Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales

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1 Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales The University of Chicago and the French Development Agency 13 th - 15 th June th June 2012 Location: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales INALCO (auditorium): 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris :00 The University of Chicago and the French Development Agency Pr. Arjun Appadurai (New York University) Opening remarks Keynote speech: Corruption, Scale and Governance in India 19:00 Cocktail 14 th June 2012 Session A Location: Paris Diderot University / Paris VII Grands Moulins (Amphitheater 5C, Halles aux Farines): 8:30-9:00 Registration Theory, epistemology Nikolaos Zahariadis (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Akis Kalaitzidis (University of Central Missouri) Jacques Plouin (Unesco) 11:00-12:30 Theory, epistemology François Lerin (IDDRI) Laurence Tubiana (IDDRI) Timing, Power, and Transnational Networks: The Arab Spring and the Global Response Fractal Social Facts: a Durkheimian Model for a Globalized Era The scale issue in the global international environment governance. Implications for transdisciplinary target-

2 oriented analysis Patrick Meehan (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) Coercion, counter-movement and brokerage: Why the local politics of drugs, state building and economic transformation in Burma s eastern borderlands demonstrate the need to reconsider global counternarcotics strategies 14:00-15:30 Global markets Keith Hart (Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria) Gaëlle Brillant (Sciences Po Paris) 16:00-17:30 Global markets Albena Azmenova (Brussels School of International Studies) 17:30 End of Day 1 Vijayendra Rao (World Bank) The informal economy: the story of an ethnography untold Foreign exchange governance in China Global Justice, Local Injustices and the Structure of Domestic Political Conflict in the Early 21 st Century Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?

3 15 th June 2012 Session B Location: Paris Diderot University / Paris VII Grands Moulins (room 226C, Halles aux Farines): Social Inequalities Lloyd Gruber (London School of Economics) Dwaipayan Banerjee (New York University) 11:00-12:30 Social Inequalities David Ludden (Professor of History at New York University) Olivier Giraud (LISE, CNRS) Globalization and Domestic Politics: A Call for Theoretical Reorientation Beyond Giving and Selling: Notes on Scaling Cancer Treatment in India Imperial Inequity in Asia s Globalization: the Case of Micro-Credit The dynamics of welfare state rescaling: The re-framing of the local public spheres in a globalizing world in the case of aged care provision 14:00-15:30 Participation François Roubaud (IRD) Mireille Razafindrakoto (IRD) Christian Culas (CNRS) 16:00-17:30 Participation Andrea Rigon (Institute for International Integration Studies, Ireland) Participation in the Pantanal, Brazil : a political containment tool in changing hands Ownership and Participatory processes: from global motto to local challenges. The case of a key poverty reduction program in ethnics minority areas of Vietnam The effects of donor s ownership and participatory policies on local power structures: a case study of a slum-upgrading programme in Kenya Participation in the Carribean: social control, commodification and touristification in St. Lucia 17:30 End of Day 2

4 15 th June 2012 Session C Location: Paris Diderot University / Paris VII Grands Moulins (room 227C, Halles aux Farines): Climate Change Ashwini K Swain (University of York) Jie Yu (The Nature Conservancy) 11:00-12:30 Climate Change Harry Verhoeven (St Cross College, Oxford University) Christophe Buffet (EHESS/CNRS) Domestic Energy Politics in India and Its Interaction with Global Energy-Climate Governance The Political Economy of China s Urban Expansion and its Climate Cost: Insights from Nanjing Sudan Must Feed the World: Local agency, global development narratives and the reproduction of violence in the climate change era Community-based adaptation: interactions between local and global scales a case study in Bangladesh 14:00-15:30 Internet Pierre Gueydier (Ecole des Mines de Paris) Caja Thimm (University of Bonn, Germany) 16:00-17:30 Land and security Nancy Andrew (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Akhil Gupta (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles) Réguler Internet par des lois locales? Political Conflicts and the Digital Citoyen: How New Media Shape Local and Global Changes in Politics Local dynamics and global factors in land consolidation and its social effects in South Africa The Land Question in Contemporary India 17:30 End of Day 2

5 Contact persons: Pr. Alan Kolata (University of Chicago) Dr. Virginie Diaz Pedregal (AFD) Dr. Olivier Charnoz (AFD) The University of Chicago is a comprehensive research university with over 2000 full time faculty members working in the physical, biological and social sciences, the humanities, and the professional schools, including medicine, law and business. The University counts 87 Nobel Laureates, including 8 current faculty members, among its multiple research and educational distinctions. The French Development Agency (AFD) is France s international cooperation agency. As a bilateral development bank, it works in over 70 countries providing, in 2010, close to 7 billion euros through various financing tools and across all economic and social sectors. Its Research Department produces and publishes research studies, organizes seminars and conferences, and participates actively in several international networks. One of its research programme (led by Olivier Charnoz) deals with the global impacts of local power relations.