Development ReduxGlimpses of the post-crisis development imagination

Development Studies Association conference presentation, London 2011

Naomi Hossain, Lyla Mehta and Sara Wolcott with Lawrence Haddad, Allister McGregor

and the Reimagining Development initiative members

Background: bring the noise…

•Have the global crises made us think differently about development?•Too soon to call•Noise as a feature of the new intellectual landscape•ReDev about listening in strategic spots

Poverty and inequality

• The elastic poor: resilience and social reproduction

• Free market fatigue yet?• Rethinking homo economicus

Politics and power

• The social protection state

• Global governance and civic disobedience

• The new multiple accountabilities

Changing development actors

• Pop (goes) development

• The aid industry: the personal is the professional

• Good business

Conclusions …

• An audible decline in the authority of the dominant aid agencies

• A new geographical seamlessness