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SUMMARY:STEPS Uncertainty series: Ilene Grabel - When Things Don't Fall Apart
DESCRIPTION:Ilene Grabel\nProfessor of International Finance\nUniversity of Denver\n \nFree entry\, all welcome \nWatch video\n \nAbout the lecture\nIn When Things Don’t Fall Apart\, Ilene Grabel makes a simple but controversial claim\, based on the work of the eminent social scientist Albert O. Hirschman. Grabel argues that as concerns global financial governance and development finance we are now in a period that she calls productive incoherence. \nUnlike the Keynesian period of the middle 20th century and the neoliberal period that followed\, the current conjuncture lacks an overarching theoretical framework to guide financial governance.  In its absence\, Grabel maps the proliferation of institutional innovation at the national\, regional\, and transregional levels. These experiments are grounded in a spirit of Hirschmanian pragmatism rather than Keynesian or neoclassical dogmatism. They are ad hoc\, often limited in scope\, and even inconsistent with each other. They are in that sense incoherent. \nThe book’s novel normative claim is that this incoherence is productive. It is allowing for new institutional and policy innovations that are contributing to a pluripolar financial governance architecture that is more robust and offers greater opportunities for problem solving and experimentation than the coherent architecture it is displacing. \nGrabel substantiates these claims with empirically-rich case studies that explore the effects of recent crises on established and new networks of financial governance (such as the G-20); transformations within the IMF; institutional innovations in liquidity support and project finance from the national to the transregional levels; and the “rebranding” of capital controls. Grabel acknowledges\, however\, that the incoherent transformations underway also pose grave risks. She considers these risks in the concluding chapter of the book. \n\nAbout the speaker\nIlene Grabel is Professor of International Finance and co-director of the graduate program in Global Finance\, Trade\, and Economic Integration at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver (USA). \nShe has published widely on financial policy and crises\, developmental financial architectures\, regional and transregional financial arrangements\, international financial institutions and global financial governance\, international capital flows and capital controls\, international financial policies\, currency boards and central banks in emerging market and developing countries\, and remittances. \nHer recent book\, When Things Don’t Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence (The MIT Press\, 2017) was awarded the 2018 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize\, and the 2019 International Studies Association International Political Economy Best Book Award. \nMore information can be found at Ilene Grabel’s website. \n\nUncertainty event series\nThis is part of a series of events on the STEPS Centre’s Uncertainty theme in 2019. \nUncertainties can make it hard to plan ahead. But recognising them can help to reveal new questions and choices. What kinds of uncertainty are there\, why do they matter for sustainability\, and what ideas\, approaches and methods can help us to respond to them? \nFind out more about our theme for 2019 on our Uncertainty theme page.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-ilene-grabel-uncertainty-event-series/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190211T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190211T143000
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SUMMARY:Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: The Transformation Lab in the Xochimilco SES
DESCRIPTION:Room 101\, Institute of Development Studies\, Brighton\, UK\n13:00 – 14:30\nSpeaker: Mario Siqueiros-García (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/STEPS North America hub).\nAll welcome \n \nSlides \n  \n Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: the Transformation Lab in the Xochimilco SES  from STEPS Centre\n\nAbout the seminar\nXochimilco is a wetland in the southern part of Mexico City. It is part of a system of lakes in the basin of Mexico and has been used for agriculture for centuries. Xochimilco once fed the Aztecs\, and is still very productive today. However\, now the area is under great urban pressure and degradation. The Xochimilcas (local farmers and residents) have a strong attachment to this land\, and a long history associated with it. The degradation of the wetland\, as well as the changes in the use of land\, are setting a trajectory that is rapidly evolving and is not sustainable. In this context\, those who are concerned for the future of the Xochimilco social-ecological system bear a sense of loss and despair. \nFor two years\, J. Mario Siqueiros-García\, as part of the STEPS North America hub\, worked with local farmers\, residents from irregular urban settlements\, and academics in a Transformation Laboratory (T-Lab)\, as part of the Pathways Network. The project aimed to re-frame and identify novel ways for  promoting individual agency and understandings of the Xochimilco social-ecological system\, and provide a space for exploring the conditions that foster collective agency. Drawing on the learnings from this T-Lab experience\, this seminar will explore more deeply the connection between the concept of agency and the Xochimilco landscape as a social-ecological system. Mario will argue in favour of a process ontology that seems to correspond with the pathways approach\, in which agency and the social-ecological system as a unit\, play a central role. \nAbout the speaker\nMario Siqueiros-García is an Ethnologist with a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology\, an Advanced Studies Diploma and a PhD degree in the Philosophy of Biology. From 2011 to 2014\, he worked at the Ethical\, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) of Genomics Department of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) in Mexico City. Since 2014\, he has been working as a Research Associate in the Department of Mathematical Modeling of Social Systems at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Systems Research (IIMAS) of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). From a complex systems perspective\, Mario is interested in the philosophical and theoretical understanding of the relationship between culture. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-mario-siqueiros/
LOCATION:Room 101\, Institute of Development Studies\, University of Sussex\, Brighton
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190124T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190124T143000
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar - Bioleft: experimenting with an open source seed system in Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\nBrighton\, UK\nEveryone welcome \nSpeaker: Anabel Marin (CENIT/STEPS America Latina) \nThis seminar reports on work carried out in the STEPS America Latina hub as part of the ‘Pathways’ Transformative Knowledge Network. \nIn her talk\, Anabel Marin will outline the sustainability challenges facing Argentinean agriculture and describe the processes of research\, engagement and innovation that have contributed to the development of Bioleft\, an open and collaborative system for seed innovation. \nVideo\n \n\nAbout the speaker\nAnabel Marin is a researcher specialising in innovation and development. Her initial training is in economics and she has a master’s degree in development and a PhD in science and technology policy studies (Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)\, University of Sussex). Between 2007 and 2008 she worked as a Research Fellow at SPRU. Since 2010\, she has been a researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)\, Argentina. She also leads several research projects in Latin America about sustainability in agriculture and the future of seeds. She is a member of the STEPS America Latina hub and co-lead of the Pathways Transformative Knowledge Network. \nThe seminar is hosted/chaired by Adrian Ely (SPRU/STEPS Centre) \n\nRelevant links:\n\nBioleft – official website\nPathways Network \nSTEPS America Latina
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-bioleft-experimenting-with-an-open-source-seed-system-in-latin-america/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181106T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181106T143000
DTSTAMP:20181022T100616Z
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SUMMARY:Dalit women’s narratives of the Green Revolution in rural South India
