CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW OPEN!

We welcome papers and contributions to critical scholarly debates and academic and practitioner exchange. Please send paper abstracts or expressions of interest directly to the Working Group coordinators by 24^th November 2024. Acceptances will be confirmed by 2^nd December 2024.

For detailed instructions, please refer to the Working Group descriptions.

Working Group Titles

1. Towards Decolonizing African History and Visions of Development
2. Contemporary Sustainable (mal)development
3. Finland’s Development Policy and Cooperation: Academic Knowledge Production and Exchange Amidst a Changing Paradigm
4. ‘Ecotopias’ of Sustainability: From Maldevelopment to ‘Desirable’ Future Forests
5. Development and New Tree-Planting Schemes in the Global South
6. The Political Economy of Green-Digital Transition
7. Reimagining Political Participation in an Age of Geopolitics: Southern Experiences
8. Reflections on Hope and Resistance in Times of ‘Un-ness’
9. Arts-based Research and Research-based Art in Global Climate Politics:  Diverse Ways of Knowing Maldevelopment and Imagining (still) Possible Climate Futures
10. Transitions in Youth and Student Movements: From Students Against Cuts to Students for Palestine
11. (Post-)COVID-19 precarity:  Business as Usual or Wasted Crisis in Semi-Authoritarian Settings?
12. Transitioning from Global Inequalities: The Role of Institutions in Development
    Coordinator: Young Scholars Initiative
13. Infrastructures, Movements, and Waste under Illiberal Capitalism and Imperialism: Stories from the Global South