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SUMMARY:Emancipatory rural politics I: contextualizing authoritarian populism and emancipatory rural politics
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Member Amber Huff will chair a Panel Conference at The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018. \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT\nDeepening inequalities\, socioeconomic exclusion\, persistent poverty\, fractured identity and loss of esteem are all features of rural areas today. All of these characteristics have been associated to differing degrees with the crises of ostensibly ‘progressive neoliberalism’ (Fraser 2017) and the rise of regressive and often contradictory forms populism (Scoones et al. 2017). ‘Authoritarian populism’ (Hall 1979\, 1998) describes a broad politics\, resonant with appeals to ‘the people’ and characterised by the rise in prominence of discourses of aggressive protectionism and nationalism\, growing concern over the ‘other’ and a radical deregulation of private industry\, while at the same time utilising state powers to privatise resources and services and increase surplus for a minority. Using conceptual tools of political ecology alongside other approaches from critical social science and radical practice\, papers presented in this session explore the historical and political-economic roots the current conjuncture\, the emergence of and responses to authoritarian populism in different forms and rural settings throughout the world. In different ways\, presenters address key questions: How are political cultures produced\, contested and resisted in diverse rural spaces? Amidst these politics\, how do tensions play out along the intersecting axes of social difference like race\, class and gender? How are rural landscapes and experiences shaped by and also shaping these wider politics? How is ‘emancipation’ envisioned? What is lost in dominant media narratives? This session is part of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI). \n  \nSPEAKERS\nAmber Huff\, Christopher Neubert\, Justa Mayra Hopma\, Karina Benessaiah\, Wendy Wolford \n  \nRELATED EVENTS\nThis Session is followed by a second panel session Emancipatory rural politics II: resisting\, mobilizing and creating alternatives.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/emancipatory-rural-politics-i-contextualizing-authoritarian-populism-emancipatory-rural-politics/
LOCATION:Bacchus Room\, New Orleans Marriott\, 555 Canal Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emancipatory rural politics II: resisting\, mobilizing and creating alternatives
DESCRIPTION:The second Panel Conference at The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018. \n  \nABOUT THE EVENT\nThe current political conjuncture has given rise to new forms and manifestations of ‘authoritarian populism’ (Hall 1979\, 1998) with wide-reaching implications (Scoones et al. 2017). In this session\, we ask what alternative politics – and political-economic practices – also emerge at this conjuncture. What are ‘emancipatory’ possibilities or ‘alternative’ rural politics in practice in settings that may simultaneously seem to have been left behind by globalized capitalism\, yet represent the new (last?) frontiers of enclosure\, extraction and financialization? Informed by insights from political ecology\, alongside other approaches and methods from critical social science and radical practice\, presentations in this session explore relationships between historical and contemporary rural struggles\, forms of resistance and mobilization\, and practices of imagining and creating alternatives\, encouraging a comparative conversation. How are new alliances being built between urban and rural movements\, within and outside mainstream political formations? How and why do informal\, unruly styles of politics intersect with or reject more formal organized movements and electoral and institutional politics? How have conflict and violence both closed down and opened up new spaces for the development of new forms of resistance\, mobilization\, and practices of imagining and creating emancipatory alternatives? How are power\, class\, the state\, participation\, citizenship\, institutions and democracy conceptualized or contested? This session is part of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI). \n  \nSPEAKERS\nLevi Van Sant\, Sayoni Bose\, Eloisa Berman-Arevalo\, Sara Black\, Loka Ashwood\, \n  \n\nRELATED EVENTS \nThis panel follows  a session on Emancipatory rural politics I: contextualizing authoritarian populism and emancipatory rural politics chaired by STEPS member Amber Huff . \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/emancipatory-rural-politics-ii-resisting-mobilizing-creating-alternatives/
LOCATION:Bacchus Room\, New Orleans Marriott\, 555 Canal Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70130\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180502
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Maps\, Measures and Narratives for Transdisciplinary ‘Grand Challenge’ Research
