Dear all,

Please consider the following CfP:

Panel at the annual Development Studies Association Conference Oxford, 
12-14 September, 2016, on "Great industrialization debates at critical 
historical and contemporary junctures."

This panel brings together historical arguments with contemporary 
controversies over industrialization strategies to explore how old 
insights speak to today's challenges. Would be great to receive 
submissions that take a history of economic thought perspective. Please 
see below for a more detailed abstract and follow the following link to 
submit a paper: 
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4649

The submission deadline is April 25, 2016.

Abstract

The attempt of countries to industrialize comprises the aim to change 
the organization of production, the material living conditions of the 
domestic population and the relation of the national economy to its 
regional and international counterparts. Successful cases of 
industrialization have typically begun by establishing a new economic 
model as target for the medium or long-term development. The formulation 
of such a target model is a politically highly contested process that 
has spurred great debates over the direction and feasibility of 
different approaches to development at critical junctures after a change 
of power. Examples of such great debates include the Soviet 
industrialization debate of the 1920s, the social market economy debate 
in post-WWII Western Germany, the great reform debate in China in the 
1980s and the on-going debate over 'post-neoliberal' models in several 
South American countries. This panel invites contributions which 
investigate historical or contemporary cases in which countries facing 
the challenge of industrialization have engaged in fundamental debates 
over the direction, means and feasibility of industrial development. By 
bringing together research on these debates in different historical 
settings we hope to improve our understanding of the role of 
intellectual arguments in the political process of defining development 
paths. We intend to discuss recurring themes and ways of reasoning that 
reflect the position of these countries in relation to the global 
economy as well as their perception of policy space.


Best wishes,
Isabella Weber

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Isabella M. Weber
PhD Student
Centre of Development Studies
University of Cambridge
Peterhouse