Peter Newell: ‘Climate and development: A tale of two crises’ (Sussex Development Lectures)
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLecture by Prof Peter Newell (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex). Peter Newell is a member of the STEPS Centre and a founding member of the Rapid Transition Alliance. This lecture is one of the Sussex Development Lectures. The theme of the current series (2018/19) is Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals - Synergies and...
STEPS Seminar: Mathilde Gingembre – Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from Madagascar
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSeminar organised by the Resource Politics and Rural Futures Clusters, in association with the STEPS Centre’s PASTRES project Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Slides View the slides from this talk (Slidehare) Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qC0YlUR3Rg This seminar discusses the concept of moral economy as a critical lens to understand responses to corporate land access within agrarian...
Ian Scoones: ‘The SDGs: A new politics of transformation?’ (Sussex Development Lectures)
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLecture by Prof Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre director. This lecture is one of the Sussex Development Lectures. The theme of the current series (2018/19) is Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals - Synergies and Tensions. About the lecture The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive, integrated approach to development, centred on social justice, for...
The Future of the World is Mobile: What can we learn from pastoralists?
European University Institute Florence, Italy Listen to this event About this event Can the experience of pastoralists, who have long relied on mobility, help us address the challenges of global migration, cross-border trade and managing flows of information and commodities? Mobility is increasingly central to our societies. Nomadic practices and networks that enhance mobility are...
STEPS Uncertainty series: Ilene Grabel – When Things Don’t Fall Apart
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomIlene 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...
Matteo Caravani: Disciplinary Diversification in Karamoja: The Case of Charcoal
Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPASTRES/STEPS Seminar with Matteo Caravani, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Room 221, Institute of Development Studies All welcome Following the Karamojong’s historical transition away from transhumant pastoralism – in what has been termed as the de-pastoralisation process – the regional economic reliance on off-farm activities has steadily increased. Colonial and post-colonial interventions have slowly...
STEPS Annual Lecture: Derek Wall – What would Elinor do (about climate change)?
Fulton Lecture Theatre A University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomFulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, UK Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYV7IpcCtTQ * * * About the lecture What would Elinor do (about climate change)? Elinor Ostrom was the first and so far only woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics. Her innovative work on ecological economics challenged the notion of 'the...
PASTRES seminar: Pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula – Reflections on contemporary challenges and adaptations to land use rights
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomRoom 100, Institute of Development Studies Seminar with Dawn Chatty, co-hosted by the PASTRES project and the STEPS Centre All welcome Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK53HSwe5PM&width=700&height=525 About the seminar Nomadic pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula has undergone significant change over the past 150 years as a response to alterations in its relationship with central authority. Efforts to...
Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development
Ester Boserup Prize Lecture by Ian Scoones, ESRC STEPS Centre / PASTRES project Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGgGGxdDZBY Lecture details A1-01.01 Festauditoriet Bülowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C Copenhagen This lecture will draw on the European Research Council funded project, PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience: Global Lessons from the margins) and will link to the ESRC STEPS Centre’s uncertainty...
Researching Pastoral Mobilities: Exploring Methods and Frameworks
18 – 21 June 2019 Friedensau University (Germany/Möckern) The “Pastoral Mobilities: Exploring Frameworks and Methods” writing workshop responds to the need to revisit our methodological infrastructure, as researchers of mobile pastoralism, to align with broader advancements in the understating of pastoral livelihoods and their environments, as well as with the contemporary empirics of research with...
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...
Transformation Laboratories as spaces for co-designing social-ecological transformation: learning from different contexts and approaches
The workshop will propose tools not only to academics but also to policy makers, practitioners, activists and everyone who is interested in designing multi-stakeholder spaces of transformation in the context of sustainability challenges in general and in extractive sectors such as mining and agriculture in particular.
Negotiating Epistemological Frameworks and Normative Commitments Across a Transformative Knowledge Network
This is a session organised by the Pathways network for the Transformations 2019 conference in Sanitago, Chile.
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.
