Beyond Good Governance: Rethinking Civil Society, Human Rights and Democracy Promotion

Conference Particpants:

Sinem Adar - Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, Brown University

Sonia Alvarez – Leonard J. Horwitz Professorship in Latin American Politics and Studies, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jonathan Bach - Associate Director and Associate Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, and Visiting Associate Professor of International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University

Gianpaolo Baiocchi - Associate Professor (Research) of International Studies, Watson Institute, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, and Director, Development Studies Program, Brown University

Nathaniel Berman – Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Nehal Bhuta – Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toronto
"New Modes and Orders: Is a Jus Post Bellum of Constitutional Transformation Possible?"

Keith Brown -, Associate Professor (Research), Watson Institute, Brown University

Eduardo Canel – Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program and International Development Studies Program, York University
"Participatory Democracy and Community Activism: the Dynamics of Contentious and Pragmatic Politics"

Paula Chakravartty - Associate Professor, Department of Communications, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Visiting Faculty, Watson Institute, Brown University
"Brand India, Citizen Microsoft and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Civil Society"

Neera Chandhoke – Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, and University of Turin
"What are the Essential Preconditions of Civil Society?"

Ruchi Chaturvedi – Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York
"Violent Articulations of ‘People’s Democracy’ in Kerala"

Bhupinder Singh Chimni - Professor of International Law and Chairperson, Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Visiting Professor of International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University

Brian Connor - Doctoral Candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University

Soraya Cortes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS Porto Alegre)

Peter Danchin - Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland, School of Law

Kavita Datla - Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College

Malathi De Alwis – Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Sri Lanka
"A Double Wounding? Aid and Activism in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka"

Ignacio De La Rasilla – Ph.D. candidate in International Relations with specialization in International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute, Brown University
"Looking Through the Commonplace: The Democratic Principle in International Law and (Some of) Its Critics."

Susan Ellison - Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Brown University

Kendra Fehrer - Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Brown University

Amy Fleig - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Zeynep Gambetti - Assistant Professor, Political Science & International Relations, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
"Thin lines, double-edges and unintended effects: the neoliberal challenge to democracy"

Janet Halley - Royall Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Omar Kutty – Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago
"The Rules of Oversight: The World Bank, Civil Society, and the Politics of Sanitation in Delhi"

Agustin Lao Montes, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ritty Lukose – Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

Eli Marienthal - International Affairs, Brown University

Nivedita Menon – Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
"Civil Society and Fear of the People"

Zina Miller - Visiting Fellow in International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University

Tanya Monforte - Assistant Professor of Law, American University in Cairo, and Visiting Assistant Professor (Research), Watson Institute, Brown University
"Violent Subjects: The Child of International Law in Contested Spaces and Conflict Situations"

Graciela Monteagudo - Doctoral Candidate, Dpartment of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Vasuki Nesiah - Director of International Affairs, and Lecturer in International Studies, Brown University

Daniel Nina - Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico

Keisha-Khan Perry, - Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University

Ileana Porras, Director of Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), and Visiting Professor of International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University

Kerry Rittich - Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, and Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, and Visiting Associate Professor of International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University

Srirupa Roy - Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The Slumdog Syndrome: Rethinking civil society, politics, and power in liberalizing India"

Jeffrey Rubin – Associate Professor, Department of History, and Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University

Hani Sayed - Assistant Professor of Law, American University Cairo

Nisha Shah - Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University

Rosalind Shaw - Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Tufts University

Niall Stephens - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ashwini Sukthankar - International Commission for Labour Rights

Dikshya Thapa - Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, Brown University

Millicent Thayer - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Chantal Thomas - Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School, and Watson Institute, Brown University

Antina Von Schnitzler - Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
“'The People Shall Govern': Protest and the Infrastructures of Democracy
in Contemporary South Africa"

Robert Wai - Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, and Visiting Associate Professor of International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University

Kay Warren - Charles B. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies and Anthropology, Brown University

Guobin Yang – Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University
"Cultural Translation and Civic Environmentalism in China"

For more information, please contact: Beyond_Good_Governance@Brown.edu