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 1st May\nUCL Institute for Global Prosperity\, London \nThis full-day workshop will consider the capacity of research communities\, such as but not limited to those supported by The Nexus Network\, to deliver inter- and transdisciplinary research. \nThe workshop offers an opportunity for those engaged in such research to explore and pilot innovative methods for evaluating their own researcher capabilities\, and the capacities of their research networks. \nThe workshop is convened by the ESRC Nexus Network\, in which the STEPS Centre is a partner. STEPS co-director Prof Andy Stirling is among the participants in the workshop. \nMore information: The Nexus Network
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/workshop-maps-measures-narratives-transdisciplinary-grand-challenge-research/
CATEGORIES:Research methods
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
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SUMMARY:Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability: 14 - 25 May 2018
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URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/summer-school-on-pathways-to-sustainability/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20171031T112941Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Annual Lecture: Kate Raworth
DESCRIPTION:Economics as if we wanted to survive the 21st century \nThe economist Kate Raworth\, author of the bestselling book Doughnut Economics\, gave the 2018 STEPS Annual Lecture at the University of Sussex. This is the only public event of the STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow446ym9Tjc[/embedyt]\n\nAbout Kate Raworth\nKate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges\, and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. \nShe is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute\, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. \nHer internationally acclaimed idea of Doughnut Economics has been widely influential amongst sustainable development thinkers\, progressive businesses and political activists\, and she has presented it to audiences ranging from the UN General Assembly to the Occupy movement. Her book\, Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist was published in April 2017.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-annual-lecture-kate-raworth/
LOCATION:Jubilee Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180531T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180531T213000
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SUMMARY:Report from Rojava: Revolution at a Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:This free public event features panellists Lloyd Russell-Moyle (MP\, Kemptown Brighton)\, Elif Sarican (Kurdistan Students Union UK)\, Simon Dubbins (UNITE the union) and Janet Biehl (writer and artist\, translator of ‘Revolution in Rojava’ and ‘Sara: My Whole Life Was a Struggle’) who discuss their experiences on delegations to northern Syria / Western Kurdistan and what they have learned about the successes and challenges facing the ‘Rojava Revolution’ on the ground. \nThe event is co-sponsored by the ESRC STEPS Centre\, Brighton Kurdistan Solidarity\, the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign\, the Freedom for Öcalan Campaign TU Group and the Kurdistan Students Union\, UK. \nFor more information\, see the Facebook event.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/report-from-rojava-revolution-at-a-crossroads/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship St\, Brighton\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180726T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180726T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
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SUMMARY:Public event: Meeting Energy - EASST 2018 conference panel
DESCRIPTION:Lancaster Town Hall\, Dalton Square\nLancaster LA1 1PJ \nSTEPS member Prof Andy Stirling (SPRU) is among the panel for this public event on energy\, as part of the annual EASST conference. The other panellists are Gillian Kelly and João Camargo\, and the meeting is chaired by Maggie Mort of Lancaster University. \nFrom the website: \n“With a Science and Technology Studies sensibility we will see energy as an actor by exploring technologies and materials of energy and how they engage\, imagine\, undermine or support\, think and plan with and through\, energy systems. We aim in this meeting to pin down the category ‘energy’; to ground it\, by making visible some of the practices\, strategies and encounters between humans and things\, that are often hidden in political rhetorics. We do this by starting with some hidden encounters between civil and military nuclearities\, then we consider some embodied resistances to the violence of fracking and then widen to the experiences of activists and campaigners in the climate justice movement.” \nThe event is free\, but space is limited. \nThe conference is organised by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). \nFull details (EASST2018 website) / Facebook event page
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/panel-meeting-energy-easst-2018-conference/
LOCATION:Lancaster Town Hall\, Dalton Square\, Lancaster\, LA1 1PJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180804
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180805
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20180712T105038Z
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SUMMARY:The Sustainable Development Goals: What are they and will they make a difference?