Exhibition: ‘Hidden Paths’
ONCA Gallery 14 St George’s Place, Brighton, United KingdomONCA Gallery 14 St George’s Place, Brighton, BN1 4GB, UK 12.00 - 18.00 daily 16-20 October 2019 Free entry, donations to gallery welcome Global climate strikes are calling for ‘system change, not climate change’, but what does this mean? Extreme weather, automation, political instability, inequality: these crises are connected in deep and often invisible ways....
Applying Technologies of the Self in Transformation Labs to Mobilize Agency
This is a presentation from members of the Pathways network as part of the Parallel T-Practice Sessions at the Transformations 2019 conference in Sanitago, Chile.
Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development and reimagining the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wkL_5h1-o4 CRC Future Rural Africa Lecture Series Universität Bonn, GIUB Lecture by Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies/ESRC STEPS Centre/ERC PASTRES project This talk makes the argument for putting uncertainty at the centre of thinking and practice in development. This means rejecting a linear, technocratic framing and embracing the implications of uncertainty for today’s complex,...
[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...
ONLINE SEMINAR: Sango Mahanty – ‘Rupture: Conceptualising Nature-Society Transformation’
This event is the first in a series of online talks on the STEPS Centre’s ‘Natures’ theme. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjQyVEXB-c About this event Rupture: Conceptualising Nature-Society Transformation* Sango Mahanty Resources, Environment and Development Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University *Based on a forthcoming paper with Sarah Milne, Keith Barney, Phuc Xuan To,...
Webinar: Transformations in and beyond Covid-19 in India and Bangladesh
11.00 UTC · 12.00 UK · 16.30 India · 17.00 Bangladesh Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87JAXv5HZo About this event Flyer (PDF) This event is convened by the TAPESTRY project. The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted almost all aspects of life in India and Bangladesh. Apart from the immediate impacts on victims of the virus, the lockdowns imposed by governments...
Contested Natures: POLLEN 2020 conference
Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) 22-25 September 2020 Brighton, UK #POLLEN20 The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network, Contested Natures: Power, Politics, Prefiguration, was held online from 22 – 25 September 2020. Visit the conference platform Video: Keynote sessions Use the playlist below to...
Politics of Nature reading group: Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. This month, the readings are: Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene by Kyle Whyte Read this article (PDF) Decolonization is not a metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang Read this article (PDF) How to join To...
Communities, technologies and democratic innovation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UGbxHNiMR0 Fusebox director Phil Jones interviewed Prof Andy Stirling and Prof Adrian Smith in a roundtable discussion. They talked about the importance and challenges around democratising innovation, and how people around the world are already practicing new forms of innovation and demanding better from existing innovation institutions. They explored why technology and the kinds of...
Covid-19 and development: the politics of uncertainty
This event was part of the Sussex Development Lectures. Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? From finance and technology to climate change, pandemics, migration and security, what the future holds feels increasingly uncertain and demands alternative approaches. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformations are to be realised, then current blinkered understandings of uncertainty...
Politics of Nature reading group: Infrastructural Brutalism
Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. This month, the reading is Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure by Michael Truscello More about this book How to join To join the PoN email list and / or get access to the Zoom links and readings for...
Enchanting nature: tentacular storytelling in the Great African Kelp Forest
Roundtable with My Octopus Teacher director Pippa Ehrlich and others from the Sea Change Project Video recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNL-TDa31ks About this event There is a forest beneath the waves off the western coast of South Africa that is as biologically rich as a tropical rainforest. Few people have experienced the Great African Kelp Forest like the...
Politics of Nature reading group: Hope Against Hope
Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. The reading for this session is the book by the Out of the Woods Collective, Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis. How to join To join the PoN email list and / or get access to the Zoom links and...
The Truth About Nature: Environmental politics in a post-truth, digital world
A presentation by Bram Büscher, author of The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism, followed by roundtable discussion with Elizabeth Havice and Max Ritts. Moderator: Amber Huff Watch the video Video (120 minutes) of the whole discussion is available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtR2fN-mvJU About this event How should we share the...
