Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 8)
Maasai rights in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
The Ngorongoro Crater in northeastern Tanzania is a great tourist attraction. It is also home to Maasai pastoralists, who have been struggling for their human and civil rights since 1958, when they were resettled in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) by the colonial government after they were evicted from Serengeti area. The book Maasai rights in […]
Stealthy processes of land dispossession in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
In the paper “Making land grabbable: stealthy dispossessions by conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania” (published in 2021 in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5 (4): https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211052860), Teklehaymanot Weldemichael looks into how it becomes possible that land is grabbed and people are relocated. It focuses on the historical conditions of land tenure that […]
Revival of the drylands & pastoral livelihoods in Eastern Africa
In the article “The revival of the drylands: re-learning resilience to climate change from pastoral livelihoods in East Africa” (Climate and Development 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2160197), Greta Semplici and Tom Campbell review different waves of rural politics and development in the East African drylands, with a focus on Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, in the context of climate change. They […]
Mobile pastoralists’ use of ICTs: example in Tanzania
The book Media culture in nomadic communities (2021, Amsterdam University Press, 221pp) by Allison Hahn looks at the role of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) within nomadic communities, above all, how they use ICTs to gain control over how they are depicted and to express themselves as citizens demanding recognition of their rights. The […]
Being Maasai, becoming Indigenous – book reviews
We cannot post the book itself but we can post a couple of reviews of Dorothy Hodgson’s book Being Maasai, becoming Indigenous: postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011, 288 pp, ISBN-13: 978–0253223050). This review, written by Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, was published in the journal Pastoralism: Research Policy and Practice 2: 27 […]