THE SOUTH-SOUTH PROGRAM OF TRICONTINENTAL SCHOLARLY COOPERATION BETWEEN AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA SIXTH SOUTH-SOUTH INSTITUTE DEMOCRACTIC RENEWAL VERSUS NEOLIBERALISM: TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT AND INCLUSION

UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA SILVA HENRÍQUEZ - SANTIAGO DE CHILE

SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 03, 2013

Agencia Sueca de Desarrollo Internacional Thursday 26/09 18:30 Evening Welcome/Cocktail

Friday 27/09 9:00-9:30 Preliminary Words by JOSE MAURICIO DOMINGUES (CLACSO) CARLOS CARDOSO (CODESRIA) C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR (IDEAs) 9:30-12:00 Inaugural Conference by JAYATI GHOSH (India) “Financial crises and women’s employment: Emerging trends and past experiences” 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-16:00 Lecture by JOSE MAURICIO DOMINGUES (Brazil) “Global modernity, development and social policy” 16:30-18:00 Coordinators’ presentation and Working Groups’ discussions (Session I)

Saturday 28/09 09:00-12:00 Lecture by JOHN J WILLIAMS (South Africa) “Democratic Renewal Versus Neoliberalism: Towards Empowerment and Inclusion: from the global to the local: some insights from South Africa and beyond” 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-18:00 Working Groups’ discussions (Session II)

Sunday 29/09 09:30-12:00 Visit to The Museum of Memory and / Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos

Monday 30/09 09:00-12:00 Lecture by C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR (India) “Recent Asian Development in Comparative Perspective: The End of Neoliberal Triumphalism?” 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-18:00 Working Groups’ discussions (Session III)

Tuesday 01/10 09:00-12:00 Working Groups’ discussions (Session IV) 12:00-13:30 Lunch 14:00-16:30 South-South Institute within ALAS: Working Groups’ Open Report 17:00-19:30 II Meeting CLACSO’s South-South Program

Wednesday 2/10 09:30-12:00 Gathering with CLACSO’s Working Groups’ Coordinators and Researchers 12:00-13:30 Lunch 14:00-19:30 Panel “Research and Politics in Chile Today” (with Chilean Academics and Political Activists) BARBARA FIGUEROA (CUT- Colegio de Profesores, Chile) MARISOL PRADO (First Woman in being President of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile) JESÚS REDONDO (Professor University of Chile / CLACSO’s Directive Committee Member) CAMILO BALLESTEROS (Ex President University of Santiago de Chile) Coordinator: PABLO CHACÓN (ICAL, Chile)

Meeting the Chilean Student Movement

Thursday 3/10 9:30-12:00 Panel “South-South Dialogue and Experiences” HILTON FISHER (Ambassador South Africa) (TBC) CAROLINA MERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) JAIME A. PRECIADO CORONADO (University of Guadalajara, Mexico) Coordinator: CARLOS CARDOSO (CODESRIA, Senegal) 12:00-13:30 Lunch 14:00-16:30 Final Conference by BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS (Portugal) “South-South Dialogue between Neocolonialism and Peoples’ Liberation” | Instituto de Ciencias Alejandro Lipschutz (ICAL) 17:00-18:00 Closing Panel SCHOLARLY REFERENCES - CONFERENCES JAYATI GHOSH Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the executive secretary of International Associates (Ideas). Her research areas include , international finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and issues related to . She received her PhD at Cambridge University in England. Her books include The Market that Failed: A Decade of Neoliberal Economic Reforms in India (with C. P. Chandrasekhar) (2002); Work and Well-being in the Age of Finance (with C. P. Chandrasekhar) (2003); Never Done and Poorly Paid: The Changing Nature of Women’s Work in Globalising India, Women Unlimited (2008); A Decade After: Crisis, Recovery and Adjustment in East Asia (with C. P. Chandrasekhar) (2009). She writes regular columns on economics and current affairs for the Guardian, Frontline magazine, Businessline, the Bengali newspaper , Deccan Chronicle, and Asian Age. She is co-recipient of the International Labour Organisation’s 2010 Decent Work Research prize. She was also the principal author of the West Bengal Human Development Report 2004 which received the 2005 UNDP Award for excellence in analysis. She has also received the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010 of the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, Italy.

BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University. He is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the . He has been awarded several prizes, most recently the Science and Technology Prize of Mexico, 2010, and the Kalven Jr. Prize of the Law and Society Association, 2011. His most recent project – ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences – is funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council. The project was initiated in July 2011 and will continue for the next five years.

LECTURERS JOSE MAURICIO DOMINGUES Brazilian sociologist, he has got a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in 1993, was Executive Director of IUPERJ and teaches now at the Institute for Social and Political Studies of Rio de Janeiro State University, coordinating also CLACSO’s South-South program. His lines of research stem from sociological and critical social theory, initially with a thesis on collective subjectivity and then developing into an inquiry about global modernity, in which Latin America and other peripheral and semiperipheral areas stand out. Among his books are Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity (1995), Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity (2000), Modernity Reconstructed (2006), Latin America and Contemporary Modernity (2008), Global Modernity, Development, and Con- temporary Modernity (2012), Desarrollo, periferia y semiperiferia en la tercera fase de la modernidad global (2012) and O Brasil entre o passado e o futuro (forthcoming 2013).

JOHN J WILLIAMS Professor Williams has a PhD and MUP [Master of Urban Planning] from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and an MA, HED (Cum Laude), BAHONS and BA from the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. He is amongst the top 8% of all South African scientists (National Research Foundation-rated) His articles have appeared in Australian, US and UK scholarly journals such as Cities, Public Policy, IDS Bulletin and Visual Anthropology and South African journals such as Development Southern Africa, Critical Arts, South African Labour Bulletin, Ecquid Novi. Some of his articles also appeared in peer-reviewed Zed Books series on Citizenship and Rights, and they have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. His peer-reviewed publications can be downloaded free of charge at: University of Sussex, UK, http:// www.drc-citizenship.org/pages/john-williams; Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (http://www.drd-sa.org/staff/staff-of-the-drd.html); the Uni- versity of the Western Cape, South Africa (http://www.uwc.ac.za) and open internet port http://www.academia/edu

C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also has taught at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His areas of interest include the role of finance and industry in development and the experience with fiscal, financial and industrial policy reform in developing countries. Besides pub- lishing in journal and books in India and abroad, he has co-authored (with Jayati Ghosh) Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia, The Market that Failed: Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms in India and (with Simran Kumar and Kiran Karnik) Promoting ICT for Human Development: India. He is a regular columnist for Frontline, , (web edition) and Triple Crisis (blog). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), an international network of economists engaged in the promotion of teaching and research using heterodox approaches to economic issues. COORDINATORS CARMEN SEPÚLVEDA PARRA Ph.D. in Psychology and Education at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and BSc Econ in Sociology and Social Anthro- pology at University of Swansea, Wales; currently works as Lecturer in Chile for the School of Sociology at Universidad Católica Cardenal Silva Henríquez, and in the Nursing School of the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad Diego Portales. Ms. Sepulveda who was also former Research Officer at Universidad Católica Cardenal Silva Henríquez; has developed many researches in the following areas: Social representation and the Meaning of Education; Education for School Justice; School Improvement Efficiency; School Culture and Social Action Research on Health Promotion.

CLAUDIO LARA CORTES Economist, Postgraduate Diploma in Development Policy and Social Planning, University College of Swansea, UK; Magister in Economics Science, University of Wales, UK; Magister in Political Economy, University of Middlesex, UK. Director of the Magister in Economics at the ARCIS University. Member of World Economic Studies Network (REDEM). Member both of the Working Group “Global Economy” and “Integration and Latin American Union” of CLACSO. Member of the executive committee of SEPLA (Latin American Society of Political Economy). Recent pub- lications (articles): The Development of Global Crisis: Contradictions and limits of deleveraging; The Development of Global Crisis and the Future of Global Currency; Seeking the causes of the collapse of global trade: global imbalances? Recent books published as editor: “The explosion of the global crisis. Latin America and Chile at the crossroads” (2010); “The crisis of neoliberalism: causes, scenarios and possible developments” (2012) and “The fictitious capital and the global crisis” (2013).

