{"id":1532,"date":"2019-08-07T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:56:36","slug":"development-days-2020-call-for-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Development Days 2020 – Call for panels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Development Days 2020 Conference<\/p>\n

Inequality Revisited: In Search of Novel Perspectives on an Enduring Problem<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Organised by the Finnish Society\u00a0for<\/span>\u00a0Development Research
\n26\u201328 February, 2020
\nHouse of Science and Letters
\nHelsinki, Finland<\/p>\n

The problematique of inequality\u00a0\u2013 or, inequalities, to recognise the multidimensionality and complexity of the problem \u2013\u00a0is re-emerging on the global agenda of development research. In recent decades, development scholars have focused more on the question of poverty. While poverty and inequality are interlinked, inequality is manifested also in many other ways \u2013\u00a0for<\/span>\u00a0example, in structural, material, relational, institutional, geographical and technological terms, and through a variety of social, political, cultural, economic and other phenomena.<\/p>\n

Importantly, current debates are critically reflecting on the fact that global inequality is intimately connected to the history of slavery and Western colonialism, and is continuously shaped, reconstructed, maintained and reinforced by their new, neocolonial and neoliberal\u00a0for<\/span>ms. However, there are also some challenges. Analyses of inequality often tend to revolve around neoclassical development economics and its variants, such as the human capability approach or \u2018development as freedom\u2019. While postcolonial and feminist approaches have widened the scope, more remains to be done. The \u2018economistic turn\u2019 in inequality research has disproportionately focused on the global North, and has not managed to link the question of inequality to the clarion\u00a0call<\/span>\u00a0for<\/span>\u00a0global justice. In turn, analyses of inequality have suffered from new\u00a0for<\/span>ms of stratification. Many studies are methodologically nationalist, although local and global inequalities are increasingly intertwined and injustice ever more widespread. There is an urgent need to rethink inequality in development research and practice. To do so, it is necessary to utilise multi- and transdisciplinary approaches \u2013 that is, to learn and share beyond disciplinary boundaries.<\/p>\n

The Finnish Society\u00a0for<\/span>\u00a0Development Research (FSDR) engages with these ongoing debates through theDevelopment Days 2020 Conference<\/i>. We invite panel proposals that address the problematique of inequality\u00a0<\/i>from different perspectives across the disciplines, including themes related \u2013\u00a0<\/i><\/b>but not limited<\/i>\u00a0\u2013<\/b>to:<\/p>\n