[ecrea] Developing Africa: Development Discourse(s) in Late Colonialism

>Workshop "Developing Africa: Development Discourse(s) in Late Colonialism"
>13.01.11-15.01.11
>University of Vienna (Austria) / Department of African Studies
>Due 31 July 2010
>
>"Development" played various and at times 
>contradicting roles in the discursive and 
>non-discursive practices of late colonialism. It 
>both served to legitimize European control and 
>to underpin African endeavours for social and political emancipation.
>
>This workshop aims at exploring discourses of 
>development during the period when development 
>first came to play a central role in shaping the 
>relations between Africa and Europe, that is 
>between the end of World War I and decolonization (1918-ca. 1960).
>
>We invite contributions which explore how 
>various actors - both European and African - 
>conceptualized development in an African 
>context. Contributors are encouraged to discuss 
>a wide range of sources, from fictional and 
>academic texts to political statements and 
>administrative documents, from mass media to 
>letters and diaries. The intended geographical 
>scope is similarly open, including the whole of 
>Africa and the respective colonial empires 
>(British, French, Portuguese, Belgian, Italian, 
>and Spanish). Both metropolitan and colonial 
>angles on development discourses are welcome.
>
>Preferably, contributions should try to take a 
>longer-term perspective instead of restricting 
>themselves to a short period of time. They 
>should map changes within development discourse 
>and try to arrive at a preliminary 
>periodisation. Contributors are invited to 
>compare their findings to the widely held 
>assumption that development in the early decades 
>of the 20th century, probably up to the 1930s, 
>was mainly used in a narrow economic sense, 
>closely related to the exploitation of natural 
>resources, whereas later, development turned 
>into a more extensive concept enabling and 
>justifying the profound penetration and transformation of colonial societies.
>
>The questions that will guide our workshop are the following:
>
>1)      How did the meaning of development change over time?
>2)      How were discursive and non-discursive 
>social, cultural, and political practices related to each other?
>3)      Who were the subjects of the discourse 
>(both in the sense of those who shaped the 
>discourse and of those who were defined by it)?
>
>We hope that answering these and related 
>questions will enable us to analyse and compare 
>various discursive representations of 
>development - and possibly to get a clearer idea 
>of how closely the various discursive strands 
>were related to each other and, in turn, whether 
>their commonalities justify speaking of development discourse in the singular.
>
>
>University of Vienna / Department of African Studies
>Project "Colonial Concepts of Development in Africa"
>Spitalgasse 2, Hof 5
>1090 Vienna / Austria
>T +43 (0)1 4277 43208
>www.univie.ac.at/colonial-development
>
>Dr. Gerald Hödl
>(gerald.hoedl /at/ univie.ac.at)
>
>Dr. Martina Kopf
>(martina.kopf /at/ univie.ac.at)
>
>Klicken Sie folgenden Link für mehr Informationen...
>http://www.analysedudiscours.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=383
>
>
>

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