The new politics of pastoralism: identity, justice and global activism

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The new politics of pastoralism identity,
justice and global activism

• Caroline Upton
• University of Leicester, cu5_at_le.ac.uk

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Outline

• Environmental justice scale scope
• Pastoralism the global pastoralists movement
  
• Definitions
• Events spaces
• Dimensions of justice contesting development
• Identity politics
• Injustice
• Accountability representation
• Conclusions

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Environmental justice scale scope

• Scale
• creation of transnational spaces
• vertical extensions of justice struggles,
  globalising vertically (Walker 2009370)
• interlinked spatialities accountabilities
• state identity

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Environmental justice scale scope

• Scope
• distributive justice
• (mis)recognition
• trivalence (Schlosberg, 2004)
• identity (formation) legitimacy

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Pastoralism the global pastoralists movement

• Definitions
• Pastoralism as an adaptive production strategy
  assuring the economic survival of hundreds of
  millions of people as well as a way of life
  contributing to the sustainable management of
  natural resources and the conservation of nature
  (Segovia Declaration, 2007)
• pastoralism should be understood as... a mode
  of perception as well as a mode of production
  (Markakis, 200414).
• Mobility and indigeneity

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Pastoralism the global pastoralists movement

• Events and spaces (1)
• Turmi, Ethiopia, 2005
• almost for the first time...put pastoral voices
  ahead of others in the debate about pastoral
  futures... (Scott-Villiers, 2005)

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Pastoralism the global pastoralists movement

• Events and spaces (2)
• Segovia Global Pastoralists Gathering, Spain
  2007
• Segovia Declaration
• Cognitive procedural justice
• Adaptive capacity conservation
• Contesting development

(Source IUCN, WISP)
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Pastoralism the global pastoralists movement

• Events and spaces (3)
• World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples
• (WAMIP)

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Dimensions of justice contesting development

• Identity politics
• Indigenous and pastoralist identities
• Mongolia
• Kenya
• Injustice
• marginalisation
• land issues
• misrecognition

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Dimensions of justice contesting development

• e.g. Endorois case, Kenya
• conservation /indigeneity framings
• explicit recognition of right to development
• Kenyas new indigenes (Lynch, 2011)

(Source ditshwanelo.org.bw)
(Source galdu.org)
Sourcejustconservation.org
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Dimensions of justice contesting development

• Accountability representation
• Politics of representation
• e.g. Segovia, UNPFII
• Trade-offs efficacy achieving tripartite
  environmental justice

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Conclusions

• Global environmental justice contesting
  development?
• Role of identity politics
• Efficacy limitations
• Future prospects