DESCRIPTION:Room 119\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\nBN1 9RE\, UK \nSpeakers: \n\nDivya Sharma (Research Fellow\, SPRU)\nSaurabh Arora (Senior Lecturer\, SPRU)\n\nSince the 1960s\, the dominant narratives of the Green Revolution (GR) in India have focussed on state-led agricultural intensification through groundwater extraction\, hybrid varieties of rice\, synthetic agrochemicals and mechanisation. These narratives have also centred on mapping impact in terms of yield productivity\, incomes\, or inequalities across regions\, class and caste. Historically marginalised and oppressed Dalit cultivators and workers enter these narratives as beneficiaries of the rising demand for labour\, an increase in wages\, and availability of work in the expanding non-farm economy. In critical narratives of the GR\, they are victims of pesticide poisoning\, de-skilling\, and caste-based discrimination. \nWe offer an alternative set of narratives\, based on life histories of two Dalit women in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu. Employing intersectionality\, we explore how gender\, class and caste together shape non-linear trajectories of poverty and well-being. The ways in which the women articulate memories of critical events show how they actively shaped agrarian and rural transformations\, and how they relate to changing ecologies\, including depleting groundwater\, variable rainfall patterns and eroding village commons. \nThese intersectional narratives\, absent from dominant and critical histories of the GR\, foreground everyday politics around socio-material practices of farm work and care. Challenging the dominant techno-centric narratives\, they draw our attention to marginal cultivation and food practices\, changing relations with land\, negotiation of labouring arrangements\, as well as changing conceptions of risk. We argue that such narratives are crucial for moving beyond policies and politics of engaging with the ongoing agrarian crisis in India\, which remain centred on landowning farmers. \nThis research is part of the ESRC-DFID project Relational Pathways: Mapping Agency and Poverty Dynamics through Green Revolutions that aims to understand the pathways in and out of poverty for farmers and workers in Kenya and India constituted by changing technologies\, natural resources and social worlds.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/dalit-womens-narratives-of-the-green-revolution-in-rural-south-india/
LOCATION:Room 119\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T143000
DTSTAMP:20181106T110256Z
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SUMMARY:'A New Politics From The Left' - Book launch seminar with Hilary Wainwright
DESCRIPTION:31 October 2018 at 1.00 – 2.30pm\nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, UK \nChaired by John Gaventa\, IDS \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAOpMurI510[/embedyt] \nMillions of people passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity\, authoritarianism and fear. They reject both corporate capitalism and an elite political system over which they have no control\, but they are sceptical of the traditional weapons of the left: seizing state power and devising top-down solutions. They are inventing a new politics based on principles of participatory democracy\, cooperation and self-government. \nIn this urgent and original polemic\, activist and academic Hilary Wainwright shows that this new politics must start from sharing the tacit knowledge and creativity of each individual. \nPower should not be exercised as domination\, the imposition of paternalistic rule by well-meaning experts\, but as a collaborative exercise in nurturing and asserting the transformative capacity of the many. \nHilary Wainwright is an academic and radical activist who co-edits the magazine Red Pepper and is a fellow of the Transnational Institute (TNI). \nThis event is part of the STEPS Centre’s Transformations series. \n\nTransformations: our theme for 2018\nFaced with a series of social and environmental stresses and shocks\, there are urgent calls for radical\, systemic change. But\, as past and present experience show\, this can take many forms. What does it take to make sustainability transformations emancipatory (caring)\, rather than repressive (controlling)? \nFind out more about our theme for 2018 on our Transformations theme page.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/a-new-politics-from-the-left-book-launch-seminar-hilary-wainwright/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170510T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170510T143000
DTSTAMP:20170406T123808Z
CREATED:20170406T121407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170406T123808Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar - Ruth Hall: The Reinvention of Land Reform in South Africa: State\, Market and Citizens
DESCRIPTION:Institute of Development Studies seminar with Ruth Hall\, Institute of Poverty\, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)\, South Africa \nThis event will be accompanied by a live audio stream and online discussion. \nLand reform\, one of post-apartheid governments’ main transformatory programmes\, has itself been transformed over the past twenty years\, reflecting changing policy agendas and ideological positions. Initially defined by a focus on multiple livelihoods for the rural poor\, land reform was soon transformed into a plan for the limited deracialisation of commercial agriculture rather than a process of restructuring to overcome agrarian dualism. In recent years this has been moderated by a retreat from allocating private title while still pursuing the capitalisation of black farmers under state leasehold – itself a return to prior models of state trusteeship. \nThe imposition of state control over farm size and production models has been revived\, with a new insistence on ‘production discipline’. In the midst of these changes\, land reform has succumbed to dualistic thinking and exhibits long historical continuities in official government thinking about land allocation\, tenure and the modernisation of African agriculture. While discursively framed as part of a radicalisation of the reform process\, the redistribution process appears to be narrowing\, shaped by a combination of state control\, state neglect and elite capture. \n\nRuth Hall is a professor at the Institute for Poverty\, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape\, South Africa\, and has worked on land reform\, land rights and land governance in South Africa and beyond. She is a regional coordinator of the Future Agricultures Consortium\, in partnership with IDS and others.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-ruth-hall-reinvention-land-reform-south-africa-state-market-citizens/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T163120Z
CREATED:20160718T144049Z
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SUMMARY:Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand\, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Seminar – all welcome \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE \nAbstract: Terms such as “energy democracy” and “climate justice” have gained increasingly widespread usage and acceptance over the last 5 years. In order to give weight to these slogans\, it is necessary to understand the class relations behind the global energy sector\, and the sector’s worldwide division of labour. As a key means of production and consumption in the world-division of labour\, the energy sector as a whole\, both in the short term and in the long term\, are determined (and determinant of) class relations. \nThe energy sector is already an important site of struggle throughout much of the world. These struggles are likely to intensify in the years ahead. The question of “energy transition” is a central axis of class struggle in the world-economy in the years ahead. Like all class struggle\, its outcome is highly uncertain and unpredictable. \nAbout Kolya Abramsky\nKolya Abramsky is a freelance researcher\, educator and consultant on the global energy sector. Over 15 years\, he has focused on the social relations in the sector\, including land\, work\, ownership and choice of technology. Formerly\, he was the International Energy Officer for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa; coordinator of the World Wind Energy Institute (Denmark); Visiting International Scholar/winner of Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science\, Technology and Society\, at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Technology\, Work and Culture in Austria. He has edited two books: Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World\, and Restructuring and Resistance: Diverse Voices of Struggle in Western Europe. He has advised policy makers and addressed universities in five continents. He initiated and built\, jointly with Focus on the Global South\, the website Understanding China’s Energy Landscape. He has a Sociology MA from State University of New York\, Binghamton.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/kolya-abramsky-towards-a-class-based-approach-to-global-energy-transition-shifting-energy-demand-expanding-the-renewable-energy-sector-and-phasing-out-fossil-fuel/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160909T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160909T143000
DTSTAMP:20160718T142442Z
CREATED:20160718T142442Z
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SUMMARY:Tania Li: 'What is politics?'
