, local understandings of people’s participation
to be an effective way to achieve equitable change; need to be further explored and used as the basis for
after all, democracy’s success relies heavily on the research about its impact on people’s lives, in order to
participation of citizens. While the term tends to work against the present hegemonic nature of
connote positive feelings and values, it is still not dominant Western (or Northern) understandings and
clearly understood which methods actually encourage knowledge in international development.
and facilitate citizens to participate socially and My analysis draws on Foley’s (1999) rich work on
politically, a concern which points to the need to “learning in struggle” to consider the important, but
investigate case studies which demonstrate how overlooked, relationship between incidental learning
citizens organize to effectively challenge the power of and people’s participation. My research examines
the state and local elite. how Nijera Kori’s model of social mobilization,
The following paper reports the findings of a enables local rural citizens to learn to challenge
qualitative case study of people’s participation with inequalities, both at the individual level and the
Bangladeshi NGO Nijera Kori. The name Nijera Kori structural. I also consider the challenges and
means “we do it ourselves” and the NGO draws on contradictions Nijera Kori faces in its process of
Freire’s concept of conscientization in its aim of facilitating people’s participation.
empowering the poor and landless (those with
insufficient access to land to meet their livelihood Email: [email protected]
Claudine Desjardins - Saint Mary’s University

Le Forum des peuples et son impact dans le processus de démocratisation du Mali
Depuis 1990, les bailleurs de fonds ont fait de la l'aide sont apparu dans le langages du
démocratie libérale une pierre angulaire de leurs développement, tout comme une nouvelle vision du
politiques de développement. En plus de promouvoir concept de participation. L'État doit être
la démocratisation des états africains, ils ont mis coordonnateur du développement et la société civile
l'accent sur une vision économique de la société civile doit participer à l'élaboration des politiques de
comme moteur de développement. Cette conception développement. Cependant, de nombreuses critiques
a diminué l'importance accordée à l'État comme émergent : instrumentalisation de la société civile et
promoteur d'un développement national et centré sur illusoire coordination par l'État. Depuis 2002, il se
les besoins de la population, avec comme tient au Mali le Forum des peuples (FP), une activité
conséquence une extraversion exacerbée du pôle de dénonçant la mainmise des institutions
décision des politiques de développement. Depuis, internationales sur l'agenda du développement au
les concepts de PRSP, harmonisation et efficacité de Mali. Le FP veut promouvoir la participation politique
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citoyenne et l'appropriation de l'agenda de processus de démocratisation du Mali ? Cette

développement par le peuple afin qu'il soit le reflet de communication tentera de répondre à cette question.
ses préoccupations. Dans l'actuel interface politico-
administratif du développement, comment une activité Email: [email protected]
comme le Forum des peuples s'inscrit-elle dans le
Corrine Cash - University of Waterloo

Planning for social equity in the Municipality of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Historical inequality in South African planning practice Stellenbosch, this paper reveals implementation
is reflected in its current spatial layout (Harrison, et al, effectiveness as it pertains to the spatial planning of
2007). The Municipality of Stellenbosch, South Africa municipal housing projects.
is an area where great wealth in the form of wine As opposed to apartheid’s racially discriminatory
estates, luxurious hotels, spas and leafy green decision making practices, a new market-led division
suburbs exist side by side with displaced farm has emerged that is now led by a new set of actors of
dwellers and poverty stricken informal settlements many ethnic backgrounds working collectively. The
situated beyond the main industrial, commercial, and resulting decisions are clearly manifested in the
spaces of leisure (Municipality of Stellenbosch, 2009). spatial design of the municipality as vast division
Post apartheid South Africa has brought about persists. While much success has been realized since
internationally acclaimed legislation that is designed 1994, the overall spatial architecture does not create
to create a just society whereby all citizens have an environment that is conducive to stated integrated
equal access to housing and land. Integrated social goals promoting equity. The paper suggests a
development planning, initially driven by Agenda 21 project-based approach to planning as opposed to a
goals, is meant to be an intergovernmental and sectoral approach whereby departments work
interdepartmental method of achieving the national together to create mixed use developments that take
goals of equality and sustainability. into account social, economic and environmental
Incorporating an extensive review of key documents goals.
such as plans and policies with results from over 50
interviews conducted in the Municipality of Email: [email protected]

Community and Family in Development
Chair: Fiona MacPhail - University of Northern Britsh Columbia
Discussant: Ajoy Bista - University of Guelph

Laurel Van De Keere - Dalhousie University

To whom will we turn?
The effects of societal change on the experiences & needs of Kenyan elders
In coming years, population aging will become an a great deal of research has investigated the
increasingly important socio-demographic dynamic implications of population aging in this context. A
affecting individuals, families, and societies the world comparatively small share of the global literature on
over. Because many countries in the global north are aging, however, has examined the unique
beginning to witness the ‘greying of their populations’, characteristics of older populations in the global
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south. Further, research that has been conducted how is societal change shaping the characteristics
has tended to be confined within the biomedical and and needs of Kenya’s aging population?
demographic spheres, often overlooking the critical For my thesis, I adopt a mixed methods approach
socio-cultural dimensions of aging, including the informed by a critical and post-critical political
significance of societal change on individual and economy perspective to examine the personal aging
collective aging experiences. experiences of Pokot elders living in the community of
Because countries like Kenya are expected to witness Marich Pass, north western Kenya, in face of multi-
significant population aging within the next four scalar societal changes. Preliminary results highlight
decades, and because urbanization, globalization, significant challenges in economic, health, socio-
individualization, familial restructuring, and shifting cultural, infrastructural, and environmental domains,
religious views will place new pressures on existing and illuminate a need to explore new elder supports
resources during the same timeframe, there is a need drawing from governmental and non-governmental
to bridge this outstanding research gap. As such, this institutions as well as social capital networks.
study grapples with the following research question: Email: [email protected]
Eugenia I. Pearson – Quick PR Consultant Services

