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Sustainability in Karamoja?
ISBN 978-3-89645-256-6
Sustainability in Karamoja?
Rethinking the Terms of Global Sustainability in a Crisis Region of Africa
Edited by David Knaute, Sacha Kagan. With contributions by Wario R. Adano, Mario Cisternino, Sandra Gray et al. With a preface by Louis Michel, Elizabeth Paula Napeyok
Series: Topics in African Studies Volume 12
2009
12 pp. Roman, 531 pp., 25 colour photos, 7 colour maps, 8 b/w maps, 3 colour illustrations, 12 colour graphs, 5 b/w graphs, 16 tables, size: 240 x 155 mm
€ 24.80
The Karamoja region of Uganda is not well-known, yet it suffers from one of the most severe and chronic crisis in Africa. Almost 30 years after the historical famine of 1980, political and ecological factors still intermingle, placing the pastoralist livelihood of a million Karimojong under unprecedented stress. Stemming from five international conferences as part of a year of active campaigning across Europe, this publication looks at global responsibilities and explores local, national and international solutions that may pave the way to sustainability and conflict mitigation. With contributions by an interdisciplinary selection of researchers and experts, and a confrontation of European and African cases, it also reveals opportunities and challenges for pastoralist societies worldwide. Aid workers, researchers, students, decision-makers and other people concerned with Africa, nomadic lifestyles or the effects of climate change will find inspiring, yet challenging perspectives that together cast a new light on the complexity of humanitarian crises and human development.
The forewords are written by Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, and Elizabeth Paula Napeyok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uganda to France, Spain, Portugal and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO.
CONTENTS:
Louis Michel and Elizabeth Paula Napeyok
Foreword
David Knaute
Rethinking Sustainability in Pastoralist Areas of East Africa – Introduction
PART ONE Searching for Sustainability in Karamoja
Chapter 1
David Knaute
Literature Review on Karamoja (Period 1943–2008)
Chapter 2
Sacha Kagan, Liv Pedersen and Sally Ollech
The Karamoja Syndrome – Transdisciplinary Systems Research Informing Policy and Advocacy
Chapter 3
Under the guidance of ACTED / Leuphana University Lüneburg
Reaching the Frontiers – Perspectives on Sustainable Development Strategies in Karamoja
PART TWO Pastoralism Globally and Locally
Chapter 4 Pastoralism and Development in the Age of Globalization – Comparative Perspectives from Europe and East Africa
Hubert Beckmann and Jesús Garzón Heydt
Transhumance as a Tool of Species Conservation in Times of Climate Change
Jorge Guerra González
Interculturality as Background for Sustainability
Mark J. Dwyer and Kirill V. Istomin
Technological Carrying Capacity Renders Ecological Carrying Capacity a Redundant Concept in Pastoralist Systems? A Case Study of ‘Overgrazing’ amongst Komi and Nenets Reindeer Herders
Sylvain Froidevaux
Cattle Raiding and Black Market – From Sociocultural Practice to Subversive Sociability in African Postcolonial Context
Wario R. Adano
Development Policies, Reactive Aid and Indigenous Institution of Livestock Sharing among East African Pastoralists
Nene Mburu
Ilemi Triangle, the Complexityof Disarming ‘Fragmentary’ Societies
Wolde Wendessen Gulelat
The Role of NGOs in Pastoral Advocacy: Experiences of Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia
Marion Rolle
The Forgotten Perspective of Climate Policy – Women and Climate Change. The Example of Tanzania
Chapter 5 Multifaceted Perspectives on the Karamoja Crisis
Mario Cisternino
How the Karimojong Pastoralists Manage Their Territory – The Ecological Circle of the Pastoralists and the Social Structure Holding it Together
Ben Knighton
Can Notions of Common Property and the Common Good Survive? The Consequences of Classical Economics for Karamojong Nomadic Pastoralists
Itsuhiro Hazama
Disarmament Policies for Ending Armed Conflict in an East-African Pastoral Society
Evelyn Mathias, Thomas Loquang and Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
Community-based Breed Documentation as a Tool for Empowerment – The Example of Karamoja
Jeanne T. Gradé, R.B. Weladji and P. Van Damme
Embracing Ethnoveterinary Knowledge Diffusion in Karamoja, Uganda: A Strategy to Strengthen
James Lemukol
Health Care Delivery to a Semi-nomadic Population – The Experience of Karamoja
Sandra Gray
Economic Activities of Karimojong Men and Women in Two Villages in Moroto District, August–December, 2004
PART THREE Thinking out of the Box – Cultural Strategies for Awareness Raising
Chapter 6 Examples from the Karamoja Campaign
Karl Lakolak
Karamojadream
Sylvain Froidevaux
Caution Border: Art Intervention by the CCC Research-based MA Programme at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)
Lena Wäbs
Learning Interculturality – A Cultural Exchange between a Gymnasium in Germany and a ABEK school in Karamoja
Sacha Kagan
Land of Thorns – A Filmic Attempt to Mediate Issues of (Un-)sustainable Development
Sacha Kagan and David Knaute
A Photographic Exploration of Karamoja
