Our
key theme is the political economy of contemporary South
Asia. At the core of these transformations are the fraught
and so-called "truncated transition," where
South Asian societies are not making the transition
from farm to factory, but the rise of informal economies,
industrial clusters, in-between agrarian-urban and peri-urban
spaces force us to rethink familiar transition narratives
and to eschew them in favour of more grounded theories.
These are processes that are enabled in various complex
ways by populist politics, both progressive and conservative.
We
propose the following themes:
Instructions
for abstract submission
Submit an abstract within 500 words here.
The abstract should ideally fall under one of the themes.
We will look for theoretical considerations/ assumptions,
research questions, methodology, and findings when reviewing
the abstracts. We encourage PhD scholars in their advanced
stage dissertation writing stage, post-docs, and early
career Assistant Professors to submit their abstracts
for consideration.
Important dates
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Last
date to submit abstracts: 30 June, 2023
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Notification
for selected abstract: 15 July, 2023
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Last
date for submission of the full papers: 15 August,
2023
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Notification
for selected full papers: 1 September, 2023
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Sai
Balakrishnan (University of California, Berkeley)
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Vamsi
Vakulabharanam (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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Arun
Balachandran (University of Maryland Maryland/Columbia
University)
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Sattwick
Dey Biswas (Institute of Public Policy, National
Law School of India University, India)
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Sunanda
Nair-Bidkar (Institute for New Economic Thinking,
New York)
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Jay
Pocklington (Institute for New Economic Thinking’s
Young Scholars Initiative, New York)
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Heske
van Doornen (Institute for New Economic Thinking's
Young Scholars Initiative, New York)
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