Territorializing ethnicity: the imposition of a model of statehood on pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia

Schlee, Günther

doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.626058

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“…1. In the past two decades, patterns of violent conflict in pastoralist areas have been increasingly triggered by highly politicized claims to land (Schlee 2011). Competing political elites in these areas often aggressively refer to past "injustices" and current "infringements" in order to gain symbolic capital with their electorate.…”

Section: J Terrencementioning

confidence: 99%

Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya's Arid Areas

Greiner

Bollig²,

McCabe

2011

Africa Spectrum

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is a post-doctoral researcher within the research unit "Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation" in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His current research focuses on land-use change, conflicts, and the transformation of social-ecological systems in East Pokot, Kenya. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg with a multi-sited ethnography on rural-urban migration in Namibia. Michael Bollig is a professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He is also director of the Cologne African Studies Center (CASC) and spokesperson for the DFGfunded research unit "Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation". He has conducted fieldwork with pastoral communities in northern Kenya (Pokot) and northern Namibia (Himba). His main research interests are humanenvironment interactions, political ecology, transition of local knowledge, and conflict.

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Section: J Terrencementioning

confidence: 99%

Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya's Arid Areas

Greiner

Bollig²,

McCabe

2011

Africa Spectrum

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“…Pastoralists in East Africa are also continuously on the move and their territories have changed over time and continue to change despite being circumscribed by other pastoral groups (Schlee 2010), but at smaller spatial scales and longer temporal scales than in West Africa, where pastoralists move across multiple countries into different Fig. 3 Distribution of Fulfulde speakers in sub-Saharan Africa.…”

Section: An Open Systemmentioning

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Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Management of Common-Pool Resources in the Chad Basin

Moritz

Scholte²,

Hamilton

et al. 2013

Hum Ecol

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The discussion about the impact of pastoralists on ecosystems has been profoundly shaped by Hardin's tragedy of the commons that held pastoralists responsible for overgrazing the range. Research has shown that grazing ecosystems are much more complex and dynamic than was previously assumed and that they can be managed adaptively as commons. However, proponents and critics of Hardin's thesis continue to argue that open access to common-pool resources inevitably leads to a tragedy of the commons. A longitudinal study that we conducted of pastoral mobility and primary production in the Logone floodplain in the Far North Region of Cameroon suggest that open access does not have to lead to a tragedy of the commons. We argue that this pastoral system is best conceptualized as an open system, in which a combination of individual decision-making and coordination of movements leads to an ideal-free type of distribution of mobile pastoralists. We explain how this selforganizing system of open access works and its implications for theories of management of common-pool resources and our understanding of pastoral systems.

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“…They also expressed concerns regarding the impacts of extra-institutional behaviours on the survival and rights of innocent community members such as those who are straddled along the Oromo-Somali ethno-territorial frontiers. On his part, Schlee (2013) makes similar remarks about the impacts of territorialization of ethnicity and ethnic-based boundary-making on the traditional patterns and range of movements of pastoral nomads in southern Ethiopia. Tache and Oba's (2009) study provided more specific cases to reveal the manner in which ethno-territorial arrangement and boundary-making efforts along disputed pastoral areas turned the Somali clans like the Garre into strategic beneficiaries and the Boran into strategic losers.…”

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Analysis of dynamics of politicized collective identity in post-Dergue Ethiopia: A sociological and social-psychological analysis

Hussein

2015

International Area Studies Review

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The identity issues in post-Dergue Ethiopia deserve empirical and analytical considerations that may provide insights about how to deal with identity-based contestations and violence. This paper makes a sociological and social-psychological analysis of various dynamics of politicized collective identity in post-Dergue Ethiopia. It assesses the social-psychological meanings of the political and social processes, practices and structures that give rise to reconstruction and renegotiation of identity and identity-based contestations. It focuses on the political, social and psychological dimensions of identity and identification processes. The paper draws on various research outcomes and theories of identity construction to explain the dynamics of identity processes and their implication for inter-group relationships mainly in the geographical margins of the country where such groups share natural resources and socio-cultural communalities. The paper critiques also the conceptual and ontological limitations of academic writings that participate in the objectification of ethnicity in their effort to forge the political, social, cultural and ethnic modalities predisposed to define the essence of identity groups.

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Territorializing ethnicity: the imposition of a model of statehood on pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia

Cited by 35 publications

References 4 publications

Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya's Arid Areas

Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya's Arid Areas

Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Management of Common-Pool Resources in the Chad Basin

Analysis of dynamics of politicized collective identity in post-Dergue Ethiopia: A sociological and social-psychological analysis

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