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Mar 13, 2018, 14 tweets

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#ERPI2018 preview
Exciting lectures
Climate change & uncertainty
Peri-urban ecosystems
African 'Green Revolutions'
Prototyping the SDGs
Pastoralist futures
Transformation Labs
Open Source Hardware
Anarchist political ecology

Some recent things you may have missed:
1) #ERPI2018 conference on 'Authoritarian Populism & The Rural World', this Saturday & Sunday, with @TheErpi @ICAS_Agrarian @issnl @PLAASuwc @IDS_UK steps-centre.org/event/internat…

2) Articles on populism and rural emancipatory politics: series in @openDemocracy for #ERPI2018, covering India, Rojava, USA, Brazil, Indonesia & Myanmar steps-centre.org/event/internat…

3) Our co-director Andy Stirling @SPRU on expertise and democracy (full conference keynote video) and podcast soundcloud.com/user-910866758…

4) 14 May: @KateRaworth will give the STEPS Annual Lecture at @SussexUni on 'Economics as if we wanted to survive the 21st century' steps-centre.org/event/steps-an…

5) Research vacancy: come and work with a fantastic @SPRU team on agrarian transformations in India and Kenya steps-centre.org/news/vacancy-r…

6) Why peri-urban ecosystems matter, and how local people can get involved in looking after them: steps-centre.org/publication/ma…

7) A study exploring how much the technologies & practices of the new 'African Green Revolution' are aligned with the interests of small Kenyan farmers steps-centre.org/blog/agency-fa…

8) New publications: How experts and other citizens view uncertainty and climate change in India - cases from Kacchh, Mumbai and the Sundarbans steps-centre.org/project/uncert…

9) Blog: Forking the SDGs: How prototypes could transform the new global goals steps-centre.org/blog/forking-s… by @smithadrianpaul @SPRU @itdupm

10) Blog: Pastoralism is changing in the Horn of Africa steps-centre.org/pastoralism/pa… by @IanScoones @IDS_UK @PASTRES_erc

11) Blog: The Transformation Labs (T-Labs) approach to change steps-centre.org/blog/transform… by @PerserudsPer @sthlmresilience @ISSCWorld

12) Blog: The role played by 'open source hardware' in democratising technology steps-centre.org/blog/gosh-road… by @Cassandreces @StepsLatina @fund_cenit

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