The Family with Many Voices: Values and Children 's Aid Society
Children in need of protection traditionally in most due to the lack of mindfulness on the background of
cases were the result of abandonment or abuse. individuals when compared to other agencies and
Today, the role of the CAS has become increasingly how their values are strongly dealt with differently.
blurred. In court and public discourse about family The intent of this debate will be from two
change for example, the increase of single parent perspectives. A preview of CSA history and its intent
families, adoption cases and abuse, the boundaries to present discourse leading to the need for cognitive
between the CAS, social outcomes, morality, culture, changes and parental rights to raise their children.
religion and racial differences are often crossed. What are the boundaries between professionalism,
This paper examines appropriateness in terms of advocacy for the protection of children, integrity,
racial differences and care among cultural agencies social connectedness, safety and community
with placements inside and outside the profession. involvement, which are dimensions of well-being?
The main lines of public disagreement and Given these divides over methods and values, how
boundaries between CAS agencies, and the divides can academics play a larger role in framing public
over methods of moral values, family issues and the consciousness and debates over inappropriate family
law are inadequate. Of special interest, this paper is intervention? And how can we find common grounds?
engaging ways of levelling the research field to avoid Email 1: [email protected]
hegemony or dominance with specific CAS services Email 2 : [email protected]
Jeff D. Grischow - Wilfrid Laurier University

Community and Disability in Ghana: Historical Perspectives
My paper will analyze the history of disability in everything from adult education programs to films on
colonial Ghana (the Gold Coast) between 1935 and proper community agricultural techniques. The
1957 from the perspective of community colonial state even sponsored a journal committed to
development. During this period, the colonial doctrine community development called Advance, complete
of community development sought, in the words of a with image of a ladder of ‘progress.’ At the same time,
1955 report, to help Africans ‘to live the fullest medical experts launched a systematic campaign to
possible life’ as members of their communities. understand blindness in Northern Ghana (the
During the 1940s this doctrine prompted initiatives in Northern Territories of the Gold Coast). Although
the spheres of education/literacy, self-help, public blindness had been widespread in the north for
health and sanitation. Community development decades, it was only in the mid-1940s that colonial
teams fanned out across the country, delivering officials ‘discovered’ the problem and linked it to
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schistosomiasis (river blindness). The parallel for several reasons. First, it will give voice to a social
development of community development and group that has been largely silent in the literature of
disability research begs an important question: to colonial Africa. Second, it is prescient in light of
what extent did community development link up with Ghana’s recent commitment to integrating people with
colonial disability initiatives? The paper will investigate disabilities into community development projects. In
this question by examining whether colonial sum, the paper will provide an important historical
conceptions of ‘community’ included the disabled, and context to current development initiatives relating to
whether research into disabilities was connected to disability.
community development. This research is significant Email: [email protected]
Day Three: Conference Sessions

June 2nd - From 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM

African International Relations
Chair/Discussant: Kevin Dunn - Hobart & William Smith Colleges, USA
Timothy M. Shaw - University of The West Indies, India

‘Africa & Global Relations/Studies:
Llessons from/for the continent at start second decade of the 21st century’
Africa has always been impacted by but also mafias/militias & diasporas/remittances: will Africa by
responded to ‘global’ relations. This paper looks at 2010 consist mainly of ‘fragile’ or ‘failed’ or
salient contemporary pressures & opportunities: from ‘developmental’ states...and why?’
BRICs/NICs as well as the G8/G20 to international Email: [email protected]
Jane Parpart - University of the West Indies

Engendering African IR in an Increasingly Masculinist World
Gender is an essential component for a full constructed social, political & economic structures &
understanding of governance, war & human discourses, the paper analyses the gendered
security/insecurity. While there is a growing literature character of bureaucratic structures, governance
arguing this point, mainstream & even critical IR still practices, democracy, development & citizenship with
remains resolutely impervious to gendered particular attention to women & gender relations.
arguments. Much of the literature on IR in Africa Given the centrality of conflict & human (in)security to
adopts this position as well. discussions of African IR, we also explore the insights
While arguing for the importance of gender, we do not offered by a gendered analysis of conflict & podt-
claim that gender is the only variable that matters in conflict societies on the continent, paying particular
IR, but rather that gender is a central & often unseen attention to the role of masculinity, gendered
organizing force that brings important analytical depth assumptions & the practices that emerge from them.’
to understanding governance, war & human
(in)security. Paying attention to historically Email: [email protected]
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Thomas Kwasi Tieku - University of Toronto

Worldviews: challenges to ‘African’ international relations’

Critical analysis of development
Chair: Fahim Quadir

Discussant: Douglas Brown – York University

Arne Rückert - University of Ottawa

The Financial Crisis, the International Financial Institutions’ Response, and Zombie Neoliberalism
While the financial crisis of 2008/9 first broke out in comeback with the onset of the global financial crisis
the United States and quickly spread to emerging and are widely seen as key agents in the resolution of
market economies, developing countries have not the crisis. The paper discusses the various policy
been exempted from the wide-spread effects of the responses of the IFIs to the crisis, such as the
crisis. The crisis has already driven more than 50 emergence of new lending facilities, and argues that a
million people back into extreme poverty, and there is form of zombie neoliberalism is materializing at the
little hope that the Millennium Development Goals will IFI’s. Zombie neoliberalism combines the death of the
be achieved. This paper will interrogate the response ideational edifice of neoliberalism with the promotion
of the International Financial Institutions, the World of slightly modified neoliberal policies in practice.
Bank and the IMF, to the Financial Crisis of 2008/9. Hence, neoliberalism seems to be neither dead nor
After having had a serious identity crisis and having alive but has taken on a zombie existence at the IFIs
been relegated by some to the dustbin of history, the
IMF and the World Bank have experienced a stunning Email/Courriel: [email protected]
Suzanne Dansereau - Saint Mary’s University

