Understanding sustainability
When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Green extractivism and confronting the industrial machine
Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomAs part of the Politics of Nature reading group, Dr Alexander Dunlap, co-hosted by the CGPE and STEPS centre, presents a seminar on the merits of an anarchist political ecology in assessing extractive projects and charting new directions in (re)imagining ecological, unruly and dignified futures. Drawing on case studies of Europe’s largest opencast coal mine, the Hambach...
The Politics of Uncertainty: Practical Challenges for Transformative Action
Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThis international academic symposium, held at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, explored the theme of uncertainty - the STEPS Centre's theme for 2019. Book | Blog series | Podcast | Video | Background info Book The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation (Routledge, July 2020) is an Open Access book which further...
Relational and Psychological Dimensions of Agency
This is a session organised with members of the STEPS Global Consortium for the Transformations 2019 conference in Sanitago, Chile.
[Postponed] STEPS Summer School 2020
Institute of Development Studies , United KingdomThe ninth and final STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability was due to take place on 11-22 May 2020, but has been postponed until the following year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Participants will explore the theme of pathways to sustainability through a mixture of workshops, lectures, outdoor events and focused interaction with STEPS Centre members....
*Postponed* STEPS Annual Lecture: Andrea J Nightingale
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom* UPDATE, 18 MARCH 2020 * We are sorry that this event has been indefinitely postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bounding unruly landscapes: future imaginaries and socioenvironmental change 2020 STEPS Annual Lecture Andrea J Nightingale Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo Fulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex...
Webinar: Ethics of quantification
14.00-16.45 CET, online This webinar features a panel including STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, alongside Andrea Saltelli and Wendy Espeland. Details & joining instructions About the event Numbers are at the core of the nexus between technoscience, society and the new media. The potential of numbers to inflict harm is on par or superior to those...
SRI 2021: Showing leadership in sustainability science – Lessons from the Global South and beyond the academy
The upcoming 2021 Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) is hosting a session on leadership in sustainability science, narrowing in on what lessons can be drawn from the Global South. Among the session's speakers are two STEPS Centre colleagues: D. Parthasarathy, co project leader of the TAPESTRY Project, and Joanes Atela of the STEPS Africa...
Transformations conference: Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being...
Transformations Conference: Theories and Perspectives of Transformations
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. A live Q&A session with the authors of the presentations in this Interactive Session will take place at the scheduled time. Registered participants can watch the pre-recorded presentations from 7/06/2021 until 31/08/2021. Speakers: Bruce Goldstein Cristina Costa Salavedra Neha Mungekar Paulina Aldunce Andy Stirling...
T-Lab: Transformation As Praxis – Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being assembled...
Transformations Conference: Transformations from within: Towards a 2nd person epistemologies & methodologies
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. Presenters: Jesús M. Siqueiros, Alex Penn; Lakshmi Charli-Joseph; Beth Cullen; Marina Apgar; Andrew Stirling Abstract: Structural, systemic and enabling transformations towards sustainability require reconnecting to our local environment and the biosphere in general (i.e., Folke et al. 2011, Scoones et al. 2020, among...