Pastoralism is an important form of livelihood in Kenya, particularly in northern Kenya. While
pastoralists have always faced risks such as political marginalization, harsh climate …

In Africa, pressure and competition for pastoral lands and natural resources have increased
greatly over the last two decades. Pastoralists, their governance and tenure systems are …

This paper, based on historical and contemporary dynamics of railway infrastructures in
Kenya, analyses how mega-infrastructures are central in state practices of infrastructural …

During the last decades, the boundaries between humanitarian aid and development on the
one side and security and physical force on the other side became increasingly permeable …

In order to advance the emerging research on development corridors, this paper, drawing on
the geographical as well as broader critical social science literatures on infrastructure, offers …

Putting research on the socio-political effects of Kenya's new Standard Gauge Railway in
conversation with geographically and anthropologically grounded scholarship on …

With increasingly fragmented rangelands, restricted mobility and climatic stress,
diversification has accelerated among East African pastoralists. Diversification is also …

Turkana County has a long history of drought and development interventions and remains
one of the poorest counties in Kenya. In Turkana, livelihoods are increasingly under threat …

In this paper, we explore the interactions between political, social and environmental
changes and forest governance in Kenya, through a study of Mukogodo forest in Laikipia …

Pastoralists depend on access to communal rangelands but ongoing privatisation of land
threatens their access. Further, globally, proponents of pastoralism call for state-sanctioned …