University of Notre Dame
October 17-19, 2019
Schedule of Sessions
Note: For coauthored papers, the schedule only reflects coauthors who have registered to attend and co-present at the conference.
Thursday October 17th, 2019
THU 5:30-7:30 pm
Registration - Jenkins Nanovic Forum
THU 6:30-8:30
Opening Reception for Presenters - Jenkins Nanovic Forum (cash bar & heavy appetizers)
Welcoming Remarks by Ted Beatty, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs
Friday October 18th, 2019
FRI 8:30-9:00 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
FRI 9:00 am
Education and Inequality - Hesburgh Center C103
Session Chair: Patrizio Piraino, University of Notre Dame
FRI 9:00 am
Global Health: Knowledge & Practice - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Sarah Bosha, University of Notre Dame
FRI 9:00 am
Managing Household Work & Consumption - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Tushi Baul, University of Notre Dame
FRI 9:00 am
Politics & the Environment - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Andrew Jorgensen, Boston College
FRI 9:00 am
Power Dynamics and Development - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Session Chair: Susan Lee, Boston University
FRI 9:00 am
The Causes & Consequences of Violence - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Catherine Bolten, University of Notre Dame
Coffee & Snacks
FRI 11:00 am
Challenging Methods & Measurement in Development Research - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: James Copestake, University of Bath, UK
FRI 11:00 am
Gender Inequality and Political Representation - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Jennifer Fish, Old Dominion University
FRI 11:00 am
New Sites and Scales of State Capacity - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
Powerful but Invisible: Contemporary Social Forces Affecting Health - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Lillian Walkover, Drexel University
FRI 11:00 am
Reception of Migrants - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt, University of Notre Dame
FRI 11:00 am
Professionalization Panel on Scholarly Publication - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
FRI 12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch (provided for presenters) - Jenkins Nanovic Forum
You are invited to join an optional Table Chat for all interested:
FRI 1:30 pm
Plenary: New Moments of Authoritarianism, Comparative Perspectives on Brazil and India - Mendoza
College of Business, Jordan Auditorium
Session Chair: Erin McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
FRI 3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee & Snacks
FRI 3:30 pm
Analyzing Discourse: Knowledge, Power, and Development - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Jennifer Keahey, Arizona State University
FRI 3:30 pm
Explaining the Rise of Authoritarian Politics in Comparative Perspective - Hesburgh Center,
Auditorium
Session Chair: Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley and Brown University
FRI 3:30 pm
Macro-Environmental Theory - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Jenn Tank, University of Notre Dame
New Horizons in African Demography - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Chicago
FRI 3:30 pm
Social Foundations of Corruption - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, University of Notre Dame
FRI 3:30 pm
The Drivers and Challenges of Professionalization - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Amy Zhou, University of California, San Diego
FRI 5:00-5:30 pm
Beverages & Snacks
FRI 5:30 pm
Corruption and the Administrative State - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Susan Page, University of Notre Dame
FRI 5:30 pm
Gender, Labor, and the Workplace - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Catherine van de Ruit, Ursinus College
FRI 5:30 pm
Health Knowledge & Access - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Marie Donahue, University of Notre Dame
FRI 5:30 pm
Macro-political Approaches to Understanding State Development Trajectories - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Samuel Valenzuela, University of Notre Dame
FRI 5:30 pm
NGOs & Global-Local Partnerships in Development Practice - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Ray Offenheiser, University of Notre Dame
FRI 7:00-10:00 pm
Optional: Development Trivia, Pizza, & Beer - Jenkins Nanovic, B101
(for those who registered separately, at an additional cost)
Saturday October 19, 2019
SAT 8:30-9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
SAT 9:00 am
Plenary: Development in Dialogue - Mendoza College of Business, Jordan Auditorium
SAT 10:30-11:00 am
Coffee & Snacks
SAT 11:00 am
Challenges of the New Economy - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Isabel Jijon, Purchase College, State University of New York
