The Persistence of Tightly Coupled Conflicts. The Case of Loisaba, Kenya

Pellis, A.; Pas, Annemiek; Duineveld, Martijn

doi:10.4103/cs.cs_17_38

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“…Given the longstanding experience with conflict encounters by involved ecotourism developers in an African context, we can argue that diminutive collective learning has taken place when it comes to taking (potential) conflicts in ecotourism and conservation practices seriously (Connell et al, 2017). In fact, the many resolutions, mitigation or avoidance attempts in African and European ecotourism arrangements have not necessarily resolved conflicts, but also run the risk of becoming counterproductive to these arrangements in the long run Pellis et al, 2018). And given these encounters with dynamic conflicts and our predominant avoidances of them, future research should explore further how and to what extent conflict avoidances play a role in contemporary society at large.…”

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“…During this visit, these actors discussed how an exclusive tented camp could materialise in the middle of this specially protected area. The design of this tented camp, or 'Starcamp', was inspired by pictures of similar ecolodges established in Eastern Africa (Lamers, Nthiga, van der Duim, & van Wijk, 2014;Pellis et al, 2018). The hoteliers received extensive advice from the present rewilding consultants who had longstanding experience with similar ecotourism projects in Africa.…”

Section: First Projections Of the Starcamp In Faia Bravamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As promising as this may sound, ecotourism practices are not necessarily a panacea. In fact, the development of ecotourism is likely to experience a broad range of social tensions (Connell, Hall, & Shultis, 2017;Kothari & Arnall, 2017;Øian, Aas, Skår, Andersen, & Stensland, 2017;Pellis, Pas, & Duineveld, 2018). It is surprising however how little attention has been paid in the ecotourism literature to notions of conflict and wider frictions or controversies (Connell et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Reality effects of conflict avoidance in rewilding and ecotourism practices – the case of Western Iberia

Pellis

2019

Journal of Ecotourism

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This paper explores the performative role of conflict avoidance in enabling rewilding and ecotourism visions in Western Iberia, one of the first European rewilding pilots situated in Northeast Portugal. Conflict avoidance is delineated here as a process based on expectations of potentially enduring, mutually contradicting and heated communications. In line with and contributing to a Social Systems Theory of conflicts, various examples of conflict avoidance are described as either a form of proactive anticipation to conflicts as risks or as a reactive adaptation to conflicts as dangers. The findings illustrate various forms of conflict avoidance in terms of silence, materialisation, co-optation, and ad hoc manoeuvring. These forms are subject to different goal dependencies of rewilding and ecotourism visions. Furthermore, these findings support a more critical discussion of the highly coproductive role of latent conflict processes in evolving rewilding and ecotourism practices in places like Western Iberia. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: First Projections Of the Starcamp In Faia Bravamentioning

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Reality effects of conflict avoidance in rewilding and ecotourism practices – the case of Western Iberia

Pellis

2019

Journal of Ecotourism

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“…My aim was to understand how the mobility of pastoralists is transformed in relation to the (re)shaping of territories and access to and control of resources (Pas Schrijver, 2019). Here, recent shifting weather conditions and increased (inter)national investments in nature and wildlife conservation on community land in the pastoralist regions have resulted in mobility becoming more complex (Pas, 2018;Pellis, Pas, & Duineveld, 2018). I studied the case of semi-nomadic Samburu pastoralists at the intersection of three counties: Laikipia, Isiolo and Samburu, within the greater Ewaso Nyiro River Basin.…”

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Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies

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<p class="CorpsA">As mobilities studies became a well-respected field in social science, discussions on mobile research designs followed. Usually, these discussions are part of empirical papers and reveal specific methodological choices of individual researchers, or groups of researchers sharing the same objectives and questions. This article starts with a different approach. It is based on continuous discussions between four researchers who developed their own version of mobility-driven projects, starting from different disciplinary backgrounds and using different research techniques. By sharing and contrasting personal fieldwork experiences, we reflect on the doings of mobile methodologies. We engage with the mistakes, dilemmas, and (dis)comforts that emerge from our own mobile research practices, and discuss what this implies for relations of power between the researcher and the research participants, and to what extent mobile research can represent the mobility that we seek to study. Specifically, the article addresses three questions: 1) To what extent do we produce different knowledge with our mobile methodologies? 2) How do our smooth writings about methodology relate to the ‘messy’ realities in the field? 3) How do our practices articulate and transcend difference between researchers and research participants?</p>

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“…Contemporary anthropologists are not actively arguing against this idea, except Arjaan Pellis et al (2018) and Orvis (2001) who indicate that Africa, especially Kenya, is still dominated by tribal and ethnic wars, despite people’s rootedness in ubuntu . These authors implicitly argue that the ubuntu that promotes Keating’s (2013) “I Am because We Are” is jeopardized.…”

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The African Epistemic Logic of Peacemaking: A Model for Reconciling the Sub-Saharan African Christians and Muslims

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2020

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It is becoming evident that failure to reconcile African Christians and Muslims is partly due to the misinterpretation of the African epistemology of peace. This work argues that Christian-Muslim peacemaking must be conceived apart from the Western epistemology (thinking pattern) whereby conferences, lectures, chart signing, religious fora, and systematic military strategies are common practices (Pezard and Shurkin, 2015). For Africans, peacemaking involves creating a space where members of a community connect with each other at a deeper level. This paper explores the process of reconciling African Christians and Muslims, not exclusively from a diplomatic tact and religious slant, but from intrinsic cultural constituents like the African ubuntu (Murithi, 2006), Fulbe’s pulaaku (Mogensen, 2000), and the Ethiopian medemer (Esler, 2019) which are entrenched in the notion of kinship. A Fulbe proverb constitutes a tool for illustrating kinship and peace.

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The Persistence of Tightly Coupled Conflicts. The Case of Loisaba, Kenya

Cited by 19 publications

References 39 publications

Reality effects of conflict avoidance in rewilding and ecotourism practices – the case of Western Iberia

Reality effects of conflict avoidance in rewilding and ecotourism practices – the case of Western Iberia

Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies

The African Epistemic Logic of Peacemaking: A Model for Reconciling the Sub-Saharan African Christians and Muslims

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