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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Seeing Pastoralism - Livestock and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:3-12 November 2021\nCivic House\, 26 Civic Street\, Glasgow G4 9RH \nThis photo exhibition explores how pastoralists from three continents are tackling climate change. \nThe exhibition is linked to a new report that explains why climate assessments need to differentiate between climate-damaging intensive production and extensive\, mobile pastoral production. \nA launch event on 3 November from 15.00-17.00 will include a discussion with pastoral leaders from Jordan\, Mali\, Mongolia\, Norway\, Spain\, Chad and Uganda. \nThis event is co-organised by the PASTRES project and the World Association of Mobile Indigenous Peoples. \n\nFind out more\nTo explore the exhibition online\, visit seeingpastoralism.org. \nRead the report ‘Are livestock always bad for the planet?’. \n  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/exhibition-seeing-pastoralism/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210621T140000
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SUMMARY:Pastoralism and climate change in West Africa: implications for policy and practice
DESCRIPTION:A public webinar event hosted by the Ghana Hub of the Institute of Development Studies. The event includes a contribution from STEPS co-director and PASTRES project convenor Ian Scoones. \nRegister / More info \n\nSpeakers \n\nProfessor Steve William Tonah\, Advanced Researcher\, University of Ghana\nProfessor Gabriel Teye\, Vice-Chancellor\, University for Development Studies\nProfessor Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic\, Professor of agricultural engineering and Director of the Office for International Relationships and Advancement of the UDS\, University for Development Studies\nDr Abukari Abdulai\, Senior Research Fellow\, University for Development Studies\nProfessor Ian Scoones\, Professorial Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies / PASTRES project\n\nAbout the event \nThis event will discuss the intersection of pastoralism and climate change in West Africa. Livestock have a role to play in climate change – but at the same time pastoralism and livestock keeping provide critical livelihood pathways and cultural identity for millions across the region. Simultaneously\, these people are among those seriously affected by climate change. Suggested contemporary policy directions have wide ranging and diverse environmental\, cultural and practical implications for people\, animals and environment across ecological zones in West Africa. Experts from across social\, climate and livestock sciences will provide short provocations based on current research and opinion on these themes. These presentations will be followed by a discussion\, which will touch on issues of emissions mitigation\, range management\, sequestration\, livelihoods\, and ethnoprofessional activities and discourses. It will aim to connect these to policy concerns in Ghana and in the wider region\, with a view to discussing relevant and timely research directions for the coming period.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pastoralism-and-climate-change-in-west-africa-implications-for-policy-and-practice/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T130000
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CREATED:20210518T090238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T040342Z
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SUMMARY:Transformations conference: Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nIn this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being assembled and co-produced on the ground by hybrid and transformative alliances. \nPresentations: \n\nHans Adam: Arresting Environmental Collapse\, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai\nShilpi Srivastava: Dryland transformations: Reviving pastoralist livelihoods in Kutch\, India\nRanit Chatterjee: Integration of New and future Risks into Transformative Adaptation for Sustainability: Case of Milk Businesses in Kutch\nSynne Movik: Transformation as Praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia\n\nThis session is linked to the TAPESTRY project. \nView the Conference programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-conference-transformative-responses-to-climate-uncertainties-in-south-asia/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Pastoralism,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210127T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210127T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T121425
CREATED:20210111T140855Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: What can we learn from the world of pastoralism for wider agrarian struggles?