SAT 11:00 am
Divergence and Convergence in Transnational Interventions - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Anna Calasanti, University of New Mexico
SAT 11:00 am
Identity and the Unequal Distribution of Public Goods - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Matthias vom Hau, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
SAT 11:00 am
Interrogating Economic Growth - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Michael H Morris, University of Notre Dame
SAT 11:00 am
Pockets of Effectiveness: Understanding Positive Deviance - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Michael Woolcock, World Bank
SAT 11:00 am
Puerto Rico’s Possible Futures: A Multi-Disciplinary Discussion - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Session Chair: Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame
SAT 12:30-1:30 pm
Lunchtime Plenary: Dialogue with Practitioners - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
SAT 1:30 pm
Activism & Social Movements - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Erika Summers Effler, University of Notre Dame
SAT 1:30 pm
Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Inequality - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Laura Raynolds, Colorado State University
SAT 1:30 pm
Global Health: Politics and Practicalities - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University
SAT 1:30 pm
Macro-Approaches to Understanding Poverty & Inequality - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Estela Rivero, University of Notre Dame
SAT 1:30 pm
NGOs: Identities and Meaning-Making - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Caroline Hughes, University of Notre Dame
SAT 1:30 pm
Urbanization and Development - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University
3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee & Snacks
SAT 3:30 pm
Contesting Causes of Development - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Tom Purekal, University of Notre Dame
SAT 3:30 pm
The Politics of Identity & Belonging - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame
SAT 3:30 pm
Labor, Workers, Rights & Wellbeing - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Harold Toro, University of Notre Dame
SAT 3:30 pm
New Directions in the Sociology of Development - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Jennifer Krauser, University of Notre Dame
October 17-19, 2019
Schedule of Sessions
Note: For coauthored papers, the schedule only reflects coauthors who have registered to attend and co-present at the conference.
Thursday October 17th, 2019
THU 5:30-7:30 pm
Registration - Jenkins Nanovic Forum
THU 6:30-8:30
Opening Reception for Presenters - Jenkins Nanovic Forum (cash bar & heavy appetizers)
Welcoming Remarks by Ted Beatty, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs
Friday October 18th, 2019
FRI 8:30-9:00 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
FRI 9:00 am
Education and Inequality - Hesburgh Center C103
Session Chair: Patrizio Piraino, University of Notre Dame
- Carolyn Choi, University of Southern California
The Rise of the “Global Province” in the Eduscape: English Education, Consumption, and Compensatory
Temporary Class Mobility among Low-Resourced South Korean Educational Migrants in the Provincial
Philippines - Harold J. Toro, University of Notre Dame
Who Benefits from a College Education? The Influence of Higher Education on Inter-generational Stratification in Mexico - Rachael Pierotti, World Bank
Understanding Gender Differences in Occupational Choice among Youth in Republic of Congo - Stephen Gasteyer & Brendan Mullan, Michigan State University
Limited Mobilities: Neoliberalizing Higher Education and Growing Social Inequality in Palestine
FRI 9:00 am
Global Health: Knowledge & Practice - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Sarah Bosha, University of Notre Dame
- Acheampong Yaw Amoateng, North-West University, South Africa
The Culture-Development Nexus: The Case of Socio-cultural Correlates of Non-Adherence to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) at a Wellness Clinic in South Africa - Emmanuel F. Koku, Drexel University
Stigma, HIV Testing and Disclosure among African Immigrants in the USA: A Social Network Analysis - Jonathan Shaffer, Boston University
Reassembling Global Health: Re-Wiring Material and Symbolic Exclusions in Service of Expanded Health Rights - Nicole Angotti, American University
Health (Mis)Matches: The Production of Sexual Health Lifestyles in Rural South Africa
FRI 9:00 am
Managing Household Work & Consumption - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Tushi Baul, University of Notre Dame
- Raka Sen, University of Pennsylvania
Adaptation Labor: Gender, Work, and Climate Change in the Sundarbans - Jeong Hyun Oh, University of Chicago
