New books - October 2012 (Part 1)

Selected new books added to the catalogue and collection below (part 2 tomorrow). Notable addiituons include a number of Pacific Island official publications including policy documents on children and women's affairs, as well as a number of development plans and reviews of plans from the Pacific, Africa and India.


Jacques, Mélanie. Armed conflict and displacement : the protection of refugees and displaced persons under international humanitarian law. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.


Percox, David A. Britain, Kenya and the Cold War : imperial defence, colonial security and decolonisation. London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2012.

Green, Toby (ed). Brokers of change : Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

Bugailiskis, Alex and André Rozental (eds). Canada among nations, 2011-2012 : Canada and Mexico's unfinished agenda. Montréal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

Malcolmson, Patrick and Richard Myers. The Canadian regime : an introduction to parliamentary government in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.

Barnes, Douglas F., Priti Kumar and Keith Openshaw. Cleaner hearths, better homes : new stoves for India and the developing world. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement (Solomon Islands). Policy statements. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement Government, [2008]
Conrad, Margaret. A concise history of Canada. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Solomon Islands. Constitutional Reform Unit, Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Constitutional reform project of Solomon Islands. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Government Printer, 2008
Marsh, Ian and Raymond Miller. Democratic decline and democratic renewal : political change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Eicher, Peter, Zahurul Alam and Jeremy Eckstein. Elections in Bangladesh 2006-2009 : transforming failure into success. Dhaka : United Nations Development Programme, c2010.
Storey, Ian, Ralf Emmers and Daljit Singh (eds). Five power defence arrangements at forty. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.

Adu, Kwasi. The Ghana 2008 elections : growing pains of a budding democracy. Accra : FOSDA, 2009.

Adejumobi, Said (ed). Governance and politics in post-military Nigeria : changes and challenges. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Fiji. Ministry of Strategic Planning. Government achievements 2007-2011. [Fiji] : Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development & Statistics, 2011.

India infrastructure report, 2009 : land - a critical resource for infrastructure. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.

India infrastructure report, 2010 : infrastructure development in a low carbon economy. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Day, Kathleen M and Stanley L Winer. Interregional migration and public policy in Canada : an empirical study. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati development plan : 2008-2011. Kiribati : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, 2008

Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati national assessment report for the 5-year review of the Mauritius strategy for further implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States (MSI+5). Bairiki, Tarawa : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, [2010?]

Stovel, Laura. Long road home : building reconciliation and trust in post-war Sierra Leone. Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, c2010.

India. Planning Commission. Mid-term appraisal eleventh five year plan, 2007-2012. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. National children's policy : 2010-2015. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010

Swaziland. Economic Planning Office. National development plan, 2009/10-2011/12. Mbabane, [Swaziland] : Economic Planning Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 2009.

Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. The national policy on eliminating violence against women. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010

Mawby, Spencer. Ordering independence : the end of empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-1969. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Price, John. Orienting Canada : race, empire, and the Transpacific. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.

Currier, Ashley. Out in Africa : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Delle, James A., Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas Armstrong. Out of many, one people : the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2011.

Bower, Ernest Z. et al. Pacific partners : the future of U.S.-New Zealand relations : a report of the CSIS Southeast Asia program and the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies, c2011.

Olson, Sherry H. and Patricia A. Thornton. Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900. Montreal ; Ithica: McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.

Fernando, Jude L. The political economy of NGOs : state formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. London : Pluto Press, 2011.

Sevea, Iqbal Singh. The political philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal : Islam and nationalism in late colonial India. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Saw, Swee-Hock. The population of Singapore. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.

CFP: CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa

CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa


St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17-19 March 2013


Keynote speaker: Edward Miguel, Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley

Dinner speaker: Marcelo Giugale, Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programmes for Africa, World Bank

Call for papers

Papers addressing economic analysis of the broad issues relevant for economic development in Africa are invited for the CSAE 2013 conference. Papers on countries other than those in Africa are welcome, providing they deal with issues central to African development.