Labour and Development: Going beyond neoliberal paradigms
The paper will argue that mainstream development Yet labour is a far more significant component of the
theory, often labelled neo-liberal in character, as well development process. A focus on labour results in a
as those labelled as alternative development models focus on labour utilisation models and production
are missing an important development opportunity strategies. Moving a society away from an
resulting from the failure to take labour into account. If organisation of production that depends on cheap,
they talk about labour at all, it is limited, in both the unskilled labour to one organised around higher
neoliberal and alternative development theories, to levels of productivity, will result in higher wages and
employment as a strategy of poverty alleviation and skill levels, contribute to greater wealth creation and
one of many livelihood strategies. Since the stimulate the emergence of a domestic market.
development objective today is focussed on poverty The second component of this domestic process is
alleviation, employment is reduced to pro-poor the significance of labour as a social force. The paper
employment strategies. will go beyond the limited approach that views the
labour movement as identical to other groups labelled
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as either a civil society or a social movement. Instead, production and consumption which is the basis of an
it will place labour at the heart of the struggle over integrated or self-centered economy but because so
capital accumulation and the social pact. many of the policy measures contained within the
The paper will argue that adequately recognizing the current neoliberal agenda have been aimed at
role of labour and the labour movement will provide reducing the cost of labour and have resulted in
one of the central pieces to the current discussions on massive poverty.
self-centered forms of development being put forward
in recent challenges to neo-liberal globalisation. This Email: [email protected]
is because it not only addresses the link between
Dimitri della Faille - Université du Québec en Outaouais

Problèmes socio-économiques de l’Amérique latine contemporaine dans un contexte de mondialisation
Dans notre conférence, nous proposerons une leurs propos. Deuxièmement, nous désirons partager
réflexion empirique et théorique sur les discours une réflexion épistémologique sur l’analyse des
experts à propos des inégalités sociales dans inégalités sociales à partir des outils théoriques et
l’Amérique latine contemporaine. Cette conférence a des catégories de travail des sciences sociales. Nous
deux objectifs. Premièrement, nous chercherons à nous intéresserons en particulier aux conséquences
communiquer les résultats d’analyses empiriques pour la pratique et l’établissement de politiques
menées sur les discours experts (principalement en d’envisager la mondialisation comme un processus
provenance des sciences sociales) à propos des social, économique et culturel complexe. Un
inégalités sociales contemporaines dans les pays problème social est un phénomène dont la résolution
sous-développés. À partir de l’analyse assistée par est souhaitée, mise en mots et débattue au travers de
ordinateur de plusieurs corpus de littérature la circulation d’idées. Nous pensons cependant, que
scientifique nous montrerons comment la thématique la mondialisation a changé la manière d’envisager les
des inégalités sociales s’insère dans les débats problèmes socio-économiques en Amérique latine et
portant sur les problèmes socio-économiques en c’est que nous tenterons de montrer dans notre
Amérique latine depuis les années 1980. À cet égard, conférence en analysant les discours experts à
nous nous intéressons en particulier à la relation propos des inégalités sociales.
entre les transformations sociales et les débats à Courriel: [email protected]

Beyond development and globalization
Chair: Dominique Caouette - Université de Montréal
Discussant: John F. Devlin - University of Guelph

Dip Kapoor - University of Alberta

Subaltern social movement (SSM) post-mortems of development in contemporary India
Social movements, dis/organized struggles and the “untouchable” castes), landless/small peasants,
deliberate or spontaneous political activism of development-displaced peoples (DDPs who are
indigenous (Adivasi or “original dweller”), Dalit predominantly from these social groupings) including
(“downtrodden” or pejoratively referred to as Adivasi-Dalit women continue to proliferate,
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consistently interrupting and undermining the grip of of development displacement, dispossession,

capitalist (including a mainly complicit civil society responses and resistances in mind, the paper will
reformism predicated on an allegedly “benign draw on a current participatory critical-interpretive
inclusion” of subalterns in to capitalist-modernity) and research (Kapoor, 2009b) initiative with an Adivasi
socialist political-economic, cultural and theoretical (Kondhs) and Dalit (Panos) movement in South
assimilative projects of compulsory modernization, Orissa (an east coast state in India) that seeks first-
industrialization and progress (development), i.e., time knowledge (in this context) about Adivasi-Dalit
subaltern social movements (SSMs) (Kapoor, 2009a; social movements and struggles pertaining to
2009b) and struggles in India continue to address movement purposes and the learning and knowledge
(Baviskar, 2005; Da Costa, 2007; Ghosh, 2006; dimensions/politics of these movements, to expound
Menon & Nigam, 2007; Patnaik, 2007; Rajagopal, upon SSM critiques (and what lies beyond) of state-
2003; Sheth, 2007; SinghaRoy, 2001) re/colonization capitalist development and modernization (national
and the “coloniality of power”, with it’s attendant and global trajectories).
vectors of racism and ethno-cultural chauvinisms
(Grande, 2004; Mignolo, 2000). With these contexts Email: [email protected]
Aziz Choudry - McGill University