DESCRIPTION:27 January at 12-13.30 (UTC)\nSpeakers:\n-Ian Scoones\, PASTRES Programme\, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)\, Sussex\, U.K.\n-Maryam Rahmanian (IPES)\n-Rahma Hassan PhD Fellow\, University of Copenhagen and University of Nairobi \nRegister for this event \n\nPastoralists are some of the most marginalised people on the planet\, but they have much to teach us all. Pastoralists make a living from livestock on extensive dry and montane rangelands across the world\, continuously living with and from uncertainty. \nLike agrarian societies everywhere\, pastoralists are confronted by the incursions of neoliberal capitalism: once remote pastoral regions become sites for investment and pastoralists’ livelihoods are undermined. New relations of class\, gender and generation emerge\, with transformed practices of production\, labour and market engagement emerging across pastoral settings. \nHowever\, too often\, pastoralists and settled agriculturalists are viewed as separate and mobilisations and movements rarely cross over. Yet\, pastoralists’ responses to contemporary challenges highlight\, for example\, the importance of mobility\, common use of resources and collective\, networked social arrangements. \nGiven increasingly common agrarian struggles\, this first edition of Agrarian Conversations will explore the opportunities to learn from pastoralists\, and the importance of seeking greater engagement across agrarian movements. \nAgrarian Conversations is a collective initiative of CASAS\, TNI\, PLAAS\, ICAS\, YARA\, ERPI\, PASTRES\, RRUSHES-5 and the Journal of Peasant Studies. \nResources\nA Journal of Peasant Studies background paper for this webinar is available. \nRegister for this event \n  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/webinar-what-can-we-learn-from-the-world-of-pastoralism-for-wider-agrarian-struggles/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190618T080000
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SUMMARY:Researching Pastoral Mobilities: Exploring Methods and Frameworks
DESCRIPTION:18 – 21 June 2019\nFriedensau University (Germany/Möckern) \nThe “Pastoral Mobilities: Exploring Frameworks and Methods” writing workshop responds to the need to revisit our methodological infrastructure\, as researchers of mobile pastoralism\, to align with broader advancements in the understating of pastoral livelihoods and their environments\, as well as with the contemporary empirics of research with mobile pastoralists. \n24 researchers and mentors will come together from the 18th to the 21st of June in Friedensau University (Germany/Möckern) to explore these shortcomings and possible solutions to this methodological quandary. We will be exchanging knowledge\, discussing our case papers\, building up a shared understanding of the problematics of the current methodological infrastructure and reflect on possible solutions. Alongside round table discussions and more standard presentations\, we will be using interactive and alternative ways to discuss these issues in the hope of creating an open and dynamic space for reflection. \nBringing new views to the study of pastoral systems and their representations in policymaking and beyond\, we will reflect on our language\, units of analysis\, geographical and spatial references\, ethics\, politics and power\, tools and methods adopted\, within broader research designs to better fit the contemporary empirics of researching with mobile people. \nThis initiative is connected with the PASTRES project.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/researching-pastoral-mobilities-exploring-methods-and-frameworks/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190614T140000
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SUMMARY:Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development
DESCRIPTION:Ester Boserup Prize Lecture\nby Ian Scoones\, ESRC STEPS Centre / PASTRES project \nWatch video\n \n\nLecture details\nA1-01.01 Festauditoriet\nBülowsvej 17\, 1870 Frederiksberg C\nCopenhagen \nThis lecture will draw on the European Research Council funded project\, PASTRES (Pastoralism\, Uncertainty\, Resilience: Global Lessons from the margins) and will link to the ESRC STEPS Centre’s uncertainty theme for 2019. \nDetails of the lecture and background on the Ester Boserup Prize are on the University of Copenhagen’s website.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/why-embracing-uncertainty-means-rethinking-development/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190410T163000
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SUMMARY:The Future of the World is Mobile: What can we learn from pastoralists?
DESCRIPTION:European University Institute\nFlorence\, Italy \nListen to this event\n \nAbout this event\nCan the experience of pastoralists\, who have long relied on mobility\, help us address the challenges of global migration\, cross-border trade and managing flows of information and commodities? \nMobility is increasingly central to our societies. Nomadic practices and networks that enhance mobility are synonymous with a fluid\, flexible\, mobile modernity\, which is governed through a continuous and growing flow of people\, resources\, information and capital. Yet our policy narratives and institutional settings are poorly equipped to tackle accelerating patterns of mobility\, which in turn respond to and generate shifting patterns of uncertainties. A perspective on mobility from pastoralists’ perspectives challenges many ideas derived from a settled state perspective\, dominated as they are by fixity\, settlement\, controlled migration\, regulated movement\, fences and borders. A mobility perspective therefore suggests new ways of thinking about policy and practice in a range of areas. \nPASTRES\, an ERC-funded project looking at pastoralism and uncertainty\, believes that looking at the world through the eyes of pastoralists gives mobility the centrality it deserves. Pastoralism is a livelihood strategy based on the movements of animals and people\, in search of greener pastures\, expanding social networks and taking advantage of market opportunities. Pastoralists’ responses to environmental\, market