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SUMMARY:The Politics of Nature: reimagining power\, resistance and critique from above\, below and within
DESCRIPTION:Arts C 233\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, UK \nSpeakers:\nProf Dianne Rocheleau – Clark University\nKathleen McAfee – San Francisco State University \nThis interactive workshop is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre. It follows the conference ‘Resource Politics: transforming pathways to sustainability’. Attendance is free\, but registration is required. Lunch is included. \nRegistration \nIf you would like to attend\, register before 8 September 2015 by sending an email to Andrea Brock: a.brock@sussex.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-nature-reimagining-power-resistance-and-critique-from-above-below-and-within/
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Understanding sustainability
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150910
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SUMMARY:STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics
DESCRIPTION:Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability \nWhy now? Contexts and debates \nIn the build up to the confirmation of the post-2015 sustainable development goals\, the politics of resource access\, allocation and distribution are high on global policy agendas. The limits to economic activity in the face of ‘planetary boundaries’ are being fiercely debated\, and even humanity’s survival in the age of the Anthropocene is questioned. Some suggest a ‘perfect storm’ of factors is combining to present ever growing threats\, often assumed to be at the ‘nexus’ of food\, water\, energy and climate change issues. Among the responses are advocates of ‘green economy’ strategies\, seeking transformations to more sustainable economies. \n  \nBut the ‘sustainability’ framing of these issues needs interrogating. How do these debates draw on earlier neo-Malthusian visions of ‘Limits to Growth’\, blind to social difference\, distributional implications\, and failing to disaggregate local users and politics concerning resource use\, consumption and production? What politics and power relations are hidden by the apocalyptic framings of environmental disaster? What interests are supported by particular framings of ‘scarcity’ or ‘limits’\, justifying appropriation of resources by some to the exclusion of others? \n  \nFood\, water\, fuel and minerals have become the focus of global and local political contests. Land\, water and green ‘grabs’ have re-allocated existing resources to so called ‘efficient’ and economically productive users\, causing local resource scarcities and dispossessions\, damaging livelihoods and infringing basic rights. Resources have become valued\, marketised and commodified\, with a range of unforeseen consequences. At the same time\, activism has flourished\, contesting dominant perspectives. As we seek pathways to sustainability that assure both environmental integrity and social justice\, now is a critical time to ask tough questions about the politics of resources. \nWhy a conference? \nThe STEPS Centre and its partners hope this conference can help unpack assumptions\, question simplistic prescriptions and debate alternatives about the politics of resources and pathways to sustainability. The conference will present research evidence from varied locations revealing multiple pathways of change\, linking conceptual challenges of understanding ‘resource politics’ with institutional and practical dimensions\, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is hoped this debate – with academics\, practitioners\, policymakers and activists taking part – can provide the basis for open and balanced debate about future options. \n  \nResearch challenges \nIn conceptual terms\, the focus on political ecology\, long concerned with understanding the politics of access to\, and control over\, resources from local to global\, is increasingly combined with a concern with the politics of knowledge\, emerging from fields such as science and technology studies. Resource politics should be seen in relation to complex combinations of artefacts\, people and knowledges. Resource control and ‘grabbing’ debates have reinvigorated a concern for earlier Marxist concerns with accumulation and dispossession\, while new perspectives are required to understand the commodification and financialisation of nature. Pathways to sustainability are thus constructed through this complex interplay\, with analysis of power dynamics at the core. This means engaging critically with questions of environmental and social justice and what these mean to different people in diverse contexts in both the global South and North. Increasingly a conceptual perspective on ‘pathways’ combining an understanding of material and structural forces\, the politics that underpin them and the discursive knowledge politics that frame such dynamics\, is essential. \nThe STEPS Centre’s work on resource politics \nThe STEPS Centre’s ‘pathways approach’ has been developed as a way of understanding contending and conflicting pathways of change\, in complex\, highly contested settings. Building on earlier work on ‘scarcity’ and the politics of allocation\, we have highlighted the multiple framings of and responses to climate uncertainty. Similarly\, an earlier focus on ‘institutions’ for resource control and access\, has been extended to looking at resource access in diverse settings from peri-urban India to rural China. Historical work on the politics of landscapes\, including forests or rangeland areas\, has been built on to investigate the commodification of carbon in African forests. Work on water resources has linked issues of access to notions of security\, highlighting political contestation\, for example\, dam construction in southeast Asia. And we have highlighted the variegated consequences of land\, water and green grabbing in different sites across the world. \n  \nConference themes\nSix themes will run throughout the conference\, with panels clustered within each theme. This will allow delegates to take part in fulsome discussions around particular themes. \n\nScarcity\, politics and securitization\nResource grabbing\nGovernance\, elites\, citizenship and democracy\nFinancialisation and markets\nGrowth\, waste and consumption\nGender\, race\, class and sustainability\n\nFind out more on the conference website