Gendered Crossings: Male Involvement in Child Healthcare and Intra-household Dynamics in Ethiopia - Rita Jalali, American University
Access to Sanitation & Hygiene: Women’s Autonomy and the Allocation of Resources within Indian Households - Samuel Cohn, Texas A & M University
The Viability of Social Democratic Development: Lessons From Social Accounting Matrices
FRI 9:00 am
Politics & the Environment - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Andrew Jorgensen, Boston College
- Andrew N. Le, University of California, Los Angeles
When All the Fish Are Dead: An Environment Disaster and the Transformations of a Vietnamese Fishing Village - Maria Akchurin, Loyola University Chicago
The Judicialization of Environmental Conflicts: Bureaucracy and Resistance in Chilean Environmental Courts - Orla Kelly, Boston College
The Empowerment Paradox: Exploring the Implications of Neoliberalized Feminism for Sustainable Development - Rachel M. Gurney, University of Notre Dame
The Influence of State Politics on Local Climate Adaptation
FRI 9:00 am
Power Dynamics and Development - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Session Chair: Susan Lee, Boston University
- Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, Franklin & Marshall College
“How Will You Give Back?” Reflecting on Feminist Methodologies in Contexts of Development - Jennifer Keahey, Arizona State University
Sustainable Development and Participatory Action Research: A Systematic Review - Michelle Poulin, World Bank
Livelihood Strategies in Zambia: Lived Experiences and Public Commitments to Living a Good Life - Rae Lesser Blumberg, University of Virginia
Gender, a Kosovo Post-ceasefire Emergency Farm Reconstruction Project and the Albanian Mafia: Academic-Practitioner Collaboration vs. Corruption
FRI 9:00 am
The Causes & Consequences of Violence - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Catherine Bolten, University of Notre Dame
- Alex Diamond, University of Texas at Austin
Of Hydroelectric Dams and Gold Mines: How Local Populations use Collective Memory to Think through Megaprojects in Colombia’s Post-Peace Agreement Transition - Caroline Hughes, University of Notre Dame
Violence Matters: Structural Change, Development and Peace - Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
Hindu-Muslim Violence in India 1980-2010: The Role of Economic and Political Factors - Tania DoCarmo, University of California, Irvine
Crime, Rights or Inequality? Re-Exploitation and Violence after Sex Trafficking Survivors in Cambodia Return Home
Coffee & Snacks
FRI 11:00 am
Challenging Methods & Measurement in Development Research - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: James Copestake, University of Bath, UK
- Emily Smith-Greenaway, University of Southern California
New Indicators of Mortality: Maternal-Oriented Measures of Child Mortality - Gary Goertz, University of Notre Dame
Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty and Wealth: Concept Asymmetry and Nonlinear Semantics - Rob Clark & Jeffrey Kentor, University of Oklahoma
Foreign Capital in the 21st Century: Constructing the Global FDI Network, 2001-2017 - Thomas Mustillo, University of Notre Dame
Developing a Theoretical Imagination: In Defense of Methodological Promiscuity
FRI 11:00 am
Gender Inequality and Political Representation - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Jennifer Fish, Old Dominion University
- Abigail Jorgensen, University of Notre Dame
After Women Are Elected: A Cross-National Study Testing Assumptions of the Impacts of More Women in Parliament on Broader Gender Equality, as Mediated by Quotas - Barbara Wejnert, University at Buffalo
Differential Outcomes of Democracy and Development on Women and Men from 1970 to 2015 - Manjing Gao, University of California, Riverside
Women’s Political Representation and Corruption: Risk Aversion or Political Power? - Patrick A. Levine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Politics of Care or Competition: Descriptive Representation and the Gendered Culture of Parliaments
FRI 11:00 am
New Sites and Scales of State Capacity - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
- Aaron W. Tester, University of California, Irvine
Reconstituting the State: Decentralization and the Rise of Local Governments - Babyrani Yumnam, State University of New York at Binghamton
State at the Margins: Politics of Development and Governance in North East India - Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University
Mapping Uneven State Capacity in Karachi, Pakistan - Kyle Chan, Princeton University
State Capacity and Bureaucratic Structure: A Comparative Study of Railway Development in China and India
Powerful but Invisible: Contemporary Social Forces Affecting Health - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Lillian Walkover, Drexel University
