Navigating Marriage Decisions: Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Ghanaian Society

Murtala Labaran Gariba¹, Agartha Pokuaah Aduse Oduro², Sabiu Mohammed Gariba³, Ibrahim Mohammed Gariba⁴

1: Chereponi District Assembly, Ghana, University for Development Studies, Ghana; 2: Achiase District Assembly, Ghana; 3: University for Development Studies, Ghana; 4: University of Pardubice, Studentská 95, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic

United Nations and African Union Inclusion of Women with Disabilities in Peacebuilding Efforts

Kirsten Van Houten¹, Fabian Garcia²

1: University of the Fraser Valley, Canada; 2: University of Guelph, Canada

Post-Secondary Experiences of International Students: Voices of Disabled Women from the Global South Studying in Canada

Linh Thuy Dang, Rosemary Condillac

Brock University, Canada

Navigating Fieldwork in Repressive Homelands: Strategies and Challenges for Local Researchers.

Merouan Mekouar, Kira Jumet

York University, Canada

Gazing and Performing: Can the practitioner be perceived?

Remy Bargout

University of Ottawa, Canada

Forging bonds within the neoliberal university: Three graduate women’s experiences forming a feminist collaborative space

Lina Aburas Awadalla¹, Karen Spring², Phuong Tran³

1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: University of Ottawa, Canada; 3: University of Ottawa, Canada

Reflections on Fieldwork: Activists, Research, and Knowledge Production

Nausheen Quayyum

York University, Canada

Extractivist development revisited: The changing political, economic, and socio-environmental dynamics of energy transitions

Chair(s): John P. Hayes (University of Calgary, Canada), Alicja Krubnik (McMaster University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Policy Entrepreneurs & Advocacy Coalitions in the Mexican Mining Sector: 2006-2018

John P. Hayes
University of Calgary

The Role of Development Financing in Green Industrialization: A Critical IPE Analysis of Brazil and Ecuador

Alicja Krubnik
McMaster University

Open Veins of a Global Energy Transition: the Unresolved Politics of Lithium Extraction in Bolivia

Craig Johnson¹, Manuel Olivera Andrade^2
1University of Guelph, ²CIDES – UMSA

From Commodity Consensus to Extractive Bans: Social and Indigenous Movements Mobilizing against Extractivism Across the Americas

Thomas Chiasson-Lebel
Université de l’Ontario français

Hand in Hand? Exploring Non-Traditional Actors in Canadian Foreign Policy at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus

Chair(s): Kirsten Van Houten (University of the Fraser Valley, Canada)

Presentations of the Symposium

Reconciliation, Foreign Policy, and Global Affairs Canada: A Mismatch between Rhetoric and Practice in GAC’s Action Plan on Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

Adam Gaudry
University of Alberta

Human Rights, Violence, and Civil Society: Canadian Civil Society Organizations Challenge Canadian Foreign Policy in the Americas, By: Laura Mac Donald

Laura Macdonald
Carleton University

Canada and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Reconciling Ambition, Challenges, and Policy Coherence

Madison Filmore
University of Ottawa

Canada's human-rights-based responses to peacebuilding efforts in the context of mass atrocity

Andrew Thompson
Balsillie School

Decolonizing Participation though Silence

Neha Soni Arora, Kristina Berynets

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Decolonizing the Field of Project Management: Decentering Western Dominance in ‘Development’ Projects

Ruby Dagher

University of Ottawa, Canada

Decolonizing Narratives: Exploring the Canadian Aporetic Condition in International Development

John Wilfred Bessai

Okanagan College, Canada

Theatre of the Oppressed as a Community-Building Tool for International Students: Paradigms Shift

Rita Dhungel, Asha Thapa, Niraj Joshi, shelley Liebembuk, Jessica Ho, Sampada Subedi, Krishta Timalsina, Kanchan Thapa, Slesha Chhetri, Nishan Pun, Samir Thapa, Bikash Shah

University of the Fraser Valley, Canada

Bridging Perspectives: Examining the Conceptualizations of Development Contributions Among International Scholarship Returnees and Donor Countries

Mai Anh Phuong Tran

University of Ottawa, Canada

'Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to stay': International students' fight for justice in Canada

