Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260105
Jonathan H.I. Tinsley, L. Gwiriri
{"title":"Understanding the Representation of Pastoralism in Livestock-Related Climate Adaptation Policies in Ghana and Nigeria: a Review of Key Policy Documents","authors":"Jonathan H.I. Tinsley, L. Gwiriri","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260105","url":null,"abstract":"Within Nigeria and Ghana, pastoralists face increasing adversity from climate change and marginalisation due to a complex combination of factors, further amplified by highly sensitive and increasingly violent conflicts with farmers. While climate change exacerbates the vulnerability\u0000 of pastoralists, this remains largely unaccounted for in current Nigerian and Ghanaian pastoral livestock policy. Employing a thematic analytical approach, the article assesses the representation of pastoralists within climate change adaptation strategies in Ghana and Nigeria, and the impact\u0000 of this on their livelihoods. Our findings indicate that pastoralists are poorly represented in current policy, which is inclined towards transitions to intensive sedentary systems. This risks enhancing the vulnerability of pastoralists to climate impacts by constraining mobility. We conclude\u0000 that improved clarity on how these policies account for climate change in transitioning pastoral systems into intensive sedentary systems could encourage compliance and buy-in by pastoralists and farmers. It is recommended that future livestock policies address climate change and bolster producer\u0000 mobility to better support the livelihoods of pastoralists.","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69831198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260107
Allison Hahn
{"title":"Deliberating Herders: Encouraging Democratic Deliberation in Mongolia","authors":"Allison Hahn","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260107","url":null,"abstract":"How can herders directly participate in national policy debates and deliberations? In this article I assess two episodes of the Mongolian Open Society Institute's TV Forum which was nationally televised between 2005 and 2006. Focusing on two episodes which debate mining policy, I ask\u0000 how herder participation was modelled through topical framing, speaking roles and decision-making criteria. Then, from this analysis, I examine the ways in which contemporary ICTs (Internet and Communication Technologies) could be used to encourage herder participation in future deliberations.","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41850277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260108
Christopher Atwood
{"title":"Orhon Myadar, Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia.","authors":"Christopher Atwood","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48937017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260109
D. J. Miller
{"title":"Jamie Levin (ed.), Nomad - State Relationships in International Relations: before and after Borders.","authors":"D. J. Miller","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48983522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260102
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill, Lena Sidorova, P. Vitebsky
{"title":"Where Is the Nomadic Family? Rigid Laws and Flexible Tundra Life in North-East Siberia","authors":"Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill, Lena Sidorova, P. Vitebsky","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260102","url":null,"abstract":"We start from a puzzle: in remote Arctic regions of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), why are many reindeer-herding families excluded from official 'nomadic family' benefits? The Republic's Nomadic Family Law is supposed to support indigenous minorities leading a 'traditional' lifestyle,\u0000 but it often fails. We identify three models of family structure at work, each matching the fluidity of the physical environment and productive process more or less realistically. While our fieldwork reveals a highly flexible and all-embracing indigenous understanding of relatedness, analysis\u0000 of the urban officials' laws show them to be based on unexamined concepts of 'family' rooted in Russian terminology and based on narrow ideas of the nuclear family rather than on the complementary distribution of labour across a shared space. We suggest that legal initiatives should include\u0000 a wider ethnographic basis to provide a better understanding of emic concepts, while also consulting the local people most directly affected.","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43872704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260104
Gwendoline Lemaitre
{"title":"Case Study of a Tush Transhumance. Contemporary Challenges of a Journey across Georgia: Sociability, Contingency and Relationship to the Land","authors":"Gwendoline Lemaitre","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260104","url":null,"abstract":"There are few contemporary social scientific studies on the Caucasus, and fewer still that deal with pastoralism in its own right. Yet, as a gateway between Europe and Asia, this is a region of extreme cultural, linguistic and ecosystemic diversity. Pastoralism has played a central\u0000 role here historically, the basis of many mythic tales known throughout the world (e.g., the Golden Fleece). Drawing on a case study of Georgian transhumance from my own fieldwork, the goal of this article is to amplify research on Caucasian pastoralism with a contemporary overview of the\u0000 core issues.","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47242352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260106
Thomas Campbell
{"title":"Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in Ethiopia: New Concerns, Old Arguments?","authors":"Thomas Campbell","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260106","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the ways in which discourses and narratives around pastoralism and climate change have been communicated within policy-making in Ethiopia over an eleven-year period (2007-2017), the interests of different actors shaping these policies and some of the consequences\u0000 of policy solutions for pastoralist livelihoods. Employing discourse analysis of policy-relevant documents, combined with data drawn from interviews with a cross-section of policy actors, it highlights how new concerns over climate change - combined with the drive for transformation and modernisation\u0000 of pastoral areas - are being used by the state and other powerful actors as tools in contestations over land and other resources. Predominantly technocratic policy prescriptions and investments are, in turn, leading to new patterns of social differentiation and vulnerability for some. The\u0000 extent and nature of change in Ethiopia's drylands call for political responses that address social inequities and power imbalances, that safeguard pastoralists' resource rights and that allow for more inclusive forms of governance.","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41476587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2022.260103
C. Marchina, A. Zazzo, N. Lazzerini, A. Coulon, S. Lepetz, N. Bayarkhuu, T. Turbat, C. Noûs
{"title":"Kazakh Variations for Herders and Animals in the Mongolian Altai: Methodological Contributions to the Study of Nomadic Pastoralism","authors":"C. Marchina, A. Zazzo, N. Lazzerini, A. Coulon, S. Lepetz, N. Bayarkhuu, T. Turbat, C. Noûs","doi":"10.3197/np.2022.260103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2022.260103","url":null,"abstract":"Kazakh herders of the Mongolian Altai practice a form of nomadism characterised by high altitudinal amplitude and more frequent movements than in other regions of Mongolia. This paper proposes a local scale study of nomadic practices using an original multidisciplinary methodological\u0000 approach combining anthropological surveys and several years' GPS data tracking of five herder families' herds. The dialogue between geo-localised and qualitative data over several consecutive years makes it possible to better understand the environmental, economic, social and individual factors\u0000 that determine nomadic routes and calendars. It also highlights the ways in which herders cope with interannual variations. In particular, this new methodology reveals the importance of temporary herd separations and re-evaluates the frequency of nomadic movements, which might have been underestimated\u0000 by the classical anthropological approach.","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45569727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nomadic PeoplesPub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.3197/np.2021.250205
S. Konaka
{"title":"Reconsidering the Resilience of Pastoralism from the Perspective of Reliability: The Case of Conflicts between the Samburu and the Pokot of Kenya, 2004-2009","authors":"S. Konaka","doi":"10.3197/np.2021.250205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/np.2021.250205","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores an overlooked aspect of the 'resilience of pastoralism' in crises through an ethnographic case study of a series of conflicts between the Samburu and the Pokot in Kenya that erupted in 2004. Emery Roe's concepts of reliability professionals and real-time management\u0000 of pastoralists are utilised as theoretical frameworks for this study. It was observed that the 'logic of high input variance matched by high process variance to ensure low and stable output variance' occurred through the formation of clustered settlements and an inter-ethnic mobile phone\u0000 network. This case illustrates how pastoralists endured the conflict as reliability professionals.","PeriodicalId":19318,"journal":{"name":"Nomadic Peoples","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41371366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}