CONSTANZA TABBUSH Argentine feminist scholar and social science researcher working at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies, Uni- versity of Buenos Aires. Originally trained as a psychologist, she received her PhD in Sociology from the University of London in 2011. Her lines of research focus on gender, poverty and public policy, social movements and post-neoliberalism, and prisons in Argentina. She collaborated in Women in Prison (2011), The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization (2008); and co-edited Feminisms, and Radical Democracy (2011, UNSAMEdita). Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journal such as Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Oxford Development Studies, Journal of International Development and Global Social Policy.

CONSUELO SILVA FLORES Economist, Master of Sciences in Economics with mention on Economics of Public Policies, Escuela Latinoamericana de Postgrados (ELAP) – Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales (Arcis). At the present she works as a researcher in this university and is a member both of the Red de Estudios de Economía Mundial (REDEM) and of the Working Group of CLACSO “Integration and Latin American Union”. Among her recent publications (articles) are: Crisis of European Integration and the ‘Global Europe’. Implications for Latin America; Crisis, collapse of trade and protectionism and The WTO: between irrelevance and failure of the Doha Round. She has edited The crisis of neoliberalism: causes, scenarios and possible developments, The fictitious capital and the global crisis and New scenarios for integration in Latin America.

JULIO C. POSTIGO Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and a Research Associate of the Peruvian Center for Social Studies (CEPES). His research focuses on pastoral social-ecological systems, especially how these systems interact with global- ization and global environmental change in the Global South. He also investigates the effects of on systems and poverty in Andean countries, and water governance regimes. More recently, he is the lead author on the contribution of social science to understanding global environmental change in Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Social Science Report 2013. Additionally, he is the editor of books on adaptation and vulnerability to climate change in the Andean countries; climate change, social movements and public policy in Latin America. He is editing a book on social-ecological perspectives on global change in Latin America.

LAURA TAVARES RIBEIRO SOARES She is a researcher at FLACSO (Social Sciences Latin American Faculty) – Brazil, professor at the Federal Uni- versity of Rio de Janeiro (UFJR) since 1979 and vice-chancellor of UFRJ from 2005 to 2011. Graduated in public health at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ), holding a doctorate in Economics and specialized in Social Policies at the State University of Campinas/São Paulo (UNICAMP). Her major fields of work include: social inequalities, social security, social policies, public politics and comparative studies of Latin America. Practical experience on state and national levels in public healthcare and social policies. She has many publications on Comparative Studies in Latin America; Neoliberal Adjustments; Social Policy; Public Policy; Public Health Policies and Programs in Latin America; Social Security comparative studies in Latin America. She has published in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Norway, Austria, Germany and Québec-Canada. LIST OF LAUREATES