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Co-director Ian Scoones will be delivering a talk in ‘The Lyceum’ tent at Wilderness festival on Sat Aug 4 (hosted by the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex) \nAt the end of 2015\, the world signed up to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These were to be universal\, covering all of humanity. No-one was to be ‘left behind’. Following on from the UN High-Level Political Forum on the SDGs in mid-July\, this talk will ask what are these goals\, and what potential for change do they offer? Do the global goals offer an opportunity to focus on the political transformations required to achieve sustainable development\, both north and south? \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-sustainable-development-goals-what-are-they-and-will-they-make-a-difference/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180921T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20180904T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Transformations to Sustainability programme workshop
DESCRIPTION:Researchers from two STEPS-related projects will attend this workshop\, which brings together the projects of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) programme. \n\nThe Pathways Network\, now in its final year\, will share findings and insights from its series of ‘Transformation Labs’ around the world.\nThe TAPESTRY project\, which began in 2018\, explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty.\n\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-to-sustainability-programme-workshop/
LOCATION:Fukuoka\, Japan
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180925T142000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180925T162000
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SUMMARY:Transforming Power Relations: Insights from the Transformations to Sustainability programme
DESCRIPTION:A panel session at the World Social Science Forum 2018 in Fukuoka\, Japan\, which includes contributions from the Pathways Network.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transforming-power-relations-insights-from-the-transformations-to-sustainability-programme/
LOCATION:Fukuoka\, Japan
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181011
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20180705T093441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T192702Z
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Sustainability - Understanding Sustainability Challenges and Key Research Needs
DESCRIPTION:Nairobi\, Kenya \nThis event\, hosted by the Africa Sustainability Hub\, explored sustainable development challenges and priorities for the African continent. Topics include the role of research and partnerships\, what research is needed\, priority funding areas and opportunities for Africa. \n \nMedia coverage of the event\nVideo coverage \n\nNTV\, Kenya – YouTube\nCapital FM news – YouTube\nBrandplus TV Kenya – YouTube\n\nOther online coverage \nAnchor Big Four agenda on research to avoid guesswork – experts\nJoseph Muraya\, Capital FM\, 10 October 2018 (full article) \nBoost universities’ research capacity\, experts tell State\nMark Oloo\, The Standard\, 14 October 2018 \nSocial media\n\nWhat are Africa's biggest sustainability challenges and key research needs? This morning in Nairobi we're discussing science\, innovation\, partnerships and funding\, at a workshop hosted by @ASH_Excellence https://t.co/trVv5X9sIF#AfricaSusDev \n— STEPS Centre (@stepscentre) October 10\, 2018 \n \nView all tweets with the hashtag #AfricaSusDev. \n\nEvent details\nInvited speakers included: \n\nDr Joanes Atela\, Africa Sustainability Hub / ACTS\nProf Shem Wandiga\, Chancellor\, Egerton University\nProf Hamadi Boga\, Permanent Secretary\, Ministry of Agriculture\nDr Ochieng Odero\, DFID EA Research Fund\nDr Richard Munang\, UN Environment Africa\nDr Eng Ahmed Hamdy\, African Union\nDr Grace Mwaura\, African Academy of Sciences\nDr Roy Mugiira\, National Commission of Science\, Technology & Innovation\nDr Kaburu Ciugu\, African Academy of Sciences\nProf David Ockwell\, STEPS Centre/University of Sussex\nProf Madara Ogot\, University of Nairobi\nDr Michele Leone\, IDRC\nDr Roselida Owuor\, National Research Fund\nProf Izael Da Silva\, Strathmore University\nDr Adrian Ely\, STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex\nProf Andrew Stirling\, STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex\nDr Anabel Marin\, CENIT\, Argentina\nProf Ritu Priya\, JNU\, India\nDr Yang Lichao\, BNU\, China\nProf Hallie Eakin\, Arizona State University\n\nThe event also shares findings of the STEPS Global Consortium’s Pathways Network\, which has explored the use of social innovation methods to address socio-ecological challenges in six sites around the world. \nThe publication T-Labs: A Practical Guide\, which shares methods and case stories from the network\, will be launched at this event. \nThe event\, hosted by the Africa Sustainability Hub\, is aimed at policy-makers\, funders and development practitioners\, and will involve an international group of participants\, including members of the STEPS global consortium. \nFor more details contact F.Imbali@acts-net.org.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pathways-network-final-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Research methods
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181031T143000
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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:20181031T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181102T183000
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SUMMARY:Decolonial Transformations: Imagining\, Practising\, Collaborating