- Ann Swidler, University of California, Berkeley
When Good Motives Backfire: HIV Clinic Workers in Malawi - Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University
Benefits or Baggage? The Legacies of Health Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa - Tara McKay, Vanderbilt University
Gays Engage: Mobilizing for Rights and Health across the African Continent - Terry McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
Routine, Ritual, and Creativity: How Everyday Culture Shapes Health
FRI 11:00 am
Reception of Migrants - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt, University of Notre Dame
- Robert Dowd, University of Notre Dame
Believing and Belonging: Religion and National Identity in an Era of Rapid Migration - Enrique S. Pumar, Santa Clara University
Uneven Development and Social Distance among Ethnic Groups: Lessons from the Dominican Republic - Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee, University of Notre Dame
Expectations, Agency and Accompaniment: Exploring a Humanitarian Corridor Project in Italy - Katherine Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Racializing Refugees: The Racial Logics of Asylum in Brazil
FRI 11:00 am
Professionalization Panel on Scholarly Publication - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
- Omar Lizardo, University of California, Los Angeles
Editor, American Sociological Review - Andrew Jorgensen, Boston College
Editor, Sociology of Development - Eli Bortz
Editor in Chief, University of Notre Dame Press
FRI 12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch (provided for presenters) - Jenkins Nanovic Forum
You are invited to join an optional Table Chat for all interested:
- Denise Wright, Assistant Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Topic: Kellogg Visiting Fellows Program
Sit with Denise at lunch if you are interested in learning more about Kellogg’s Visiting Fellows Program, in-residence fellowships for postdocs, and advanced scholars working on issues relating to democracy or development. - Michael Woolcock and Rachael Pierotti, Sociologists, World Bank
Topic: Working at and with the World Bank
Are you interested in potentially working at the World Bank someday? Or do you want to know more
about doing empirical research that can inform what and how the World Bank does its work? Join this
table to chat with sociologists employed within the Bank. - Eli Bortz, Editor in Chief, University of Notre Dame Press
Topic: Book publishing
Any participants interested in carrying forward a general or specific conversation about book publishing can sit with Eli during lunch
FRI 1:30 pm
Plenary: New Moments of Authoritarianism, Comparative Perspectives on Brazil and India - Mendoza
College of Business, Jordan Auditorium
Session Chair: Erin McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
- Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley and Brown University
Polanyi Meets Bolsonaro: Markets, the Power of Capital and 21st Century Exclusionary Politics - Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame
The Political Trajectories of Anti-Partisan Protest: Brazil, Bolsonaro, and Beyond - Patrick Heller, Brown University
The Age of Reaction: Some Comparative Thoughts on Brazil and India - Walden Bello, State University of New York at Binghamton
Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics: The Cases of Thailand, the Philippines, and India - James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Discussant & Moderator
FRI 3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee & Snacks
FRI 3:30 pm
Analyzing Discourse: Knowledge, Power, and Development - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Jennifer Keahey, Arizona State University
- Anna Malavisi, Western Connecticut State University
Engaging Philosophy with Scholars and Development Practitioners through Structured Dialogue - Eric Palmer, Allegheny College
Trading Dialogue for Measurement: A Cautionary Tale of Development Ethics for the SDGs - Ryan Nehring, Cornell University
Tropicalization and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Brazil - Tom Safford, University of New Hampshire
Economic Rationale or Techno-Scientific Rationale? A Case Study of the Development of Marine
Aquaculture in Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil
FRI 3:30 pm
Explaining the Rise of Authoritarian Politics in Comparative Perspective - Hesburgh Center,
Auditorium
Session Chair: Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley and Brown University
- Cecilia Lero, University of Notre Dame
The Middle Class and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Insights from the Philippines and Brazil - Marco Garrido, University of Chicago
Democracy as Disorder: Institutionalized Sources of Democratic Disenchantment among the Middle Class
in Metro Manila - Tomás Gold, University of Notre Dame