Name and Institution Title Proposal Country Surname Department of Mass Media; Convenant Who has propelled democracy? Neoliberalism pitfalls and Ada Sonia Peter Nigeria University. the press: implications for alternatives? (1990-2012) Ajay Gudavarthy Jawaharlal Nehru University. Neo-Liberalism and the Anti-Graft Struggle in India. India Akinjobi Reforms and Nigerian Liberal Democracy : Whose Reforms? Christiana Elizade University. Nigeria Whose Interests? Whose Inclusion? Oluwatosin University of the Philippines/Georgia By Means Fair or Foul: Civil Society Mobilization and Aries Arugay Filipinas/USA State University. Executive Crises in Young Democracies. Department of Political Science and From collective self-reliance to increased dependency? Bappah Habibu International Studies; Ahmadu Bello How neo-liberal policies thwarts the integration and Nigeria Yaya University. development of Africa. Secretaría de Investigación y Regional integration in South America in the XXI century: Daniela Vanesa Posgrado; Facultad de Filosofía y achieving empowerment and social inclusion of the region Argentina Perrotta Letras; Universidad de Buenos Aires. at a time of “conceptual turmoil”. Department of Anthropology/ Reluctantly Queer: Sassoi and the shifting paradigms of Edwin Kwame Otu Department of Women’s and Gender sexual citizenship in the era of neoliberal LGBTQ politics in Ghana Studies; Syracuse University. postcolonial Ghana. Emilio Jesús “Indigenous, Culture, Democracy and Social Inclusion: An Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo. Perú Legonía Córdova Overview of Matsés Native Community in Peruvian Amazon”. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales; Francisco Javier Fragmented democracies and neoliberalization in Central Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Costa Rica Robles Rivera America: The cases of Costa Rica and El Salvador Universidad de Costa Rica. Francisco José Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Argentinian external debt: governments and popular México Cantamutto Sociales. demands. Human Sciences Research Council, Is another transition possible? African transitions to Nigeria/ Godwin Onuoha Pretoria. Democracy and the limits of Praxis. Sudáfrica Guadalupe del Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Civil Society: democracy, participation and communication, Rocìo Yapud Ecuador Sociales. a track toward the inclusion. Ibadango Guma Prince Resisting or reinforcing the neoliberal present? The gay/ AVCOH/SEAD. Uganda Karakire Lesbian struggle for Democratic space in Uganda. Precariousness in a neoliberal age: understanding the Hamadziripi Zimbabwe/ Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria. degradation of work in post-apartheid, democratic South Tamukamoyo Sudáfrica Africa. Harikrishnan Birla Institute of Technology and Democratic renewal through transparency laws and India Gopinadhan Nair Science, Pilani. inclusive politics in Bolivia, India and Mexico. Institute of Enthnology and Globalization, Nation-State and Changing Indigenous Bangladesh/ Jahan Farhat Philosophy; Martin Luther University Peoples Lives: A Case Study of the Santals in Bangladesh. Alemania Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Name and Institution Title Proposal Country Surname Postgrado Latinoamericano en Trabajo José Álvaro Cálix Realignment of Honduran dissident forces: four years after Social; Universidad Nacional Autónoma Honduras Rodríguez the coup of 2009. de Honduras. Distributional Implications of Public Finance Policy: Malini Chakravarty Economic Research Foundation. Comparative Analysis of Alternative Strategies adopted in India India and Argentina. Md Wakilur Political Influence to Local Government in Bangladesh: Bangladesh Agricultural University. Bangladesh Rahman Challenges and Steps toward an Effective Democratization. Mirlena Rojas Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas Gender equity and business management in Cuba. Cuba Piedrahita y Sociológicas. Muyanja Graduate studies Program; Gadjah Examining the role and impact of non-government actors Uganda Ssenyonga Mada University. on the Decentralized Democratization on in Indonesia. Pathmanathan Revisiting Development in The South: Supranational Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Sivashankar Institutions And Their Impact on Governance. Laboratório de Estudos da Violência; Raquel Coelho de Programa de Pós-Graduação em O Novo Constitucionalismo Democrático Latino Americano e Brasil Freitas Sociologia; Universidade Federal do suas possibilidades de desdobramentos na América do Sul. Ceará. Department of Sociology; Saint Responses and adaptations to changing contexts of Rasel Mpuya Augustine University of Tanzania- Development and neoliberalism in particular: a case study Tanzania Madaha Bukoba Centre. of Tanzanian rural women networks. Empowerment and Inclusion in Democratic Environmental Shuxi Yin Hefei University of Technology. Governance: Perspective from the People in Developing China Countries. Susana Carmona Instituto de Estudios Regionales; Participation and Oil. Relationship logics between civil Colombia Castillo Universidad de Antioquia. society, State, and companies. Towards inclusive public policy formation in Kenya: The Tiberius Barasa Maseno University. Kenia role of non-state actors. Mass media concentration in private hands as a product of Departamentos de Comunicaciones, Willian Heriberto the neoliberal development model and state paternalism Economía, Filosofía y Sociología; El Salvador Carballo Sánchez and how this influences in the undermining of salvadorean Universidad Centroamericana. democracy and the exclusion of the local. Neo-liberalism and growing fragmentation of civil society: International Development Research China/ Yongjie Wang seeking a conceptual and methodological tool to explore Centre; University of Alberta. Canadá the process. Zahra Karimi Enhancing Social Participation for Combating Labour University of Mazandaran. Irán Moughari Market Crisis.