Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 7)
Revival of the drylands & pastoral livelihoods in Eastern Africa
In the article “The revival of the drylands: re-learning resilience to climate change from pastoral livelihoods in East Africa” (Climate and Development 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2160197), Greta Semplici and Tom Campbell review different waves of rural politics and development in the East African drylands, with a focus on Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, in the context of climate change. They […]
Mobile pastoralists’ use of ICTs: example in Tanzania
The book Media culture in nomadic communities (2021, Amsterdam University Press, 221pp) by Allison Hahn looks at the role of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) within nomadic communities, above all, how they use ICTs to gain control over how they are depicted and to express themselves as citizens demanding recognition of their rights. The […]
Being Maasai, becoming Indigenous – book reviews
We cannot post the book itself but we can post a couple of reviews of Dorothy Hodgson’s book Being Maasai, becoming Indigenous: postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011, 288 pp, ISBN-13: 978–0253223050). This review, written by Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, was published in the journal Pastoralism: Research Policy and Practice 2: 27 […]
Assessing policy frame in pastoral areas of sub-Saharan Africa
The policy paper “Assessing the policy frame in pastoral areas of sub-Saharan Africa” (2022, 39pp) by Michele Nori, is one in a series of the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute looking at the framing of policy around pastoralism in different regions of the world. This one was funded through […]
Conference, photos & films in Brussels on pastoralism
On 7–8 December 2022, a series of events on pastoralism will be held in Brussels, Belgium, in support of the forthcoming International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2026. The events are organised by the PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty & Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) research project funded by the European Research Council, VSFB […]