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Moving Deserts : Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Semplici, Greta.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Winwick, Cambs., UK : White Horse Press, 2025.
Contents:
Intro
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
Acronyms
Turkana vocabulary
Note on data reference and text
Acronyms for field data reference
Thinking like a desert. Foreword by Alberto Salza
Prologue
An outsider's view as a comment
Introduction
The world drylands
Some notes on pastoralism
Turkana County and the arid north
A nomadic approach to research
Book roadmap
Chapter 1.The resilience agenda
Background of a contested notion: resilience
Development translations
'Now drought is in trouble': the resilience agenda in the Horn of Africa
Resilience in motion
Chapter 2. The nomadism of space. An experiential journey through the variability of drylands
Seeing like a herder
A mobile territory through a live geography
Accessibility, a relational approach to space
Perceptions of remoteness
Resilience and the nomadism of space
Chapter 3. The nomadism of settlements. Aid like rain
Nomadism of the hut
The creation of villages
The materiality of variability
Resourceful dumps and quicksilver economies
Resilience and space making
Chapter 4. Practices of mobility
Navigating variabilities: mobility to mobility
Dialoguing and imagining mobility
Moving
Mobile livelihoods
Resilience and moving
Chapter 5. On food and no-food. The mobility of identities
Flipped narratives of vulnerability
Solidarities of hunger
Gendered performances of being raiya
Identities in opposition
Ambivalence and fluid identities
Resilience and mobile identities
Afterword. Mobility, change, resilience
Some years later
Bibliography
Annexes
Annex 1. Physical map Annexes
Annex 2. Landforms and soils map
Annex 3. Geology map
Annex 4. Restriction on livestock movements
Annex 5. Vegetation map.
Annex 6. Selected list of laws, declarations reports and policies.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-912186-97-7
OCLC:
1569122545

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