DESCRIPTION:This event\, arising from a collaboration between the University of Sussex and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, aims to create a space for conversations and collaborations around the theme of Decolonial Transformations. \nVenue: University of Sussex\, Falmer campus \nRegister: Prior registration is necessary to attend. \nEvent description: \nThis workshop provides a space for conversations and collaborations around the theme of ‘Decolonial Transformations’. The world we currently inhabit has been structured significantly by imperial and colonial rule. While colonization was resisted over the longer durée\, the decolonization movements of the last seventy years consolidated and institutionalised these efforts. This has led to the beginning of a fracturing of the colonial world order. This fracturing remains incomplete. \nColoniality continues to be pervasive as a structuring force in the world\, often manifesting as the modernist control of nature and civil society\, racialised divisions of labour\, Eurocentric social theories\, global governance regimes that institutionalise asymmetric relations (in trade\, natural resources and capital)\, racialised migration regimes\, disqualification of ‘non-Western’ modes of knowing\, demonization of specific identities and xenophobia\, and the silencing and erasure of subaltern histories. While struggling against these forms of coloniality\, there is an urgent need for imagining and realising transformations that can help build alternate decolonial worlds and sustainable futures. \nA key aim of the workshop is to think about and discuss how to move recent conversations around coloniality and decolonial transformations forward\, linking academic scholarship with art\, activism\, and everyday life. This workshop brings together scholars\, artists\, students and activists to collaboratively imagine and reflect upon decolonial processes. It aims to further cooperative engagement in and among movements aimed at decolonial transformations\, for realising educational justice\, ecological regeneration and pluriversal futures. \nThe workshop will include a variety of different events and forums over two and a half days\, including panel discussions\, interviews\, interactive and participatory workshops\, and creative spaces and performances. The afternoon workshops will be streamed to bring together work in Scholarship\, Art\, and Activism. \nThis workshop is a collaboration between SOAS and the University of Sussex. We welcome you to join us in 3 days of conversations and collaborations on ‘decolonial transformations’. \n\nLinks \n\nEvent website\nDetailed programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/decolonial-transformations-imagining-practising-collaborating/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181101T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
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SUMMARY:Discussion: Transformations to Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:This event will discuss transdisciplinary methods\, global collaborations and the politics of transformative action for sustainability\, drawing on experiences from around the University of Sussex campus. Through making meaningful connections between a variety of areas and projects\, we aim to understand the strengths of Sussex work on transformative change and identify opportunities to build on them. This afternoon meeting presents the opportunity for Sussex and IDS colleagues and invited guests to discuss the following: \n\nThe notion of ‘transformations’ (to sustainability) and the analytical contribution that different kinds of researchers can play in understanding them\nThe potential political role that inter/transdisciplinary research can play in contributing to transformations and how this varies across different disciplines\, cultures and contexts\nChallenges of international collaborative research of the kind practiced by the STEPS Centre and others on campus\, and currently supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund.\n\nInvited contributors from schools across campus will reflect on their own work and offer insights from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives. \nSTEPS colleagues will introduce the work that has been carried out under the Pathways Network in the context of the first year of the ESRC transition funding (2018)\, in which we have adopted ‘Transformations’ as the thematic focus of our work. Adrian Ely will report on the network’s research on transformations around food and agriculture\, water and sanitation and energy and climate. \nConfirmed speakers:\nAndy Stirling (SPRU\, STEPS Centre)\nAdrian Ely (SPRU\, STEPS Centre)\nMelissa Leach (IDS)\nJoseph Alcamo (Geography\, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme)\nCatherine Will (Sociology\, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme\, Sussex European Institute)\nRajith Lakshman (Health and Nutrition Cluster\, IDS) \nThis event is part of the ESRC STEPS Centre’s programme for 2018\, focusing on the theme of ‘Transformations’. \n\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/discussion-transformations-to-sustainability/
LOCATION:Room 115\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181103
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
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SUMMARY:Argentine Congress of Open and Citizen Science (CIACIAR)
DESCRIPTION:CIACIAR (Congreso de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana en Argentina) was a one-day congress held at the University of San Martín\, Buenos Aires\, Argentina. \nThe event was convened by CENIT and Cientópolis\, and sponsored by STEPS Latin America. \nThe event was attended by more than 200 people among researchers\, scientists\, disseminators of science and technology\, and university students from Buenos Aires\, La Plata\, Rosario\, Córdoba\, Río Cuarto and Mendoza. \nBlog: The challenges of open science by Muriel Tosi\, 7 November 2018 \n\nMore information\nThe CIACIAR event website (in Spanish) has full details of the event\, including programme details. \nView the event website \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/argentine-congress-of-open-and-citizen-science-ciaciar/
CATEGORIES:Research methods,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181106T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181106T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED: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:20181121T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20181119T102457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T102457Z
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SUMMARY:Can pastoralists help us to respond to global uncertainties?
