Global Crisis: Responses and Impacts in the Global South - One Day Workshop

Location: Location G19 Old Mining Building

The Global Development & Justice Research Group is very pleased to announce this exciting one-day workshop in association with COST. This workshop examines the nature and character of the global capitalist crisis, its origins in Europe and North America and the impact in the Global South.  It does so by exploring perspectives that explain the background to the crisis and its consequences focussing on several key areas with the aim of understanding the ways in which the crisis has unfolded within the neo-liberal context, its global dynamics as well as national and local features.

Two presentations will map out the background to the crisis and the importance of understanding the context in which it has emerged.  These presentations will indicate how global dynamics impact on the world economy and unfold and are mediated by local actors in the global South.  Specific case study focuses will then examine the ways in which the crisis impacts on women and ask:  What is the significance of a gender analysis of international financial institutions, why is an understanding of gender relations necessary to explore the ways in which the crisis in general emerged and has been described and what implications has the crisis had on women in the global South?  Further case study analysis involves the study of the impact of the global crisis for farmers and agriculture in North Africa and struggles over land.  This case study examines the interconnections between EU policy and food security and rural social differentiation in Tunisia and Egypt.