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Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism Towards a Relational and Contextual Approach

出版社名 京都大学学術出版会
出版年月 2023年
ISBNコード 978-4-8140-0487-4
4-8140-0487-7
税込価格 4,950円
頁数・縦 383P 22cm

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要旨

This book interrogates the increasingly overused concept of resilience by examining its application to a series of case studies focused on pastoralists in Africa.Through anthropological approaches,the book prioritises the localisation of resilience in context and practice;how to promote ‘thinking resilience’ in place of the typical ‘resilience thinking’approach. Anthropology has the power to raise the vantage point of people and places,make them speak,breath,and live.And this gives to resilience more grounded and quotidian framings:local,relational,political and ever evolving.The authors ask whether development assistance and government intervention enhance the resilience of African pastoralists,while discussing critical topics,such as political power,land privatization,gender,human‐animal identities,local networks,farmer‐pastoralist relations,and norms and values.The epilogue,in turn,highlights important theoretical and empirical connections between the different case studies and shows how they pro

目次

Introduction Rethinking Resilience in the Context of East African Pastoralism
1 Political Economy of Resilience from Global Perspective
2 Resilience through Livelihood Diversification
3 Resilience and Identity
4 Resilience of Displaced Pastoralists during and after Conflict
5 Comparative Perspectives on Resilience and Mobility:Farmers,City Dwellers,and Pastoralists
Epilogue Resilience in the Drylands:Contested Meanings