J T Mccabe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2628 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J T Mccabe |
| NOMBRES | J T |
| APELLIDO | Mccabe |
| FIRMA | MCCABE J T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0394-6681 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 218 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Food Insecurity, Local Institutions, and Changing Support for Violence during a Severe Drought in Northern Kenya, 2020–2022
The effects of climate change on the possible increase in conflict due to competition over scarce resources is widely debated. Prolonged droughts due to climate change are expected in the arid and semiarid lands of Africa. Like other regions in the Horn of Africa, northern Kenya was adversely affected by severe drought from 2020 to 2022. Satellite data confirm rainfall deficits reflected in vegetation, drought indicators, and soil moisture distri…
Greta Semplici, Moving Deserts
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania
Pastoralist Ecologies
Rangelands cover more of the earth’s surface (25–45 percent) than any other type of land. The primary livelihood strategy for people living in these lands is the raising of livestock, with an estimated thirty million people in Africa alone depending on livestock for their basic subsistence. Pastoral people are found all over the world, and regardless of what continent on which they are found, the environments in which they live are characterized …
Samuel Derbyshire, Remembering Turkana
Mobile phones and wrong numbers
Baird, T. D., J. T. McCabe, E. Woodhouse, I. Rumas, S. Sankeni, and G. O. Saitoti. 2021. Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa. Ecology and Society 26(2):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12528-260241
The Emergence of the Village and the Transformation of Traditional Institutions
In this paper, we examine how the 2008-2009 drought in northern Tanzania contributed to and catalyzed the transformation of governance concerning the management of natural resources from traditional informal institutions among the Maasai to formal village-based institutions. Our central argument is that village governance in northern Tanzania represents a new, formal institution that is supplementing and in some important ways obviating tradition…
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities
Mobile phones have been heralded by many as promising new tools to empower women throughout the Global South. However, some have asserted that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) may serve to amplify disparities between more powerful and less powerful people. Few studies have examined which women stand to benefit and under what conditions. This study seeks to better understand the relationships between mobile phones and women’s …
Drought
This chapter discusses how drought is defined and measured, the drivers of drought, how drought affects people with different livelihoods and how drought is differently perceived. It explains how the study of drought articulates with current research on human/environmental relationships and resilience theory. The recognition of climate change and the increased emphasis on the incidence, severity, and cost of natural hazards, especially in the Uni…
The consequences of relocating in response to drought
As global temperatures rise, drought-induced human relocation is expected to increase. Using original national survey data from Kenya, we investigate whether people who report relocating due to drought are more likely to be victims of violence than people who do not move. We also examine whether this migrant sample supports the use of violence at higher levels than the general population, conditional on their experiences. We measure the duration …
Drought, Local Institutional Contexts, and Support for Violence in Kenya
We address two questions on the effects of climate change for social instability. First, do droughts and their associated environmental impacts affect support for the use of violence? Second, do local-level formal and informal institutions moderate support for violence when and where droughts worsen? To answer these questions, we conducted a national survey of 1,400 Kenyans in 2014. Respondents were asked about patterns of rainfall and the presen…
Well-being and conservation
Woodhouse, E., and J. T. McCabe. 2018. Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania. Ecology and Society 23(1):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09986-230143
The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya
Quandt, A., H. Neufeldt, and J. T. McCabe. 2017. The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya. Ecology and Society 22(3):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09461-220310
Guiding principles for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on human well-being
Measures of socio-economic impacts of conservation interventions have largely been restricted to externally defined indicators focused on income, which do not reflect people's priorities. Using a holistic, locally grounded conceptualization of human well-being instead provides a way to understand the multi-faceted impacts of conservation on aspects of people's lives that they value. Conservationists are engaging with well-being for both pragmatic…
Rainfall variability and violence in rural Kenya
Response Diversity and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Recent work in ecology suggests that the diversity of responses to environmental change among species contributing to the same ecosystem function can strongly influence ecosystem resilience. To render this important realization more useful for understanding coupled human-natural systems, we broaden the concept of response diversity to include heterogeneity in human decisions and action. Simply put, not all actors respond the same way to challenge…
Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya's Arid Areas
is a post-doctoral researcher within the research unit “Resil-ience, Collapse and Reorganisation” in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His current research focuses on land-use change, conflicts, and the transformation of social-ecological systems in East Pokot, Kenya. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg with a multi-sited ethnography on rural–urban migration in Namibia
Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya Based on sixteen years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity, and violence. The Turkana are one of the world's most mobile p…
Sustainability and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania
Maasai people in East Africa are attempting to craft new sustainable livelihoods in response to increasing population pressure, a fluctuating livestock population, reductions in grazing areas, and a modernization process that places increased emphasis on a monetary economy. The adoption of cultivation by pastoral Maasai living in northern Tanzania over the last 40 years has been the most significant step in this livelihood diversification. The ra…
Disequilibrial Ecosystems and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania
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Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Sustainability