DESCRIPTION:Seminar by Ian Scoones\, ESRC STEPS Centre director\, at the College of Environmental Sciences & Engineering\, Peking University \nUncertainties are everywhere: climate change\, financial crises\, migration flows\, infrastructure development\, disease outbreaks and more. Pastoralists – people living largely from livestock in dryland\, montane and Mediterranean regions – have long experience of responding to intersecting uncertainties. Perceptions\, cultures and practices; markets and economic relations; and institutional arrangements and governance systems have co-evolved with environmental\, economic and political uncertainties. Can we learn from these experiences for other contexts\, such as financial systems\, disease outbreak response\, migration policy and critical infrastructure management\, where the challenges of responding to uncertainty are real\, and growing? \nThis event is related to the PASTRES project.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/can-pastoralists-help-us-to-respond-to-global-uncertainties/
LOCATION:College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering\, Peking University\, Beijing\, China
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181129T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20181119T105245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181120T161953Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding Uncertainty and Climate Change: Views from India
DESCRIPTION:**THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED** \nSeminar with Lyla Mehta\, Shilpi Srivastava and Lars Otto Naess\nResearch Fellows\, IDS \nThe scale and impacts of climate change remain deeply uncertain. This is particularly true at the local level\, where climate related uncertainties combined with accelerated growth trajectories often exacerbate social and political inequities and the vulnerabilities of marginalised communities. Policy makers and scientists tend to draw on quantitative assessments\, models and scenario building to understand and capture uncertainty\, often disconnected from how local people – particularly those living at the margins – make sense of and cope with uncertainty. \nThis seminar will discuss findings from an ongoing project in three sites in India (Kutch\, Sundarbans and Mumbai)\, funded by the Research Council of Norway\, focusing on how uncertainty is understood and experienced from ‘below’ by the lived experiences of local people\, how it is conceptualised and represented from ‘above’ by climate scientists and experts and how the ‘middle’ – civil society\, NGOs\, academics – can potentially function as brokers between the ‘below’ and ‘above’. \n\nThis seminar relates to the ongoing project on Climate change\, uncertainty and transformation hosted by NMBU (Norway)\, which builds on the earlier STEPS Centre project Uncertainty From Below. \nThe event is part of the Climate and Development seminar series convened by the Institute of Development Studies.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/understanding-uncertainty-and-climate-change-views-from-india/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190124T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190124T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20190115T162528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190205T122448Z
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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:20190211T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190211T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20181120T141058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T223922Z
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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:20190314T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190314T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20181029T154004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190218T213853Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Newell: 'Climate and development: A tale of two crises' (Sussex Development Lectures)
DESCRIPTION:Lecture 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. \nThis 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. \nThe lecture will be recorded and livestreamed. See the IDS website for more information. 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/peter-newell-climate-and-development-a-tale-of-two-crises-sussex-development-lectures/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190319T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190319T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20190304T113556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T162702Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Mathilde Gingembre - Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from Madagascar