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Seminar\, all welcome  \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, Brighton BN1 9RE\n \nListen to the seminar\nHear Tania Li’s seminar below\, including questions and answers with the audience. \n \nAbstract: My seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing. In my discipline of anthropology\, there was once a field called “political anthropology\,” with a focus on systems of social organization (hierarchies\, clans\, kingdoms) and social order. This field has exploded: we now have a politics of everything – a politics of food\, gender\, the city\, land\, resources…. As the object of study has dispersed\, it has become difficult to discern what the term “politics of” actually signals. Some theorists declare that we are in an era of post-politics\, in which experts rule in multiple domains of life\, and we have been convinced that “there is no alternative” to the capitalist system.  Few of us work in contexts where we can say the big questions are settled\, yet explicit mobilization to contest inequality and injustice is less common that we might expect. How can we make sense of this? \nIn this talk\, I propose a definition of politics that recovers its theoretical specificity. I argue that a capacity for engaging in a critical politics is permanent and broadly distributed\, but its expression is often interrupted. Hence we need to attend not only to instances in which an explicit critique is articulated\, but also to instances when critical insights are truncated\, potential connections are not forged\, and individuals do not communicate or organize with others.  Studying something that isn’t there – explicit critique and effective mobilization – is of course a difficult task. But posing explicit political practice as a counter-factual (something we might expect to find)\, rather than a teleology (something that will inevitably unfold)\, opens up an important terrain of empirical inquiry. I illustrate with examples from three sites in rural Indonesia that I have examined ethnographically. \nAbout Tania Li\n\nTania Murray Li teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto\, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy and Culture of Asia. Her publications include Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press\, 2014)\, Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch\, NUS Press\, 2011)\, The Will to Improve: Governmentality\, Development\, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press\, 2007) and many articles on land\, development\, resource struggles\, community\, class\, and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. \nVisit Tania Li’s webpage at the University of Toronto
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/tania-li-what-is-politics-2/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160627T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160627T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T163237Z
CREATED:20160621T115021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T163237Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS: to a systemic ecology of mind - seminar with Ray Ison
DESCRIPTION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, UK \nThis seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing capability in the context of the Anthropocene. Prof Ison’s starting point will be to lay down a challenge as to whether those present have a systemic ecology of mind. \nHe will then unpack what he considers to be significant limitations in much contemporary scholarship because of failures to understand: the ‘feral concept’ of system; praxis\, or more specifically systems praxis; complexity\, or complex adaptive system; transformation and governance\, or governing. He will ground the seminar in examples from recent research projects that employ\, or are concerned with\, social learning and systemic inquiry. \nRegardless of framing choice\,  governing in the circumstances of ‘the Anthropocene’ requires major innovations in governance and institutional designs such as social learning and systemic co-inquiry.  Water/river governance research undertaken within the ASTiP (Appied Systems Thinking in Practice) Group at the Open University will be used to exemplify governance innovation. Recent research in Victoria\, Australia will be used to exemplify how  systemic co-inquiry can be harnessed for more effective NRM. \nIn the discussion we can explore implications for the STEPS programme. \n \nAbout Ray Ison\nRay Ison has an international reputation in\, and has been a major contributor to\, ‘cybersystemics’. What is this field you may well ask? Ray’s rationale for using this term was explained in the presentation last year at ISSS2016 in Berlin of his Presidential Address for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)\, and also in a special ‘systemic inquiry’ at Herrenhausen Palace\, Hanover. \nAmongst other matters raised at these events was the significant institutional complexity in the cybersystemic field and the lack of intellectual and political influence for investment in and the furtherance of cybersystemic scholarship – particularly in key policy and research funding fora associated with the UN\, Brussels\, Washington and the like. This is despite the growing awareness that the issues of our time\, the Anthropocene\, if you will\, are systemic in nature and thus require systemic responses\, i.e.\, transformations. \nRay has been Professor of Systems at The Open University (OU)\, UK since 1994.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-to-a-systemic-ecology-of-mind-seminar-with-ray-ison/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\,  Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160608T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160608T143000
DTSTAMP:20160519T142927Z
CREATED:20160519T142927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160519T142927Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Towards a class-based approach to global energy transition