The Rise of the Contentious Right in Latin America: Changing Party Strategies and Organizational
Repertoires (2012-2016) - Walden Bello, State University of New York at Binghamton
Convergences and Divergences in the Middle Class' Authoritarian Turn in Thailand, the Philippines, and India
FRI 3:30 pm
Macro-Environmental Theory - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Jenn Tank, University of Notre Dame
- Andrew Hargrove, Stony Brook University
The Global Water Crisis: A Cross-National Analysis of Metabolic Rift Theory - J. Tom Mueller, Penn State University
The Detrimental Impact of Natural Resource Development on American Economic Prosperity from 2000 to 2015 - Jamie M. Sommer, University of South Florida, Tampa
Domestic Autonomy and Incentives: A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss - Liangfei Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Environmental Field and Its Transformation
New Horizons in African Demography - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Chicago
- Maggie Frye, University of Michigan
Educational Expansion and Family Formation in sub-Saharan Africa - Sarah Hayford, The Ohio State University
Childbearing and Women's Mid-Life Well-being in a Low Income, High Fertility Context - Julia Behrman, Northwestern University
Point of Reference: A Multidimensional Understanding of Fertility and Migration - Christie Sennott, Purdue University
Relationship Power and Women's Fertility Preferences in Malawi
FRI 3:30 pm
Social Foundations of Corruption - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, University of Notre Dame
- Abdalhadi Alijla, Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Canada (IMESC)
Corruption and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the Middle East - German Petersen, University of Texas at Austin
Kick Them All Out: The Anti-Establishment Effect of Corruption Scandals - Mariana Borges Martins da Silva, University of Oxford
Supporting Bad Patrons: Vote Buying and Voters' Choices in Northeast Brazil
FRI 3:30 pm
The Drivers and Challenges of Professionalization - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Amy Zhou, University of California, San Diego
- Frank Spesia, Seiko Kanda, & Mukhlisa Khudayberganova, University of Notre Dame
Gap Assessment to Identify High-Impact Areas of School Improvement in Low-Income Chilean Schools - Leslie MacColman, University of Notre Dame
Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here? Professional Policing in Contexts of Extreme Informality - Meghan E Kallman, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Making the Program Officer: State-Led Development and the Professionalization of Aid - Sneha Annavarapu, University of Chicago
"Smart Cities need Smart Police": Traffic Rules, Police Authority and Technophilia in Hyderabad, India
FRI 5:00-5:30 pm
Beverages & Snacks
FRI 5:30 pm
Corruption and the Administrative State - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Susan Page, University of Notre Dame
- Byron Villacis, University of California, Berkeley
Development NGOs and the Historical Introduction of Corruption as a Problem of Public Policy - Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto
Externalities in Politicians’ Malfeasance: Norms of Corruption and Yardstick Competition - Marina Zaloznaya, University of Iowa
The Advantage Theory of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Socialist Societies
FRI 5:30 pm
Gender, Labor, and the Workplace - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Catherine van de Ruit, Ursinus College
- Andy Scott Chang, University of California, Berkeley
Stratification of Gender, Occupation, and Nationality in International Migration from Indonesia - Junmin Wang, University of Memphis
The Myth of Female Management: Embedded Legacies, Constrained Tokenism, and New Opportunities
in China’s Private Sector - Nino Bariola, University of Texas at Austin
Before and after Me Too: Culture Change and Frames of Gender Inequality and Violence - Sophia Boutilier, Stony Brook University
Seeking Solidarity: How Privileged Development Workers Navigate Complicity with Inequality in the Field
FRI 5:30 pm
Health Knowledge & Access - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Marie Donahue, University of Notre Dame
- Aashish Gupta, University of Pennsylvania
Social Disadvantage and Health in India - Lillian Walkover, Drexel University
Subjects, Access, and Empowerment: Where There Is No Doctor and Our Bodies, Ourselves - Sarah Michelle Alexander, Cornell University
Do the Facts Matter? The Connection Between Knowledge and In-Home Drinking Water Behavior - Steve Reifenberg, University of Notre Dame
The Right to Health Care Program in Chiapas, Mexico: An Accompaniment Approach to Overcoming
Barriers to Surgery
FRI 5:30 pm