and governance uncertainties hinge on specific patterns of mobility. For many pastoralists\, mobility across borders is vital\, complex networks linking kin and others are at the core of market functioning\, flexible movement in response to changing resource availability is essential for escaping drought\, avoiding fixed places for settlement or markets is central to facilitating flexibility\, and adaptive forms of governance are vital in pastoral societies. \nCan we learn from pastoralists how mobility could help in responding to uncertainty for wider challenges? Perspectives from ‘marginal\, peripheral’ contexts could provide important indications and inform debates around wider societal concerns. The seminar will provide the opportunity to link debates focused on pastoralism to wider discussions around movement and mobility in migration\, trade and development\, as part of a wider conversation about rethinking perspectives on uncertainty for contemporary global challenges. \nPresentations: \n\nPASTRES and the lens of pastoralists\, Ian Scoones\, IDS\, University of Sussex & Visiting Fellow\, Schuman Centre (view slides)\nInterfacing pastoral movements and modern mobilities\, Michele Nori (view slides)\n\nRabari on the road: Exploring the politics of pastoral mobility\, Natasha Maru\, IDS\, University of Sussex (view slides)\n\nQ&A and discussion \n\nModerator: Bernard Hoekman\nDiscussant: Giorgia Giovannetti (view slides)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-future-of-the-world-is-mobile-what-can-we-learn-from-pastoralists/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190319T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190319T143000
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Mathilde Gingembre - Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from Madagascar
DESCRIPTION:Seminar organised by the Resource Politics and Rural Futures Clusters\, in association with the STEPS Centre’s PASTRES project \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies \nSlides \nView the slides from this talk (Slidehare) \nVideo \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qC0YlUR3Rg[/embedyt]\n\nThis seminar discusses the concept of moral economy as a critical lens to understand responses to corporate land access within agrarian economies. Drawing on ethnographic work in an agropastoral area of southern Madagascar\, the presentation will highlight how villagers’ perceptions of land deals as well as their decisions to express\, or suppress\, their voices in land deal negotiations are closely tied to considerations of relational justice. \nConsultation processes for corporate land access within agrarian economies are the sites of multiple contentions\, many of which divide the “local communities” themselves. Local people do not only disagree over which struggle to engage with (struggle against dispossession\, struggle for incorporation)\, but also over the issue of who has rights to the land. In contexts where land tenure is characterised by flexibility and where land claims overlap and collide – as in rural Madagascar– choices as to who to involve locally in discussions over land transfers are sensitive and political. Beyond these tensions\, however\, a strong consensus on the moral economic obligations of those benefiting (directly or indirectly) from corporate land access is observed. The seminar explores the resistance to the “de-moralising of land deals” that is expressed by local people\, across social divides. \nAbout the speaker\nMathilde Gingembre is an anthropologist who has worked in Madagascar on land deals for a number of years. She completed her PhD at IDS\, Sussex on this topic. She is now based in Amman\, Jordan and is an affiliate researcher with the ERC-funded PASTRES project. \nEveryone Welcome! \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-mathilde-gingembre-bringing-moral-economy-into-the-study-of-land-deals-reflections-from-madagascar/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180110T100000
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SUMMARY:How are the pathways to resilience in pastoralist areas of Eastern Africa evolving?
DESCRIPTION:Webinar panel discussion organised by the Feinstein International Centre at Tufts University from 9 – 10am EST\, 10 January 2018. \nRegister here (Tufts website) \nAnother ongoing and severe drought in East Africa has reopened debates on the viability of pastoralism\, alternative livelihoods\, and ways to support resilience. The Feinstein International Center has been studying these issues for more than 20 years and has documented changes over time in this report. \nJoin researchers from Feinstein\, Emory University\, and the Institute for Development Studies for a webinar presentation on Wednesday\, January 10\, 2018 at 9am (EST). The panelists will offer preview of this report and a conversation about what makes pastoralists resilient in Eastern Africa. The panelists will discuss: \n\nHow commercialization has driven a gradual redistribution of livestock from poorer to wealthier households\nHow access to markets and productive rangeland determine different pathways to resilience\nHow population and urban growth affect pastoralist livelihoods\nChallenges to supporting diversified and alternative livelihoods for increasing numbers of people within and outside of pastoralist areas\n\nPanelists: \n\nAndy Catley\, Research Director at the Feinstein International Center\, Tufts University\nPeter Little\, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and Director of the Program in Development Studies at Emory University\nIan Scoones\, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies\nGreg Gottlieb (Chair)\, Director of the Feinstein International Center\, Tufts University\n\nTo register for the webinar click here.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pathways-resilience-pastoralist-areas-eastern-africa-evolving/
LOCATION:Forum Theatre\, Level 1\, Arts West  The University of Melbourne\, Parkville campus\, Forum Theatre\, Level 1\, Arts West The University of Melbourne\, Parkville campus\, Melbourne\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
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