The spread of bilateral free trade and investment agreements in the wake of the breakdown of multilateral
and regional negotiations
During the 1990s, rising opposition to free trade and than multilateral agreements. Moreoever, I will argue
investment agreements came to be known in many that in spite of a multitude of such movements and
quarters as the “anti-globalization” or “global justice” mobilizations against these agreements, particularly
movement. Considerable scholarly research (e.g. (though not exclusively) in the Third World, the
Starr, 2000; Goodman, 2002; McNally, 2002; Polet transnational NGO/activist networks that have actively
and CETRI, 2004; Bandy and Smith, 2005; Day, contested the WTO and FTAA have largely failed to
2005) has gone into examining popular struggles connect such struggles with each other, and are
against neoliberal globalization, including campaigns largely inconsequential in relation to anti-FTA
against the World Bank, the International Monetary activism. There is a disconnect between major
Fund (IMF), the WTO, NAFTA and the Free Trade mobilizations against FTAs and NGO networks on
Area of the Americas (FTAA). Yet relatively little globalization which have generally been slow to react
attention has been paid to newer movements against or seriously address the bilateral deals. On the
bilateral free trade and investment agreements contrary, some of these NGOs have issued
(FTAs). This paper critically discusses the spread of triumphalist statements responding to the state of
bilateral free trade and investment agreements in the WTO talks which have suggested that neoliberalism
wake of the breakdown of multilateral (WTO) and is on the defensive, which completely ignore the
regional (e.g. FTAA) negotiations, and the rise in commitments being made in bilateral free trade
social movement activism against these agreements. negotiations (e.g. IATP (2008), Menotti, 2008). Finally
Drawing on examples from the Americas, Asia and I outline some connections being made between
the Pacific, I dispel the assumption that bilateral free movement movements fighting FTAs.
trade and investment agreements are less of a threat Email: [email protected]
Dominique Caouette - Université de Montréal

Beyond Development and Globalization: Social Movement & Critical Perspectives
The paper will explore the links between what movements. The paper attempts to synthesize
McMichael has called the “globalization project” and contending perspectives coming out from various
the “development project” by drawing on critical chapters of a book project co-directed with Dip
perspectives emerging predominantly from social Kapoor that seeks to challenge existing theories of
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development and globalization by repositing transformation emerge outside the confines of

assumptions and built-in explicit/implicit teleologies existing categories and concepts rooted in modernity.
present in both projects. By bringing together scholars While being characterized by a certain éclectisme,
from a range of disciplines and theoretical (political- some common ideas can be identified around the
economy, sociology, political-ecology, cultural critical notion of voices and practices and the
studies, education, feminisms, indigenous importance of identity and located knowledge.
knowledges etc.), the contributors challenge and Moving away from metanarratives, the collection of
deconstruct dominant views on development and papers instead suggests alternative avenues for
globalization, while being mindful of the inadequacies imagining transformative practices and resistance to
of, both, cultural and economic reductionisms. As the global forces, whether it be the market, state and
paper will argue, by rooting analyses from the international organizations or hegemonic knowledge.
perspectives and practices of social movement, new
ways of talking and thinking about social Email: [email protected]

Micro-economic issues in development
Chair: Getachew Mequanent – ACÉDI / CIDA
Discussant: Geranda Notten – University of Ottawa

Ajoy Bista - University of Guelph

A Study of Rural Household Expenditure Inequality and Poverty:
Sources & Implications for Sustainable Rural Communities in Nepal
This paper examines the relationship between rural favourable context, significantly increased between
household expenditure inequality and asset inequality 1995/96 (11.5 percent) and 2003/04 (27.2 percent).
and their link with poverty. Nepal was selected for the The poverty rate in the cross-section households was
study because poverty had unexpectedly decreased much lower in 2007 (2.4 percent). There were
during the recent armed insurgency. There are also indications that the panel and the cross-section
broader regional implications for the study of Nepal’s households saw growth in average per capita assets.
poverty, inequality, and conflict. However, the growth was associated with an increase
Three rural communities in and around the in asset inequality. On the other hand, the average
Kathmandu Valley covered by the Living Standard per capita expenditure did not grow as much but it
Surveys in 1995/96 and 2003/04 were selected for was associated with a decrease in expenditure
the study. These communities were selected because inequality.
they were more likely to have measurable changes in There was evidence that the households surveyed, in
the household expenditures and assets over the general, had a high propensity to consume, which
years of armed conflict. compromised their ability to maintain or build their
The analysis covers “expenditure” and “asset” productive assets. Therefore, many non-poor
assessments, arguably the most important households, in essence, were living in borderline
dimensions of poverty and fundamental inputs into poverty and were vulnerable to shocks such as a
multi-dimensional poverty analyses. For a better reduction in off-farm employment opportunities and/or
understanding of poverty, inequality, relative poverty, an increase in food prices.
and subjective poverty were also assessed.
It was a surprise to discover that the poverty rate in Email 1: [email protected]
the panel households that were in seemingly Email 2: [email protected]
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Uttam Basnet - Social Welfare Council, National Child Fund, Kathmandu, Nepal
Measuring poverty in the developing countries: getting the right methodology
There is a growing consensus that poverty needs to participatory poverty assessments and cannot assess
be (and can be) reduced. However, the disagreement the reality faced by the poor.
arises in the area of defining and measuring poverty. It is argued that a fresh round of cross-sectional
This presentation focuses on the area of measuring survey data needs to supplement the panel data set.
poverty. The presentation cautions that relying heavily It is suggested that fresh cross-section data helps not
on panel data only for poverty assessment, a only in understanding the real picture in the field but
common trend among many researchers, has several also increases validity of the panel data analyses. It
flaws. It warns that panel data, which are often is maintained the use of panel data set and cross-
collected as a part of such Living Standard Surveys section data is effective in assessing livelihood
(LSSs), can fail to present a true picture in the fields. opportunities and constraints and thus in coming up
Though the panel data is useful in assessing change with better policy recommendations.
of poverty status over time but it lacks the essence of Email: [email protected]
Panel 57 – EV9-221
Development in Afghanistan
Discussant/Chair: Aamir Jamal - University of Calgary
Behrang Foroughi - St. Francis Xavier University