Ethel Tungohan

York University, Canada

Constructing the Ideal Woman Farmer in Ethiopia: How Gender Representations become embedded in Digital Agriculture Initiatives

Matthew Schnurr, Selamawit Abdella

Dalhousie University, Canada

Developing gender-responsive, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed learning tools to address GBV and development challenges in fishing communities in Kenya

Philip Onguny¹, Neil Arya², Ilene Hayman³, Patricia Orawo⁴, Caroline Odera⁵, Melissa Whaling², Philip Osano⁶, Victoria Gachuche¹, Yassin Ally⁷, Mumbua Mutunga⁸, Austin Omondi⁹, Sylvia Scott¹⁰

1: Saint Paul University, Canada; 2: PEGASUS Institute, Canada; 3: University of Toronto, Canada; 4: STADA, Kenya; 5: WISE-Hub, Kenya; 6: Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI), Kenya; 7: Kivulini - Women's Rights Oragnization, Tanzania; 8: University of Nairobi, Kenya; 9: Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya; 10: Caring Partners Global Inc

Building foundations for change through Feminist Participatory Action Research: Insights and learnings from working with adolescent mothers in Uganda

Shelley Jones, Kathleen Manion

Royal Roads University, Canada

“pls send me pics” : sexual harassment and Indonesian and Filipino domestic workers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ashlynn Ashita Chand

York University, Canada

Rethinking Development through the Lens of Feminist Flourishing

Chair(s): Rebecca Tiessen (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Presentations of the Symposium

Decolonializing Development Through Expanding our Understanding of Wellbeing: Exploring Feminist Flourishing as a Conceptual Framework

Rebecca Tiessen, Ayewa Donko
University of Ottawa

‘Love On Top of Mercy’: Complex Decision Making Among Women Who Survived Wartime Forced Marriage in Northern Uganda

Ketty Anyeko
University of Toronto

Feminist Flourishing as a New Lens for Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace Processes: An Analysis of Women’s ‘Advisory’ Boards in Yemen and Syria

Madi Fillmore
University of Ottawa

Emotional Wellbeing as a Determinant of Adolescent Flourishing in Uganda

Daniel Kikulwe
York University

Youth Leadership in Addressing Environmental Racism and Advancing Climate Justice: Pathways to Decolonial Futures

Adebowale Kazeem Yusuf

Brandon University, Canada

Examining Rwanda’s development through the Homegrown Solutions framework: A case for decolonizing development in Africa.

Regine Uwibereyeho King¹, Rita Yembilah², Nimo Kabore³, Susan Lee McGrath⁴

1: University of Calgary; 2: University of Calgary/Yembilah Evaluation And Research Services; 3: Carleton University; 4: York University

The Critique Western Development Rethinking Indigenous African Cultural Knowledges in Community Development: A Decolonial Dialectic

Ahmed Ilmi

University of Toronto Scharbrough, Canada

Unsettling coloniality of power through decolonial partnership: Perspectives from the global South

Xuan Thuy Nguyen¹, Dana Corfield²

1: Carleton University; 2: York University

Environmental peacebuilding and reconciliation: A literature review

Lena Dedyukina

University of Ottawa, Canada

Valuing all human lives: Addressing the farmer herself conflict and the banditry crisis I. North Central Nigeria

Plangshak Musa Suchi

University of Jos, Nigeria

Political Economy of Knowledge Cooperation and Network Externalities

BINAY KUMAR PATHAK

Mahindra University, India

Geopolitics for Local Development at the Time of Sanctions: Hunt for international tourist, the invention of Chinese “red” memorials in the Urals, and Sino-Russian “Close Friendship”

Matvey Lomonosov

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Unpacking Grenada’s Support for Education, Empowerment and Development Programme (SEED): The Experiences of Single Mothers

Shireen Phillip

York University, Canada

Speculative Dystopias and the Borders of Control: Reimagining Governance in Future Home of the Living God

Iheoma Joakin-Uzomba

University of Calgary, Canada

A Solidarity Approach to Disaster Management: Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery in Contemporary Cuba

