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SUMMARY:STEPS at the SPRU 50 conference - Transforming Innovation
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URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-at-the-spru-50-conference-transforming-innovation/
LOCATION:University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Tania Li: 'What is politics?'
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Seminar\, all welcome  \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, Brighton BN1 9RE\n \nListen to the seminar\nHear Tania Li’s seminar below\, including questions and answers with the audience. \n \nAbstract: My seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing. In my discipline of anthropology\, there was once a field called “political anthropology\,” with a focus on systems of social organization (hierarchies\, clans\, kingdoms) and social order. This field has exploded: we now have a politics of everything – a politics of food\, gender\, the city\, land\, resources…. As the object of study has dispersed\, it has become difficult to discern what the term “politics of” actually signals. Some theorists declare that we are in an era of post-politics\, in which experts rule in multiple domains of life\, and we have been convinced that “there is no alternative” to the capitalist system.  Few of us work in contexts where we can say the big questions are settled\, yet explicit mobilization to contest inequality and injustice is less common that we might expect. How can we make sense of this? \nIn this talk\, I propose a definition of politics that recovers its theoretical specificity. I argue that a capacity for engaging in a critical politics is permanent and broadly distributed\, but its expression is often interrupted. Hence we need to attend not only to instances in which an explicit critique is articulated\, but also to instances when critical insights are truncated\, potential connections are not forged\, and individuals do not communicate or organize with others.  Studying something that isn’t there – explicit critique and effective mobilization – is of course a difficult task. But posing explicit political practice as a counter-factual (something we might expect to find)\, rather than a teleology (something that will inevitably unfold)\, opens up an important terrain of empirical inquiry. I illustrate with examples from three sites in rural Indonesia that I have examined ethnographically. \nAbout Tania Li\n\nTania Murray Li teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto\, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy and Culture of Asia. Her publications include Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press\, 2014)\, Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch\, NUS Press\, 2011)\, The Will to Improve: Governmentality\, Development\, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press\, 2007) and many articles on land\, development\, resource struggles\, community\, class\, and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. \nVisit Tania Li’s webpage at the University of Toronto
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/tania-li-what-is-politics-2/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand\, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Seminar – all welcome \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE \nAbstract: Terms such as “energy democracy” and “climate justice” have gained increasingly widespread usage and acceptance over the last 5 years. In order to give weight to these slogans\, it is necessary to understand the class relations behind the global energy sector\, and the sector’s worldwide division of labour. As a key means of production and consumption in the world-division of labour\, the energy sector as a whole\, both in the short term and in the long term\, are determined (and determinant of) class relations. \nThe energy sector is already an important site of struggle throughout much of the world. These struggles are likely to intensify in the years ahead. The question of “energy transition” is a central axis of class struggle in the world-economy in the years ahead. Like all class struggle\, its outcome is highly uncertain and unpredictable. \nAbout Kolya Abramsky\nKolya Abramsky is a freelance researcher\, educator and consultant on the global energy sector. Over 15 years\, he has focused on the social relations in the sector\, including land\, work\, ownership and choice of technology. Formerly\, he was the International Energy Officer for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa; coordinator of the World Wind Energy Institute (Denmark); Visiting International Scholar/winner of Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science\, Technology and Society\, at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Technology\, Work and Culture in Austria. He has edited two books: Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World\, and Restructuring and Resistance: Diverse Voices of Struggle in Western Europe. He has advised policy makers and addressed universities in five continents. He initiated and built\, jointly with Focus on the Global South\, the website Understanding China’s Energy Landscape. He has a Sociology MA from State University of New York\, Binghamton.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/kolya-abramsky-towards-a-class-based-approach-to-global-energy-transition-shifting-energy-demand-expanding-the-renewable-energy-sector-and-phasing-out-fossil-fuel/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Who is the digital revolution for?
DESCRIPTION:Panel at the event: Ann Light\, Kat Braybrooke\, Tim Jordan\, Caroline Bassett and Andrew Sleigh.\nLighthouse\, 28 Kensington Street\nBrighton\, BN1 4AJ\, UK \nThis public event on 28 September 2016 explored how society and digital technology can shape each other for the common good. The event\, part of the Brighton Digital Festival\, is part of of our Transformations series of events. \n \nMaterials produced from this event\nBlog: What can we learn from digital transformations?\nby Nathan Oxley and Adrian Smith\, 7 October 2016 \nStorify: Tweets and images from the event (Storify.com) \nPhotos: Picture gallery (Flickr.com) \nAbout the event\nFor many of us\, digital technologies have been revolutionary. Yet at the same time\, some feel disenchanted with the consequences. \nThe digital is cast increasingly as an instrument of surveillance\, or a tool for disciplining ‘gig economies’\, and a material burden upon our environment and climate. \nIn this event\, we want to re-enchant the digital. We’ll reconnect with the utopian spirit of early pioneers\, and discuss aspirations and activities today for a sustainable\, democratic\, weightless\, and liberating digital society. A panel of writers and researchers will each give their view on how we can become re-enchanted with digital technologies. \nYou’ll have a chance to discuss the developers\, users and movements from around the world that are making digital technologies more co-operative\, easier to repair and repurpose\, and working with people to develop digital technologies for sustainable developments. \nWe’ll also look back at lessons from the last 40 years\, such as the free software movement\, hacklabs\, Web utopias\, and Scandinavian models for worker-controlled systems design. Who\, what\, and where are the heirs to that pioneering spirit\, and how is it manifesting today? \nThe event is part of the 2016 Brighton Digital Festival. \n\nChair\nAndrew Sleigh\, Producer\, Lighthouse and Maker Assembly \nSpeakers\nAnn Light\, Professor of Design & Creative Technology (Engineering and Design)\, University of Sussex (@StrangertoHabit) \nTim Jordan\, Professor of Digital Cultures\, University of Sussex \nCaroline Bassett\, Director\, Sussex Humanities Lab \nKat Braybrooke\, Researcher\, University of Sussex (@codekat) \nAdrian Smith\, Professor of Technology & Society\, Science Policy Research Unit and STEPS Centre\, University of Sussex (@smithadrianpaul) \nOrganiser info\nFor more details and other events in the Festival\, visit the Brighton Digital Festival website. \nThis event is organised by the ESRC STEPS Centre\, Sussex Humanities Lab and the Creative Technology Research Group and is part of a series on Transformations. \n\nAbout the Transformations series\nWhen in the past have societies made rapid transitions\, and what were the circumstances that drove them? What can we learn from these times\, positively and negatively to enable the transition we need to make today in the face of climatic upheaval and fossil fuel dependence? \nThe Transformations series\, co-organised by the New Weather Institute and the STEPS Centre\, aim to change the conversation about transition in the UK. Through informed public discussion and engagement we will gather opinions\, capture outcomes and stimulate debate about how to facilitate the speed and scale of the transition. \nSee the Transformations event series page for more details. \n\nImage: Camden Restart Party in Dartmouth Park by Restart Project (Flickr cc by-nc 2.0) \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/who-is-the-digital-revolution-for/
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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