Kayla Armitage and David McLeod - St. Francis Xavier University
Rural Development and Community Development Councils in Afghanistan: Exploring the Connections
Three decades of conflict and corruption has structure of the program and its potential benefits, but
destroyed formal Government of Afghanistan’s social little can be said in terms of its success in meeting its
support networks. Unable to provide substantive two stated goals: community development and laying
social support to the population, the Government of the groundwork for local governance. Virtually no
Afghanistan has turned to a participatory model of research exists pertaining to CDC creation of inter
reconstruction. To meet the needs of the population, and intra-community collaboration.
the Afghanistan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and This paper is a preliminary report of an on-going
Development (MRRD) through the National Solidarity research documenting and analyzing trends in
Program (NSP) encouraged the creation of thousands collaboration at the community level created by CDC
of democratically elected Community Development activities. It specifically aims to identify inter-
Councils (CDCs). CDCs have become the focal point community collaborative decision-making structures
for rural development in Afghanistan. The CDCs’ that have occurred as a direct result of CDC activities
objective is to prioritize and address the needs of their and determine the contributing factors making these
community, seek funding through established donor collaborative structures conducive to participatory
channels, and efficiently implement programs. The development. Understanding CDCs as collaborative
CDCs’ community-focused efforts cover a broad community management structures would better
range of community interests including, but not equip program planners and policy makers in their
restricted to: education, transportation, irrigation, and efforts to facilitate the development of social
health. foundations engendering an engaged rural
Literature on CDCs is sparse and far from extensive. development. This study will help identify applicable
Existing work on the topic generally focuses on the lessons for the Afghani Government, international
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organizations and CDCs alike in recognizing

previously unidentified opportunities of creating Email: [email protected]
collaborative structures for rural development in
Afghanistan.
Peter Tamas - Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Good community development is/not counter-insurgency warfare
The political spectrum places soldiers at one end and their appropriate corners of the literature on state
community development field workers at the other. formation. This paper finds that front line soldiers in
Between these we find the entire range of those who counter-insurgency campaigns and community
‘do’ development. This paper explores current development field workers have a great deal more in
practice and foundational texts in community common than they do, respectively, with the
development and counter insurgency from the institutional apparatus of development and the
perspective of those who actually do the work in the military.
field. It then takes a step back and places the both
community development and counter-insurgency in Email: [email protected]
Shiva Nourpanah - Dalhousie University

The Gordion Knot : A Review of the State of Development in Afghanistan
Despite the millions of dollars of aid poured into justice system, put forward with the goal of bridging
Afghanistan, there is real concern that this country will modern and traditional judicial mechanisms, and thus
be unable to reach the (Afghanised) Millenium achieving more effective rule of law.
Development Goals, while the 2007 UNDP Human This review, juxtaposed side-by-side with
Development reports notes that some of the commentary by local Afghan actors such as female
indicators –most noticeably and most un-surprisingly NGO workers, ex-warlord MPs, and Taliban
those related to gender equality and female spokespersons provides a fascinating snapshot of the
empowerment, have actually regressed since 2003. fragmented and almost surreal situation of
This paper provides a comprehensive critical review development practice as currently implemented in
of the current state of development in Afghanistan, Afghanistan.
through the lens of different actors engaged on the The author then moves on to place current challenges
ground: the World Bank, ACBAR, and UNDP, by in Afghanistan in a historic context, arguing without
focusing on the latest reports on Afghanistan issued such contextualization, it impossible to take
by these institutions. The most salient challenges as sustainable measures towards effective and durable
conceived by each institution is highlighted, and the stabilization of this country.
proposed solutions discussed, paying particular
attention to the UNDP proposal of a hybrid model Email: [email protected]
Panel 58 – Local GM407-1

Doctoral Studies in IDS
Chair: Anthony O’Malley - Saint Mary’s University
Discussant: Sally Humphrey - University of Guelph
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This panel will explore the permutations and panel will discuss the prospects for the further
prospects of various initiatives to establish in Canada development of these programs on the basis of inter-
a program of graduate studies in international university cooperation, both within Canada and North-
development leading to the doctoral degree. The South, and the sharing of relevant resources
Phillipe Regnier - University of Ottawa

2-tier Doctoral Program in International Development Studies
Dr. Regnier of the School of International particularly at the University of Geneva. He will review
Development and Global Studies (SIDGS) at the the dynamics of doctoral studies programming in the
University of Ottawa. In his capacity as Professor and DS field, with a central focus on and concern with the
Director of the School he is leading a proposal to role and dynamics of inter-institutional cooperation.
establish a 2-tier Doctoral Program in International He will also discuss the proposal of a Canadian
Development Studies at the University. He has doctoral school in DS on the European/EADI model.
considerable relevant experience in Europe, Email: [email protected]
Raul Delagado Wise - Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