DESCRIPTION:Seminar organised by the Resource Politics and Rural Futures Clusters\, in association with the STEPS Centre’s PASTRES project \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies \nSlides \nView the slides from this talk (Slidehare) \nVideo \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qC0YlUR3Rg[/embedyt]\n\nThis seminar discusses the concept of moral economy as a critical lens to understand responses to corporate land access within agrarian economies. Drawing on ethnographic work in an agropastoral area of southern Madagascar\, the presentation will highlight how villagers’ perceptions of land deals as well as their decisions to express\, or suppress\, their voices in land deal negotiations are closely tied to considerations of relational justice. \nConsultation processes for corporate land access within agrarian economies are the sites of multiple contentions\, many of which divide the “local communities” themselves. Local people do not only disagree over which struggle to engage with (struggle against dispossession\, struggle for incorporation)\, but also over the issue of who has rights to the land. In contexts where land tenure is characterised by flexibility and where land claims overlap and collide – as in rural Madagascar– choices as to who to involve locally in discussions over land transfers are sensitive and political. Beyond these tensions\, however\, a strong consensus on the moral economic obligations of those benefiting (directly or indirectly) from corporate land access is observed. The seminar explores the resistance to the “de-moralising of land deals” that is expressed by local people\, across social divides. \nAbout the speaker\nMathilde Gingembre is an anthropologist who has worked in Madagascar on land deals for a number of years. She completed her PhD at IDS\, Sussex on this topic. She is now based in Amman\, Jordan and is an affiliate researcher with the ERC-funded PASTRES project. \nEveryone Welcome! \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-mathilde-gingembre-bringing-moral-economy-into-the-study-of-land-deals-reflections-from-madagascar/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190328T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190328T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20181029T154307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T100651Z
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SUMMARY:Ian Scoones: 'The SDGs: A new politics of transformation?' (Sussex Development Lectures)
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Prof Ian Scoones\, STEPS Centre director. \n \nThis 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. \nAbout the lecture\nThe SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive\, integrated approach to development\, centred on social justice\, for all of humanity. But how are they being implemented in practice? Too often a piece-meal\, sectoral approach is adopted\, rooted in modernist assumptions of linear transition and control. Drawing on the work of the ESRC STEPS Centre\, this talk will offer a more radical vision of transformatory change\, putting power and politics centre-stage. The talk will link the STEPS pathways approach with sustainable livelihoods perspectives to suggest a framework for thinking about and acting on transformations to sustainability for the SDGs. Drawing on examples from Argentina\, Kenya\, the UK and Zimbabwe\, and differentiating structural\, systemic and enabling perspectives on transformation\, the talk will emphasise the need to foster a new politics for sustainability. \nIan Scoones is a professorial fellow at IDS\, and is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre. Over the last 30 years\, he has worked on agrarian and environmental change\, mostly in Africa. Through the work of the STEPS Centre since 2006\, he has been involved in collaborative research on the politics of sustainability across the world.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/ian-scoones-the-sdgs-a-new-politics-of-transformation-sussex-development-lectures/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190410T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190410T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20190424T122620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T094221Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of the World is Mobile: What can we learn from pastoralists?
DESCRIPTION:European University Institute\nFlorence\, Italy \nListen to this event\n \nAbout this event\nCan 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? \nMobility is increasingly central to our societies. Nomadic practices and networks that enhance mobility are synonymous with a fluid\, flexible\, mobile modernity\, which is governed through a continuous and growing flow of people\, resources\, information and capital. Yet our policy narratives and institutional settings are poorly equipped to tackle accelerating patterns of mobility\, which in turn respond to and generate shifting patterns of uncertainties. A perspective on mobility from pastoralists’ perspectives challenges many ideas derived from a settled state perspective\, dominated as they are by fixity\, settlement\, controlled migration\, regulated movement\, fences and borders. A mobility perspective therefore suggests new ways of thinking about policy and practice in a range of areas. \nPASTRES\, an ERC-funded project looking at pastoralism and uncertainty\, believes that looking at the world through the eyes of pastoralists gives mobility the centrality it deserves. Pastoralism is a livelihood strategy based on the movements of animals and people\, in search of greener pastures\, expanding social networks and taking advantage of market opportunities. Pastoralists’ responses to environmental\, market and governance uncertainties hinge on specific patterns of mobility. For many pastoralists\, mobility across borders is vital\, complex networks linking