CFP: The Future of Development Lending

The editors invite submissions for an edited volume with the working title: The Future of Development Lending: A Gendered Analysis of Social Policy, Neoliberal Globalization and Survival Migration. This volume will bring together gendered analyses of the methods, assumptions, intentions, and consequences of current practices. A gendered analysis of each will provide remedial – possibly innovative – alternatives to existing practices. The articles within this volume will assess the conditions that continue to exist in developing countries despite the claim that the 2008 economic crisis marked the end of western imposition of policies and programs of austerity that had for 30 years promoted neoliberal economic development. One central question is whether the leaders of developing countries will maintain control of development policymaking and what this transition might mean for women and the dis-empowered in the developing world. Those interested in submitting an essay for inclusion in the volume should send an email indicating interest and an abstract to isacallforpapers@bloomu.edu. Completed drafts should be received by December 15, 2012.