Macro-political Approaches to Understanding State Development Trajectories - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Samuel Valenzuela, University of Notre Dame
- Jaime Hsu, State University of New York at Albany
An East Asian Farewell to Conscription? A Comparative Study of Conscription Policies in Taiwan and
South Korea - Joseph Harris, Boston University
Becoming Brokers: Building Thailand's Brand in Global Health - Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University
Property Rights and Development in the Americas in the Long Run, 1500-2000
FRI 5:30 pm
NGOs & Global-Local Partnerships in Development Practice - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Ray Offenheiser, University of Notre Dame
- Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame
Scenario Workshops as Transnational Public Interventions: Mapping a Field of Practice - Isabel Jijon, Princeton University, and Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame
How the Complexity of Innovations Affects Diffusion - Mujun Zhou, Zhejiang University
Interstitial Labor Publics and the Contradicting 'New Workers' Movement' in China - Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber, Boston University
Community Caregiving in Uganda: Delineating a Field
FRI 7:00-10:00 pm
Optional: Development Trivia, Pizza, & Beer - Jenkins Nanovic, B101
(for those who registered separately, at an additional cost)
Saturday October 19, 2019
SAT 8:30-9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
SAT 9:00 am
Plenary: Development in Dialogue - Mendoza College of Business, Jordan Auditorium
- Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, The New School
- Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist, Development Research Group, World Bank
- Ray Offenheiser, Director, Initiative for Global Development, University of Notre Dame
Discussant & Moderator
SAT 10:30-11:00 am
Coffee & Snacks
SAT 11:00 am
Challenges of the New Economy - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Isabel Jijon, Purchase College, State University of New York
- Alejandra Irene Cueto Piazza, Brown University
The Creation of the Informal Economy in the Global South - Nilanjan Raghunath, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Theorising Social Accountability and Reputation Systems in the 4th Industrial Revolution - Parijat Chakrabarti, Princeton University
New Relations of Exchange: The Data Economy and Data Privacy in Nairobi's Silicon Savannah - Paul S. Ciccantell, Western Michigan University
Tourism and Development in the Age of Short Term Rentals: A Case Study of a Canadian Ski Town
SAT 11:00 am
Divergence and Convergence in Transnational Interventions - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Anna Calasanti, University of New Mexico
- Allison Schnable and Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University
International Development Buzzwords: Understanding their Adoption and Use among NGOs, Academics,
and the World Bank - Emily Springer, University of Minnesota
Bureaucratic Tools in (Gendered) Organizations: Performance Metrics and Gender Advisors in
International Development - Kristopher Velasco, University of Texas at Austin
A Growing Queer Divide: The Divergence between Transnational Advocacy Networks and Foreign Aid in
Diffusing LGBT Policies
SAT 11:00 am
Identity and the Unequal Distribution of Public Goods - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Matthias vom Hau, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
- Patrick Heller, Brown University
Field of Exclusions: Governance and Inequality in an Indian City - Paul Atwell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Social Networks, Traditional Leadership, and Collective Action in Northern Ghana - Amanda Flaim, Michigan State University
Statelessness and Rural Outmigration from the Highlands of Northern Thailand
SAT 11:00 am
Interrogating Economic Growth - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Michael H Morris, University of Notre Dame
- Jerson Del Rosario, University of Leicester
Government-Funded Entrepreneurship and the Constraints of Poverty: Lessons for Development Policy - Laura Doering, University of Toronto
From Abstraction to Elaboration: Constructing Financial Meaning in a Colombian Microsavings Program - Mohammad Shahjahan Chowdhury, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
Examining New Public Management in an Organizational Context: The Impact on Microfinance Program
Implementation - Thomas A. Hirschl, Cornell University
Why are Increasing Numbers of Workers out of the Labor Force: Considering a “New Class” Hypothesis
SAT 11:00 am
Pockets of Effectiveness: Understanding Positive Deviance - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Michael Woolcock, World Bank
- Erin McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
