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