Relational resiliences: reflections from pastoralism across the world
Resilience is a common concept in pastoralism scholarship and policy-making, especially in dryland environments where livelihoods are considered vulnerable to frequent shocks such as droughts, pests and epidemics, and conflicts. Resilience lends itself to pastoral studies due to its ability to captu...
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| author | Greta Semplici L. Jamila Haider Ryan Unks Tahira S. Mohamed Giulia Simula Palden Tsering (Huadancairang) Natasha Maru Linda Pappagallo Masresha Taye |
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| description | Resilience is a common concept in pastoralism scholarship and policy-making, especially in dryland environments where livelihoods are considered vulnerable to frequent shocks such as droughts, pests and epidemics, and conflicts. Resilience lends itself to pastoral studies due to its ability to capture uncertainty, complexity and dynamism: key characteristics of dryland environments and pastoral systems. However, resilience has also been critiqued for inadequately incorporating aspects of power, its emphasis on individual agency and nature-culture dualism, and its problematic application in development. We build on recent sociology, anthropology, and scholarship on pastoralism to contribute to the ‘relational turn’ in sustainability science to address: How can an approach focused on processes and relations, and socio-ecological interdependence help us better understand resilience in pastoral landscapes? And vice versa: how can pastoralism offer insights about how to understand resilience starting from processes and relations? We compare different empirically grounded formulations of resilience that researchers operationalize in six pastoral case studies from Africa, Asia and Europe. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8d166fa72e1d41da9267fcea4f189de02025-08-20T03:05:26ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEcosystems and People2639-59082639-59162024-12-0120110.1080/26395916.2024.2396928Relational resiliences: reflections from pastoralism across the worldGreta Semplici0L. Jamila Haider1Ryan Unks2Tahira S. Mohamed3Giulia Simula4Palden Tsering (Huadancairang)5Natasha Maru6Linda Pappagallo7Masresha Taye8Department of Cultura Politica e Società, University of Turin, TurinStockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenRobert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Fiesole, ItalySTEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, United KingdomSTEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, United KingdomSTEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, United KingdomSTEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, United KingdomSTEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, United KingdomSTEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, United KingdomResilience is a common concept in pastoralism scholarship and policy-making, especially in dryland environments where livelihoods are considered vulnerable to frequent shocks such as droughts, pests and epidemics, and conflicts. Resilience lends itself to pastoral studies due to its ability to capture uncertainty, complexity and dynamism: key characteristics of dryland environments and pastoral systems. However, resilience has also been critiqued for inadequately incorporating aspects of power, its emphasis on individual agency and nature-culture dualism, and its problematic application in development. We build on recent sociology, anthropology, and scholarship on pastoralism to contribute to the ‘relational turn’ in sustainability science to address: How can an approach focused on processes and relations, and socio-ecological interdependence help us better understand resilience in pastoral landscapes? And vice versa: how can pastoralism offer insights about how to understand resilience starting from processes and relations? We compare different empirically grounded formulations of resilience that researchers operationalize in six pastoral case studies from Africa, Asia and Europe.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/26395916.2024.2396928Seb O’ConnorPastoralismrelational resilienceprocess relationalAfricaAsia |
| spellingShingle | Greta Semplici L. Jamila Haider Ryan Unks Tahira S. Mohamed Giulia Simula Palden Tsering (Huadancairang) Natasha Maru Linda Pappagallo Masresha Taye Relational resiliences: reflections from pastoralism across the world Ecosystems and People Seb O’Connor Pastoralism relational resilience process relational Africa Asia |
| title | Relational resiliences: reflections from pastoralism across the world |
| title_full | Relational resiliences: reflections from pastoralism across the world |
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| title_short | Relational resiliences: reflections from pastoralism across the world |
| title_sort | relational resiliences reflections from pastoralism across the world |
| topic | Seb O’Connor Pastoralism relational resilience process relational Africa Asia |
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