“Rethinking Development: Emerging Issues and Contemporary Debates” on 11th and 12th December, 2012.

Kishinchand Chellaram College, Churchgate, Mumbai, is organising a UGC sponsored two day National Level Interdisciplinary conference title “Rethinking Development: Emerging Issues and Contemporary Debates” on 11^th and 12^th December, 2012.

Subthemes of the Conference

·     Historicising Development (Situating the colonial legacy of ‘Development’)

• Governance and Development (Community participation, role of NGO’s, role of Social capital, RTI, RTE, local and urban self government)
• Gender and Development (Engendering development, land rights, reproductive rights, marginalized people, microfinance and women)
• The politics of Development and Social Movements (land acquisition, mining, power projects, environment, and development induced displacement)
• Towards a new paradigm (inclusive, sustainable and participatory models of development)
• Cultural spaces as markers of development change (performance in the public domain, literary festivals)

Papers are invited from academicians, researchers, activists, policymakers on any of subthemes of the conference. You are requested to send a brief abstract (500 words) of your paper latest by 15^th October 2012 to conference.kc@gmail.com.

For more details visit our website: http://www.kccollege.org.in

You may also contact Dr Leena Pujari at leena_pujari@hotmail.com  (9820474197) or Jayashree Deshpande at jayamukund@hotmail.com(9892551547).