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SUMMARY:Politics of Nature reading group: Indigenous Climate Change Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. \nThis month\, the readings are: \nIndigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures\, Decolonizing the Anthropocene\nby Kyle Whyte \nRead this article (PDF) \nDecolonization is not a metaphor\nby Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang \nRead this article (PDF) \nHow to join\nTo join the PoN email list and / or get access to the Zoom links and readings for this group\, please send an email to Andrea Brock(a.brock@sussex.ac.uk) or Amber Huff (a.huff@ids.ac.uk). \n\nThis event relates to our 2020 theme of Natures. \nExplore the Natures theme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/politics-of-nature-reading-group-3-nov-2020/
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SUMMARY:Communities\, technologies and democratic innovation
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThey explored why technology and the kinds of digital futures explored at Fusebox and elsewhere\, are deeply social matters\, and how the politics of such innovation demands democratic approaches in technology. Andy and Adrian drew on their ESRC social science research and particularly the work done in the STEPS Centre. \n\nAbout\nThe event is a joint University of Sussex and Wired Sussex event\, as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2020. It was made possible thanks to funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/communities-technologies-and-democratic-innovation/
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 and development: the politics of uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:This event was part of the Sussex Development Lectures. \nWhy 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 need to be met with renewed democratic struggle. \nExploring how uncertainties are experienced in the context of marginalisation and precarity\, Andy Stirling in conversation with Sobia Ahmad Kaker\, will look at how we can advance a more collective politics of responsibility and care. \nRecording\n \nBook: The Politics of Uncertainty\nThe conversation draws on the book The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges for Transformation\, of which both speakers are co-authors. \nThe book was published by Routledge in 2020 as part of the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability book series. \n\n\nThis event is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series on Covid-19 and development – building back better? \nSussex Development Lectures are jointly run by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS)\, the School of Global Studies \, the Science Policy and Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre for International Education (CIE)\, based at the University of Sussex. \n\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 this topic on our theme page.\n \nUncertainty
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/covid-19-and-development-the-politics-of-uncertainty/
CATEGORIES:Health & disease
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SUMMARY:Politics of Nature reading group: Infrastructural Brutalism
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. \nThis month\, the reading is \nInfrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure\nby Michael Truscello \nMore about this book \n\nHow to join\nTo join the PoN email list and / or get access to the Zoom links and readings for this group\, please send an email to Andrea Brock(a.brock@sussex.ac.uk) or Amber Huff (a.huff@ids.ac.uk). \n\nThis event relates to our 2020 theme of Natures. \nExplore the Natures theme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/politics-of-nature-reading-group-infrastructural-brutalism/
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SUMMARY:Enchanting nature: tentacular storytelling in the Great African Kelp Forest
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable with My Octopus Teacher director Pippa Ehrlich and others from the Sea Change Project \n\nVideo recording\n \n\nAbout this event\nThere 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 members of the Sea Change Project\, a small group of journalists\, scientists\, photographers and filmmakers who have developed a unique methodology for exploring and learning about\, from and with nature called ‘underwater tracking’. \nThe Sea Change Project has spent thousands of hours exploring these wild ‘algal gardens’ and the creatures that live in them\, skin- and breath-hold diving in the frigid waters of South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. The group has identified new species and learned to read subtle signs and that give insight into lives\, deaths and relationships of the kelp forest’s creatures\, a process one member describes as delving deep into ‘the biological mind of the forest’. \nThe acclaimed Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher is one example of the project’s approach to ‘multispecies storytelling’ (Haraway\, 2016). This is an affective\, aesthetic and sensorial approach that focuses on connections\, embodied experience and interspecies learning to help people see\, experience and value the Great African Kelp Forest in new ways. \nIn this Q&A Roundtable with the film’s director\, Pippa Ehrlich\, and Sea Change project members Swati Foster\, Carina Frankal and Faine Loubser\, we explored questions about Sea Change’s approach to exploring\, researching and communicating about the ‘forest beneath the waves’. The conversation was moderated by Amber Huff (STEPS Centre) and Adrian Nel (University of KwaZulu-Natal). \nHow does the project’s approach diverge from dominant approaches in ecology and marine conservation in terms of underlying assumptions\, practices\, values and objectives? Can embracing ecological alterity and developing meaningful intimacies with the hidden\, ‘alien’ and ‘weird’ aspects of nature nourish new ‘kinships’ and new ways of ‘commoning’ of our relations with others? What are the impacts of such an approach on public awareness and attitudes towards this marine ecology on one level\, and on discourses and practice of conservation? Can learning from these approaches help to inform and transform conservation more broadly? \n\nThis event is part of the ESRC STEPS Centre’s theme on Natures. It is organized in partnership with the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)\, the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Sea Change Project.  \n\nAbout Our theme for 2020: Natures\nNature is all around us\, but there are many ways of seeing different kinds of ‘natures’\, and many efforts to involve it in forms of control or domination.  \nHow is talk of crisis shaping nature and people’s views of it? How can colonial forms of knowledge\, technology and power be challenged\, and what might it mean to ‘decolonize’ the study of environmental change? What do alternatives look like\, and how can we explore\, nurture\, imagine and live the relationships we might want for the future?  \nFind out more about our theme for 2020 on our Natures theme page.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/enchanting-nature-tentacular-storytelling-in-the-great-african-kelp-forest/
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