kin and others are at the core of market functioning\, flexible movement in response to changing resource availability is essential for escaping drought\, avoiding fixed places for settlement or markets is central to facilitating flexibility\, and adaptive forms of governance are vital in pastoral societies. \nCan we learn from pastoralists how mobility could help in responding to uncertainty for wider challenges? Perspectives from ‘marginal\, peripheral’ contexts could provide important indications and inform debates around wider societal concerns. The seminar will provide the opportunity to link debates focused on pastoralism to wider discussions around movement and mobility in migration\, trade and development\, as part of a wider conversation about rethinking perspectives on uncertainty for contemporary global challenges. \nPresentations: \n\nPASTRES and the lens of pastoralists\, Ian Scoones\, IDS\, University of Sussex & Visiting Fellow\, Schuman Centre (view slides)\nInterfacing pastoral movements and modern mobilities\, Michele Nori (view slides)\n\nRabari on the road: Exploring the politics of pastoral mobility\, Natasha Maru\, IDS\, University of Sussex (view slides)\n\nQ&A and discussion \n\nModerator: Bernard Hoekman\nDiscussant: Giorgia Giovannetti (view slides)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190507T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190507T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20190122T105806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T083528Z
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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
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190509T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190509T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20190315T113447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T161238Z
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SUMMARY:Matteo Caravani: Disciplinary Diversification in Karamoja: The Case of Charcoal
DESCRIPTION:PASTRES/STEPS Seminar with Matteo Caravani\, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) \nRoom 221\, Institute of Development Studies\nAll welcome\n \n \nFollowing 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 deconstructed an old mode of production to “civilize” and “modernize” the Karamojong. The forceful change of modes of production\, resulted in the current dominant diversification of livelihoods that is shaped by growing inequality and general proletarianisation. The internal responses to the crisis of social reproduction of labour – among which charcoal production features as essential – are again disciplined by the Ugandan government and development partners. These institutions support sedentary agriculture while criminalizing the local charcoal production for its alleged effects on environmental and land degradation\, leading to deforestation and thus the weakening of communities’ resilience to future shocks and stresses. \nHowever\, while the Karamojong are officially blamed for deforestation due to charcoal burning\, initial findings suggest that large-scale commercial producers in central Uganda are expanding their charcoal frontier to Northern Uganda and that these are indeed the key drivers of deforestation. \nMy paper argues that there is need to move away from a normative understanding of off-farm activities in Karamoja and to recognize the importance of charcoal production beyond the discourse of negative coping mechanisms. Simply criminalizing the Karamojong for burning and selling charcoal or impeding this livelihood through the rule of law will make the inhabitants of this region more destitute. Rather than banning charcoal\, government and development partners should support its sustainable production. \nAbout the speaker\nDr Matteo Caravani is a political economist lecturing on the agrarian question in modern history and the history of economic theory at the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in Uganda. He graduated from the faculty of Economics\, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and he was awarded a PhD in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) University of Sussex\, in Brighton. \nDr Caravani worked as an international consultant for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) both in Palestine and Rome\, for the World Food Programme (WFP) in East Africa\, for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and for the Institute of Development Studies. \nHe is now an affiliate researcher on the PASTRES (Pastoralism\, Uncertainty and Resilience) project. Within PASTRES he focuses his work in deconstructing resilience. Particularly\, he is interested in the relationship between existing social structures and power relations and the ways in which these structures and relations keep large portions of the population unable to be resilient to future shocks and stresses. \n\nContact: l.forgeaux@ids.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/matteo-caravani-disciplinary-diversification-in-karamoja-the-case-of-charcoal/
LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190514T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20190123T134443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190624T083833Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Annual Lecture: Derek Wall - What would Elinor do (about climate change)?
