Development Beyond Aid: Civil Society Actors in the Global South

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel will explore innovative and sustainable strategies by civil society actors in the Global South to enhance community welfare and societal well-being, independent of foreign aid. By highlighting successful case studies and discussing the challenges and opportunities faced, this panel aims to provide valuable insights into alternative development models that prioritize local empowerment and self-sufficiency. The panel seeks to explore diverse models of resource mobilization—including membership fees, social enterprise, local philanthropy, state assistance, mutual aid societies, and South-South cooperation networks—that civil society initiatives utilize to reduce reliance on external aid.

Submissions are invited on a wide range of development topics, including transnational efforts (specifically, those emanating from the Global South) at the local, state, and national level aimed at alleviating social and economic deprivation (including education and healthcare), advancing the social and political rights of women and disadvantaged minorities, safeguarding the environment (through addressing climate change mitigation and sustainable resource management), and improving governance structures.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Development Section / Development Beyond Aid: Civil Society Actors in the Global South

Presider

• Devparna Roy, Nazareth University

Individual Presentations

• Beyond Aid: Domestic Civil Society, Hybrid Logics, and Healthcare Reform in India - Sonakshi Sharma, Brown University

• Faith as Equity Infrastructure: Public Religion, Human Flourishing, and the Church-NGO Partnership in Central America - Alonso Aravena, Baylor University; Carson Mencken, Baylor University

• Participation and Consent: The Local Politics of Urban Upgrading - Alejandra Cueto Piazza, University of Southern California

• Sumud and Resistance Through Healthcare Provision: Popular Mobilizations in Healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory - Weeam Hammoudeh, CUNY-Hunter College; Layth Hanbali

Discussants

• Mary-Collier Wilks, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

• Enrique S. Pumar, Santa Clara University

Session Organizer

• Devparna Roy, Nazareth University