Rising Powers: The Social Bases of Economic Change
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Social & Cultural Anthropology
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Michael Keith (Principal Investigator) | |
| Scott Lash (Co-Investigator) |
| Description | As a research network designed to develop capacity, collaborative work and stimulate new interdisicplinary doialogue there was no single set of 'findings' genereatd by the network itself. However the collaborations initiated both further funding proposals and scholarly collaborations. Scientific impact was also generated through the early career development of research fellows associated with the programme. Jiang Jun was appointed to a prestigious position in the Strelka Institue for Architecture and Urbanism in Moscow and Will Davies to a lectureship in the University of Warwick Centre for Interdisicplinary Studies. |
| Exploitation Route | The three symposia were conducted in the India Habitat Centre in Delhi, Studio X Beijing hutong conference space of Columbia University Architecture Programme and the board room of Canary Wharf Group in London (the latter two venues leveraged on a complementary basis as part of the network partnership). Each of these events involved bringing together a major international interdisciplinary group considering the theoretically innovative formulation of social externalities in the Rising Powers. There have been five principal audiences for the scientific impact of the network. Firstly, the academic audience of the three symposia which brought together high reputation scholars and stakeholders from different disciplinary backgrounds to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue based on prepared presentations and extensive critique and informal discussion. Secondly, two of the attached research fellows spent time in London on sabbatical leave and participated in a major event at Goldsmiths College: 'Emerging Publics: A Geo-Political Forum' (June 2, 2011) attended by over 250 researchers and graduate students. Thirdly, the working papers series was published online and downloaded freely from the COMPAS website. Fifthly both the research monograph (Keith et al) and other research outputs that were linked to the research network have been written to address an academic audience and will over time generate appropriate citation indices and references. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/research/dynamics/social-externalities-china-india-africa/ |
| Description | The four principal British members of the research consortium (Michael Keith, Oxford, COMPAS), Scott Lash (Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths), John Driffill and Sandeep Kapur (both Economics, Birkbeck) provided academic leadership of the three symposia. All lead academics drew on their networks in India, China and the UK to generate interdisciplinary discussion between economists and social theorists considering the conceptual challenge of understanding the social extermnalities of the growth of the BRICs. Details of the symposia can be found at http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/research/dynamics/social-externalities-china-india-africa/. As early career academics, 3 research fellows provided both research support for the symposia and used the network to develop individual publications. Along with the website for the network a series of working papers were drafted to reflect some of the debates of the symposia. The three fellows also developed both personal networks and secondary publications from their association with the network. Two fellows (Sundaram from Sarai in the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Jiang Jun founder of the premier China architecture journal Urban China) used their honorarium to fund a period of sabbatical study in London, working with British members of the network (Michael Keith (COMPAS, Oxford), Scott Lash (Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths), John Driffill and Sandeep kapur (Ecomics, Birkbeck) and engaging in public events. The network fed directly into the development of the major research grant application to the ESRC Rising Powers initiative involving the four British members of the network which - whilst very strongly supported positively by two referees - did not succeed. However, ideas developed through the network led to sustained and ongoing collaborations involving many permutations of those involved and the published work of principal researchers, early career research fellows and the participants of the thre symposia. The research network made a direct impact on the audiences that were present in the symposia and colloquia that were developed as the core of the network's programme. The second set of audiences is more general. The 'social externalities' frame of reference has been central to a series of high profile plenary addresss that consider how the growth of cities in the global south and the BRICS reconfigure the problem of social externalities. These have been addressed to events that have drawn a wide range of urban policy makers including mayors of major cities, high profile public and private sctor representatives. Developing from our collaboration with the World Bank these have taken place at the following events: Monday 11 June 2012, Washington, The World Bank Rethinking Cities Workshop The Great Migration: Urban Aspirations 1-7 September 2013 UN Habitat World Urban Forum, Naples Discussion groups on city growth and migration. 11-13 September, 2013 Tianjin, World Economic Forum The Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Creating the Future Economy Pecha Kucha presentation: Migration, Mobility & the Flexible City: looking at the challenges facing sustainability of cities by mass migration 8-10 October 2012 Barcelona, The World Bank Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future - Sixth Urban Research & Knowledge Symposium 2012 The Great Migration: Urban Aspirations & Migration Flows to the City 3-5 June 2013 Sao Paulo New Cities Foundation New Cities Summit Plenary Speaker: INCLUDE - How can the City's Diversity Become an Asset http://www.newcitiessummit2013.org/schedule/plenary-include/ These presentations have attracted press attention including most recently comment in the Financial Times (Simon Kuper, 'Priced Out of Paris; June 14th 2013; http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a096d1d0-d2ec-11e2-aac2-00144feab7de.html#axzz2Wk5JnFUa) |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Description | Social externalities : economy and urbanism in China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rising Powers workshop No, 1 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Social externalities workshop II : economy and culture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ESRC Research network and workshops on the 'Rising Powers' This workshop followed on from a very successful colloquium held in Beijing in October 2010, and foreshadows a London workshop in June 2011. The workshop was the first stage in developing a research network supported by the British Economic and Social research Council that interrogates the dynamics of the 'Rising Powers' in the BRICS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/social-externalities-workshop-2-economy-and-culture/ |
| Description | Social externalities workshop III (London) - rising powers & social externalities : rethinking the public sphere |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rising Powers & Social Externalities: Rethinking the Public Sphere Canary Wharf Group Boardroom, 30th Floor, 1 Canada Square, London Friday 10th - Saturday 11th Day 1: Reframing global imperatives - neo-liberalism after the crisis Day 2: Social externalities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/project/social-externalities-china-india-africa/ |