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Author: David M. Anderson ,
Vigdis Broch-Due
Publisher: James Currey
Imprint: James Currey
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.380kg
ISBN: 9780852552650
ISBN 10: 0852552653
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 January 2000
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
... essential reading ... - Roderick P. Neumann in AFRICAN AFFAIRS This book's great merit is to have managed to make the study of what are minority communities in eastern Africa interesting and relevant to those who are concerned with the ways in which the continent has tackled the thorny question of development. - Patrick Chabal in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The papers make it clear that pastoralist communities throughout eastern Africa are aware of the changing nature of poverty. There is a lively and robust indigenous discourse about how poverty should be understood, and how it can be ameliorated. Pastoralists increasingly recognise that the poor are now among them. But, although the alleviation of poverty is a central tenet of the development dialogue, there is still much to be done to engage the pastoralists themselves in that dialogue... . For those who are interested in, and concerned with, this subject, this book is essential reading. - D.J. Shaw in DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW ... the readableand provocative fashion ... with which various approaches have been pulled together between one set of covers. - John Wood in AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW ...this insightful edition reviews most of the significant factors concerning the slide of pastoralists down the continuum from prosperity to impoverishment... .Through excellent case studies, the volume paints a sad but convincing canvas of pastoral poverty, but also establishes an argument, often only implicitly developed, for giving support to the productive enterprise of raising livestock in rangelands best suited for that purpose - precisely the terms on which pastoral communities are prepared by tradition, knowledge and commitment to encounter modernity. Structural poverty today can best be reduced by strengthening the animal economy and securing herders' rights over resources, as well as selectively pursuing settlement, commercialization and diversification. Such shifts in policy also require reconfiguring the metaphorical state-of-mind, long propagated through misguided interventions by internationaring the metaphorical state-of-mind, long propagated through misguided interventions by international and national agencies, that has too long associated pastoralists with poverty rather than
... essential reading ... - Roderick P. Neumann in AFRICAN AFFAIRS This book's great merit is to have managed to make the study of what are minority communities in eastern Africa interesting and relevant to those who are concerned with the ways in which the continent has tackled the thorny question of development. - Patrick Chabal in INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The papers make it clear that pastoralist communities throughout eastern Africa are aware of the changing nature of poverty. There is a lively and robust indigenous discourse about how poverty should be understood, and how it can be ameliorated. Pastoralists increasingly recognise that the poor are now among them. But, although the alleviation of poverty is a central tenet of the development dialogue, there is still much to be done to engage the pastoralists themselves in that dialogue... . For those who are interested in, and concerned with, this subject, this book is essential reading. - D.J. Shaw in DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW ... the readableand provocative fashion ... with which various approaches have been pulled together between one set of covers. - John Wood in AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW ...this insightful edition reviews most of the significant factors concerning the slide of pastoralists down the continuum from prosperity to impoverishment... .Through excellent case studies, the volume paints a sad but convincing canvas of pastoral poverty, but also establishes an argument, often only implicitly developed, for giving support to the productive enterprise of raising livestock in rangelands best suited for that purpose - precisely the terms on which pastoral communities are prepared by tradition, knowledge and commitment to encounter modernity. Structural poverty today can best be reduced by strengthening the animal economy and securing herders' rights over resources, as well as selectively pursuing settlement, commercialization and diversification. Such shifts in policy also require reconfiguring the metaphorical state-of-mind, long propagated through misguided interventions by international and national agencies, that has too long associated pastoralists with poverty rather than their wealth of land, livestock and adaptability. - John Galaty in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY
'... essential reading ...' - Roderick P. Neumann in African Affairs 'This book's great merit is to have managed to make the study of what are minority communities in eastern Africa interesting and relevant to those who are concerned with the ways in which the continent has tackled the thorny question of development .' - Patrick Chabal in International Affairs 'The papers make it clear that pastoralist communities throughout eastern Africa are aware of the changing nature of poverty. There is a lively and robust indigenous discourse about how poverty should be understood, and how it can be ameliorated. Pastoralists increasingly recognise that the poor are now among them. But, although the alleviation of poverty is a central tenet of the development dialogue, there is still much to be done to engage the pastoralists themselves in that dialogue. 'For those who are interested in, and concerned with, this subject, this book is essential reading.' - D.J. Shaw in Development Policy Review '... the readable and provocative fashion with which various approaches have been pulled together between one set of covers.' - John Wood in African Studies Review '...this insightful edition reviews most of the significant factors concerning the slide of pastoralists down the continuum from prosperity to impoverishment...Through excellent case studies, the volume paints a sad but convincing canvas of pastoral poverty, but also establishes an argument, often only implicitly developed, for giving support to the productive enterprise of raising livestock in rangelands best suited for that purpose - precisely the terms on which pastoral communities are prepared by tradition, knowledge and commitment to encounter modernity. Structural poverty today can best be reduced by strengthening the animal economy and securing herders' rights over resources, as well as selectively pursuing settlement, commercialization and diversification. Such shifts in policy also require reconfiguring the metaphorical state-of-mind, long propagated through misguided interventions by international and national agencies, that has too long associated pastoralists with poverty rather than their wealth of land, livestock and adaptability.' - John Galaty in Journal of African History 'Anderson and Broch-Due also regard poverty as a complex construct... they find the causes of poverty in the processes of social differentiation and the politics of wealth and power as those shape particular communities . They conclude that the evidence before them suggests a quantitative difference in the extent and effects of poverty as the twentieth century (drew) to a close but in qualitative terms many of the processes involved can be charted through the last century and more of pastoralist history . They see the roots of those changes and the increasing social differentiation in pastoral societies over the past hundred years in the cumulative effects of colonial policy and the impact of external values of land, labour and livestock upon which some herders have been prepared to capitalise while others have not. ... in the final chapter Anderson reviews the six decades of development initiatives in pastoral areas in east Africa which from the 1920s resulted in a consistent movement towards sedentarisation, enclosure and commodification. The root causes of poverty among nomadic pastoralists thus lie in the ideology and practice of development in pastoral areas in East Africa over the past sixty years which continue to determine the mindsets of policy makers and their advisors in the independent as they did in the colonial state...important insights into the pastoral condition.' - Cherry Gertzel in Australasian Review of African Studies 'This volume is an important and relevant contribution in the generation of understanding regarding the complex, contingent and contextual aspects of notions of poverty and wealth, of the multilayered significances of material objects, and of the unequal power relationships infusing the process by which certain discourses attain a dominant and constraining hegemony.' - Sian Sullivan in Modern African Studies
