Join us for a special event to celebrate the contribution that Raphie Kaplinsky has made to development studies.
Raphie’s research and policy career, beginning in the early 1970s, has spanned work on a very broad range of issues. It is not possible to cover all of them and do justice to a deep analytic discussion in such an event. Hence, we have rather focused on the past few decades where Raphie has written and thought deeply about a broad set of development issues affecting the global economy. Consequently, the dialogue in this particular event will concentrate on discussing the dynamics of globalisation.
As team leader of the IDS Globalisation team, Raphie played an instrumental role in shaping the contributions which the IDS team made to the analysis of this era after the 1980s, as well as analysis of the period of deepening globalisation. His 2005 book Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality highlighted the role played by Global Value Chains in the global dispersion of production and in the uneven spreading of the gains of globalisation.
His recent work (including his 2021 book Sustainable Futures – An Agenda for Change) argues that we are at the end an era. ‘Business as Usual’ is no longer possible, deep globalisation is on the retreat, and new patterns of production and consumption are emerging which pose daunting and exciting challenges for a new path of development. Going ‘Beyond Catch-up’ is the challenge facing much of the developing world.
Raphie’s work has influenced many of us in the development world. His intellectual style has always been Socratic and interactive and at his request the structure of this event will involve a dialogue trying to tease out the most crucial issues facing the development world. Hence the structure is one of a panel of academics who have interacted with Raphie over the past few decades engaged in a dialogue with him, and hopefully also participants from the floor.
Raphie will introduce the topic with a short statement on the issues. He will then engage in a dialogue with the panel comprising the following.
Panel speakers
- Gary Gereffi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Director of the Global Value Chains Center at Duke University;
- Khalid Nadvi, Professor, Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester;
- Lizbeth Navas-Aleman, Honorary Associate, Institute of Development Studies;
- Adrian Wood, Professor Emeritus of International Development, Oxford Department of International Development.
Chair
- Mike Morris, Emeritus Professor, PRISM School of Economics, University of Cape Town.
This event will be followed by a drinks reception for those attending in person.
How to watch
You can attend in person or register to watch online on Zoom.
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Accessibility
This event will take place in the IDS Convening Space which is on the 1st floor of the IDS Building. If you need to use a lift then press floor 1a.
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