This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia.
This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia.
Angela Kronenburg García is an F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLouvain, Belgium, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padua, Italy. Tobias Haller is a Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Han van Dijk is a Professor at the Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Cyrus Samimi is a Professor of Climatology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where he also serves as Vice Dean of Digital Solutions in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple. Jeroen Warner is a Senior Associate Professor of Crisis and Disaster Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Drylands, frontiers, and the politics of change PART 1: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND NARRATIVES 2. Climate variability and institutional flexibility: Resource governance at the intersection between ecological instability and mobility in drylands 3. Environmental crisis narratives in drylands PART 2: RESOURCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND POWER 4. Wetlands in drylands: Large-scale appropriations for agriculture, conservation and mining in Africa 5. Large-scale agricultural investments in drylands: Facing some blind spots in the grabbing debate 6. The 'open cut' in drylands: Challenges of artisanal mining and pastoralism encountering industrial mining, development, and resource grabbing 7. Mega-infrastructure projects in drylands: From enchantments to disenchantments 8. The new green grabbing frontier and participation: Conserving drylands with or without people PART 3: CONFLICT, CONNECTION, AND LIVELIHOODS 9. Religious movements in the drylands: Ethnicity, jihadism, and violent extremism 10. Making cities in drylands: Migration, livelihoods, and policy 11. Drylands connected: Mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies PART 4: RESPONSES AND POTENTIALS 12. Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown: Collaborative research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands 13. Alternative perspectives: A bright side of natural resource governance in drylands
1. Drylands, frontiers, and the politics of change PART 1: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND NARRATIVES 2. Climate variability and institutional flexibility: Resource governance at the intersection between ecological instability and mobility in drylands 3. Environmental crisis narratives in drylands PART 2: RESOURCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND POWER 4. Wetlands in drylands: Large-scale appropriations for agriculture, conservation and mining in Africa 5. Large-scale agricultural investments in drylands: Facing some blind spots in the grabbing debate 6. The 'open cut' in drylands: Challenges of artisanal mining and pastoralism encountering industrial mining, development, and resource grabbing 7. Mega-infrastructure projects in drylands: From enchantments to disenchantments 8. The new green grabbing frontier and participation: Conserving drylands with or without people PART 3: CONFLICT, CONNECTION, AND LIVELIHOODS 9. Religious movements in the drylands: Ethnicity, jihadism, and violent extremism 10. Making cities in drylands: Migration, livelihoods, and policy 11. Drylands connected: Mobile communication and changing power positions in (nomadic) pastoral societies PART 4: RESPONSES AND POTENTIALS 12. Pastoralists under COVID-19 lockdown: Collaborative research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands 13. Alternative perspectives: A bright side of natural resource governance in drylands
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