Jessica Caitlin Hirtle

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

De(bt)velopment: Financial Inclusion and the Development of Export Agriculture and Climate Vulnerability in the Guatemalan Highlands

Ryan Isakson

University of Toronto, Canada

Does Women in Politics and Income Inequality Affect Sustainable Development in OECD Countries? A Feminist Perspective

Esther Addo-Donkoh¹, Samuel Amponsah Odei², Gariba Labaran Murtala³, Emmanuel Ebo Arthur⁴, Solomon Gyamfi⁴, Mohammed Ibrahim Gariba⁴, Grace Addo-Donkoh⁴

1: Datalink University; 2: University of Hradec Kralove; 3: Graduate School, University for Development Studies; 4: University of Pardubice, Ghana

Unlocking Potential: Youth Participation in Sustainable Development through Non-formal Learning in Rural China

Shiqing Gong

McGill University, Canada

The Role of Social Welfare Policies and Programs in Achieving SDGs at the Local, Regional, and Global Levels

Alamzeb Aamir¹, Jehan Zeb²

1: FATA University Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Paksitan; 2: University of Ottawa, Canada

Le rôle de l’adoption des innovations dans la résilience climatique en agriculture : le cas de la filière manioc au Cameroun

Jean Charles Ononino

University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

Global Aspirations in a Warming World: Small States and the Cooling Dilemma in International Development

Hassan Bashir

Carleton University, Canada

Embodied uncertainties of aquaculture in a changing climate

Bernadette Resurrección, Cheyenne Kammerer

Queen's University, Canada

Extraction, Development, and Capitalist Accumulation in a Globalized World

Holly Cass Ferron

University of Ottawa, Canada

Panel 1: Challenges facing IDS in Canada

Chair(s): Haman Steffi (York University)

Presentations of the Symposium

ROUNDTABLE: THE FUTURE OF TEACHING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES IN CANADA

Vida Shehada¹, Mustahid Husain², Matthew Schnurr³, Andrea Paras^4
1Centennial College, ²University of Toronto, ³Dalhousie University, ⁴University of Guelph

Maximizing Mining Benefits through Participatory budgeting in Ghana.

Sulemana Alhassan Saaka

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Global partnerships for agroecological resilience and cooperative governance: dynamics of food sovereignty and extractive development in UNESCO La Amistad Biosphere Reserve Transition Zones

Chelsea Leann Rozanski

University of Calgary, Canada

Between critical and criminal: (In)Formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining as a frontier moment

Sandra Rocio McKay

Queen's University, Canada

Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco^1,2, Damien Gock^1,3, Alyssa Trotz⁴, Ethel Tungohan⁵

1: DAWN; 2: Huron University College at University of Western Ontario; 3: Western Sydney University, Australia; 4: University of Toronto; 5: York University

Mapping the quotidian relations of uneven development: The case of Craft in Jamaican Tourism

Tka Pinnock

York University, Canada

Navigating Dreams and Realities: Rural Youth Aspirations in Colombia's Licit and Illicit Economies

Maria Margarita Fontecha¹, Silvia Sarapura²

1: University of Guelph, Canada; 2: University of Guelph, Canada

Scaling deep through transformative learning in public sector innovation labs: The roles of civil society in Jamaica-Colombia cultural policy cooperation

Roshane O. Miller^1,2

1: York University, Canada; 2: Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University

Panel 2: Decolonizing the Canadian Journal of Development Studies: A Roundtable Discussion

Chair(s): John Cameron (Dalhousie University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Decolonizing the Canadian Journal of Development Studies: A Roundtable Discussion

Charmain Levy¹, Jess Herdman², Helen Yanacopulos^3
1UQO, ²CJDS Managing Editor, ³University of British Columbia

Motivations Behind Donor Funding Refusal: Towards a Typology of Principled Refusal

Alexandra Hannah Wilson¹, Logan Cochrane²

1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: College of Public Policy, HBKU, Doha, Qatar

How Small and Medium Global Development Organisations in Canada Survived the Pandemic

Heather Dicks¹, Andrea Paras², Asa Coleman², John-Michael Davis³, Craig Johnson², Andréanne Martel⁴

1: Memorial University of Newfoundland; 2: University of Guelph; 3: Worcester Polytechnic Institute; 4: Mission Inclusion

Deconstructing adultism in child-centred INGOs: How childism and child rights impact assessments can facilitate children and youth contributions to global development

Dustin Ciufo

King's University College at Western University, Canada

Training the Next Generation of Canadian International Assistance Officers: Challenges and Opportunities

Katia Vianou

Global Affairs Canada, Canada

Industrial Pollution and Health Issues among Rural Citizens: Does Injustice in Financial Assistance Matter?