The dynamics of institutional partnership
Dr. Delgado Wise will report on the institutional governments in Mexico. Delgado-Wise will review the
development of a doctoral program of development dynamics of institutional partnership and discuss the
studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. human, financial and other resource requirements of
The program was established in 2003 and has taken a doctoral program, as well as the ramifications of a
form over the years since then as a major centre of program of inter-institutional cooperation and
excellence in international development studies on resource-sharing.
the basis of numerous institutional partnerships and a
high level of support from the federal and state Email: [email protected]
Ben White – Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Perspective on critical issues of program development at the doctoral level
A bizarre interlude: the PhD project in the modern world of international development studies
Ben White is the outgoing Chair for many years of the majority of doctorate programmes around the world, --
PhD Committee at the Institute of Social Studies that is, through the writing of a book (or, a book-like
(ISS), the first established IDS graduate program in thing), based on an extended period of individual
the world, in The Hague, the Netherlands. On the research -- is a bizarre legacy of history, completely
basis of his involvement in the construction of a PhD inappropriate to the modern age.
programs in IDS at one of Europe’s premier centres Then, since this form of PhD project is here to stay for
of development studies he will provide his perspective the next few years at least, the next part is directed
on the critical issues of program development at the mainly to PhD candidates and their supervisors,
doctoral level, and the possible permutations of offering some thoughts about how to survive and
institutional cooperation and resource sharing. enjoy it. Finally, he ends with a brief vision of a
He will present his reflections on the nature of the different kind of doctorate programme which we might
PhD project, with a focus on internatioal development see some years from now.
studies. First, he argues that the manner in which
PhD candidates obtain the doctorate, in the great Email: [email protected]
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Index of participants
Aamir Jamal - University of Calgary............................45, 96 Colin Hamlin - Saint Mary’s University ....................... 50, 86
Abigail Bakan - Queen’s University...................................28 Conny Davidsen - University of Calgary..................... 54, 69
Adam Sneyd - University of Guelph..................................73 Corrine Cash - University of Waterloo.............................. 89
Aga Khan - University of Ottawa.......................................39 Cynthia Enloe - Clark University, Worcester .................... 18
Ahmed T. Rashid - University of Ottawa.....................39, 40 Daniel Ahimbisibwe - Uganda Martyrs University
Ajoy Bista - University of Guelph ................................89, 95 Kampala Uganda ........................................................ 13
Akram-Lodhi - Trent University .........................................28 David Austin - Independent .............................................. 27
Alain Boutet – St-Mary University, ....................................88 David Gillies - North-South Institute ................................. 47
Alejandra Roncallo - York University ................................30 David Kintu Nkwanga - Nature Palace Foundation
Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque Kampala, Uganda ....................................................... 18
McGill University..........................................................14 David McDonald – Queen’s University............................. 39
Alison Kekewich – Dalhousie University ...........................14 David McLeod - St. Francis Xavier University .................. 96
Almas Zakiuddin Delaney Greig – University of Toronto ............................. 39
University of British Columbia......................................19 Denise Piché - Université Laval ....................................... 52
Anil Varughese – University of Toronto ......................46, 80 Dennis C. Canterbury - Eastern Connecticut
Ann Weston – IDRC..........................................................14 State University, USA.................................................. 81
Anthony H. O’Malley Denyse Côté – Orégand, UQO .......................... 31, 55, 105
Saint Mary’s University ................................................61 Dimitri Della Faille - UQO ........................................... 70, 93
Anthony O’Malley - Saint Mary’s University ................70, 97 Dip Kapoor - University of Alberta ........................ 26, 41, 93
Aristide Nononsi – McGill University .................................74 Dominic Hakim Silvio - Dalhousie University.................... 57
Arne Rückert - University of Ottawa..................................92 Dominique Caouette - Université de Montréal ..... 33, 93, 94
Asfia Gulrukh - University of Manitoba..............................64 Douglas Brown – York University............................... 37, 92
Aziz Choudry - McGill University.................................26, 94 Dulce Maria Cruz Herrera
Babatope Akinwande Université Paris X-Nanterre ........................................ 74
Tearfund, London, UK .................................................70 Durdana Islam - Natural Resources Institute ................... 36
Barbara Heron - York University .......................................62 Edward T. Jackson - Carleton University ......................... 77
Becky Lentz - McGill University ........................................54 Emeka Xris Obiezu –University of Toronto ...................... 12
Behrang Foroughi Émile Brutus - PAPDA...................................................... 59
St. Francis Xavier University........................................96 Erin Sirett - McGill University............................................ 88
Ben White – International Institute of Social Eugenia I. Pearson – Quick PR Consultant Services.. 3790
Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands ..................56, 98 Evelyn Noy - Deakin University - Australia....................... 85
Beth Jean Evans - Dalhousie University...........................30 Fahim Quadir - York University .................................. 85, 92
Bill Morton - North South Institute .....................................76 Faisal Islam - McGill University ........................................ 71
Bina Agarwal - University of Delhi, India.....................36, 56 Fiona MacPhail
Blane Harvey - Institute of Development Studies University of Northern British Columbia ...................... 31
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK........................21, 41 Fiona MacPhail
Boubacar Oumarou...........................................................51 University of Northern Britsh Columbia ....................... 89
Brian Tomlinson - Canadian Council for Franklin Midi ..................................................................... 55
International Cooperation ............................................85 Franz Voltaire - director of CIDICHA, Montreal ................ 80
Brie A. McMahon Gabriel C. Goyette - Chaire sur la gouvernance
St. Francis Xavier University........................................78 et l'aide au développement, UQAM ............................ 25
Buhle Mbambo-Thata Gabriela Silva – Université du Québec à Montréal .......... 48
UNISA Library, South Africa ........................................84 George J. Sefa Dei - University of Toronto ...................... 72
Camilla Toulmin, International Geranda Notten – University of Ottawa............................ 95
Institute for Environment and Development.................53 Getachew Mequanent - CIDA (as an individual) ........ 86, 95
Cassandra Eberhardt - Queen’s University ......................54 Gillian McGillivray - York University ................................. 66
Charmain Levy- UQO ........................................................7 Gonzalo Lizarralde
Chris Brown - Carleton University.....................................77 Université de Montréal ........................................ 56, 105
Chris Duncanson-Hales - Université Govind Gopakumar - Concordia University...................... 49
St. Paul University .................................................11, 19 Guy Debailleul - Université Laval ..................................... 16
Christine Gibb - University of Guelph................................37 Harley Jonhson ................................................................ 33
Claudine Desjardins - Saint Mary’s University ..................88
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Haroon Akram-Lodhi Lance W. Robinson .......................................................... 30

