International planning ethics and politics (call for papers/ ACSP 2007)
Dear GPEIG-ers:
If any of you has interest to take part in a pre-organized panel around the theme of international planning ethics and politics please let us know. With ACSP submission deadline of Feb 21st soon approaching it would be useful to identify contributions that can be brought together as pre-organized panels on themes that stressed in the last Gpeig meeting at ACSP. Of course all submissions will go through the ACSP procedure of electronic submission and fee payment by the due date for ACSP track chairs’ review decision. However, as we all know, pre-organized panels often have a better chance for inclusion.
Here is a few suggestions for possible panels on international planning ethics and politics in respect to research, practice and teaching.
For panel on practice (panelists could be academics or practitioners who have worked as consultants, or staff at donor organizations, NGOs or CBOs)
Panelists will reflect on their past and present professional experience in international development planning projects and address the following core questions: What kind of ethical issues did this project/ this experience face them with? What kind of tensions did they encounter in this process? How do the principles and dilemmas of planning ethics in general, play out in that specific planning context? What are the power dynamics and contradictions in their experience in terms of donor-recipients, North-South, professional “expert” and recipient “local”?
For panel on educational exchange (studio and study abroad programs)
Developing a poster, participants represent the kind of activity undertaken through a particular international student exchange or studio project. Participants will also take part in a Roundtable for discussion and in-depth refection on the process and outcome of the experience around the following questions: what are the South-North dynamics of the exchange between the students and institutions involved in this project? In your experience how did this exchange reproduce and/or challenge the main critique of power hierarchies and politics of development practice? How could the international studio projects become a two way process, (students from the South also coming to our institutions), and how could this become an exercise that is not exclusive privilege of big planning schools? What kind of innovative strategies could be used to address some of these issues/problems?
For research papers
Presenters in this panel engage in a critical assessment of the international development planning ethics, discourses and practices. This could be around a range of specific topics, including comparative culture of planning practice, or new ways of conceptualizing the field, its core questions, its core values, and how it might (re)produce or challenge the power hierarchies constructed through development of global capitalism.
We look forward to hearing about your interest to contribute to any of these areas.
Gpeig co-chairs / Contact: Faranak Miraftab
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