DESCRIPTION:Sorry – this seminar has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule it for later in the year. \nSTEPS Centre Seminar\, IDS Convening Space \nTerms such as “energy democracy” and “climate justice” have gained increasingly widespread usage and acceptance over the last five years. In order to give weight to these slogans\, it is necessary to understand the class relations behind the global energy sector\, and the sector’s worldwide division of labour. As a key means of production and consumption in the world-division of labour\, the energy sector as a whole\, both in the short term and in the long term\, are determined (and determinant of) class relations. The energy sector is already an important site of struggle throughout much of the world. These struggles are likely to intensify in the years ahead. The question of “energy transition” is a central axis of class struggle in the world-economy in the years ahead. Like all class struggle\, its outcome is highly uncertain and unpredictable. \nKolya Abramsky is a freelance researcher\, educator and consultant on the global energy sector. Over 15 years\, he has focused on the social relations in the sector\, including land\, work\, ownership and choice of technology. Formerly\, he was the International Energy Officer for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa; coordinator of the World Wind Energy Institute (Denmark); Visiting International Scholar/winner of Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science\, Technology and Society\, at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Technology\, Work and Culture in Austria. He has edited two books: Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World\, and Restructuring and Resistance: Diverse Voices of Struggle in Western Europe. He has advised policy makers and addressed universities in five continents. He initiated and built\, jointly with Focus on the Global South\, the website Understanding China’s Energy Landscape. He has a Sociology MA from State University of New York\, Binghamton.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/towards-a-class-based-approach-to-global-energy-transition-shifting-energy-demand-expanding-the-renewable-energy-sector-and-phasing-out-fossil-fuel/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\,  Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160428T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160428T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T211510Z
CREATED:20160413T131424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211510Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Connor Cavanagh on responses to violent eviction
DESCRIPTION:Differentiated dispossession: ‘Hunter-gatherer’ responses to violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve\, western Kenya \nSeminar by Connor Joseph Cavanagh \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, UK \n \nCritical scholarship on global land and ‘green’ grabbing has begun to examine the politics of variegation in diverse ‘responses from below’\, or the ways in which various particularities of place influence community reactions to land and resource acquisitions. These discussions are informed by a longstanding tradition of scholarship on the class dynamics of agrarian change\, or the ways in which processes of ‘dispossession from above’ via land acquisitions might intersect with processes of ‘dispossession from below’ in the form of gradual differentiation and rural class formation. In some cases\, however\, we argue that these analyses have not sufficiently historicized and disaggregated the concept of ‘community’ to reveal how variables such as gender\, land tenure\, and prevailing modes of production refract both the impacts of dispossession and the forms of resistance that emerge in its wake. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork on the case of the indigenous Sengwer community’s violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve in western Kenya\, we illuminate the ways in which \n\ni) dispossession for conservation entails novel consequences for communities that understand themselves as ‘hunters and gatherers’\, as opposed to agriculturalists or pastoralists\,\nii) how these consequences are themselves differentiated\, placing unique burdens on women\, youths\, and the elderly in particular. We conclude with a discussion of how such variegation in experiences of dispossession informs ongoing struggles for radically alternative modes of indigenous conservation in Embobut forest.\n\nAbout Connor Joseph Cavanagh\nConnor Joseph Cavanagh is currently a PhD Fellow in the Dept. of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences\, and a Research Fellow in Science Domain 5 – Ecosystem Services at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi. Broadly defined\, Connor’s research examines tensions and contradictions within processes of uneven conservation and development in eastern Africa\, with a specific interest on transformations in forest governance. Recent articles have appeared in Forum for Development Studies\, Antipode\, the Journal of Peasant Studies\, Forest Policy and Economics\, and Geoforum.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-connor-cavanagh-on-responses-to-violent-eviction/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160411T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160411T133000
DTSTAMP:20170209T211615Z
CREATED:20160309T105801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211615Z
UID:8370-1460376000-1460381400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions
DESCRIPTION:Towards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions \nSTEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30\, Monday 11 April 2016\nRoom C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room)\, Arts C\, University of Sussex \nHelene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania  and societal transformation. She will explain why and how electrification processes simultaneously reinforce social inequality and enhance social mobility. \nAhlborg studies the co-development of technology and society and how the provision of electricity services\, based on small-scale renewable energy resources\, impacts on people’s lives and transforms rural communities. She also looks at how the local context and relations of power influence the electrification process and impact on the long–term viability of the energy system. \nHelene belongs to the interdisciplinary research group STEEP-RES (Socio-Technical-Ecological Evaluations of Potential Renewable Energy Systems) at Chalmers University of Technology\, Göteborg\, Sweden. Find out more about Helene Ahlborg. \nEveryone welcome!
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-helene-ahlborg-on-power-and-politics-politics-in-energy-transitions/
LOCATION:Global Studies Resource Centre\, Arts C175\, University of Sussex\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Understanding sustainability
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160226T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160226T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T211932Z
CREATED:20160203T110916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211932Z
UID:8257-1456491600-1456497000@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:How can the ecological impact of the richest 1% be reduced at a time of extreme inequality?
