The New Public Good: Affects and Techniques of flexible Bureaucracies
Friday, 23 March 2012 to Saturday, 24 March 2012Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Programme
| Friday, 23 March |
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9.00 - 9.30 |
Registration |
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9.30 - 12.00 |
Plenary Panel: Debating the New Public Goods Laura Bear (LSE): Making the New Public Good: Publicity, Friendship and Public-Private Partnerships on the Hooghly River Brenda Chalfin (Florida): 'The Right(s) to Shit': Public Toilets and the Infrastructure of Bare Life on Ghana's Urban Periphery Akhil Gupta (UCLA): Biopolitics, Infrastructure, and Public Goods Matthew Hull (Michigan): Paper, Databases and the Ontology of Land Holdings in South Asia Chair: Harri Englund (Cambridge) |
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12.00 - 13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00 - 15.00 |
Panel 2: Ambiguity, Transparency and Information Gemma John (Manchester): The Flexible Person, Transparency and the Making and Unmaking of Bureaucracy in Scotland Nayanika Mathur (Cambridge): Transparent-making Documents and the Crisis of Unimplementability: a rural employment law and bureaucracy in Himalayan India Prashant Sharma (LSE): The Right To Information Act in India: Bureaucratic Resistance Revisited Discussant: Sian Lazar (Cambridge) |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
Tea |
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15.30 - 17.30 |
Panel 3: Corruption as Ethical Governance William Gould (Leeds): "That venerable and wonderful Institution dustooree”: Custom, daalii and influence in the bureaucracy of late colonial/early independent north India Hannah Brown (LSHTM): Moral Practice, ‘Public Goods’ and ‘Managerial Goods’ Among Health Managers in Western Kenya Paula Haas (Cambridge): Does Too Much Transparency Lead to Opacity? A study of corruption in Inner Mongolia Discussant: Akhil Gupta (UCLA) |
| Saturday, 24 March |
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9.30 - 12.00 |
Panel 4: Measures of Performance: Efficiency and Flexibility Stefan Dorondel and Mihai Popa (Max Planck): Bureaucratic Flexibility and the Translation of Neo-liberal Policies: moralities and public welfare in rural Romania Olaf Zenker (Bern): Failure by Numbers? Settlement statistics as indicators of state performance in South African land restitution Ayaz Qureishi (SOAS): The Marketisation of HIV?AIDS Governance: vertical health programming, public private partnerships and bureaucratic cultures in Pakistan Noa Leuchter (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Along Efficient Lines: negotiating state authority in an Israeli state-bureaucracy Discussant: Brenda Chalfin (Florida) |
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12.00 - 13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00 - 15.30 |
Panel 5: The Public Good and Privatising Ethics David Bholat (Newcastle University): Re-working the 'Northern' in the Rock Fiona McConnell (Cambridge): Professionalising the Exiled Tibetan Bureaucracy in India Jennifer Telesca (NYU): Consensus for Whom? Public goods governing marine life in the Atlantic Trevor Stack (Aberdeen): Shifts in the rationale of government in Mexico Discussant: Matthew Hull (Michigan) |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Tea |
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16.00 - 18.30 |
Panel 6: Citizenship: Material and Affective Exchanges Umut Yildrim (Sabanci University Istanbul): The Affective Beyond of Bureaucracy: accessing aid in Diyarbakir Alexandra Schwell (Wien): Actually We Don’t Have Terrorists in Poland: how the EU shapes bureaucratic constructions of security Manpreet Janeja (Copenhagen/University of Cambridge): School Meals as Flexible Bureaucracies in East London Anna Tuckett (LSE): Learning to play the game: migrants’ everyday encounters with Italian immigration bureaucracy in Bologna Discussant: Liana Chua (Brunel) |