Trent University .........................................17, 72, 79, 84 Lance W. Robinson - Vancouver Island University .......... 21
Heather MacKenzie - Dalhousie University ......................57 Larry Swatuk - University of Waterloo .................. 30, 48, 71
Hebe Vessuri Laurel Van De Keere - Dalhousie University.................... 89
Institute of Scientific Research - Venezuela ................84 Laurier Turgeon – Université Laval .......................... 56, 105
Heidi Monk - Saint Mary’s University ................................70 Leigh Brownhill - York University...................................... 17
Hélène Jolette – UPA-DI...................................................33 Leslie Chan - University of Toronto .................................. 84
Henry Veltmeyer - Saint Mary’s University .............5, 36, 61 Liam Swiss - University of Ottawa.................................... 67
Hepzibah Munoz Martinez Linda Anne Vaillancourt - Université Laval
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Matamoros ...............49 and CUSO-VSO .......................................................... 24
Hugo Pollender - Université Laval ....................................58 Lotsmart Fongjong - University of Buea
Hunter McGill - University of Ottawa.................................66 Cameroon ....................................................... 13, 33, 60
Igor Ampuero – St-Mary University...................................62 Louis Verret - ACDI-CIDA ................................................ 59
Index of participants..........................................................99 Louisa Nakanuku - Carleton University ............................ 54
Indira Chakravarty – Government of India ........................48 Luis González - Indiana University................................... 66
Iqbal Alam - Institute of Development Studies Lynda Collins – University of Ottawa................................ 74
Fellow - Bangladesh ...................................................35 Maliha Crishti - University of Toronto ............................... 46
Ishara Mahat - University of Western Ontario...................38 Manuel Larrabure - University of Toronto................... 50, 86
J. I. (Hans) Bakker - University of Guelph.........................20 Marc McLeod - Seattle University .............................. 66, 79
Jackie McVicar - St. Francis Xavier University .................68 Marcus Taylor - Queen’s University ................................. 28
Jane Poupart - University of the West Indies....................56 María Celia Bravo
Javier Mignone - University of Manitoba...........................68 Universidad Nacional de Tucumán ............................. 66
Jean-Marie Bourjolly Marianne Pemberton – University of Guelph ................... 14
Université du Québec à Montréal ........................56, 105 Marie Fall
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Université du Québec à Chicoutimi................. 38, 51, 57
Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS...................83 Mark Rushton – Universidad Autónoma
Jeff D. Grischow - Wilfrid Laurier University .....................90 de Zacatecas, Mexico ................................................. 37
Jesus Rojas - Communal Council Marta Rohatynskyj - University of Guelph ........................ 39
Los Olivos, Venezuela.................................................86 Martha Stiegman - Concordia University.......................... 26
Jing Guan – McGill University...........................................74 Martine Hubert - CEGEP de Lévis-Lauzon#59
Joanne B. Rennick - St. Jerome's University Matthew Schnurr - Dalhousie University .......................... 72
in the University of Waterloo..................................11, 19 Maureen Sioh - De Paul University, USA......................... 29
Johanne Boucher - Université de Sherbrooke ..................24 Maureen Sioh – De Paul University, USA ....................... 80
John Cameron - Dalhousie University ........................49, 69 Melanie O'Gorman - University of Winnipeg .............. 22, 34
John F. Devlin - University of Guelph .........................59, 93 Message de remerciement................................................. 9
John Galaty – McGill University ........................................83 Message of thanks ............................................................. 9
Jonathan Langdon - St. Francis Xavier University......41, 42 Mireille Mathieu - Université de Montréal ................. 55, 105
Jorge Nallim - University of Manitoba ...............................68 Mitu Sengupta – Ryerson University ................................ 30
José O. Solá - Seattle University of Puerto Rico ..............66 Mizan Rahman - University of Lincoln.............................. 40
Joseph Ogbonnaya – St Michael’s College ......................11 Mohammad Ehsan - Dalhousie University ....................... 81
Joseph Tharamangalam Mohammed Chikhaoui
Mount Saint Vincent University....................................36 Directeur de Oxfam-Québec ....................................... 16
Joshua Ramisch - Université d'Ottawa .............................17 Molly den Heyer - Dalhousie University ........................... 76
Jules Sisk - McGill University Msimbithi Ntloko - University of Waterloo......................... 48
and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.......................78 Myrle Ballard - University of Manitoba.............................. 63
Julie Drolet - Thompson Rivers University........................31 Nathan Loewen - Vanier College ..................................... 20
Kari Levitt-Polanyi – Karl Polanyi Institute, Neera M. Singh - University of Toronto ............................ 22
McGill University and Concordia University...........14, 79 Neera Singh - University of Toronto ................................. 59
Katie MacDonald - York University ...................................63 Nicole St-Martin - Université de Sherbrooke .............. 14, 40
Kayla Armitage - St. Francis Xavier University ................ 96 Nilfur Ahmad - World Bank............................................... 35
Kénel Délusca - Université de Montréal............................25 Nilima Gulrajani
Kevin Dunn - Hobart & William Smith London School of Economics, UK......................... 66, 75
Colleges, USA .......................................................53, 91 Nina Di Stefano - Association of Universities
Kim Burnett – University of Waterloo ................................14 and Colleges of Canada.............................................. 33
Kimlee Wong – University of Manitoba .............................63 Nipa Banerjee – University of Ottawa .............................. 45
Krishna Ahooha Patel – Saint Mary's University.........71, 77
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Norman Girvan - University of the West Indies Shah Md Nawaz - Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,
at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago ..................61, 80 Food and Rural Affairs ................................................ 32
Nuah Makungu – Université d'Ottawa ..............................17 Shama Dossa - University of Toronto .............................. 45
Olga Navarro-Flores – École des Sciences Shannon Walsh - McGill University .................................. 27
de la Gestion (ESG) - UQAM.................................15, 40 Shelley Jones - State University of New York
Pablo S. Bose - University of Vermont, USA ....................21 College at Potsdam......................................... 13, 34, 62
Patricia Juárez Dappe - California State Shirley Thompson - Natural Resources Institute
University, Northridge ..................................................66 University of Manitoba........................................... 35, 63
Patrick Clark - University of Waterloo .........................50, 87 Shiva Nourpanah - Dalhousie University.......................... 97
Pelagie Lefebvre - International Development Simon Carter - IORC ........................................................ 53
Research Centre .........................................................60 Stephen Baranyi – University of Ottawa............... 28, 47, 59
Penelope Simons – University of Ottawa..........................74 Stephen Brown - University of Ottawa ................. 67, 75, 85
Peter Joong – University of West Indies Susan Healey - Senior Consultant
Caribbean ........................................................23, 33, 77 Harry Cummings and Associates.......................... 49, 68
Peter Tamas - Wageningen University Suzanne Dansereau - Saint Mary’s University................. 92
The Netherlands ....................................................46, 97 Talia Meer - Dalhousie University .................................... 21
Phillipe Regnier - University of Ottawa .............................98 Tejwant K. Chana - University of Alberta ......................... 33
Rany Ballout – University of Montreal...............................88 Terisa Turner – University of Guelph ............................... 71
Raul Delagado Wise - Universidad Autónoma Theresa Ulicki - Dalhousie University............................... 13
de Zacatecas, Mexico............................................61, 98 Thomas Ryan - Nipissing Univeristy ................................ 23
Ray Vander Zaag - Canadian Mennonite University.........12 Timothy M. Shaw
Rebecca Teissen University of The West Indies, India............................ 91
Royal Military College of Canada ..........................13, 62 Tom Tunney – Entraide universitaire
Robert Hazel - Consultant.................................................57 mondiale du Canada (EUMC) ..................................... 59
Roksana Bahramitash Uttam Basnet - Social Welfare Council
University of Montreal............................................32, 45 National Child Fund, Kathmandu, Nepal..................... 96
Rosario Adapon Turvey - Nipissing University..................47 Vanessa Lozecznik - University of Manitoba.................... 64
Sally Humphrey - University of Guelph .............................97 Welcome from the Conference chair.................................. 7
Salmata Ouedraogo - Université du Québec William J. Egnatoff - Queen’s University .................... 22, 77
à Chicoutimi.................................................................38 Xiong Ying - Guangxi University, China ........................... 23
Scott Matter - McGill University.........................................42 Zohreh Fanni - Shahid Beheshti University
Tehran, Iran................................................................. 32
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Canadian Association for the Study of International Development