DESCRIPTION:Seminar with Dario Kenner\n1.00-2.30 Friday 26 February 2016\, IDS room 221 \nRecent research by Oxfam and French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel indicates that the richest 1% of people in many countries\, including the United Kingdom\, have huge per capita carbon footprints compared to the rest of the population. The fact that richer people have a larger ecological impact is not that surprising. The question is what to do about it. Dario Kenner\, who has recently published a working paper on the inequality of overconsumption\, will talk about the difficulty in getting the richest 1% to reduce their negative impact on the environment. \nAbout Dario Kenner\nDario Kenner is an independent researcher who launched whygreeneconomy.org in 2013 as a space to share ideas on the policies that should be adopted to address climate change and biodiversity loss. He has extensive experience of working on the environment and in international development\, including lobbying at UN climate change conferences and Rio+20. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/how-can-the-ecological-impact-of-the-richest-1-be-reduced-at-a-time-of-extreme-inequality/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151210T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151210T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T212837Z
CREATED:20151204T085100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212837Z
UID:8114-1449750600-1449756000@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Lunchtime Seminar: ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an upcoming STEPS lunchtime seminar on ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’\, given by Professor Glenn Davis Stone\, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)\, on Thursday\, 10th December 2015\, from 12.30-2pm\, at the IDS Convening Space. \nIn this talk\, Glenn Stone will draw on long-term research on various technological regimes in agriculture to advance our theory of agricultural decision-making and to stake out a set of key issues for upcoming research. In particular I focus on how different introduced technologies change farmer attitudes\, decision-making\, and understandings of agricultural phenomena. The talk will draw on Glenn’s long career of research in Nigeria and India as well as ongoing research in Philippines\, looking at the technological regimes surrounding transgenic cotton and various types of rice – hybrid\, heirloom\, and transgenic Golden Rice. \nAll welcome!  \n\nGlenn Stone is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his ethnographic work in Nigeria and India on small-scale farming and agricultural technology\, and particularly in recent years for his longitudinal studies on the impacts on farmers’ systems of seeds\, knowledge and learning (skilling) of transgenic Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh (Telangana)\, India.\nYou can find more information about Glenn here:\nhttps://anthropology.artsci.wustl.edu/stone_glenn\nhttp://pages.wustl.edu/stone\nhttp://fieldquestions.com/ – this is Glenn’s entertaining and informative blog offering ‘the rest of the story on food\, farming and biotechnology’ \nGlenn is visiting Sussex on 10 & 11 December as a Visiting Fellow of the STEPS Centre\, hosted by Dr. Dominic Glover (d.glover@ids.ac.uk). If you wish to meet Glenn during his visit please contact Dominic to request an appointment.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-lunchtime-seminar-the-making-and-unmaking-of-agricultural-knowledge/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\,  Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151127T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151127T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T213257Z
CREATED:20151013T082735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213257Z
UID:7876-1448629200-1448634600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Seminar: ‘Development without Growth?’
DESCRIPTION:‘Development without Growth?’ \nRay Cunningham\, Jonathan Essex\, Tom Lines \nFriday 27th November\, 13.00 – 14.30\, Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\nThis seminar is jointly held with the Resource Politics cluster at IDS.\n \nIn 2013\, the green think tank Green House published ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, which argues that economic growth\, as conventionally measured\, is over for the UK in anything but the very short term. It examines some of the many far-reaching implications of this insight\, which contradicts mainstream economic and political assumptions. The focus of the book is the implications for the UK. \nIn this seminar\, as well as outlining the core argument of the book\, we want to address the implications of the end of growth in the UK for its role in the global economy. Beyond that\, we want to open up the question of what an end to growth more widely in the ‘developed’ world will mean for the global economy and especially for ‘developing’ countries\, and indeed for our understanding of development as a concept. \nEveryone welcome! \nAbout Ray Cunningham\, Jonathan Essex\, Tom Lines\nRay Cunningham \nGreen House Coordinator\, joint editor of ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, former Director of the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society. \nJonathan Essex \nOne of the authors of ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, a chartered engineer and environmentalist. He has worked for engineering consultants and contractors in the UK\, Bangladesh and Vietnam. He is currently a sustainability consultant at IMC Worldwide\, and a borough and county councillor in Surrey. \nTom Lines \nIDS graduate with 20 years’ international consultancy experience\, specialising in trade and finance as they affect poor countries. Previously a business journalist on commodity markets\, and lecturer in international business at Edinburgh University. \nThis is a locally-sourced event. Jonathan is based in Redhill\, while Ray and Tom both live in Brighton. \n\nPlease contact Annie Lowden (a.lowden@ids.ac.uk) for further details.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-politics-cluster-seminar-development-without-growth/
LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151120T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151120T144500
DTSTAMP:20170209T213641Z
CREATED:20151117T153735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213641Z
UID:8021-1448024400-1448030700@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:‘The ethos of scientific advice’ Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Arthur Peterson\, from STEaPP\, UCL\, will give a seminar on ‘The ethos of scientific advice’ as part of the SPRU Friday Seminar Series on Friday\, 20th November 2015. The seminar will be chaired by Andy Stirling (SPRU)\, and followed by a Roundtable on ‘Dilemmas of Uncertainty in the Politics of Science and Innovation’\, with James Wilsdon and Erik Millstone as panellists. \nThe seminar will begin at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre 144 in the Jubilee Building\, at the University of Sussex\, and end at approximately 2.45pm. \nAll welcome!  \nPlease note sandwiches will be available beforehand from 12:45pm. Coffee/tea/biscuits will be available from 2pm after a very short break\, introducing the discussion sessions. \n********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** \nAbstract:  \nThere are many theories that can inform analysis of how science advice is done or should be done. Here I define “science advice” as “practices involving individuals\, organisations and structures that mobilise natural and social scientific and engineering knowledge into public decision-making”. In this seminar\, I will demonstrate that although some theories are well elaborated\, empirical proof for the described changes\, roles and processes in scientific advice is limited. After reviewing literature and outstanding questions on roles of scientific advisors at local\, national and international levels\, I will offer a pragmatist analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Subsequently\, I will assess capacity-building needs in science advice across a range of cultural and political contexts\, and governance scales: What skills do future science advisors and recipients of science advice need to deal responsibly with their tasks? I will conclude with presenting elements of an ethos of scientific advice\, which are based on experiences with implementing post-normal science at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. \nBio: \nProfessor Arthur C Petersen (DPA PhD MA MSc) joined UCL STEaPP fulltime in September 2014 after more than 13 years’ work as scientific adviser on environment and infrastructure policy within the Dutch Government. Most recently he served as Chief Scientist of the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2011–2014).\nArthur is also Adjunct Professor of Science and Environmental Public Policy at the VU University Amsterdam (since 2011) and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (since 2009)\, and has been Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2009–2014) and at UCL STEaPP (January–August 2014).\nArthur studied physics and philosophy\, obtained doctorate degrees in atmospheric sciences (Doctor of Philosophy – PhD\, Utrecht University\, 1999) and philosophy of science (Doctor of Public Administration – DPA\, VU University Amsterdam\, 2006)\, and now also finds disciplinary homes in anthropology and political science. Most of his research is about managing uncertainty. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-ethos-of-scientific-advice-seminar/
LOCATION:SPRU\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151116T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151116T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T213419Z
CREATED:20151104T132606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213419Z
UID:7973-1447678800-1447684200@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Centre Seminar “Will Africa Feed China?”