All abstracts for consideration must be submitted via the online submission site at

https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=CSAE2013

Further details on student submissions and funding possibilities at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/

Deadline for submissions Friday 30 November 2012


Enquiries should include the reference ‘CSAE conference 2013’ and be addressed to:

e-mail: csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk

postal address: CSAE, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK

BLDS Digital Library

Very pleased to be helping to promote a digital initiative form colleagues at the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS:

New BLDS Digital Library is helping research from developing countries enjoy a wider global readership


"With so many library users now expecting to access information through search engines, developing country publications tend to get overlooked in favour of the wealth of research available online from American and European academic institutions.

The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) has the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe and over half of it originates from developing countries. But until now, much of the BLDS physical collection has only been available to visitors to the library or users of its Document Delivery service. BLDS is hoping that its newly-launched Digital Library will help redress the situation by making developing country research more accessible and visible online

The new service, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, has been created to help decades of research from developing country institutions enjoy a wider global readership. BLDS is working with partner research institutes in Africa and Asia, to digitise their printed publications and host them online so they can be easily found through search engines. Nearly 600 papers have been digitised so far from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and India, with more to be added in coming months as BLDS continues building partnerships with research institutes. The publications in the BLDS Digital Library are being made available through a Creative Commons licence which enables future sharing and dissemination of this content by others.

For more information on the BLDS Digital Library, contact Henry Rowsell

or visit the BLDS Global Projects webpage at http://blds.ids.ac.uk/global-projects

Development and Empire, 1929-1962

Development and Empire, 1929-1962

Humanities Research Centre, Univerity of York

1 - 2 July 2011

A two-day conference bringing together scholars based in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to share knowledge and ideas about British aid-assisted colonial development in the mid twentieth century.

Speakers: Paul Greenough, Jordanna Bailkin, Barbara Bush, David Clover, Billy Frank, Joseph Hodge, Gerald Hödl, Leigh Gardner, Michael Jennings, Margaret Jones, Gerold Krozewski, Edward Hamilton, Lucy McCann, Zachary D. Poppel and Uyilawa Usuanlele.

Today the history of British aid-assisted colonial development from the early to mid twentieth century is a vibrant area of research. This conference will bring together scholars from around the world who work in this area to exchange knowledge and ideas.

Over two days a series of panels will focus on emerging themes and topics such as health and development, regional experiences and metropolitian perspectives. Papers presented by established scholars and early career researchers will consider the meanings of aid-assisted development, its many practices, and its multiple short- and long-term effects. Besides academic papers, the conference will include workshops on archival sources in the UK on colonial development and a round-table on the implications of the papers presented for development policy today.

A keynote address will be given by Professor Paul Greenough (University of Ohio), a leading expert on the social and environmental history of the modern India, on Friday 1 July. He will also deliver a Public Lecture on the eve of the conference, 30 June, entitled "Natural Disasters in Social Theory and South Asia Practice" which is open to all conference delegates.

The conference will be held at the Humanities Research Centre (Berrick Saul Building), University of York. This campus-based venue is a 20-minute bus journey from York train station and a 10-minute bus journey from the centre of York.

The conference is supported by the Department of History and is organised by its British Empire research cluster. Additional financial support has been provided by the Economic History Society, the Wellcome Trust, the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York, and the British Society of the History of Science.

For information on registration and a provisional programme, see the conference website

Institute of Commonwealth Studies - OSPA Witness Seminars

Institute of Commonwealth Studies - OSPA

Witness Seminars

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS), in conjunction with the Overseas Service Pensioners Association (OSPA) intends to hold two witness seminars. These will give OSPA members an opportunity to share their experiences with an academic and non-academic audience.

The purpose of the seminars is to encourage discussion and debate among all those attending rather than to listen to formal papers. Each seminar will, however, begin with a ‘position paper’ setting out the key issues and providing an agenda for the subsequent discussion.

The seminars will be held in Senate House, Malet Street, London from 11.30am to 5.00pm on Wednesday 25 May and Thursday 29 September 2011. There will be three sessions, one in the morning, and two in the afternoon. The sessions will be video-recorded, and the recordings will be available on the ICwS website.

