CFP | From Extraction to Emancipation: Development Reimagined

2018 SNX (South-North Exchange Conference)
Antigua, Guatemala
May 18-19, 2018

From Extraction to Emancipation: Development Reimagined

Call for Papers

In July 2015, a delegation of law professors and lawyers from the United States and Canada traveled to Guatemala to study sustainable development. That study inspired the group to produce an edited volume, to be published in early 2018 by Carolina Academic Press and the American Bar Association, that considers Guatemala as a case study to examine broad global themes arising from development practices in emerging economies around the world. The 2018 SNX conference provides an opportunity to continue the discussions and further engage and involve the local victims of unfettered globalization.

This project offers important lessons to policy makers, corporate investors, and affected individuals and communities on strategies to improve distributional justice and respect for the rule of law, including human rights and environmental norms and aspirations. It also connects to such global themes as climate change, labor regimes in the context of trade, and forced migration, all of which have transborder implications and across-border commonalities.

The 2018 SNX conference posits extraction as a metaphor for looking at exploitation from a wider lens. Although the conference is grounded in the Guatemalan experience, we invite speakers from a broader global context whose work is informed by similar experiences. We seek  papers that look at exploitation and resistence from a variety of perspectives and experiences. Particularly, we invite papers across disciplinary boundaries and from all constituencies on the following topics, as well as other topics you might suggest of relevance to the Global South:

• Trade/Economies
• Migration—Economic and Refugee
• Human Rights
• Natural Resources and Environment
• Labor/Precarity
• Globalization
• Women’s Rights
• Violence and Gender Violence
• Children’s Rights
• Poverty/Class
• Corruption/Constitutional Crisis
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Indigenous Peoples