Podcast: Forest of Thought – Andy Stirling on ‘imaginations of control’
In our age of converging environmental, ecological, and health crises, decision-makers and commentators often state we need to "listen to...
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Animated explainer: What are Pathways to Sustainability?
How should people address problems like climate change, environmental destruction, poverty and injustice? With many possible ways to respond, whose...
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19th November 2020 / Europe Hub news
STEPS members recognised in global list of ‘highly cited’ researchers
Members of the ESRC STEPS Centre based at the Institute of Development Studies and University of Sussex have been included...
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13th November 2020 / Understanding sustainability
Watch: Andy Stirling and Sobia Kaker on Covid-19, uncertainty and development
In a virtual Sussex Development Lecture on 12 November 2020, Andy Stirling and Sobia Ahmad Kaker discussed the politics of...
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10th September 2020 / Resource politics
‘Contested Natures’ conference programme now published
The conference programme is now published for 'Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration', the third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology...
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17th August 2020 / Resource politics
New online exhibition: ‘Extracting Us’
The online exhibition 'Extracting Us' brings together different visions and responses to extractivism from feminist perspectives. The curators are keen...
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24th June 2020 / Climate Change & Energy, Global Consortium news, Governance & Policy, Health & Disease, Research methods, Resource politics
A manifesto for models: New Nature Comment article
A new comment article in Nature by a group of authors, including STEPS co-director Andy Stirling (SPRU), takes the form...
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28th May 2020 / Europe Hub news, Pastoralism
IDS Bulletin: Fifty Years of Research on Pastoralism and Development
Pastoralism is a way of life for millions of people around the world, farming livestock in wide geographical areas and...
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20th May 2020 / Europe Hub news, Governance & Policy
Andy Stirling on Covid-19, modernity and control: video
STEPS co-director Andy Stirling gave an online talk on 15 May 2020 exploring ideas about modernity and the 'futilities of...
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29th April 2020 / Europe Hub news, Health & Disease
Podcast: The Social Dynamics of Pandemics
The global pandemic Covid-19 is impacting people in many and varied ways. The effects on all our lives are immense...
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