Transforming Environments from the Bottom Up – Examples from Marginal Environments in India
This is the first of two virtual sessions convened by the TAPESTRY project at the Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation Action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy88UA9CBuU Speakers: Ketaki Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61) Jai Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61) Hans Nicolai Adam (NIVA) Ranit Chatterjee (Kyoto University) Rohit Jha (Kyoto University) Mihir Bhatt (AIDMI) Lyla Mehta (IDS) Chair: Terry Cannon (IDS) About...
Sundarbans without boundaries
The second of two virtual sessions convened by the TAPESTRY project at the Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation Action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsB6zG3GLA Speakers: Shababa Haque (ICCCAD) Upasona Ghosh (Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneshwar) Mahmuda Mity (ICCCAD) Shibaji Bose (Researcher/communications professional) Annu Jalais (National University of Singapore) Amites Mukhopadyay (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Md Nadiruzzaman (Hamburg University)...
Webinar: What can we learn from the world of pastoralism for wider agrarian struggles?
27 January at 12-13.30 (UTC) Speakers: -Ian Scoones, PASTRES Programme, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, U.K. -Maryam Rahmanian (IPES) -Rahma Hassan PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen and University of Nairobi Register for this event Pastoralists are some of the most marginalised people on the planet, but they have much to teach us all. Pastoralists...
The Politics of Uncertainty – webinar with Natalie Burns and Andy Stirling
About this Event Register online This roundtable discussion is part of a project with the University of Sussex that looks beyond Silicon Valley to try and develop more effective and socially useful approaches to technology innovation. The project links three digital entrepreneurs with three academics from the University of Sussex, to discuss with tech innovators...
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...
Challenging Research for sustainability: transdisciplinary methods, relationships, politics and praxis
As the ESRC STEPS Centre enters its final year, join us for the first in a series of virtual dialogues on methodologies, exploring the theme of ‘Challenging Research’ for sustainability. Subscribe to our Events newsletter In this first event on 17 February, we discuss the ideas and praxis involved in ‘opening up’ and ‘broadening out’...
Power and Methods (ARIN webinar)
14.30-16.30 (East Africa Time/Nairobi) 5 March 2021, online Subscribe to our Events newsletter During 2021, the African Research and Impact Network (ARIN) are convening a series of events and engagements on Methods. The ARIN events explore the question of Decolonising Methodologies to Sustainability in Africa. In the Global South, ‘coloniality’ has long been associated with...
Valuing Diversity in Methods – ARIN webinar
April 15 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EAT (East African Time) Organised by Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoRaaKT682g In 2021, the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) and partners (ACTS Kenya, STEPS Centre UK, Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles and the Global Sustainability Hubs), are exploring what decoloniality would mean for research methods, and policy (engagement,...
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: Africa – ‘Philosophical Underpinnings’ In Decolonizing Research Methods For Transformation Towards Sustainability
This plenary session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. This event is convened by the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN). CONVENERS: Joanes Atela and Joel Onyango. With contributions from Andrew Stirling, Laura Pereira, Nadia Sitas, and Jessica Cockburn View conference programme Background In contributing to the decoloniality imperative, the session...
Transformations Conference: Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. We focus how participatory storytelling, through visual methods, facilitates an engaged process of building knowledge from below by sketching issues of vivencia representing climate change, uncertainty and transformative actions in South Asia. The participants discuss potential, limitations and scope for co-creation of knowledge....
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...
Pastoralism and climate change in West Africa: implications for policy and practice
A public webinar event hosted by the Ghana Hub of the Institute of Development Studies. The event includes a contribution from STEPS co-director and PASTRES project convenor Ian Scoones. Register / More info Speakers Professor Steve William Tonah, Advanced Researcher, University of Ghana Professor Gabriel Teye, Vice-Chancellor, University for Development Studies Professor Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Professor...
ARIN Webinar: Multidimensionality of Methods
Webinar organised by the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN). 8 July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZMaXeye9OU This webinar explores multiple facets of research (such as funding flows, research politics, and the perceived research power dynamics between female and male researcher), and how collectively they promote or undermine decoloniality of methods. Considering that different disciplines have variety in...