During the last two decades of the 20th century the concepts of sustainability, sustainable development, and sustainable livelihoods have been debated, contested, adopted as development goals, and rejected as merely wishful thinking among academics and practitioners from numerous disciplines and nationalities. Some academics may feel that a concern with sustainability was a short-lived and now outdated fad. William C. Clark, cochairman of the stu…
East African Pastoralism at the Crossroads
Settlement Ecology
Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. Glenn Davis Stone. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. 256 pp
Risk and Uncertainty among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania
For the last fifteen years I have been studying, working and living among nomadic pastoral people in East Africa. The focus of this research has been land use and livestock management; firstly among the Turkana of northern Kenya and more recently among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in northern Tanzania. Understanding the sources of risk, responses to risk and evaluating the success or failure of these responses has been a c…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Response Diversity and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Recent work in ecology suggests that the diversity of responses to environmental change among species contributing to the same ecosystem function can strongly influence ecosystem resilience. To render this important realization more useful for understanding coupled human-natural systems, we broaden the concept of response diversity to include heterogeneity in human decisions and action. Simply put, not all actors respond the same way to challenge…
Success and Failure
During the severe drought of 1979-1981 over 80,000 Turkana people of northwestern Kenya left their pastoral lifestyle and migrated into famine relief camps. Although the drought affected both northern and southern Turkana district, the people who left the pastoral sector lived primarily in northern Turkana. A comparison of the pastoral economies of these two groups revealed that the indigenous drought coping institutions of the northern Turkana h…
Drought, Local Institutional Contexts, and Support for Violence in Kenya
We address two questions on the effects of climate change for social instability. First, do droughts and their associated environmental impacts affect support for the use of violence? Second, do local-level formal and informal institutions moderate support for violence when and where droughts worsen? To answer these questions, we conducted a national survey of 1,400 Kenyans in 2014. Respondents were asked about patterns of rainfall and the presen…
Can Conservation and Development be Coupled among Pastoral People? An Examination of the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
One of the new paradigms in sub-Saharan Africa is that conservation of natural resources can be coupled with human development. This paper addresses this paradigm and its application to the Maasai who live in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. The assertion is that environmental conservation has been achieved but the Maasai have suffered serious economic and nutritional declines. The evidence is the increasing number of pastoralists wh…
Rainfall variability and violence in rural Kenya
Well-being and conservation
Woodhouse, E., and J. T. McCabe. 2018. Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania. Ecology and Society 23(1):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09986-230143
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities
Mobile phones have been heralded by many as promising new tools to empower women throughout the Global South. However, some have asserted that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) may serve to amplify disparities between more powerful and less powerful people. Few studies have examined which women stand to benefit and under what conditions. This study seeks to better understand the relationships between mobile phones and women’s …
Risk and Uncertainty among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania
For the last fifteen years I have been studying, working and living among nomadic pastoral people in East Africa. The focus of this research has been land use and livestock management; firstly among the Turkana of northern Kenya and more recently among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in northern Tanzania. Understanding the sources of risk, responses to risk and evaluating the success or failure of these responses has been a c…
The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya
Quandt, A., H. Neufeldt, and J. T. McCabe. 2017. The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya. Ecology and Society 22(3):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09461-220310
East African Pastoralism at the Crossroads
Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya's Arid Areas
is a post-doctoral researcher within the research unit “Resil-ience, Collapse and Reorganisation” in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His current research focuses on land-use change, conflicts, and the transformation of social-ecological systems in East Pokot, Kenya. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg with a multi-sited ethnography on rural–urban migration in Namibia
Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Sustainability
During the last two decades of the 20th century the concepts of sustainability, sustainable development, and sustainable livelihoods have been debated, contested, adopted as development goals, and rejected as merely wishful thinking among academics and practitioners from numerous disciplines and nationalities. Some academics may feel that a concern with sustainability was a short-lived and now outdated fad. William C. Clark, cochairman of the stu…
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania
Disequilibrial Ecosystems and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania
Metadata only record
Success and Failure
During the severe drought of 1979-1981 over 80,000 Turkana people of northwestern Kenya left their pastoral lifestyle and migrated into famine relief camps. Although the drought affected both northern and southern Turkana district, the people who left the pastoral sector lived primarily in northern Turkana. A comparison of the pastoral economies of these two groups revealed that the indigenous drought coping institutions of the northern Turkana h…
Can Conservation and Development be Coupled among Pastoral People? An Examination of the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
One of the new paradigms in sub-Saharan Africa is that conservation of natural resources can be coupled with human development. This paper addresses this paradigm and its application to the Maasai who live in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. The assertion is that environmental conservation has been achieved but the Maasai have suffered serious economic and nutritional declines. The evidence is the increasing number of pastoralists wh…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Risk and Uncertainty among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania
For the last fifteen years I have been studying, working and living among nomadic pastoral people in East Africa. The focus of this research has been land use and livestock management; firstly among the Turkana of northern Kenya and more recently among the Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in northern Tanzania. Understanding the sources of risk, responses to risk and evaluating the success or failure of these responses has been a c…
