Peter Sutoris
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 175696 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Sutoris |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Sutoris |
| FIRMA | SUTORIS P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3801-7951 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Beyond shallow time
Education is widely seen as a key solution to the environmental multi-crisis, yet contemporary systems have done little to prevent ecological breakdown. This article argues that the gap between education's promise and its actual impact is not merely a matter of implementation but of temporality. Dominant models of education operate within ‘shallow time’, structured by short-term economic rationales and individualised notions of progress, as seen …
Towards a Regenerative Anthropology
In a time of escalating environmental, political and social crises, Anthropology has transformative potential yet faces existential threats. This article argues for a regenerative Anthropology – one that not only critiques the colonial-capitalist systems driving breakdown, but also actively contributes to alternative, life-affirming futures. Drawing on insights from regenerative agriculture, activism and multispecies ethnography, we explore how A…
Reimagining Development
In memory of Dr Muhammad Arif Naveed (1981–2024)
The Promise of Politics
Environmentalism of the poor is increasingly seen to offer effective models of political organization and action to tackle environmental destruction. This study contributes to an anthropological engagement with this phenomenon by illuminating the cultural logics galvanizing environmentalism of the poor in distinct locations, elucidating democratic commitments among marginalized peoples confronting environmental decay, and the ways such commitment…
Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup
This article is based on an exploratory study of jeevanshalas, a network of 'schools for life' run by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), an anti-dam movement in the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra that did not succeed in its mission of stopping the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam. Based on participant observation and conversations with movement leaders, teachers, administrators, parents and community volunteers, and…
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020–21. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic left little time for critical debate about the impact of lockdowns. Across the world, governments claimed to “follow the science”, but they rarely paid attention to the humanities and social sciences. Indeed,…
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope
This ethnographic study of environmental learning in a South African township school unravels how formal education can depoliticise young people's understandings of environmental decay. Conceptualising environmental learning through Rob Nixon's notion of 'slow violence' and Hannah Arendt's understanding of 'action', the article argues that despite the depoliticization enacted through schooling, individual learners and educators articulate subterr…
Environmental Futures through Children’s Eyes
This article reflects on the lessons learned from a participatory videomaking study with children in India and South Africa. The study used a deliberately “slow” process to learn about children’s imagination of the future in light of environmental crisis. While arguing that this methodology holds promise as a way to co‐create knowledge with study participants, the article also raises ethical questions that need to be addressed when this methodolo…
Politicising ESE in postcolonial settings
This article argues that the mission of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) is inherently political and that, by not acknowledging this, ESE interventions risk becoming part of the problem of sustainability rather than the solution. The article offersa theoretical framework for thinking about the (de)politicising effects of ESE rooted in three key elements: historical responsibility, action and the postcolonial condition. This framew…
The science of childhood and the pedagogy of the state
This article examines how, in the decade following India's independence, the psychology of childhood became a locus of experimentation, and an avenue through which approaches to postcolonial development were expressed. Tracing the ideas of educational reformers, psychological researchers and child welfare advocates, we show how a 'science of childhood' in this period emphasised both the inherent potential and the emotional complexity of India's y…
Ethically scaling up interventions in educational development
Educational interventions are often administered at scale in diverse settings as part of international development programmes. Their implementation is subject to a linear process that begins with finding out 'what works' at a local level, frequently through the use of randomised controlled trials, and continues with rolling out the intervention to the whole population at a national or even transnational level. This process often fails to consider…
Elitism and its challengers
This article examines the ideological foundations of state-led educational development in India, as reflected in documentary films produced by the Films Division of India, the institution tasked with spreading the government’s vision for developing India. An analysis of documentaries concerned with educational development made from 1950 to 1970 shows contradictory educational visions that reflect the different understanding various groups of acto…
Visions of Development
This book examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. It pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analyzing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on “progress”, the book highlights continuities with and departures from colonial no…
Visions of Development
Tracing Colonial Documentary, 1926–46
This chapter traces the colonial origins of Films Division of India documentaries by outlining the British colonial film tradition from the 1920s to the 1940s, including the work of John Grierson, and by pointing out the similarities between this tradition and the films made in India by Information Films India under the auspices of the colonial government during World War II. The chapter particularly examines the films made in India during and af…
Environmental Futures through Children’s Eyes
This article reflects on the lessons learned from a participatory videomaking study with children in India and South Africa. The study used a deliberately “slow” process to learn about children’s imagination of the future in light of environmental crisis. While arguing that this methodology holds promise as a way to co‐create knowledge with study participants, the article also raises ethical questions that need to be addressed when this methodolo…
Politicising ESE in postcolonial settings
This article argues that the mission of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) is inherently political and that, by not acknowledging this, ESE interventions risk becoming part of the problem of sustainability rather than the solution. The article offersa theoretical framework for thinking about the (de)politicising effects of ESE rooted in three key elements: historical responsibility, action and the postcolonial condition. This framew…
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope
This ethnographic study of environmental learning in a South African township school unravels how formal education can depoliticise young people's understandings of environmental decay. Conceptualising environmental learning through Rob Nixon's notion of 'slow violence' and Hannah Arendt's understanding of 'action', the article argues that despite the depoliticization enacted through schooling, individual learners and educators articulate subterr…
Ethically scaling up interventions in educational development
Educational interventions are often administered at scale in diverse settings as part of international development programmes. Their implementation is subject to a linear process that begins with finding out 'what works' at a local level, frequently through the use of randomised controlled trials, and continues with rolling out the intervention to the whole population at a national or even transnational level. This process often fails to consider…
The science of childhood and the pedagogy of the state
This article examines how, in the decade following India's independence, the psychology of childhood became a locus of experimentation, and an avenue through which approaches to postcolonial development were expressed. Tracing the ideas of educational reformers, psychological researchers and child welfare advocates, we show how a 'science of childhood' in this period emphasised both the inherent potential and the emotional complexity of India's y…
Visions of Development
This book examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. It pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analyzing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on “progress”, the book highlights continuities with and departures from colonial no…
Visions of Development
Tracing Colonial Documentary, 1926–46
This chapter traces the colonial origins of Films Division of India documentaries by outlining the British colonial film tradition from the 1920s to the 1940s, including the work of John Grierson, and by pointing out the similarities between this tradition and the films made in India by Information Films India under the auspices of the colonial government during World War II. The chapter particularly examines the films made in India during and af…
Elitism and its challengers
This article examines the ideological foundations of state-led educational development in India, as reflected in documentary films produced by the Films Division of India, the institution tasked with spreading the government’s vision for developing India. An analysis of documentaries concerned with educational development made from 1950 to 1970 shows contradictory educational visions that reflect the different understanding various groups of acto…
Ethically scaling up interventions in educational development
Educational interventions are often administered at scale in diverse settings as part of international development programmes. Their implementation is subject to a linear process that begins with finding out 'what works' at a local level, frequently through the use of randomised controlled trials, and continues with rolling out the intervention to the whole population at a national or even transnational level. This process often fails to consider…
Politicising ESE in postcolonial settings
This article argues that the mission of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) is inherently political and that, by not acknowledging this, ESE interventions risk becoming part of the problem of sustainability rather than the solution. The article offersa theoretical framework for thinking about the (de)politicising effects of ESE rooted in three key elements: historical responsibility, action and the postcolonial condition. This framew…
The science of childhood and the pedagogy of the state
This article examines how, in the decade following India's independence, the psychology of childhood became a locus of experimentation, and an avenue through which approaches to postcolonial development were expressed. Tracing the ideas of educational reformers, psychological researchers and child welfare advocates, we show how a 'science of childhood' in this period emphasised both the inherent potential and the emotional complexity of India's y…
Environmental Futures through Children’s Eyes
This article reflects on the lessons learned from a participatory videomaking study with children in India and South Africa. The study used a deliberately “slow” process to learn about children’s imagination of the future in light of environmental crisis. While arguing that this methodology holds promise as a way to co‐create knowledge with study participants, the article also raises ethical questions that need to be addressed when this methodolo…
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns
Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020–21. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic left little time for critical debate about the impact of lockdowns. Across the world, governments claimed to “follow the science”, but they rarely paid attention to the humanities and social sciences. Indeed,…
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope
This ethnographic study of environmental learning in a South African township school unravels how formal education can depoliticise young people's understandings of environmental decay. Conceptualising environmental learning through Rob Nixon's notion of 'slow violence' and Hannah Arendt's understanding of 'action', the article argues that despite the depoliticization enacted through schooling, individual learners and educators articulate subterr…
Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup
This article is based on an exploratory study of jeevanshalas, a network of 'schools for life' run by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), an anti-dam movement in the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra that did not succeed in its mission of stopping the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam. Based on participant observation and conversations with movement leaders, teachers, administrators, parents and community volunteers, and…
Reimagining Development
In memory of Dr Muhammad Arif Naveed (1981–2024)
The Promise of Politics
Environmentalism of the poor is increasingly seen to offer effective models of political organization and action to tackle environmental destruction. This study contributes to an anthropological engagement with this phenomenon by illuminating the cultural logics galvanizing environmentalism of the poor in distinct locations, elucidating democratic commitments among marginalized peoples confronting environmental decay, and the ways such commitment…
Beyond shallow time
Education is widely seen as a key solution to the environmental multi-crisis, yet contemporary systems have done little to prevent ecological breakdown. This article argues that the gap between education's promise and its actual impact is not merely a matter of implementation but of temporality. Dominant models of education operate within ‘shallow time’, structured by short-term economic rationales and individualised notions of progress, as seen …
Towards a Regenerative Anthropology
In a time of escalating environmental, political and social crises, Anthropology has transformative potential yet faces existential threats. This article argues for a regenerative Anthropology – one that not only critiques the colonial-capitalist systems driving breakdown, but also actively contributes to alternative, life-affirming futures. Drawing on insights from regenerative agriculture, activism and multispecies ethnography, we explore how A…
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