STEPS: to a systemic ecology of mind – seminar with Ray Ison

Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK This 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...

Tania Li: ‘What is politics?’

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

STEPS Seminar, all welcome Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE Listen to the seminar Hear Tania Li's seminar below, including questions and answers with the audience. Abstract: My seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing. In my discipline of anthropology,...

Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

STEPS Seminar - all welcome Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, BN1 9RE Abstract: 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...

Seminar – Ruth Hall: The Reinvention of Land Reform in South Africa: State, Market and Citizens

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom

Institute of Development Studies seminar with Ruth Hall, Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), South Africa This event will be accompanied by a live audio stream and online discussion. Land reform, one of post-apartheid governments’ main transformatory programmes, has itself been transformed over the past twenty years, reflecting changing policy agendas and ideological...

‘A New Politics From The Left’ – Book launch seminar with Hilary Wainwright

Convening Space Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom

31 October 2018 at 1.00 – 2.30pm Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies, UK Chaired by John Gaventa, IDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAOpMurI510 Millions 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...

Dalit women’s narratives of the Green Revolution in rural South India

Room 119, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Room 119, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer BN1 9RE, UK Speakers: Divya Sharma (Research Fellow, SPRU) Saurabh Arora (Senior Lecturer, SPRU) Since 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...

STEPS Seminar – Bioleft: experimenting with an open source seed system in Latin America

Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom

Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Brighton, UK Everyone welcome Speaker: Anabel Marin (CENIT/STEPS America Latina) This seminar reports on work carried out in the STEPS America Latina hub as part of the ‘Pathways’ Transformative Knowledge Network. In her talk, Anabel Marin will outline the sustainability challenges facing Argentinean agriculture and describe the processes of...

Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: The Transformation Lab in the Xochimilco SES

Room 101, Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex, Brighton

Room 101, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK 13:00 - 14:30 Speaker: Mario Siqueiros-García (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/STEPS North America hub). All welcome Slides Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: the Transformation Lab in the Xochimilco SES from STEPS Centre About the seminar Xochimilco is a wetland in the southern part of Mexico City. It...

STEPS Uncertainty series: Ilene Grabel – When Things Don’t Fall Apart

Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Ilene Grabel Professor of International Finance University of Denver Free entry, all welcome Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T-vQb5Nja4 About the lecture In 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...