DESCRIPTION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\nUniversity of Sussex\nFalmer\, Brighton\, UK \nWatch video\n \n  \n* * * \n\nAbout the lecture\n \nWhat would Elinor do (about climate change)?\nElinor 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 tragedy of the commons’. \nHer political economy analysis\, focusing on trust\, cooperation\, diversity\, deep democracy and innovative methodology\, provides a basis for considering climate change. In this lecture\, Derek Wall will outline\, develop and critique her approach\, and discuss how it might inform diverse efforts to deal with the challenge of a warming world. \n\nAbout The speaker\n\nDerek Wall\nDerek Wall teaches political economy at Goldsmiths College\, London. \nA former International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales\, his latest book is Hugo Blanco: A Revolutionary for Life (Merlin Press). Previous books have included Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals (Pluto Press) and Green History (Routledge). \nHe is currently writing a new title\, Another Green World: The practical politics of climate change resistance. \n* * * \n\nAbout the STEPS Annual Lectures\nThe STEPS Annual Lecture is the only public event of the STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability. It is attended by participants in the Summer School\, and open to the general public\, with free entry. \nPast speakers include Achim Steiner\, Mariana Mazzucato\, Tim Jackson\, Kate Raworth\, Mike Hulme\, Harriet Bulkeley and Michael Jacobs. \nBrowse recordings and slides from past Annual Lectures.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-annual-lecture-derek-wall/
LOCATION:Fulton Lecture Theatre A\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9QT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190611T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190611T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184406
CREATED:20190513T151721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T204934Z
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SUMMARY:PASTRES seminar: Pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula - Reflections on contemporary challenges and adaptations to land use rights
DESCRIPTION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\nSeminar with Dawn Chatty\, co-hosted by the PASTRES project and the STEPS Centre\nAll welcome \nWatch video\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK53HSwe5PM&width=700&height=525[/embedyt]\nAbout the seminar\nNomadic 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 settle and transform pastoralists into settled farmers – a key policy of Post WWI neo-colonial and later newly emerging nation states – has largely disappeared. Instead we see concentrated drives to label such communities as backward\, economically irrational\, and obsolete.  More recently\, a policy of ‘benign’ neglect has permitted pastoral communities in Arabia to adapt\, resist and face new challenges from multinational extractive industry\, global conservation organizations\, and climate change. \nAbout the speaker\nDawn Chatty is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration and former Director of the Refugee Studies Centre\, University of Oxford\, United Kingdom. She is also Fellow of the British Academy. Her research interests include: coping strategies and resilience of refugee youth; tribes and tribalism; nomadic pastoralism and conservation; gender and development; health\, illness and culture. \nShe has edited numerous books\, including Deterritorialized Youth:  Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East (Berghahn Books\, 2010); Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century (Leiden\, Brill\, 2006); Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East (Berghahn Books\, 2005); and Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement\, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Berghahn Press\, 2002). \nProf Chatty is the author of Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press\, 2010)\, From Camel to Truck (White Horse Press\, 2013)\, and Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (Hurst Publishers\, 2018). \nFor queries about this event\, email l.forgeaux@ids.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pastres-seminar-pastoralism-in-the-arabian-peninsula-reflections-on-contemporary-challenges-and-adaptations-to-land-use-rights/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development
DESCRIPTION:Ester Boserup Prize Lecture\nby Ian Scoones\, ESRC STEPS Centre / PASTRES project \nWatch video\n \n\nLecture details\nA1-01.01 Festauditoriet\nBülowsvej 17\, 1870 Frederiksberg C\nCopenhagen \nThis 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 theme for 2019. \nDetails of the lecture and background on the Ester Boserup Prize are on the University of Copenhagen’s website.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/why-embracing-uncertainty-means-rethinking-development/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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SUMMARY:Researching Pastoral Mobilities: Exploring Methods and Frameworks
DESCRIPTION:18 – 21 June 2019\nFriedensau University (Germany/Möckern) \nThe “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 mobile pastoralists. \n24 researchers and mentors will come together from the 18th to the 21st of June in Friedensau University (Germany/Möckern) to explore these shortcomings and possible solutions to this methodological quandary. We will be exchanging knowledge\, discussing our case papers\, building up a shared understanding of the problematics of the current methodological infrastructure and reflect on possible solutions. Alongside round table discussions and more standard presentations\, we will be using interactive and alternative ways to discuss these issues in the hope of creating an open and dynamic space for reflection. \nBringing new views to the study of pastoral systems and their representations in policymaking and beyond\, we will reflect on our language\, units of analysis\, geographical and spatial references\, ethics\, politics and power\, tools and methods adopted\, within broader research designs to better fit the contemporary empirics of researching with mobile people. \nThis initiative is connected with the PASTRES project.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/researching-pastoral-mobilities-exploring-methods-and-frameworks/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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