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

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. Anth...