The greatest concerns worldwide, for the future of where we live, is not climate change and its impacts, is not extinction and loss of biodiversity, is not artificial intelligence or asteroids — none of these worries come close to what concerns us most. So, what is it people most worry about? Are they right to…
The Sustainability Futures Group of the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, with the University of St Andrews Business School, are delighted to welcome Dr Melanie Rieback to talk on the topic, ‘Post-growth entrepreneurship’. Dr Rieback is the CEO and co-founder of Radically Open Security, the first non-profit computer security consultancy company. She is also…
Path to Insurrection is a visual journey by award winning, street photographer Chris Suspect, whose work follows the destabilising political situation in the U.S. that culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. Based in Washington, D.C., Suspect witnessed the many events and more than four years of protest that transformed…
Join us for a book talk and a question and answer session with the author Adrian Fisk. ‘Until the Last Oak Falls’ is a book of extraordinary unseen photographs by Adrian Fisk from early British direct action environmental protests that took place between 1995 and 1999, with a foreword by award-winning activist writer Jay Griffiths.…
With fraught geopolitical tension and the impact of climate change, life in the Arctic is more uncertain than ever. As the European Union looks to the polar north to enable its clean energy transition what do the people of this remote region think? What agency do they have over decisions made for them, ones that…
The Student Environment team in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development is hosting this event for interested students and staff during Sustainability Week. Our guest speaker, Andy Ashcroft, founding partner of Koolskools, the UK’s only truly Fairtrade school uniform company, will discuss his experience with Fairtrade cotton production in India and the importance of…
Come along to watch a brilliant animation of one of Dr Seuss’ classic books, telling the story of hero, The Lorax, fighting for environmental justice in a world of unsustainable resource use. This free event is hosted by Sustainable Development Honours students, the School of Geography and Sustainable Development’s Student Environment team, BIRCH, StACCS and…
In this lecture, Professor Knowles, a leading practitioner of historical GIS, will contrast counting and mapping data about 1,142 Holocaust ghettos to the brutal specifics of genocide in Eastern Galicia and Lithuania, and to what one family experienced during eight mass atrocities in their hometown. She will argue that many scales, methods, and sources are…
With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The surviving texts date from the 13th to the 28th regnal years of Darius I (509 to 493 BCE), with the majority falling between regnal years 21 and 24. The archive records the…
About In many places, digitally-mediated urbanism is ubiquitous, violent and unequal, as techno capitalist development processes and the platformization of everyday life produce racialized removal, surveillance, impoverishment, illegalization, even premature death – structural harms for which critical social science research has a well-developed conceptual-epistemological apparatus. Here, I make the case for an intentional turn toward…