The themes of the seminars are as follows:

Wednesday 25 May 2011 The ‘Westminster model’ and representative government

Subjects for discussion might include:
• To what extent was the ‘Westminster model’ of democracy considered suitable for British dependencies?
• What other forms of representative government were considered in the run-up to independence?
• How much preparation was there both for those to whom we handed over and to the general public?
• How effective and durable were the democratic structures inherited by newly-independent governments?
• What attempts were made to adjust the constitutional arrangements of British territories in the wake of independence?

Thursday 29 September 2011 Aid and trade: development in the British Commonwealth before and after independence

Subjects for discussion might include:
• To what extent was there a coherent British approach to the issue of development in the period preceding independence?
• How effective were the administrative structures devised to encourage development?
• What preparation was given to the establishment of small locally owned businesses?
• What was the attitude of newly-independent governments to the colonial legacy in the area of development?
• What parallels are there between contemporary British policies towards aid and trade and those pursued in the late colonial period?

We are currently seeking a ‘position paper’ for each of the two sessions from an established scholar with a research interest in the relevant subject area. The paper for the seminar on 25 May should set out in general terms British official policy towards representative models of government in the late-colonial period. The paper for the seminar on 29 September should provide an overview of British aid policy in the late-colonial period. The paper will be presented at the beginning of the seminar and will be circulated in advance. It should last no more than 30 minutes and should provide a framework for the subsequent discussion.

Expressions of interest should be sent to mailto:troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk

Call for Papers - Development and Empire, 1929-1962

Call for Papers

Development and Empire, 1929-1962

University of York (UK)

Saturday, 2 July 2011

The global foreign aid budget, which has risen significantly in the first decade of the twenty-first century, is controversial. Although aid has the potential to facilitate capital formation and knowledge transfer, the development economics literature divides into optimists and pessimists, who argue that aid is allocated ineffectively with pernicious effects on long term growth. Despite a voluminous literature on aid, dating back over half a century, historians have only made fleeting contributions to these debates. Historians of the British Empire, however, have access to excellent data that can provide useful insights.

British aid policy dates back to the 1929 Colonial Development Act (CDA), which set up a Colonial Development Fund (CDF) for development projects. Before then, infrastructure projects were financed using international loan finance supplemented by colonial public expenditure. In 1940, the CDA was succeeded by the Colonial Development and Welfare Act (CDWA), which included the development of social services and increased the sum in the CDF from £1 million to £5 million. Official accounts and specialists academic studies have confirmed that British policy was affected by geo-strategic and domestic macro-economic concerns and that its implementation was constrained by the contingencies imposed by post-war austerity. With some notable exceptions there have been far fewer studies of how aid was actually used within colonies.

This one-day conference will extend the literatures on colonialism and development by: tracing the origins of British aid policy; exploring metropolitan and colonial political economies of aid policy during the epoch of decolonisation; considering the impact of aid in British dependent territories; and evaluating how aid policy affected the meanings given to ‘development’.

We are seeking proposals for a 20-minute paper on British colonies in South East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa or the Caribbean that will consider one or more of the following questions:

• How did local bureaucrats, business and other social elites respond to the opportunities provided by an augmented aid budget?

• Did colonial elites collaborate or compete? How were colonial agendas set?

• How did financial-cum-institutional constraints as administrated by the British Treasury affect public capital formation in London and overseas?

• How did scarcities affecting international, British and colonial product markets, and discriminatory imperial commercial policies, affect the allocation and expenditure of aid?

• How was aid administered on the ground: by whom; for whom; and with what effects?

We may offer a limited number of Postgraduate Bursaries to assist postgraduate presenters with registration and travel costs. Those seeking a bursary should state so on their submission.

Submission:

Proposals must include the following:

- Title

- Summary of proposal of maximum 250 words

- 1 page c.v. including author’s name, address, email , institutional affiliation

All proposals must be sent to Dr. Henrice Altink (ha501@york.ac.uk) or Dr. David Clayton (dwc1@york.ac.uk) no later than 17 December 2010. Notifications will be sent by 14 January 2011.