Global South Workshop

October 4 - 8, 2010

132 Rue de Lausanne, Geneva

Villa Barton, Room S2, 2nd floor

Monday, 4 OCTOBER 2010

9.00 - 9.30 am Welcome Coffee & Opening words

Welcome words by workshop convenors; with representatives from the assistant association and
student association of the Institute.

9. 30 - 10.45 am Guest Speaker

The notion of Governmentality: Rethinking the approach of Michel Foucault

Prof. R. Bocco, the Graduate Institute

11.00 am -1.00 pm Participants presentation

Moderators: Profs. G. Balachandran, R. Bocco

1. Mr. Admire Chereni (University of Johannesburg)

Zimbabwean Economics Migrants in Johannesburg: Trans-nationality and its Implications for Social
Policy.
Discussant: Joe Thomas Karackattu

2. Mr. Juan Pablo Aranguren-Romero (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias sociales,

Argentina)
Significant inscriptions of the violence in the body: Torture, Memory, and Subjectivity in Colombia
(1977-1982)
Discussant: Gladman Thondhlana

1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch

2.30 – 4.30 pm Panel Sovereignty and Nationalism in South Asia

Moderators: Profs. G. Balachandran, R. Bocco

3. Ms Nasreen Akhtar (Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad)

Nationalist Movement in Baluchistan: Resurgence and Challenges

Discussant: Jana Krause

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 4. Mr. Hassan Khalid Wasim (Institute for Social and Economic Change, Nagarbhavi,
Bangalore)

Religio-cultural dimension of Kashmir conflict: A study of Kashmiri Self-determination Movement

Discussant: Juan Pablo Aranguren-Romero

4.30 – 5.30 pm Closing remarks

Nation and Sovereignty in the Post-Colonial South

Prof. G. Balachandran, the Graduate Institute

7.30 pm Opening dinner with Convenors

Restaurant The Melting Pot, 8 rue de la Navigation, Geneva.

> Meeting place: Reception of Hotel Drake, 7.10 pm

Tuesday, 5 OCTOBER 2010

10.00 - 12.30 am Round table with Convenors

Venues for Academic Publishing

12.30 – 2.00 pm Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 pm Guest Speaker

Dr Carlos Lopes, Executive Director, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Click to read his Biography

3.30 pm Afternoon free

Feel free to contact us (southworkshop@graduateinstitute.ch) if you need advice on how to meet with a
specific faculty, researchers or other Geneva-based contacts useful to your research. You can visit also
our specialised research centres webpage to find out more about contacts and resources available at
the Institute.

Wednesday, 6 OCTOBER 2010

9. 00 - 10.45 am Guest Speaker

The East Asian “Miracle” experience: Revisiting the links between Democracy and Development”
Prof. JL Maurer, the Graduate Institute

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11.00 – 1.00 pm Panel Development, Democracy, Dispossession
Moderator: Prof. JL Maurer

5. Mr. Gladman Thondhlana (Rhodes University, Grahamstown)

Dryland Conservation Areas, Indigenous People, Livelihoods and Resource Values in South Africa:
The case of Kgalagadi Transfrontalier Park
Discussant: Navitri Putri Guillaume

6. Mr. Jeremiah Oluwasegun Arowosegbe (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

The State, Democracy and Development in the Works of Claude Ake
Discussant: Marlène Anchante Rullé

1.00 – 2.30 pm Lunch

2.30 pm – 4.30 pm Panel Development, Democracy, Dispossession (cont.)

Moderator: Prof. J.L Maurer

7. Ms Navitri Putri Guillaume (the Graduate Institute, Geneva)

Building a State, Dispossessing the Nation: Sovereignty and Land Dispossession in Indonesia
Discussant: Hassan Khalid Wasim

8. Ms Marlène Anchante Rullé (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima)

Negotiations for compensation and development: The case of farming community Chiquintirca and
the company Tgp in the framework of Camisea project
Discussant: Jeremiah Oluwasegun Arowosegbe

Thursday, 7 OCTOBER 2010

9.30 - 11.15 am Guest Speaker

Analysing Contemporary Security Challenges

Prof. T. Biersteker, the Graduate Institute

11.30 am - 12.30 pm Panel International Relations and Security

Moderator: Prof. T. Biersteker

9. Ms Sangeeta Mahapatra (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

Terrorism and Counter-terrorism Strategies: A comparative study of India, Israel and the United
States of America
Discussant: Xin Ding

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12.30 - 2.00 pm Lunch

2.00 – 4.00 pm Panel International Relations and Security (cont.)

10. Mr. Xin Ding (Nanjing University, Beijing)

The Rumsfeld doctrine: the military strategy reforms during Bush Administration
Discussant: Sangeeta Mahapatra

11. Ms Jana Krause (the Graduate Institute, Geneva)

Resilient Communities: Explaining nonviolence in communal conflict and civil war
Discussant: Nasreen Akhtar

Friday, 8 OCTOBER 2010

10.00 – 12.00 pm Meet with practitioner

Doctors without borders, Research Unit
With Jean-Marc Biquet, Senior Researcher, from the NGO Doctors without Borders
Check website http://www.msf.org/

> Meeting place: Rue de Lausanne 78, 9.50 am (sharp). Dress code informal.

1.00 – 2.30 pm Lunch

2.30 – 4.00 pm Panel Economics and Interdependence

Moderator: Prof. JL Maurer

12. Mr. Joe Thomas Karackattu (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli)
Economics Interdependence and Vulnerability in China-Taiwan relations, 1987-2008
Discussant: Dr Meibo Huang

13. Dr Meibo Huang (the Graduate Institute, Geneva)

4.00 pm Closing Cocktail

The programme is subject to slight changes.

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