SMAIAS-ASN Summer School 2024

We are very pleased to invite you to our SMAIAS-ASN Summer School 2024, which will take place in the week of 5-9 February, in Harare and online, in hybrid format. The theme this year is “Rural and Urban Industrialization: Towards a Great Leap Forward”.

We are honoured to have with us this year Professor Jayati Ghosh, who will deliver the 7th Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture, on Tuesday, 6 February. The title of the lecture will be “Development in the Time of Climate Imperialism: How Can the Global Majority Cope?”

The Full Programme with details on panels, roundtables, and the Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture is available below. Links to Zoom and Livestream also appear below.

Links & Zoom registration

MONDAY 5th

Roundtable 1: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 1: Zoom  🔗

TUESDAY 6th

Panel 2: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

7^th Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture: Zoom/YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

WEDNESDAY 7th

Roundtable 2: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 3: Zoom 🔗

THURSDAY 8th

Roundtable 3: Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 4: Zoom

FRIDAY 9th

Roundtable 4:  Zoom 🔗∙ YouTube/Facebook Live lnk.bio/agrariansouth 🔗

Panel 5: Zoom 🔗

Programme

Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture

Panels

Roundtables

Papers

ADVENTINO BANJWA – The Question of ‘Idle Land’ and the Dynamics of Displacement for Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in the Global South: Preliminary Observations from Uganda 🔗

ARCHANA PRASAD – Proletarian Internationalism in the Contemporary Women’s Movement: A Perspective from India 🔗

AVANINDRA NATH THAKUR & PRIYANSHI CHAUDHARY – Structural Change, Social Security Provisions, and Industrial Policy in India: An Enterprise-level Analysis of Employment Status from 2004 to 2023 🔗

AWANISH KUMAR & MANISH KUMAR – Agrarian Economy of Bihar: Structural Constraints versus Technological Optimism? 🔗

BERNARDO SCHIRMER MURATT – Neo-developmental Misery: FIESP in the 2016 Brazilian Coup d’État 🔗

BOSMAN BATUBARA, KEI OTSUKI, SYUKRON SALAM & EKA HANDRIANA – Socialism-capitalism: How China’s Capital Expands into Indonesia’s Nickel Downstream Industry 🔗

CHARITY DANGWA-RUSERE – In Search of a Great Leap Forward: Comparing State- and Private-led Contract Farming by Zimbabwe’s Differentiated Resettled Small-Scale Farmers 🔗

DAMIAN LOBOS – Which State for the ‘Great Leap Forward? Capacities and Forms of Governance for a Transformative Agenda in South America 🔗

DINESH ABROL – Path Formation for Rural Industrialization in India: Lessons for Peoples’ Democracies 🔗

FADZAI MHARIWA – Renewable Energy Consumption and Gender Development in Southern Africa (2002–2020)

HAITHEM GASMI – Tunisian Peasants Organization of Political Action and Production: Tansiquiet and Cooperatives 🔗

KARLO MIKHAIL I. MONGAYA – The Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms: An Alternative Vision of Philippine Development? 🔗

LUCCAS GISSONI, PAULO ROBERTO DE MACEDO SOARES OLIVEIRA PIRES & LEONARDO GRIZ CARVALHEIRA – Development Paths in a Colonist Society: The Challenges of the Communist Movement in Brazil 🔗

MATHEUS MOREIRA – The Role of Small Tech in the Concentration and Centralization of Capital 🔗

NEWMAN TEKWA – Land Reform and Industrial Development in Mexico: Practical Lessons for Zimbabwe 🔗

PARIS YEROS – A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power’ 🔗

RAKHEE KEWADA – Technology and Underdevelopment in Tanzania’s Cotton and Textile Sector 🔗

SAGAR ROY – The Indian IT Sector in the Era of Neoliberal Reforms with Emphasis on Workers and Working Conditions: A Global Value Chain Perspective 🔗

SAMUEL IGBATAYO – The Challenges of Peripheral Industrialization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa 🔗

SEMHAL ZENAWI – Dirge for the Ethiopian Left 🔗

TAHIRÁ ENDO GONZAGA – Angola’s Trajectory and Development Challenges in the 21st Century  🔗

ZEYAD EL NABOLSY – Paulin Hountondji on Dependency Theory and Technology 🔗