RHN 70/2024 | Event
Organisers: European Studies Centre, St Antony (PD Dr. Anette Schlimm)
7–8 June 2024, European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, 70 Woodstock Rd., Oxford, UK
Developing the Rural –
Shifting paradigms and practices in Europe and the world since 1945
Since the 1970s and 1980s, rural development has undergone significant transformation. Concepts and practices that gained influence since the end of the Second World War have been replaced by new ideas. The promotion of rural areas in Europe and international development cooperation with a focus on rural areas have moved away from modernisation theory. Instead, ideas such as "endogenous" or "integrated" development have gained influence. The conference will examine the (pre)histories of these transformations and the factors that contributed to this change. It will also scrutinise the model of a paradigm shift. The history of rural development has not simply been a succession of two distinct programmes, but a heterogeneous field with different actors, programmes and notions of rurality, planning, and the state. The conference also serves to bring together new historical and social science approaches to the study of rural areas in Europe and the world. This will result in a deeper understanding of rural development in modern and contemporary societies.
Programme
7 June 2024
9:00–9:30: Welcome and Introduction
Paul Betts (St Antony’s, University of Oxford): Welcome
Anette Schlimm (St Antony’s, University of Oxford/University of Heidelberg):
Introductory Remarks: Developing the Rural – Landmarks and Transformations in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
9:30–11:00 Panel 1: High modernist agriculture planning policies
Chair: Paul Betts
Venus Bivar (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford): French Agriculture Policy in High Modernity
Margot Lyautey (HSU Hamburg): A “Blond Revolution”? Maize and the Intensification of Agriculture in East Germany and France (1950s–1980s)
Courtney Campbell (University of Birmingham): Fixing the Region as Rural: Bureaucrats, Social Activists, and International Development Aid in the Brazilian Northeast, 1950s and 1960s
11:00–11:30: Coffee/Tea
11:30–1:00: Panel 2: Village communities as experimental spaces
Chair: Katherine Lebow
Heiner Grunert (University of Basel): Village councils, cooperatives, health stations and fire services: Modernizing village communities in Poland and Yugoslavia 1910s–1930s
Sam Hillyard (University of Lincoln): Changing understanding and expectations of the village community in contemporary Britain
Clemens Six (University of Groningen): Social engineering in decolonizing rural spaces: India, British-Malaya, and the FAO, 1947–1979
1:00–2:30 Lunch
2:30–4:00: Panel 3 New Governing Perspectives
Chair: Nick Stargardt
Caitlin Scott (University of East Anglia): Governance and Disciplining through Project Management in Rural Development
Emiel Geurts (LMU Munich): Rethinking the Rural: The Environment and Rurality in the “Green” Reorientation of the Common Agricultural Policy, 1970s–1995
Henrik Schwanitz (Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology, Dresden): „Sozialistische Landeskultur“. New planning programmes for a modernised, socialist landscape in the GDR
8 June 2024
9:00–10:30: Panel 4: Transformations/Co-Transformations
Chair: Aliénor Ballangé
Annett Steinführer (Thünen-Institut, Brunswick): From divergence to convergence? Social change in East German villages between the 1990s and the 2010s
Tine Haubner (University of Bielefeld): Informal Economies and Social Participation in Rural Poverty Areas in East and West Germany
Mihai Varga (FU Berlin): The World Bank and the plan of an entrepreneurial revolution for the post-communist countryside, 1990-2003
10:30–11:00: Coffee/Tea
11:00–12:00 Round Table: Transforming Rural development and planning. Actors, Concepts, Interdependencies
Chair: Patricia Clavin
Graham Avery (Oxford) / Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Geneva Graduate Institute) / Michael Woods (Aberystwyth University)
Final discussion, concluding remarks, prospects
Contact details
Anette Schlimm
anette.schlimm@sant.ox.ac.uk
More information here.
Source: H-Soz-Kult