Dilemmas of development planning: Southern subjectivities in flux

About this event

This panel discussion engages with past DPU students, staff and friends who identify as 'southern' in some way and engages in a conversation on what does it mean to be 'southern' and think 'southernly' in contemporary development planning. What identities and practices are reified by the label 'southern'? What concepts and theories do 'southern perspectives' illuminate and/or debunk? What do 'southern subjectivities' really offer contemporary development planning? These questions push us further than using the idea of 'being southern' as geographical shorthand for knowing better or knowing differently for development planning.

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Chair

Dr Kamna Patel, Associate Professor, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), UCL

Speakers

Dr Badru Bukenya, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University Kampala

Sophie Efange, Associate Vice President, Policy at the Equality Fund

Dr Romola Sanyal, Associate Professor of Urban Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

Shyantani Saha, Sanitation and Hygiene Officer, UNICEF, Bihar Field Office, India