DESCRIPTION:The STEPS Centre Seminar on ‘Will Africa Feed China?” was by Professor Deborah Bräutigam and took place at the IDS Convening Space\, on 16th November 2015\, 13:00-14.30.  \nAudio recording: \n \nIs China building an empire in rural Africa? China has nine percent of the world’s arable land\, six percent of its water\, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa’s savannahs and river basins host expanses of underutilized land and water. Some believe that China is buying up African land to grow food to ship back home. \nIn her book Will Africa Feed China?\, Deborah Bräutigam probes the activities behind headlines. Challenging conventional wisdom\, she finds that Chinese farming investments and land acquisitions are surprisingly limited. China exports more food to Africa than it imports. Will this change? As Africa pushes for foreign capital\, China encourages its agribusiness firms to “go global”. International concerns about “land grabbing” are justified. Yet to feed its own population\, Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Will Africa Feed China? introduces the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and entrepreneurial private investors who followed. Their fascinating stories\, and those of African farmers and officials\, ground Bräutigam’s informative\, balanced reporting. Forcefully argued and empirically rich\, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work\, enlightening China’s quest for food security and Africa’s possibilities for structural transformation. \nAll welcome!  \n\nDeborah Bräutigam is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy\, Director of the International Development Program\, and Director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa and many studies on Chinese engagement in Africa. Previously\, she served as Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Professor at American University’s School of International Service. In addition to advising over a dozen governments on China-Africa relations\, she has served as visiting scholar at the World Bank and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Her book—Will Africa Feed China?— will be published in October 2015 by Oxford University Press.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-centre-seminar-will-africa-feed-china/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151006T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151006T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T213817Z
CREATED:20151002T094452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213817Z
UID:7845-1444136400-1444141800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Seminar: Ocean management - linking satellite and socio-economic data
DESCRIPTION:‘Ocean management: Linking satellite and socio-economic data to inform sustainability’  \nEleni Papathanasopoulou and Hayley Evers-King \nKNOTS meeting area\nInstitute of Development Studies\n1-2.30pm on 6 October 2015 \nOceans are playing an increasingly important role in countries’ development strategies to address issues such as food security\, unemployment and poverty. Aquaculture has been identified as one of the priority areas for these strategies and investment. However\, it is unclear where aquaculture farms should be located and what their potential socio-economic impacts will be. \nThis talk explores how satellite and socio-economic data can be linked and used to address these uncertainties for England\, Scotland and South Africa. It will describe the data and images produced by satellite systems in terms of its temporal and spatial resolutions\, ability to identify areas of high water quality\, harmful algal blooms and monitor environmental change. The benefits of superimposing socio-economic information\, such as employment and industries’ economic contributions\, onto these satellite images and their use in sustainability analyses will be presented and explored in terms of the added value in combining these datasets. The next steps in developing a web-based visualisation tool to host and provide the capability to query the project’s data will be discussed. \nAll welcome. \nAbout Dr Papathanasopoulou and Dr Evers-King\nDr Eleni Papathanasopoulou is an economist based at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory using input-output\, general equilibrium and macroeconomic perspectives to assess the impacts of changes in the environment to whole economic and social systems. She has recently applied these approaches to estimate the economic impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in England\, health cost savings of aquatic physical activities and the social implications of changes in coastal communities. She holds an ESRC-Satellite Applications Catapult fellowship (2015-16) which is funding the work being presented. \nDr Hayley Evers-King is a marine Earth observation scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory specialising in the development of novel algorithms and applications for ocean colour satellite data. Her research has involved detection of high biomass (HABs) in South Africa\, and assessments of interannual variability of these blooms in coastal regions with developing aquaculture and fishing industries. She is developing capacity for coastal water quality remote sensing using the new generation of high and medium resolution Earth observation satellites. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-ocean-management-linking-satellite-and-socio-economic-data/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars,Water
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150911T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150911T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T214053Z
CREATED:20150903T085039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214053Z
UID:7732-1441976400-1441981800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: 'Resource Politics: Future Directions'
DESCRIPTION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, UK \n‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’ \nDianne Rocheleau and Kathleen McAfee \nA critical resource politics can contribute to reframing conservation sciences to bring science into the service of social and ecological justice. To this end\, many of us are challenging the fetish of economic growth and the market-centric logic that has come to dominate ‘pragmatic’ environmentalism. \nBut are better ways of knowing and acting possible? As political ecologists\, we can explore the various expressions of ‘living well’/in harmony with the living world\, to develop a useful response to the creative initiatives of social movements throughout the world. Resource politics can address ecological and cultural defense\, and alternative visions of the future\, from indigenous practices and politics to “degrowth” approaches. \nAn engaged resource politics can challenge the systematic oppression and the lethal inertia of global systems in the face of climate change\, land and resource grabbing\, and widespread contamination\, while contributing to new repertoires of knowledge and practice. \nAbout the speakers \nDianne Rocheleau is Professor of Geography and Director of the Global Environmental Studies program at Clark University. She has previously worked on forestry\, farming and development alternatives with international\, national and local organizations. She currently writes about and works with communities and movements who defend territory and complex human ecologies while building socially just and ecologically viable futures. \nKathleen McAfee (San Francisco State University\, USA) has long experience in community and global-justice activism and policy analysis (Oxfam\, UN agencies). Her academic work focuses on “selling nature to save it”\, the political economy and ecology of ecosystem services and carbon markets\, and alternatives to export-dependent\, growth-based\, market-centered development.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-resource-politics-future-directions/
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:20150715T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T173000
DTSTAMP:20170209T214544Z
CREATED:20150706T130415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214544Z
UID:7564-1436976000-1436981400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai - Chinese Renewable Energy Policy
