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SUMMARY:Pathways to sustainability: knowledge\, politics and power
DESCRIPTION:Virtual event\, 8 December 2021 \nThis final event of the ESRC STEPS Centre brought together friends\, collaborators and networks from around the world. We explored the major challenges for sustainability in the present moment\, reflected on lessons from the past fifteen years\, and discussed future possibilities\, plans and initiatives.\n\nVideo playlist: Watch Talks from the event\nThis video playlist includes clips from the plenary and parallel sessions at the event. It begins with short reflections from Alison Park (ESRC Executive Chair) and Melissa Leach (Director\, IDS)\, as well as Line Gordon (Director\, Stockholm Resilience Centre) and Dipak Gyawali (Pragya\, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology). \nThe playlist also features recordings of eight of the parallel sessions\, as well as talks that looked forward to ongoing initiatives and future plans\, including the Mexico-based transdisciplinary collective Umbela – Transformaciones Sociales\, the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN)\, the Transdisciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies (TRCSS) in India\, and the Bioleft initiative on open source commoning in seeds. \n \nView this playlist on YouTube \n\nEvent details\nSince 2006\, the STEPS Centre has focused on multiple challenges around social justice and environmental sustainability\, building on long-standing struggles. From epidemics and pandemics to water\, energy\, food and other resources\, and the politics of innovation and technologies\, multiple ‘pathways to sustainability’ are always influenced by different kinds of knowledge and forms of power. \nAs a research centre\, we understand that knowledge is not neutral. It not only ‘speaks’ to – but is also partly shaped by – politics and power. Powerful interests not only sideline ‘inconvenient truths’\, they also condition what is taken to be true. Through our research programmes and our Pathways Approach\, the STEPS Centre has aimed to highlight this shaping of knowledge by power. We have sought to help establish practical ways to properly address the perspectives of marginalised people. We have helped develop diverse methods\, options and understandings to underpin action to ‘open up’ the politics of sustainability. \nAgenda\n13.00 Setting the stage (PLENARY)\n\nAlison Park\, ESRC Executive Chair\nMelissa Leach\, Director\, IDS\nChair: Ian Scoones\, STEPS Centre\n\nWhat’s next for the politics of knowledge\, in driving radically progressive worldwide transformations to sustainability? \n\nLine Gordon\, Director\, Stockholm Resilience Centre\nDipak Gyawali\, Pragya\, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology\n\n13.30 Key themes: challenges\, lessons and opportunities (PARALLEL)\nRegulating technologies (PDF) \nTransformative space making for urban sustainability (PDF) \nReframing climate technology policy beyond hegemonic discourses of hardware-finance (PDF) \nPower and politics in grassroots innovation (PDF) \nCare vs. control in agri-food system transformations (PDF) \nUncertainty and transformation: looking back and looking forward (PDF) \nPandemics and the politics of knowledge (PDF) \nMoving beyond methods in support of transformative change (PDF) \nNature\, crisis stories and the politics of repair (PDF) \nEnergy transition\, minerals\, conflicts and civil society participation in Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF) \n14.15 Next steps and onward collaborations (PLENARY)\nPlenary with interventions by speakers from initiatives connected to the STEPS Centre\, followed by discussion (Chair: Andy Stirling\, STEPS Centre) \n\nTransformative transdisciplinary experiences as inspirations for next endeavours\nLakshmi Charli-Joseph (LANCIS-IE\, UNAM) & Patricia Pérez-Belmont (Umbela)\nCitizen alliances and ecological democracy for sustainable urbanisation\nRitu Priya Mehrotra (TRCSS-JNU\, India) \nDecolonising methodologies for sustainability\nJoanes Atela and Joel Onyango (Africa Research and Impact Network/ACTS)\nTowards open source commoning on seeds: The BioLeft initiative\nAnabel Marín (IDS)\n\n15.00 Close\n\nRegistration\nVisit our registration form to sign up for this event. When registering\, you will need to indicate which breakout panel you would like to be in. You will be assigned to that breakout group on the day of the event. \nRegister \n\nRelated content\nBOOK: Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines\, Cultures and Contexts\nEdited by Adrian Ely (2021)\nRoutledge – Pathways to Sustainability Series\, Open Access \nDraws on content and cases from across the ‘Pathways’ Transformative Knowledge Network\, an international group of six regional hubs working on sustainability challenges in their own local or national contexts. Each of these hubs reports on their experiences of ‘transformation laboratory’ processes on food systems\, low carbon energy and industrial transformations\, and water and waste in cities. \nTransformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines\, Cultures and Contexts \n \nBook: The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India\nEdited By Lyla Mehta\, Hans Nicolai Adam\, Shilpi Srivastava\nRoutledge – Pathways to Sustainability Series\, Open Access (forthcoming – Winter 2021) \nThis book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. With case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta\, the book unpacks the diverse discourses\, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the “above”\, “middle” and “below” understand and experience climate change and uncertainty. \nThe Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India \n \nAnimation: What are Pathways to Sustainability?\nWatch our short animation explaining the STEPS Centre’s Pathways Approach and what it means for transformative action for sustainability. \n \nThe STEPS Centre’s final year: reflections on a 15-year journey\nSTEPS Centre co-directors Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling reflect on the story of the Centre\, with a timeline of key events and developments. \nThe STEPS Centre’s final year: reflections on a 15-year journey \n \nStories of Change\nTen stories show what the STEPS Centre learned from our involvement in debates around pandemics\, energy\, food\, nature\, transformations\, uncertainty and more. \nStories of Change
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pathways-to-sustainability-knowledge-politics-and-power/
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SUMMARY:Populism\, authoritarianism and agrarian struggles
DESCRIPTION:16 February 2022  \n11:00 São Paulo/15:00 Amsterdam/19:30 New Delhi/22:00 Beijing \nRegister  \nAround the world emerging new exclusionary politics are generating deepening inequalities\, jobless ‘growth’\, climate chaos\, and social division. These processes have been intensified or exposed in many places by the Covid-19 pandemic and responses to it\, but they are not new. Since 2017 the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) has used engaged research to better understand these destructive dynamics\, and the social and political processes in rural spaces that are generating alternatives to them. \nEngaged researchers have published timely collections on these issues: (a) Routledge book ‘Authoritarianism and the Rural World‘ (Open Access ebook); (b) Special Issue of Sociologia Ruralis on authoritarian populism in Europe; (c) Special Issue of Journal of Rural Studies on North America; (d) a special forum of Latin American Perspectives; and e) A View From The Countryside\, co-published by TNI\, FIAN\, and ERPI. \nThis edition of the Agrarian Conversations Webinar Series will showcase these relevant and urgent publications\, discuss recent events\, and assess the progress of struggles in and from the rural areas in relation to right-wing populism.\nSpeakers: \n\nAchin Vanaik (TNI\, India)\nGarrett Lovelace-Graddy (American University\, USA)\,\nAttila Szocs (Ecoruralis & ECVC\, Romania)\nAyala Ferreira (MST\, Amazonas)\n\nModerators: Ruth Hall (PLAAS) and Katie Sandwell (TNI) \nBackground reading: Preface of ‘Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World’\, pages xv-xxi \nLanguages: English\, Spanish\, French \nContact: c.sandwell@tni.org \nRegister
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/populism-authoritarianism-and-agrarian-struggles/
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SUMMARY:The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India
DESCRIPTION:31 March 2022\nat 17.00 (UK time)\n**Please note the new time of this event**\n \n\nThis Sussex Development Lecture will introduce the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India. \nMore information and registration details are on the IDS website. \nFind out more
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-climate-change-and-uncertainty-in-india/
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