Forthcoming Issue: Volume 15 Number 2

Using data spanning more than forty years, this study demonstrates the unplanned outcomes of prescribed development on Bedouin livelihoods in South Sinai, where the Bedu economy has shifted from agropastoral livelihoods to an almost complete dependence on insecure paid work.

While in functional terms the tin shack is very similar to the traditional tent, the climatic performance of the tin shack is much worse, amplifying ambient temperature extremes, and increasing respiratory related complications.

Based on a visit to Niger’s pastoral zone at the height of the 2010 drought crisis and shortly after the ‘Code Pastoral’ legislation had been agreed by the interim government, this article compares land use trends in two Tuareg-led administrative communes.

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There is evidence that investments in education may in some cases replace traditional forms of livestock inheritance, reflecting current perceptions of the relative values of pastoralism and forms of employment for which formal education is required.

Pastoral mobility in mountain environments always implicates indigenous forms of agency vis-à-vis the surrounding states with which people are interlinked, for instance through trade relations, contested border demarcations or natural resource regulations.

In 2011, the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that Saami reindeer herders are entitled to graze their animals in the territory of Nordmaling, the first major legal victory for the Saami after decades of defending their right to herd reindeer on privately owned lands.

The eviction of Travellers from Dale Farm raises the question of whether Basildon Council’s actions will be a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, as directly applied in the U.K. Human Rights Act 1998.

This new book develops the theme of how globalization has reached out to Africa’s mobile pastoralists and incorporated them into worldwide networks of production and consumption.