VII South-South Institute
“Inequality, Democracy and Development under Neoliberalism and Beyond”
Bangkok, 3-8 November 2014
Programme Schedule
9.00-9.30
9.30-11.00
11.00-11.30
11.30-1.00
1.00-2.00
2.00-3.30
2.00-3.30
2.00-3.30
3.30-4.00
4.00-5.30
4.00-5.30
4.00-5.30
Monday 3 November 2014
Welcome and Introduction to the Institute
Prabhat Patnaik
Capitalism and Global Poverty
Coffee/Tea break
Hendri Saparini
Indonesian Political Economy: Will neoliberalism persist or come
to an end?
Lunch break
Group 1 – moderated by C. P. Chandrasekhar
Chilenye Nwapi
Neoliberal Extractive Resource Governance Frameworks and
Interregional Economic Inequality in the Global South:
Strengthening regional competitiveness through local content
policies and extractive transparency laws
Lorena de la
Extractive Industries in the South and Their Effect on State
Puente Burlando
Capacity under Neoliberalism: When economic development is
based on social and environmental impacts
Group 2 – moderated by Laura Tavares
Nicholas Kilimani Inequality and Democracy in a Developing Economy
Assem Abouhatab The Role of Food Price Volatility in the Emergence of SocioPolitical Unrest: A case study of the “Arab Spring” in Egypt
Group 3 – moderated by Prabhat Patnaik
Ilich Leon
Financialisation and Structural Change in Latin America:
Gustavo Ortiz
Regulation of finance as a condition for productive development
Wilches
Youjia Shen
Neo-classical Talk on Reform of SOEs (State Owned Enterprises) in
China
Tea break
Group 1 – moderated by Prabhat Patnaik
Zhun Xu
Food Security in China
Wei Zhang
Chinese Peasants on a Diet?: Explaining declining nutrition intake
in contemporary rural China
Group 2 – moderated by Laura Tavares
Mohammad Reza Analyzing the Effects of Globalization and Neoliberalism on
Pazouki
Earning Inequality in a Developing Country: Evidence from Iran
Sharmistha Sinha Gender Based Inequities in the World of Work: Insights from Latin
America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
Group 3 – moderated by Ebrima Sall
Abdelali
Commerce Mondial et Développement Economique des pays du
Bensaghir
sud dans une ère neoliberal
Reinaldo da Costa Brazilian Public Policy on Internationalization of Higher Education
Júnior
7.00-9.00
9.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
11.00-12.30
12.30-1.30
1.30-3.00
3.00-3.30
Jayati Ghosh
3.30-5.00
Poorna Balaji
Ebrima Sall
John Crowley
Emmanuel
Vanger
3.30-5.00
Marilyn Ossome
Mitsuko Tanaka
3.30-5.30
Andrés Felipe
Mora Cortés
Bonn Juego
Melissa Salgado
Rodríguez
9.00-10.30
C. P.
Chandrasekhar
10.30-11.00
11.00-12.30
12.30-1.30
1.30-3.00
Patrick Bond
Gioconda Herrera
3.00-3.30
3.30-5.00
Against Neoliberalism: Popular campuses of Latin-American and
Lusophone-Afrobrazilian integration
Welcome Reception
Tuesday 4 November 2014
Inequality in the Age of Neoliberalism
Coffee/Tea break
María Noel
Dussort
Ajmal Khan
Meysis González
Lunch break
Is Development a Good Thing?
Coffee/tea break
Group 1 – moderated by Laura Tavares
Political Ecology of Forest Diversion: Socio-environmental
transformations due to mining and conservation measures in
Southern Odisha, India
Political Ecology of Herders' Insurgency of Tiv farmers in Benue
State: Nigeria under neoliberalism
Group 2 – moderated by Gioconda Herrera
Democracy's Subjections: Readings of feminist postcolonial desires
for emancipation
The Construction of the Neo-liberal Self: What do singlehood,
migration and labour mean in the lives of Latin American
temporary workers in Japan?
Group 3 – moderated by Prabhat Patnaik
25 years of Fiscal Crisis in Colombia, 1990-2014: Accumulation,
confidence and legitimation in the neoliberal order
The Political Economy of Development in Southeast Asia
Historical Trajectory of Social Inequality in El Salvador: From
industrialization to neoliberalism
Wednesday 5 November
Neoliberalism and the Developmental State in Asia
Coffee/Tea break
Neoliberalism and Social Policy
Lunch break
Intersectionality and Migrations: Rethinking globalization and
social inequalities in Latin America
Coffee/tea break
Group 1 – moderated by Patrick Bond
Brazil, India and China’s Energy Policy towards West Africa:
Linkage models for development?
Changing Nature and Character of the Indian State in the Post
Liberalization Era: A study of the state's responses to people’s
movements in Koodan Kulam and Jaitapur
Group 2 – moderated by Carlos Cardoso
Vulnerability and Social Production of Meaning: An analysis of the
3.30-5.00
Geydis Elena
Fundora Nevot
Kutlu Dane
3.30-5.00
Claudio Daniel
Coloma Rojas
9.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
11.00-12.30
12.30-1.30
1.30-3.00
3.00-3.30
3.30-5.30
3.30-5.30
3.30-5.30
9.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
11.00-12.00
12.00-1.30
1.30-4.30
Laura Tavares
Pasuk
Phongpaichit
social representations of historically excluded groups and the
impact of inclusion policies of the National Plan for Good Living in
Ecuador
The Recent Cuban Social and Economic Model: In dialogue with
new and old paradigms on development
Group 3 – moderated by C. P. Chandrasekhar
Financing Development through Islamic Funds: Evaluation of the
Sovereign Sukuk practice of Turkey
Neoliberalism as Ideology of Modernization in the Global South: A
dialogue between China and Chile
Thursday 6 November
Panorama of the Social Situation in Latin America under
Neoliberalism
Coffee/Tea break
Thailand I: Inequalities of income and wealth
Lunch break
Chris Baker
Thailand II: The politics of inequality
Coffee/tea break
Group 1 – moderated by Pasuk Phongpaichit
Roshan Kishore
Situating India’s Food Security Challenges in a Political Economy
Framework
Mauricio
The Participation of Indigenous and Rural Women in Decisions
Nucamendi
about Ownership, Use and Usufruct Land in the Communities of
Chiapas, Mexico
Claudia Gastrow
Architectures of Autochthony: The materiality of belonging in
Luanda, Angola
Group 2 – moderated by Chris Baker
Ufiem Maurice
Political Exclusion, Violent Conflicts and Development in Africa: A
Ogbonaya
cross country analysis
Emilianus Yacob
Political Economy of Land Ownership and Development in
Sese Tolo
Indonesia: A case study of three provinces in Eastern Indonesia
Sofiane Bouhdiba Inequality and Democracy in the Case of Post-revolution Tunisia
Group 3 – moderated by Andong Zhu
Bryan Joseph
The Promise of Prosperity through Urban Revitalization in the
Ortiz
Philippines, Colombia, Indonesia, and Mexico under a Devolved
and Neo-liberal Regime
Sarah Helen
Rethinking Media and Democracy in the Global South:
Chiumbu
Perspectives from Southern Africa
Liu Zhen
Friday 7 November
Andong Zhu
Recent Development of World Capitalism and its Crisis
Coffee/Tea break
Karina Bidaseca
Open Access Publishing
Lunch break
Panel and open discussion – Moderators and participants
Saturday 8 November
Free day for sightseeing etc