Project Details
Projekt
In Search of Order: Institutional Change, Violent Regulation and Environmental Knowledge under Conditions of Rapid Social Ecological Change
Applicant
Professor Dr. Michael Bollig
Subject Area
Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Term
from 2010 to 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 165405448
Pastoral nomadic societies in Eastern Africa are rapidly changing: sedentarisation, the demise of communal pasture management, diversification entailing increasing investment into sedentary agriculture, labour migration and growing internal stratification are the more obvious consequences of such changes. Besides high rates of demographic growth, widespread violence, state failure and the increasing commoditisation of pastoral production are named as major causes. The historical contextualization of main drivers highlights that processes perceived as rapid nowadays have deep historical roots. These often reach back to late colonial projects of resource management. This sub-project will analyse how pastoralists redefine their relations to the environment through altered modes of engagement with the landscape entailing changes in land-use, control over land and water and changing intellectual approaches to “the environment”. Frequently the reorganization of human-environmental system entails the appropriation of globalized models of sustainable resource tenure.
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