How to Study the Democratisation of Local Publics and State-Civil Society Interaction?

Organised jointly the Centre for International Studies in Citizenship,  Democratic Participation and Civil Society (CIPACI) and the Graduate  School of International Development Studies, Department of Society and  Globalisation, Roskilde University

Programme
9,00: Welcome and introduction by Preben Kaarsholm
9,15: Lecture by Gianpaolo Baiocchi followed by discussion
10,30: Coffee break
10,45: Lecture by Olle Törnquist followed by discussion
12,00: Lunch break
13,00: Presentation of participants' papers, followed by discussion by  Baiocchi and Törnquist, session 1
14,30: Coffee break
14,45: Presentation of participants' papers, followed by discussion by  Baiocchi and Törnquist, session 2
16,15: End of workshop

Participants must submit papers they wish to have discussed at the  workshop (max 6,000 words) to preben@ruc.dk by 10 February 2009 at the  latest

Participants registered as per 1 February 2009: Jakob Trane Ibsen,  Dora Navarro, Paul Stacey, Michael Eilenberg, Mabel Hungwe, Olle  Frödin, Amornwadee Khunsanong, Minna Hakkarainen

On the day before, Tuesday 17 February 2009, Gianpaolo Baiochhi will  be giving a CIPACI series guest lecture at Roskilde University at  13,00 in building 24.2 on 'Participatory Budgetting and the Mapping of Local Civil Societies in Brazil'

Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Director of Development Studies and Associate  Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University.  He is the author of Radicals in Power: The Workers’ Party (PT) and  Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil (2003) and Militants and  Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre (2005)

Olle Törnquist is Professor of Political Science and Development  Studies at the University of Oslo and Director of a research programme  on 'Contextual Politics in Developing Countries'. He is the author of  Making Democracy Meaningful: Problems and Options in Indonesia (2007),  Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation  (2004), and Indonesia¹s Post-Soeharto Democracy Movement (2003).