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Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities
in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states
who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people
who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests
have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This
volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on
long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and
strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit
ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and
‘primitiveness’.
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book
uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to
rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and
multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and
Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism,
identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological
explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and
conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the
behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities
in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states
who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people
who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests
have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This
volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on
long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and
strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit
ideological false modernist tropes like 'backwardness' and
'primitiveness'.
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