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Pastoral practices in High Asia - Agency of 'development' effected by modernisation, resettlement and transformation (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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Pastoral practices in High Asia - Agency of 'development' effected by modernisation, resettlement and transformation (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of
civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order
to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global
approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous
phenomena independent of ideological contexts. The 20th century
experienced a variety of concepts to settle mobile groups and to
transfer their lifestyles to modern perceptions. Permanent
settlements are the vivid expression of an ideology-driven
approach. Modernization theory captured all walks of life and tried
to optimize breeding techniques, pasture utilization, transport and
processing concepts. New insights into other aspects of pastoralism
such as its role as an adaptive strategy to use marginal resources
in remote locations with difficult access could only be understood
as a critique of capitalist and communist concepts of
modernization. In recent years a renaissance of modernization
theory-led development activities can be observed. Higher inputs
from external funding, fencing of pastures and settlement of
pastoralists in new townships are the vivid expression of 'modern'
pastoralism in urban contexts. The new modernization programme
incorporates resettlement and transformation of lifestyles as to be
justified by environmental pressure in order to reduce degradation
in the age of climate change.
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