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"Sustainable Development for Development Studies
and Development Studies for Sustainable Development?"

organized by the Working Group on Co-operation in Development and Area Studies Training


The Working Group invites papers around these two interlinked dimensions of sustainable development and development studies.

On the one hand, analysts are invited to explore some of the most recent developments in the field of development studies which are deliberately designed to ensure the long term sustainability of this critical interdisciplinary domain. New global challenges, which cut across the North-South divide, are being accommodated, for example, within the traditional corpus of development studies. Elsewhere, development studies centres or institutes are exploring and creating new partnerships with international studies. Elsewhere again, the field of development studies has secured its own status as a field within which research status and productivity can be assessed.

On the other hand, the field of development studies has, in many different ways, contributed substantially to our understanding of sustainable development; and has connected that often separate domain to disciplines which are central to development studies, such as economics, geography, law and politics. For example in the field of human resources, there have been important connections made through the long-term project of Education for Sustainable Development. Similar connections are evident in relations between area studies and sustainable development.

In addition to contributors who submit their abstracts by the due deadline, there will be a small number of invited speakers from leading centres across Europe, which illustrate particularly compelling examples of this synergy between sustainable development and the study of development. It is also hoped that it will be possible to secure commentary on these developments by critical analysts from the developing world.

Please use the Online Submission Tool to submit your abstract. We welcome submissions in English and French.

Conveners:

Kenneth King
Centre of African Studies
University of Edingburgh
United Kingdom
E-Mail: Kenneth.King@ed.ac.uk

Michel Carton
Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED)
Geneva
Switzerland
E-Mail: Michel.Carton@iued.unige.ch

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