Fazal Ur Rehman

University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Global Warming and the Dangerous Skin Diseases among Rural Citizens: Does Injustice Governance Matter?

Fazal Ur Rehman

University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Evaluating the Feasibility, Impact, and Sustainability of the Remote Ultrasound Capacity Building for Antenatal Access Project in Ethiopia

Felagot Taddese Terefe, Mark Loewenberger

Canadian Physician for Aid and Relief, Ethiopia

The contribution of feminist institutionalism to the study of transitional justice processes in Southern contexts

Safo Musta

University of Ottawa, Canada

WPS in the Digital Age: Investigating AI and International Cybersecurity Policy

Holly Cass Ferron

University of Ottawa, Canada

Can feminist aid and mining extractivism be reconciled? Exploring Canada’s role in Peru

Véronique Plouffe

University of Ottawa, Canada

The Power of Oral Story Telling for International Development

Nancy Christine Edwards¹, Diana Kaliza²

1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: University of Toronto

Vulnerability by design: The role of data-driven needs assessment tools in refugee protection

Roda Siad

McGill University, Canada

Decolonizing Development through Migration, Digitalization, and Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Mohammed Ibrahim Gariba², Grace Addo-Donkoh², Samuel Amponsah Odei¹, Labaran Murtala Gariba³, Esther Addo-Donkoh⁴, Emmanuel Ebo Arthur², Nigisti Araya²

1: University of Hradec Kralove; 2: University of Pardubice, Ghana; 3: Graduate School, University for Development Studies; 4: Datalink University

Motorcycle taxis and the app-ification of informal labour in East Africa

Joshua J Ramisch¹, Everlyne B Obwocha², Zaveria W. Maina²

1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: Independent Scholar

Decolonizing Intellectual Capital Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Migration and Digitalization

Grace Addo-Donkoh¹, Labaran Murtala Gariba², Solomon Gyamfi¹, Esther Addo-Donkoh³, Gariba Sabiu Mohammed¹, Mohammed Ibrahim Gariba¹, Dr. Mohammed Marzuq Abubakari⁴

1: University of Pardubice, Ghana; 2: Graduate School, University for Development Studies; 3: Datalink University; 4: University of Applied Management, Ghana

Colonial Amnesia and Fragmented Narratives: The Importance of Beginnings and Foundations in Canadian Undergraduate International Development Studies Reading Lists

Alexandra Hannah Wilson

University of Ottawa, Canada

The Epistemic Landscape of Expertise: Canadian Undergraduate International Development Studies Reading Lists and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Alexandra Hannah Wilson

University of Ottawa, Canada

Shaping an Image of International Development in the 21st Century: The Perspective of Metamodernism

Mohammad Muaz Jalil

University of Ottawa, Canada

Student Perceptions on the Integration of Indigenous Content in the Undergraduate Curriculum in the School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS) at the University of Ottawa (uOttawa)

Rhiannon Dominique Careri

University of Ottawa, Canada

Jumpstarting Evolution: the necessary restructuring of international law, demonstrated and proven by the International Court of Justice's handling of the Royal Dutch PLC versus the Olgae community legal battle

McKayla Lee Kennedy

University of Alberta, Canada

EU Development Cooperation: a Human Rights Game?

Petra Bezdekova^1,2

1: University of Alberta; 2: Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Stripping immunity from the World Bank: The experiences of Honduran small farmers in seeking justice for harms.

Karen Janet Spring

University of Ottawa, Canada

International law, feminism and international development- the exception.

