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Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism
Towards a Relational and Contextual Approach
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eBook - ePub
Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism
Towards a Relational and Contextual Approach
About this book
' Resilience' refers to the capacity to persist, adapt and evolve in the face of change. This book aims to interrogate the increasingly overused concept of resilience by examining its application to a series of case studies, focusing on pastoralists in East Africa. How do African pastoralists manage and adapt their livelihoods to a range of uncertain environments, including natural disasters, food insecurity, disease outbreaks, unstable infrastructure and conflict? Do development assistance and government intervention to address these issues contribute to enhancing the resilience of African pastoralists? Twelve chapters have discussed and for the first time identified relational contexts of resilience in Africa, including political power, land privatization, gender, human-animal identity, local networks, farmer-pastoralist relations and pastoralist values. Approaching the concept of resilience from relational and contextual perspectives can showcase a counter-narrative to guide more meaningful humanitarian and development framing and sheds light on new avenues of understanding and practicing resilience in this unstable world.
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Yes, you can access Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism by Shinya Konaka, Greta Semplici, Peter D Little, Shinya Konaka,Greta Semplici,Peter D Little in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Table
- List of Photographs
- Contributors
- Introduction: Rethinking Resilience in the Context of East African Pastoralism Shinya Konaka, Peter D. Little, and Greta Semplici
- Part I: Political Economy of Resilience from Global Perspective
- Part II: Resilience through Livelihood Diversification
- Part III: Resilience and Identity
- Part IV: Resilience of Displaced Pastoralists during and after Conflict
- Part V: Comparative Perspectives on Resilience and Mobility: Farmers, City Dwellers, and Pastoralists
- Epilogue – Resilience in the Drylands: Contested Meanings Ian Scoones
- Index