Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism: Towards a Relational and Contextual Approach

— —

Shinya Konaka Greta Semplici

Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism

Towards a Relational and Contextual Approach

Shinya Konaka, Greta Semplici, Peter Little

$78.95 $67.40

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Trans Pacific Press
31 March 2024

Agriculture & farming

What does resilience mean? This is a question frequently asked and one that this book challenges and turns on its head.

This book interrogates the increasingly overused concept of resilience by examining its application to a series of case studies focused on pastoralists in Africa. Through anthropological approaches, the book prioritises the localisation of resilience in context and practice; how to promote 'thinking resilience' in place of the typical 'resilience thinking' approach. Anthropology has the power to raise the vantage point of people and places, make them speak, breath, and live. And this gives to resilience more grounded and quotidian framings: local, relational, political and ever evolving.

The authors ask whether development assistance and government intervention enhance the resilience of African pastoralists, while discussing critical topics, such as political power, land privatization, gender, human-animal identities, local networks, farmer-pastoralist relations, and norms and values. The epilogue, in turn, highlights important theoretical and empirical connections between the different case studies and shows how they provide a much more nuanced, culturally and politically meaningful approach to resilience than its common definition of 'bounce back.'

By approaching resilience from relational and contextual perspectives, the book showcases a counter-narrative to guide more effective humanitarian and development framing and shed light on new avenues of understanding and practicing resilience in this uncertain world.

Edited by: Shinya Konaka, Greta Semplici, Peter Little
Imprint: Trans Pacific Press
Country of Publication: Japan
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781920850067
ISBN 10: 1920850066
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 31 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shinya Konaka is Professor, School of International Relations, and Dean, Graduate School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka Greta Semplici is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Peter D. Little is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Global Development Studies Program, Emory University.

Reviews for Reconsidering Resilience in African Pastoralism: Towards a Relational and Contextual Approach

"""This is now my go-to book for a far more realistic and helpful perspective on resilience across African dryland systems. Broad discussions on ""resilience"" frequently run into the sand of mixed metaphors: the hyperinflation of the term, its whirling pinwheel of meanings, often a sundial that marks only the sunny hours outside, its juice no longer worth the squeeze. Against this backdrop, the book's chapters, methodologically rich as they are, provide a vital societal service: Identifying the local anchor-points of resilience that remain for the highly differentiated stakes involved. Kudos all around!"" Emery Roe (University of California, Berkeley)"