Vida Shehada

Centennial, Canada

Partisanism, ethnic chauvinism and the state of democracy in Africa

Gallous Asong Atabongwoung

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Transculturation and African Development; What we miss when we believe in a one-sided story

Segun Fatudimu

University of British Columbia, Canada

Xenophobia: A paradox of togetherness in South Africa

Gallous Atabongwoung

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

African Tradition and Real Utopias: A Pluriversal Model of Development in Chinua Achebe's Dead Men's Path

Onyeka Emeka Odoh

University of Calgary, Canada

Borderless Solidarities: Transnational Trauma, Mental Ecologies, and Diasporic Resistance in Bangladeshi-Canadian Feminist Movements

Chair(s): Mustahid Husain (University of Toronto, Canada)

Presentations of the Symposium

As above

Nahida Sobhan¹, Fahim Quadir^2
1Bangladesh High Commission in Canada, ²Queen's University

Knowledge System Dynamics in Andean Native Potato Production

Charlotte Potter, Silvia Sarapura

University of Guelph, Canada

Inclusion without Formalization? Digital Services, Formalization and Livelihoods in the Informal Plastics Recycling Sector: Evidence from Maputo, Mozambique

Chris Huggins

University of Ottawa, Canada

From Perception to Practice: How Labour Policies Affect Agricultural Development

Emily Wilson

York University, Canada

Land Tenure Systems and Democratic Consolidation: The Case of Ethiopia

Abdella Abdulkadir Abdou

Brandon University, Canada

Examining women's empowerment and dietary diversity among the small livestock farmers in India

Hom Nath Gartaula¹, Kishor Atreya^2,3, Anisha Sapkota⁴, Deepali Chadha⁵, Prama Mukhopadhyay⁵, Ranjitha Puskur⁶

1: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines; 2: School of Forestry and Natural Resource Management, Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; 3: Department of Watershed Management and Environmental Science, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara Campus, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara, Nepal; 4: Independent Researcher, Kathmandu, Nepal; 5: IRRI, Bhubaneswar, India; 6: IRRI, Hyderabad, India

A Comparative Analysis of Low-Fee Private Schools and Elite Schools Teachers’ Working Conditions, Teaching Contracts, and Recruitment Practices in India

Garima Jha

Western University, Canada

Leveraging Public-Private Collaboration for Quality Education: The Case of India

EMON NANDI

TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, INDIA

Rethinking the “Agrarian Question” Through Cross-Regional Comparative Analysis

Chair(s): Patrick Clark (St. Mary's University, Canada)

Presentations of the Symposium

"Embedded Neoliberalism" and the Resugence of Agricultural Cooperativism in Peru

Patrick Clark
St. Mary's University

Producer Well-Being in the Face of Production Squeezes in the Costa Rican Coffee Sector

Marcela Ortiz Imlach
York University

The Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta Ugrahan and the Agrarian Question in India

Paramjit Singh
York University

The Nobel Prize in Economics as Policy Brokerage in International Development

Ajibola Adigun

University of Alberta, Canada

Confronting asymmetric power in economic decision-making

Jodie Leanne Thorpe

Wageningen University, Netherlands, Institute of Development Studies, UK

Financement social et solidaire et réduction de la pauvreté multidimensionnelle : le cas du microcrédit au Burkina Faso.

Nassirou Kabré

Université d'Ottawa, Canada

The African Development Strategy: how does it need to evolve?

Oghenefejiro Mejire

University of Ottawa, Canada

Social organising, resistance and a collective politics of care in the aftermath of COVID19

Chair(s): Masaya Llavaneras Blanco (DAWN, Huron University College), Damien Gock (DAWN, Western Sydney University)

Presentations of the Symposium

Building a Care System in Argentina: Transformative Potential and Persistent Challenges

Cecilia Fraga¹, Corina Rodriguez^2
1CIEPP, Argentina, ²DAWN; CIEPP/CONICET Argentina

Organizing from the Heart: Migrant Domestic Workers’ Resistance in Malaysia during the Covid-19

Liva Sreedharan, Yen Ne Foo
Independent

Are we still in this together? From a period of Shared Global Precarity to a New Era of Structural Violence and Localised Crises

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco¹, Damien Gock^2
1DAWN, Huron University, ²DAWN, Western Sydney University