CASID/ACÉDI Association Canadienne d’études du développement international

2010 Conference 2010

Development in a New World Order

○○○○○○○ C o n c o r d i a U n i v e r s i t y ○○○ M o n t r e a l ○○○ M a y 3 1 s t – J u n e 2 n d ○○○○○○○

Panel 37 - Food security and community development in Northern Manitoba .......................................63

A Message from the CASID President

Message du président de l’ACÉDI

En plus de remercier le CRDI, la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines et l’Université

Welcome from the Conference Chair

Mot de bienvenue de la part de la présidente de

Development in a new world order

DAY ONE: CASID 2010 Conference Sessions

Panel 1 - Local: LB-540

Pres.: Chris Duncanson-Hales - Université St. Paul University

Discussant: Joanne B. Rennick - St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo

Joseph Ogbonnaya – St Michael’s College

Emeka Xris Obiezu – University of Toronto

Ray Vander Zaag - Canadian Mennonite University

Panel 2 - Local: EV6-809

Discussant: Lotsmart Fongjong - University of Buea, Cameroon

Shelley Jones - State University of New York, College at Potsdam

Theresa Ulicki - Dalhousie University

Panel 4 - Local: LB 211

Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque – McGill

Alison Kekewich – Dalhousie University

Marianne Pemberton – University of Guelph

Olga Navarro-Flores – École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) - UQAM

Guy Debailleul - Université Laval

Mohammed Chikhaoui – Directeur de Oxfam-Québec

Panel 5 - Local: EV2-776

Discussant: Haroon Akram-Lodhi - Trent University

Nuah Makungu – Université d'Ottawa

Leigh Brownhill - York University

David Kintu Nkwanga - Nature Palace Foundation, Kampala, Uganda

DAY ONE: CASID 2010 Conference Sessions

Panel 6 - Local: H 435

of others. Without multi-disciplinary feminist Women's Studies, International Development, and

DAY ONE: Conference Sessions

Panel 7 - Local: LB-540

Chair: Chris Duncanson-Hales - Université St. Paul University

Discussant: Joanne B. Rennick - St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo

Almas Zakiuddin - University of British Columbia

J. I. (Hans) Bakker - University of Guelph

Nathan Loewen - Vanier College

Panel 8 - Local: EV6-809

Discussant: Pablo S. Bose - University of Vermont, USA

Talia Meer - Dalhousie University

Lance W. Robinson - Vancouver Island University

It is widely recognized that environmental produces effects. Sustainable Livelihoods thinking

Neera M. Singh - University of Toronto

Panel 9 - Local: LB 619

Discussant: William J. Egnatoff - Queen's University

Peter Joong - University of West Indies, Jamaica

Xiong Ying - Guangxi University, China

Thomas Ryan - Nipissing Univeristy, North Bay

Panel 10 – Local: LB 211

Johanne Boucher - Université de Sherbrooke

partenaires. Le terrain de recherche est constitué par