Beyond Executive Will: When Merely Interested or Inattentive Elites Foster PoEs in State Administration - Heidi E Rademacher, The College at Brockport
Survivors, Workers, and Activists: Samrakshak Samuha Nepal and the Reintegration of Survivors of
Human Trafficking in Nepalese Communities - Luiz Vilaça, University of Notre Dame
Subterranean Activism and Public Outreach: Explaining Anti-Corruption Reform in Brazil - Maria Joachim, University of Michigan
Public-Private Partnerships are Capable of Creating Islands of Excellence through Embedded Autonomy:
The Case of a Brazilian Healthcare Public-Private Partnership
SAT 11:00 am
Puerto Rico’s Possible Futures: A Multi-Disciplinary Discussion - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Session Chair: Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame
- Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, Franklin & Marshall College
- Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto
- Harold J. Toro, University of Notre Dame
- Marisel Moreno-Anderson, University of Notre Dame
SAT 12:30-1:30 pm
Lunchtime Plenary: Dialogue with Practitioners - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
- Ray Offenheiser, Former President, Oxfam America
- Michelle Adato, Senior Operations Advisor, Millennium Challenge Corporation
- Naomi Hossain, Research Professor, Research Accountability Research Center, American University
Former Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (UK) - Kimberly Pfeifer, Head of Research, Oxfam
SAT 1:30 pm
Activism & Social Movements - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Erika Summers Effler, University of Notre Dame
- Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan
Foreign Aid and Violence Against Women - Preethi Krishnan, Purdue University/Western Carolina University
Organizational Frames and Lived Experiences : When Intersectional Grievances matter - Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern University
From Extension to Containment: Aid and Activism across the Syrian Warscape - Shawn Kern, University of Notre Dame
Repression and Ritual: How Dissident Republicans Sustain Activist Identities
SAT 1:30 pm
Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Inequality - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Laura Raynolds, Colorado State University
- Daniel Ahlquist, Michigan State University
Growing Inequality: Agrarian Change, Socio-Economic Differentiation & Risk-Taking in Upland
Northern Thailand - Matthew J. Zinsli, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“They Take the Fame but not the Coffee”: Producer Experiences of a Weak Geographical Indications
System in the Café de Galápagos Case - Timothy Gorman, Montclair State University
Accumulation without Dispossession? Distributional Impacts of Shrimp Aquaculture in Vietnam’s
Mekong Delta
SAT 1:30 pm
Global Health: Politics and Practicalities - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University
- Faiza Mushtaq, Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
Global Public Health Initiatives and the Local Politics of Development - Gordon C. Shen, University of California, Berkeley
Attacks on Health Care: An Examination of Relationality in Humanitarian Response - Lantian Li, Northwestern University
Hidden Hegemony: The Marginalization of Patent Reform in China’s Pharmaceutical Politics - Tuba I. Agartan, Providence College
Tracing Universal Health Coverage in the Global Development Agenda
SAT 1:30 pm
Macro-Approaches to Understanding Poverty & Inequality - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Estela Rivero, University of Notre Dame
- David L. Brown, Cornell University
A Relational Approach to Rural and Regional Studies - Frank Borge Wietzke, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Poverty, Inequality, and Fertility: The Contribution of Demographic Change to Global Poverty Reduction - Roshan Kumar Pandian, Indiana University
Globalization of Production and Income Inequality in Developing Economies - Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota
When Inequality Declines
SAT 1:30 pm
NGOs: Identities and Meaning-Making - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Caroline Hughes, University of Notre Dame
- Amy Zhou, University of California, San Diego
Precarious Opportunities: Career Trajectories of State and NGO Healthcare Workers in Malawi - Katherine Comeau, University of Notre Dame
It's Not About Charity: How Humanitarian NGOs Select Their Projects - Katherine Copas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Development Involvement: Citizens Influenced or Indifferent? - Shanna Corner, University of Notre Dame
Religion and Women’s Rights in the United Nations: Identities, Personal Knowledge, and Micro-
Processes
SAT 1:30 pm
Urbanization and Development - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University
- Jonathon Geels, Troyer Group, Inc.