Settlement Ecology
Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. Glenn Davis Stone. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. 256 pp
East African Pastoralism at the Crossroads
Sustainability and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania
Maasai people in East Africa are attempting to craft new sustainable livelihoods in response to increasing population pressure, a fluctuating livestock population, reductions in grazing areas, and a modernization process that places increased emphasis on a monetary economy. The adoption of cultivation by pastoral Maasai living in northern Tanzania over the last 40 years has been the most significant step in this livelihood diversification. The ra…
Disequilibrial Ecosystems and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania
Metadata only record
Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Sustainability
During the last two decades of the 20th century the concepts of sustainability, sustainable development, and sustainable livelihoods have been debated, contested, adopted as development goals, and rejected as merely wishful thinking among academics and practitioners from numerous disciplines and nationalities. Some academics may feel that a concern with sustainability was a short-lived and now outdated fad. William C. Clark, cochairman of the stu…
Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya Based on sixteen years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity, and violence. The Turkana are one of the world's most mobile p…
Notes on Land-based Conflicts in Kenya's Arid Areas
is a post-doctoral researcher within the research unit “Resil-ience, Collapse and Reorganisation” in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His current research focuses on land-use change, conflicts, and the transformation of social-ecological systems in East Pokot, Kenya. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg with a multi-sited ethnography on rural–urban migration in Namibia
Response Diversity and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Recent work in ecology suggests that the diversity of responses to environmental change among species contributing to the same ecosystem function can strongly influence ecosystem resilience. To render this important realization more useful for understanding coupled human-natural systems, we broaden the concept of response diversity to include heterogeneity in human decisions and action. Simply put, not all actors respond the same way to challenge…
Guiding principles for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on human well-being
Measures of socio-economic impacts of conservation interventions have largely been restricted to externally defined indicators focused on income, which do not reflect people's priorities. Using a holistic, locally grounded conceptualization of human well-being instead provides a way to understand the multi-faceted impacts of conservation on aspects of people's lives that they value. Conservationists are engaging with well-being for both pragmatic…
Rainfall variability and violence in rural Kenya
The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya
Quandt, A., H. Neufeldt, and J. T. McCabe. 2017. The role of agroforestry in building livelihood resilience to floods and drought in semiarid Kenya. Ecology and Society 22(3):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09461-220310
The consequences of relocating in response to drought
As global temperatures rise, drought-induced human relocation is expected to increase. Using original national survey data from Kenya, we investigate whether people who report relocating due to drought are more likely to be victims of violence than people who do not move. We also examine whether this migrant sample supports the use of violence at higher levels than the general population, conditional on their experiences. We measure the duration …
Drought, Local Institutional Contexts, and Support for Violence in Kenya
We address two questions on the effects of climate change for social instability. First, do droughts and their associated environmental impacts affect support for the use of violence? Second, do local-level formal and informal institutions moderate support for violence when and where droughts worsen? To answer these questions, we conducted a national survey of 1,400 Kenyans in 2014. Respondents were asked about patterns of rainfall and the presen…
Well-being and conservation
Woodhouse, E., and J. T. McCabe. 2018. Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania. Ecology and Society 23(1):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09986-230143
Drought
This chapter discusses how drought is defined and measured, the drivers of drought, how drought affects people with different livelihoods and how drought is differently perceived. It explains how the study of drought articulates with current research on human/environmental relationships and resilience theory. The recognition of climate change and the increased emphasis on the incidence, severity, and cost of natural hazards, especially in the Uni…
The Emergence of the Village and the Transformation of Traditional Institutions
In this paper, we examine how the 2008-2009 drought in northern Tanzania contributed to and catalyzed the transformation of governance concerning the management of natural resources from traditional informal institutions among the Maasai to formal village-based institutions. Our central argument is that village governance in northern Tanzania represents a new, formal institution that is supplementing and in some important ways obviating tradition…
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities
Mobile phones have been heralded by many as promising new tools to empower women throughout the Global South. However, some have asserted that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) may serve to amplify disparities between more powerful and less powerful people. Few studies have examined which women stand to benefit and under what conditions. This study seeks to better understand the relationships between mobile phones and women’s …
Pastoralist Ecologies
Rangelands cover more of the earth’s surface (25–45 percent) than any other type of land. The primary livelihood strategy for people living in these lands is the raising of livestock, with an estimated thirty million people in Africa alone depending on livestock for their basic subsistence. Pastoral people are found all over the world, and regardless of what continent on which they are found, the environments in which they live are characterized …
Samuel Derbyshire, Remembering Turkana
Mobile phones and wrong numbers
Baird, T. D., J. T. McCabe, E. Woodhouse, I. Rumas, S. Sankeni, and G. O. Saitoti. 2021. Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa. Ecology and Society 26(2):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12528-260241
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania
Geography (24 obras) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (19 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Socioeconomics (12 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Ecology (10 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Agriculture (9 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras) · Maasai (9 obras)