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-politics2015/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150319T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150319T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T225655
CREATED:20150219T233052Z
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SUMMARY:Public Roundtable: Nature As Commodity
DESCRIPTION:Download poster (PDF)\nFishery bycatch offsetting in Canada\, catastrophe bonds in the US\, weather derivatives in Ethiopia… What is at stake with the financialisation of nature? Where do we go from here? \nPanel: \n\nMelissa Leach (Director\, Institute of Development Studies)\nHannah Mowat (Fern\, Belgium)\nLarry Lohman (The Corner House)\nAntonio Tricarico (Re:Common\, Italy)\nBram Büscher (Wageningen University)\n\nThis public roundtable discussion is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy\, University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre\, and financially supported by Sussex University’s Doctoral School’s Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) fund. It is linked to a conference exploring critical perspectives on the financialisation of nature. \nAll welcome – free entry \nShare this event with others \n\nFacebook event page\nDownload a printable poster (PDF)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/roundtable-nature-as-commodity/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship St\, Brighton\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150319T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150320T170000
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SUMMARY:Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature - Theory\, Politics and Practice
DESCRIPTION:University of Sussex\, 19-20th March 2015 \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy & STEPS Centre \nUpdate (2 March 2015): A public roundtable on this topic will be held in Brighton on 19 March\, with contributions from Melissa Leach\, Hannah Mowat\, Larry Lohman\, Antonio Tricarico and Bram Büscher.\n \nDownload the conference programme (PDF)  \nCarbon markets in China\, fishery bycatch offsetting in Canada\, catastrophe bonds in the US\, weather derivatives in Ethiopia\, betting on species extinction such as Norwegian sharks… \nThese are just a few examples of the commodification\, marketisation and financialisation of nature. In what ways can we best make sense of these developments? What practical\, political and theoretical innovations will allow us to better understand them\, engage with them and contest them? \nWe invite participants from any discipline to a 1.5 day intensive workshop bringing together doctoral and early career researchers to discuss\, theorise and critically reflect on the practical and political implications of the commodification\, marketisation and financialisation of nature. Papers should focus on questions including (but not limited to): \n\nWhat are the challenges\, contradictions and limits that arise from the creation of these new forms of market-based environmental products and services?\nWhat are the new materialities and commodities of nature that are created through these novel forms of governance?\nHow do these processes change the way we relate to nature\, govern nature\, live in nature and indeed are governed by nature?\nHow does the marketisation or financialisation of nature relate to other forms of accumulation and the wider political economy?\nWhat kinds of (new) power relations are (re)produced through the making of environmental markets\, and what social and environmental justice issues are brought to light or develop in response to these (neoliberal?) phenomena?\n\nParticipants will be required to submit full papers in advance of the workshop and are expected to read each other’s work beforehand to enable in-depth engagement with one another’s arguments. The sessions will be chaired by academics working in the field who will also provide feedback on papers. Moreover\, the workshop will bring together activists and academics for a panel discussion\, reflecting on the interlinkages between activism and research on the financialisation of nature. \nSpeakers \nPresenters will include: \nConfirmed speakers  \n\nProf James Fairhead (Chair in Social Anthropology\, University of Sussex)\nLarry Lohmann (The Corner House)\nHannah Mowat (FERN)\nProf Peter Newell (STEPS/Centre for Global Political Economy\, University of Sussex)\nProf Ian Scoones (STEPS/Institute of Development Studies)\n\nInvited speakers (tbc) \n\nJutta Kill\nProf John O’Neill\nCatherine Corson\n\nRegistration is free and food will be provided. We have some funding for accommodation and travel for a limited number of doctoral researchers. Details about applying for this funding will be sent out once abstracts have been selected. \nThis event is financially supported by Sussex University’s Doctoral School’s Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) fund.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/critical-perspectives-financialisation-nature-theory-politics-practice/
LOCATION:University of Sussex\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150317T143000
DTSTAMP:20260423T225655
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SUMMARY:The inclusive turn of neoliberal conservation? Opportunities and threats of REDD+ in Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:Seminar by STEPS visiting fellow Andreas Scheba \nThe rise of new markets\, or market-like instruments\, in the realm of nature conservation is a key feature of global discourse and strategies around the ‘green’ economy. Innovative ways of measuring\, valuing and trading nature have emerged that enjoy increasing support among public and private stakeholders. At the same time\, critical scholarship has warned against the problematic and contradictory logic of what they call ‘neoliberal conservation’\, raising valid questions of: How does pricing nature contribute to its protection? Who benefits from the new commodities? Who loses? What has politics got to do with it? \nThis seminar will investigate these questions in the context of REDD+ in Lindi\, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two remote\, forest-dependent villages\, I will discuss how and why neoliberal conservation emerges and manifest itself in a deprived rural context; and what effects it has on forest governance\, rural livelihoods and conservation practice. \nThe role of discourse\, politics and power over forest resources will be critically examined\, both currently and in a historical perspective. The findings of my analysis will lead me to argue for an ‘inclusive’ turn in neoliberal conservation that offers both opportunities and challenges for sustainable democratic futures. \nAndreas Scheba is an Austrian born\, early-career researcher who recently completed his PhD in Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester. His doctoral thesis examined the politics and development effects of REDD+ in the Lindi region of Tanzania\, for which he conducted ethnographic research in two remote\, forest-dependent villages.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-inclusive-turn-of-neoliberal-conservation-opportunities-and-threats-of-redd-in-tanzania/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T140000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa
DESCRIPTION:1.00-2.00 Friday 2 May 2014\nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nAll welcome \nSpeakers include: \n\nAndrew Tarimo (Sokoine University of Agriculture)\nEmmanuel Manzungu (University of Zimbabwe)\nBill Derman (Noragric)\nAlex Bolding\, (Wageningen University)\nBarbara Van Koppen (IWMI\, South Africa)\nSynne Movik (NIVA)\nAlan Nicol (Global Water Initiative)\n\nSince the early 1990s\, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources management. IWRM adoption has led to water reform and the rewriting of national policies in many countries in southern Africa. \nIn this seminar we draw on findings from the project Flows and Practices: The Politics of IWRM in Africa to ask: Why has IWRM been so influential in southern Africa? How do abstract ideas of IWRM which evolved in global institutions cope with plural\, overlapping and competing formal and informal legal and customary systems in southern Africa? Has IWRM succeeded in addressing issues concerning equity\, class\, race and gender and in reallocating water in an equitable way?  What does this mean for overall development and poverty reduction? \nPresenters will address these questions by drawing on ongoing research in South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, Mozambique and Tanzania.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-politics-integrated-water-resources-management-africa/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars,Water
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140115T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140115T143000
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency\, Complexity and the Commons
DESCRIPTION:Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses\, Wastes and Wastages\nBruce Lankford\, Professor of Irrigation and Water Policy\, School of International Development\, University of East Anglia\nThe efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy\, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In a recent Routledge book\, the author analyses resource efficiency and efficiency gains from the perspective of common pool resources\, applying this idea particularly to water resources and its use in irrigated agriculture. In a world of increasing scarcity\, the tracking\, amount and ownership of ‘saved’ resources while controlling for rebound (where savings lead to consumption elsewhere) will be of increasing importance as exemplified by Norris (2011) “… the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Montana v Wyoming brings to the forefront one of the most complicated and contested facets of irrigation efficiency: who owns the rights to the conserved water?” \nThe book proposes the concept of “the paracommons”\, through which the savings of increased resource efficiency can be viewed. In effect this asks; “who gets the gain of an efficiency gain?” By reusing\, economising and avoiding losses\, wastes and wastages\, freed up resources are available for further use by four ‘destinations’; the proprietor\, parties directly connected to that user\, the wider economy or returned to the common pool. The paracommons is thus a commons of – and competition for – resources salvaged by changes to the efficiency of natural resource systems. \nDuring the presentation\, ‘liminality’ will be explored signalling the in-betweenness of systems caught between overly optimistic prefigurations of future efficiencies and disappointing outcomes. \n All welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/bruce-lankford/
LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131101T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131101T110000
DTSTAMP:20260423T225655
CREATED:20131031T163035Z
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in southern Africa
DESCRIPTION:Special session at the 14th WATERNET Symposium\, White Sands Hotel\, Dar Es Salaam\nThis special session draws on ongoing research of the Norwegian Research Council Project ‘Flows and Practices. The Politics of IWRM in Africa’ a multi-country research consortium led by the International Environmental and Development Studies\, Norwegian University of Life Sciences See:  http://www.engopa.no/research-projects/flows-and-practices-the-politics-of-integrated-water-resources-management-in-africa \n\n\nLyla Mehta (STEPS Centre water and sanitation convenor) and Synne Movik\n\n\nThe Flows and Practices of IWRM: A Conceptual Framework  \n\nEmmanuel Manzungu\, Bill Derman\, Linda Mtali and Sijabuliso Masango\n\nThe Impact of Urbanization on Implementation of IWRM in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of the Upper Manyame Catchment Council  \n\n Takunda Hove\, Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu\n\nThe Intersection between IWRM\, land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe: A case study of the Middle Manyame Sub-catchment  \n\n Synne Movik and Kristi Denby\n\nInstitutional Integration and Local Level Water Access in the Inkomati Water Management Area\, South Africa  \n\n Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner\n\nMoving beyond IWRM: Developmental Water Management in South Africa  \n\n Alex Bolding and Rossella Alba\n\nIWRM ‘Avant La Lettre’? Four Key Episodes in the Policy Articulation of IWRM in the Downstream Nation of Mozambique   \n\n Preetha Prabhakaran Bisht\n\nGender Invisibility in Global Water Discourses: A Feminist Critique of Integrated Water Resources Management  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/waternet2013/
LOCATION:Tasi 1\, White Sands Hotel\, Dar Es Salaam\, Tanzania\, United Republic Of
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Water
ORGANIZER;CN="Beth Mudford":MAILTO:bethm@ids.ac.uk
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