The Tyranny and Triumph of Place: Examining Generational Design Strategies for Public Places and their
Effect on Community - Liguang Li, University of Notre Dame
Urban Development of Beijing from 1978 to 2017 - Simeon J. Newman, University of Michigan
Urbanization, Brokerage, Power: The Case of 20th Century Mexico City - Yu Chen, Independent Researcher
Advance in Housing Right or Accumulation by Dispossession? A Comparative Study on Social Housing
Boom in Mexico and in China
3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee & Snacks
SAT 3:30 pm
Contesting Causes of Development - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Tom Purekal, University of Notre Dame
- Andre Nickow, Northwestern University
Mobilizing for Entitlement: A Randomized Evaluation of a Homestead Land Rights Initiative in Bihar, India - Matthias vom Hau, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Political Settlements and State Performance in the Developing World - Wen Xie, University of Chicago
State, Culture and Development: Regional Pathways toward Capitalism in China
SAT 3:30 pm
The Politics of Identity & Belonging - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame
- Anna Calasanti, University of New Mexico
Privilege and Voice: NGOs Advocating for Women's Rights at the UN - Barbara R. Walters, City University of New York, Queens College
CEDAW, the Rights of Women, and Human Development - Joan Ryan, University of Pennsylvania
Exploring the Use of Phylogenetic Trees to Trace Ethnolinguistic Influences on Demographic Behaviour - Soma Chaudhuri, Michigan State University
Donor Funds Driven Development Agenda and Its Impact on Gender Based Empowerment Programs
SAT 3:30 pm
Labor, Workers, Rights & Wellbeing - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Harold Toro, University of Notre Dame
- Catherine van de Ruit, Ursinus College
Community Health Workers’ Pursuit of Workplace Recognition in the South African Health System - Joshua Pine, University of Notre Dame
Designing for Behavior Change of Construction Labor in Urban Mexico and India - Laura Raynolds, Colorado State University
Fairtrade Certification Strategies and Realities: Challenging Buyer Power and Fostering Worker
Wellbeing and Labor Agency in Ecuador - Youbin Kang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Life-Course of Transnational Regulation in Bangladesh: What Next for Labor Governance in the
Garment Supply Chain?
SAT 3:30 pm
New Directions in the Sociology of Development - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Jennifer Krauser, University of Notre Dame
- Brendan Mullan, Michigan State University
Development Challenges Facing Greece: Economic, Demographic, and Migration - David C. Sorge, University of Pennsylvania
Modelling Diffusion of Collective Action in India, 1980-2000 - Olukunle P. Owolabi, Villanova University
Did Colonial "Native Codes" Hinder Long-term Development in the Global South? - James Copestake, University of Bath, UK
Attributing Development Impact Using the QuIP: Collaborative Innovation in Eliciting Credible and Cost-
Effective Grassroots Feedback