Conceptualising eco-violence
Moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11184705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ezenwa E Olumba (0000-0001-5512-5992, University of London, corresponding author), Bernard Nwosu (0000-0001-5871-2738, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria), Francis N Okpaleke (0000-0002-1262-2136, University of Waikato), Chukwuma Rowland Okoli (0000-0003-3272-2457, Nnamdi Azikiwe University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 2075-2090 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436597.2022.2083601 |
| OpenAlex | W4282972556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 58 |
The conflict over water and agricultural resources within the Sahel of Africa has led to the destruction of lives, property and nature for decades. The extant practice is to label these conflicts with multiple names and conceptualise them as single-issue events. This article illustrates this practice further and highlights some issues associated with such approaches. Existing terms for these conflicts in Africa’s Sahel region are primarily linked to people’s occupations and ethnic identities, distracting efforts to gain a deeper understanding. This view obscures the broad dimensions of these struggles among those competing for water and agricultural resources. Thus, this paper remedies the conceptual gaps by recommending ‘eco-violence’ as an umbrella term for these conflicts and foregrounding the emerging trends of eco-violence within the Sahel region. By referring to these conflicts as eco-violence, we can foster a more inclusive perspective that incorporates social and environmental injustices and political failures as factors related to these conflicts
Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Foregrounding · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Transboundary Water Resource Management
Environmental change and identity questions in farmer and herder’s eco-violence narratives in the Nigerian Benue Valley
Territorialization and desire
Unravelling Africa’s misgovernment
Bandits’ Struggle for Survival and its Humanitarian Impacts in Zamfara State, Nigeria
We will stay-put or die remaining
Climate‐related armed conflict and communities' resistance to Rural Grazing Area settlement policy in Nigeria's Middlebelt
Herder-farmer conflict in sub-Saharan Africa and corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil host communities
Out of Frame
Crossing Borders
From ejecting the herds to hidden dangers
Climate-induced migration in West Africa
Emotions and violences
Anchored in History
State responses to herder–farmers conflict and peace-building in rural grazing areas of Nigeria
The necropolitics of drone bases and use in the African context
The case for a ‘cognitive turn’ in conflict analysis
The case for drones in counter-insurgency operations in West African Sahel
Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands
Assessing climate change vulnerability and livelihood strategies in Burkina Faso including insecurity paradigm
Broken Communities
The fog of war
Assemblage thinking and actor–network theory
La coexistence contrariée entre pasteurs et agriculteurs en Afrique subsaharienne
Farmer-Herder Crises, Uncivil Discourses and the Politics of Nigeria’s Security Responses
When We Believe in State Power, It Tends to Fail Us
Fulani herder-farmer identity conflict in West Africa with a particular focus on security implications for Nigeria
Interactions between territorial partitioning, indigeneity crises, and farmer-pastoralist conflicts in the Benue-Nasarawa region
We don't have anything
Crossing
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria
The politics of farmer–herder conflicts and alternative conflict management in Northwest Cameroon
Open grazing prohibitions and the politics of exclusivist identity in Nigeria
Boko Haram and Rising Developmental Crises in Nigeria
Transhumance, Climate Change and Conflicts
Oil, conflict, and the dynamics of resource struggle in the Niger Delta
A theory of migration
Dynamics of Resource Governance, Climate Change, and Security
Herder-Farmer Conflicts
Governing “Ungoverned Spaces” in the Foliage of Conspiracy
Constructing the Herder–Farmer Conflict as (in)Security in Nigeria
Fulani-Dogon Killings in Mali
Ecoviolence
The crafting of alliance cohesion among insurgents
Climate Change and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
The resource-conflict debate revisited
Institutional parameters that condition farmer–herder conflicts in Tivland of Benue State, Nigeria
Herdsmen militancy and humanitarian crisis in Nigeria
Cattle rights versus human rights
More Labels, Fewer Refugees
Land conflicts between smallholders and Fulani pastoralists in Ghana
All about water and land? Resource-related conflicts in East and West Africa revisited
Greed–grievance debate and the Ife–Modakeke conflict
Destabilizing the environment—conflict thesis
Nomad savage’ and herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
New drivers of conflict in Nigeria
The War over Water
The Political Ecology of Peasant-Herder Conflicts in the Northern Ivory Coast
Refugees, migrants, neither, both
"Political ecology and the moral dimensions of "resource conflicts
Desertification, migration, and herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria
Rebel resource strategies in civil war
The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Benjamin Maiangwa
The Senegal-Mauritania Conflict of 1989
Jihadist Movements in the Sahel
Does climate change drive land-use conflicts in the Sahel
Leave none to claim the land
Organized violence, 1989-2018 and peace agreements
Forced to leave? The discursive and analytical significance of describing migration as forced and voluntary
Transhumant Pastoral Economy and Human Security in Nigeria
Even if we Meet in Heaven We Will Fight
Cooperation and Co-Existence Between Farmers and Herders in the Midst of Violent Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ghana
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |