STEPS Working Paper 94 November 2017 Rapid urbanisation in India has led to the development of large urban agglomerations. These urban agglomerations, with dense concentration of population and economic activity,…
The Many Circuits of a Circular Economy
Towards a peri-urban political ecology of water quality decline
Recent years have witnessed an expanding body of peri-urban and urban scholarship. However, recent scholarship has yet to adequately address the central role of politics and power shaping water quality…
The Social Life of Mangroves: Resource Complexes and Contestations on the Industrial Coastline of Kutch, India
STEPS Working Paper by Shilpi Srivastava and Lyla Mehta on mangrove conservation in Kutch, Gujarat. The paper explores power relations, conservation efforts, and the changes and threats to livelihoods of local pastoralists and fishers.
Power in Practice: Insights from Technography and Actor-Network Theory for Agricultural Sustainability
STEPS Working Paper 100 October 2017 In this paper, we use conceptual insights from two distinct traditions within the social studies of science and technology, namely actor-network theory (ANT) and…
The Political Economy for Low-carbon Energy Transition in China: Towards a New Policy Paradigm?
China has become the leading country to develop wind and solar energy industries. By presenting the institutional arrangement and interest constellations of China’s regulatory system of renewable energy sectors, this…
People, Patches, and Parasites: The Case of Trypanosomiasis in Zimbabwe
Human Ecology volume 45, pages 643–654 Understanding the socio-ecology of disease requires careful attention to the role of patches within disease landscapes. Such patches, and the interfaces between different socio-epidemiological…
Peri-Urbanism in Globalizing India: A Study of Pollution, Health and Community Awareness
This paper examines the intersection between environmental pollution and people’s acknowledgements of, and responses to, health issues in Karhera, a former agricultural village situated between the rapidly expanding cities of…
Open and Collaborative Developments
STEPS Working Paper 98 Experimentation with radically open and collaborative ways of producing knowledge and material artefacts can be found everywhere – from the free/libre and open-source software movement to…
Configurations of agency and power in the academic discourse on the Green Revolution in East Africa
STEPS Working Paper 97 In this paper I perform a discourse analysis of the academic literature on the Green Revolution (GR) in East Africa, governed by two questions: what form…
Local Environmentalism in Peri-Urban Spaces in India: Emergent Ecological Democracy?
STEPS Working Paper 96 This paper explores the potential of a range of peri-urban environmentalisms to come together in support of sustainable urbanisation. The present-day ‘urban,’ along with the dominant…