DESCRIPTION:‘Chinese Renewable Energy Policy – Policy Implementation\, and Participation’ \nYixin Dai\, School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University \nIn order to reach its ambitious emissions targets\, China has been promoting renewable energy through a series of top-down policies since 2006. Recent successes have seen wind turbine installation capacity exceed 100GW in 2014\, and nuclear installation capacity reach 23GW in June 2015. The questions are: can we attribute this to strong central government? What is the role of local implementation in promoting renewable energy policies? Will any bottom-up effort influence future development of Chinese renewable energy policy?  This seminar addresses these questions by drawing on two of the speaker’s papers on the implementation gap and perception gap in Chinese renewable energy (RE) policy development. \nYixin Dai is an assistant professor in School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University. Her research interests focus on theory of innovation and technology transfer\, technological innovation in the environment and energy area\, and technology governance. Her current research studies different low carbon innovation paths between China and other parts of the world\, technology governance at local levels\, as well as the national innovation system in China.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/yixin-dai-chinese-renewable-energy-policy/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150611T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150611T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T214804Z
CREATED:20150603T101611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214804Z
UID:7434-1434027600-1434033000@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Challenges of Nation-wide Scaling up and Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:This event will be live streamed (see below) and a video recording will be available afterwards.\n \nSince its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000\, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 65 countries across Asia\, Africa and Latin America where more than 400 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments. \nDr Kamal Kar\, the pioneer of CLTS\, will speak about the challenges of nationwide scaling up of CLTS\, especially in the run up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a particular focus on new strategies of some African nations on national scaling up. He will also discuss second and third generations challenges of CLTS susch as sustainability\, inclusion and waste containment. \nLive stream below:
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/kamal-kar-clts-june2015/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Health & disease,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150514T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150514T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T215001Z
CREATED:20150413T135804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T215001Z
UID:7245-1431608400-1431612000@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Nora McKeon on Food Security Governance
DESCRIPTION:‘Food Security Governance: empowering communities\, regulating corporations’ \nSeminar with Nora McKeon. All welcome. \nTerra Nuova\, Board Member\, Roma 3 Masters in Human Development and Food Security\, Lecturer\, West African Network of Peasant and Agricultural Producers’ Organizations (ROPPA)\, Technical Adviser \nToday’s global food system generates hunger alongside of land grabs\, food waste\, health problems\, massive greenhouse gas emissions. Nora McKeon’s new book explains why we find ourselves in this situation and explores what we can do to change it. In her talk she will review how the international community (mis)handled food issues since WWII up to the food crisis of 2007-2008\, privileging short term national or private interests over long-term public goals of equity and sustainability. She will contrast how actors link up in corporate global food chains – in which producers\, consumers and the environment are the losers – and in the local food systems that are considered to be “alternative” but in fact feed most of the world’s population. She will explain how the financial and structural power of corporations\, allied to discourse that portrays their approach to meeting the world’s food needs as “modern” and “productive”\, allows them to set the rules to their advantage. She will point out the perils of “scientific evidence-based” decision-making when it intrudes on the terrain that properly belongs to political process and value-based debate. \nThe author will describe how people around the world are organizing to protect their access to resources and build better ways of food provision\, in what is increasingly referred to as a food sovereignty movement. The United Nations Committee on World Food Security – a uniquely inclusive global policy forum since its reform in 2009 – could be supportive of these efforts in pursuing its mandate to defend the right to food of the world’s population. The talk will conclude with a call to blow the whistle on speculative capitalism by building effective public policy instruments for accountable governance and extending their authority to the realm of regulating markets and corporations. \nAbout Nora McKeon \nNora McKeon studied history at Harvard and political science at the Sorbonne before joining the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations where she directed the organization’s relations with civil society. A major focus of her work was opening FAO up to civil society/social movements.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-nora-mckeon-food-security-governance/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Governance & policy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150508T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150508T163000
DTSTAMP:20170209T215513Z
CREATED:20150213T111141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T215513Z
UID:7021-1431093600-1431102600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Seminar: Low carbon innovation paths in Europe and Asia:  Divergence or Convergence?
DESCRIPTION:IDS/SPRU/STEPS Seminar \nThe current technological shift from high to low carbon development coincides with a geographical shift: the rapid expansion of green production and innovation capacity in China and India. This constellation gives rise to the question: to what extent\, how and why do the innovation paths in Europe and in Asia differ? \nThe seminar focuses on this question and presents the findings of new comparative research on renewable energy and electromobility. It is based on a joint project of the German Development Institute\, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi\, Tsinghua School of Public Policy and Management\, and Institute of Development Studies. \nParticipants: \n\nHubert Schmitz (IDS) What are the issues? Why are they important?\nRasmus Lema (Aalborg) Europe-Asia comparison: renewable energy\nTilman Altenburg (DIE/GDI) Europe-Asia comparison: electromobility\nAdrian Ely (SPRU-STEPS) Moderator
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-low-carbon-innovation-paths-europe-asia-divergence-convergence/
LOCATION:Room 144\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\,  BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T130000
DTSTAMP:20170209T215601Z
CREATED:20161111T165438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T215601Z
UID:7182-1429009200-1429016400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Innovation for Sustainability  in a  Changing China: Exploring  Narratives and Pathways
DESCRIPTION:Adrian Ely and Sam Geall\, STEPS Centre / SPRU\n14 April 2015 at 11am – 1pm\nVenue tbc \nChina is the global leader in renewable energy investment and has adopted ambitious targets for low carbon development. Given the environmental impacts of the country’s current development trajectories and China’s increasing role as a source of innovation \, progress towards these targets are of vital importance to the whole world. \nThis seminar will explore some of the key political narratives that have underpinned China’s policies in these areas\, and in wider debates around sustainable development. At the same time\, we outline emerging Chinese narratives around the concept of innovation\, and the ways these link to environmental objectives. Drawing on theoretical insights from work in the STEPS Centre (Leach et al 2010) that investigate the role of power in shaping narratives\, knowledge and action around specific ‘pathways to sustainability’\, we explore the ways in which dominant policy narratives in China are driving particular forms of innovation for sustainability\, and potentially occluding or constrainin g others. \nThis event is part of the Sussex China Seminar Series. Participants are asked to register in order to attend.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/innovation-for-sustainability-in-a-changing-china-exploring-narratives-and-pathways/
LOCATION:tbc
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150317T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150317T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T220104Z
CREATED:20150311T162521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220104Z
UID:7135-1426597200-1426602600@steps-centre.org
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:20150223T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150223T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T220211Z
CREATED:20150210T144611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220211Z
UID:7007-1424694600-1424700000@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Seminar: Sustainable Development at a Crossroad: Transformation of the Industrial State during a Perfect Storm
DESCRIPTION:STEPS/SPRU seminar \nNicholas A. Ashford\, PhD.\, JD. \nProfessor of Technology and Policy and Director of the Technology and Law Program\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). \nThe most important barriers to achieving a transformation to a more sustainable industrial system is lock-in or path dependency due to (1) the failure to envision\, design\, and implement policies that achieve co-optimization\, or the mutually reinforcing – rather than the compromising – of societal goals (economic welfare\, environmental quality\, and employment/earning capacity) and (2) entrenched economic and political interests that game (and gain from) the present system and advancement of its current trends. System-wide change requires system-wide thinking and action. \nSound legislative and programmatic changes\, and an independent judiciary\, are compromised by gridlock\, corruption\, and diversionary tactics while the debates we should be having are sidestepped by the media and self-serving political maneuvering. Sustainable development requires both technological and institutional changes\, while ‘opening up the participatory and political space’ to enable new voices to contribute to integrated systems thinking and solutions. Societal innovations and transformation are also needed but they are insufficient by themselves to transcend technical\, economic\, financial\, and political lock-in. However\, technology is neither the major barrier nor the solution. Financial and political reform is key to accomplishing both. \nInsights from Prof Ashford’s recent book with Ralph Hall: Technology\, Globalization\, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2011\, Yale University Press) will inform the presentation.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/sustainable-development-at-a-crossroad-ashford/
LOCATION:Arts A04\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141008T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141008T190000
DTSTAMP:20170209T221622Z
CREATED:20140922T080712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221622Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Simms - Cancel the Apocalypse: New Pathways to Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:Public lecture organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex \nEver get the feeling that things are falling apart? You’re not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless\, but what if everything could turn out\, well\, even better than before? What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies? \nIt’s a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream\, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports\, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value\, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay. \nIn fascinating and iconoclastic detail – on everything from the cash in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our working lives – Cancel the Apocalypse describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning\, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to our environment\, and hasn’t even made us any happier in the process. \nSimms believes passionately in the human capacity for change\, and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While global warming and financial meltdown might feel like modern day horsemen of the apocalypse\, Simms shows how such end of the world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beginning. \nAndrew Simms is the author of several books\, including Ecological Debt\, The New Economics and the bestselling Tescopoly. He is the chief analyst on the environment at Global Witness\, and was NEF’s policy director for over a decade\, founding its work programme on climate change\, energy and interdependence. He trained at the London School of Economics and was described by New Scientist Magazine as\, ‘a master at joined-up progressive thinking.’ The Independent newspaper listed him as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists and London’s Evening Standard included him in their Power 1000 as one of the capital’s most influential people.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/andrewsimms/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140704T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140704T143000
DTSTAMP:20210404T164311Z
CREATED:20140624T134246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210404T164311Z
UID:6436-1404478800-1404484200@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Daniel O’Connor on the use of social media in health research
DESCRIPTION:‘The Apomediated World: The Ethical Challenges of Using Social Media in Health Research’ \nSTEPS Seminar with Daniel O’Connor\, PhD\, Head of Humanities and Social Science at the Wellcome Trust \n \n\nSTEPS Seminar: Dan O’Connor – The ethical challenges of using social media in health research by Stepscentre on  Mixcloud \n\nSocial media such as blogs\, wikis\, discussion forums\, ratings sites and online social networks like Facebook and Twitter\, are completely changing the ways in which lay people and health professionals create\, share and understand health information. We can now find\, discuss and even review diagnoses\, symptoms and treatments with pretty much anyone\, anywhere in the world\, almost instantly. The transformation from just a decade ago is astounding. This seminar will explore the ethical challenges that this transformation raises for health research in particular. \nDrawing on examples of emerging uses of social media in health research (including patient-led research\, crowdsourcing and social recruitment practices) Dr Dan O’Connor\, Head of Humanities and Social Science at the Wellcome Trust\, will argue that existing research ethics frameworks\, concerned as they are with vertical power differentials\, may be inadequate to deal with those ethical challenges. In their place he proposes an ‘ethics of apomediation’ in which the moral concerns of power differentials are replaced with those of a horizontal peer-to-peer system.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-daniel-oconnor-use-social-media-health-research/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Health & disease,Research methods,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140520T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140520T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T223050Z
CREATED:20140512T135722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223050Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Kamal Kar on Community-Led Total Sanitation
DESCRIPTION:‘The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in achieving an Open Defecation Free (ODF) World’ \nKamal Kar\, Chairman CLTS Foundation  \nThis event will be livestreamed (see embedded video below). \nThe UN seeks to eliminate the practice of open defecation entirely by 2025. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000\, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 56 countries across Asia\, Africa and Latin America where more than 35 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments. CLTS has also been mainstreamed in the sanitation policies of several African countries. More than 80 countries are now ODF. Still\, 1 billion people continue to defecate in the open and 82% of them live in just 10 countries with India continuing to be the country with the highest number of people (597 million) defecating in the open. Nigeria has also seen the largest increase in numbers of open defecators since 1990\, with 39 million people defecating in the open in 2012\, compared with 23 million in 1990.  It is well known that open defecation causes disease spread and also increases the vulnerability of millions of women and girls around the world. \nDr Kamal Kar\, the pioneer of CLTS\, will speak about the potential of the CLTS approach in achieving the sanitation MDG with a special focus on Africa. He will highlight the progress made by nations in running the last mile until December 2015 and will also discuss second and third generation challenges of CLTS such as sustainability\, waste containment and the politics of scaling up. For the benefit of those who are not very conversant with the CLTS approach\, he will also focus on its key principles and methodology. \nFree entry – all welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-kamal-kar-community-led-total-sanitation/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Health & disease,Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T140000
DTSTAMP:20170209T223429Z
CREATED:20140424T144635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223429Z
UID:6255-1399035600-1399039200@steps-centre.org
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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