Samuel F Derbyshire
Biographic Data
| ID | 153542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel F Derbyshire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel F |
| FAMILY NAME | Derbyshire |
| SIGNATURE | DERBYSHIRE S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5022-6022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anticipatory action and pastoralism in Africa
This article synthesises the current situation vis‐à‐vis the aid modality of anticipatory action in pastoralist settings. Broadly comprising pre‐planned, pre‐financed interventions triggered by early warning systems and aimed at reducing the impacts of crises, anticipatory action has been effective at reducing the impact of shocks in multiple settings (particularly sudden‐onset shocks such as floods and cyclones). Yet, it has seemingly failed to …
Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands
Drought‐related emergency assistance in the drylands is shaped by understandings of vulnerability that are often not commensurate with the socioeconomic dynamics that structure everyday life in pastoralist contexts. Forms of humanitarian assessment and targeting undertaken before the implementation of assistance programmes tend to be oriented towards vulnerability measurements and assessment criteria that focus on individuals or households. These…
Exploring Contemporary Pastoral Variability through Stable Isotope Analysis in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
In some1 contexts, the term “pastoralism” still invokes a perception of unchanging specialized dietary reliance on herd animals. This is despite the fact that research from across multiple disciplines has emphasized pastoral economic heterogeneity and its spatial and temporal variability, consistent with shifting contextual factors. While diverse accounts attest to dynamic subsistence strategies, direct dietary assessments of the complex interact…
Tangled crises in Turkana
Following a severe drought in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the invasive shrub Prosopis, a kind of mesquite native to South America, was introduced by international organizations to locations across Kenya's drylands, including the Turkana region in the far north. Prosopis, known as etirae in Turkana, was envisaged as a solution to a range of problems, including deforestation, fuelwood shortages and general environmental deterioration. While exa…
Remembering Turkana
This book explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and remaking of the regional economy via the trajectories of socio-material interaction that have structured key practices, relationships and livelihoods over the past century. Traversing Turkana’s constituent livelihoods and examining the historical relationships between them in relation to shifting economic, ecological a…
Sufurias cannot bring blessings
Drawing on fieldwork conducted over multiple seasons between 2012 and 2015, this paper explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Marakwet of Kenya. It does so by focusing on a particular material culture category – pottery – and tracing transformations in its production, use and exchange over several generations from the early twentieth century to the present day. This approach serves to unearth a series of personal and …
Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin
This paper synthesizes current knowledge on the impacts of the Gibe III dam and associated large-scale commercial farming in the Omo-Turkana Basin, based on an expert elicitation coupled with a scoping review and the collective knowledge of an multidisciplinary network of researchers with active data-collection programs in the Basin. We use social-ecological systems and political ecology frameworks to assess the impacts of these interventions on …
Trade, development and destitution
Turkana fishing communities have operated along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, for well over a century and yet are rarely the subject of in-depth historical or ethnographic research. These communities are regularly situated within broader synchronic considerations of economic adversity and destitution, and it is arguably this propensity that has served in large part to overshadow and perhaps even exclude an understanding of locally…
Trade, development and destitution
Turkana fishing communities have operated along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, for well over a century and yet are rarely the subject of in-depth historical or ethnographic research. These communities are regularly situated within broader synchronic considerations of economic adversity and destitution, and it is arguably this propensity that has served in large part to overshadow and perhaps even exclude an understanding of locally…
Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin
This paper synthesizes current knowledge on the impacts of the Gibe III dam and associated large-scale commercial farming in the Omo-Turkana Basin, based on an expert elicitation coupled with a scoping review and the collective knowledge of an multidisciplinary network of researchers with active data-collection programs in the Basin. We use social-ecological systems and political ecology frameworks to assess the impacts of these interventions on …
Remembering Turkana
This book explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and remaking of the regional economy via the trajectories of socio-material interaction that have structured key practices, relationships and livelihoods over the past century. Traversing Turkana’s constituent livelihoods and examining the historical relationships between them in relation to shifting economic, ecological a…
Sufurias cannot bring blessings
Drawing on fieldwork conducted over multiple seasons between 2012 and 2015, this paper explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Marakwet of Kenya. It does so by focusing on a particular material culture category – pottery – and tracing transformations in its production, use and exchange over several generations from the early twentieth century to the present day. This approach serves to unearth a series of personal and …
Tangled crises in Turkana
Following a severe drought in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the invasive shrub Prosopis, a kind of mesquite native to South America, was introduced by international organizations to locations across Kenya's drylands, including the Turkana region in the far north. Prosopis, known as etirae in Turkana, was envisaged as a solution to a range of problems, including deforestation, fuelwood shortages and general environmental deterioration. While exa…
Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin
This paper synthesizes current knowledge on the impacts of the Gibe III dam and associated large-scale commercial farming in the Omo-Turkana Basin, based on an expert elicitation coupled with a scoping review and the collective knowledge of an multidisciplinary network of researchers with active data-collection programs in the Basin. We use social-ecological systems and political ecology frameworks to assess the impacts of these interventions on …
Trade, development and destitution
Turkana fishing communities have operated along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, for well over a century and yet are rarely the subject of in-depth historical or ethnographic research. These communities are regularly situated within broader synchronic considerations of economic adversity and destitution, and it is arguably this propensity that has served in large part to overshadow and perhaps even exclude an understanding of locally…
Remembering Turkana
This book explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and remaking of the regional economy via the trajectories of socio-material interaction that have structured key practices, relationships and livelihoods over the past century. Traversing Turkana’s constituent livelihoods and examining the historical relationships between them in relation to shifting economic, ecological a…
Sufurias cannot bring blessings
Drawing on fieldwork conducted over multiple seasons between 2012 and 2015, this paper explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Marakwet of Kenya. It does so by focusing on a particular material culture category – pottery – and tracing transformations in its production, use and exchange over several generations from the early twentieth century to the present day. This approach serves to unearth a series of personal and …
Tangled crises in Turkana
Following a severe drought in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the invasive shrub Prosopis, a kind of mesquite native to South America, was introduced by international organizations to locations across Kenya's drylands, including the Turkana region in the far north. Prosopis, known as etirae in Turkana, was envisaged as a solution to a range of problems, including deforestation, fuelwood shortages and general environmental deterioration. While exa…
Anticipatory action and pastoralism in Africa
This article synthesises the current situation vis‐à‐vis the aid modality of anticipatory action in pastoralist settings. Broadly comprising pre‐planned, pre‐financed interventions triggered by early warning systems and aimed at reducing the impacts of crises, anticipatory action has been effective at reducing the impact of shocks in multiple settings (particularly sudden‐onset shocks such as floods and cyclones). Yet, it has seemingly failed to …
Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands
Drought‐related emergency assistance in the drylands is shaped by understandings of vulnerability that are often not commensurate with the socioeconomic dynamics that structure everyday life in pastoralist contexts. Forms of humanitarian assessment and targeting undertaken before the implementation of assistance programmes tend to be oriented towards vulnerability measurements and assessment criteria that focus on individuals or households. These…
Exploring Contemporary Pastoral Variability through Stable Isotope Analysis in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
In some1 contexts, the term “pastoralism” still invokes a perception of unchanging specialized dietary reliance on herd animals. This is despite the fact that research from across multiple disciplines has emphasized pastoral economic heterogeneity and its spatial and temporal variability, consistent with shifting contextual factors. While diverse accounts attest to dynamic subsistence strategies, direct dietary assessments of the complex interact…
Geography (5 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (5 works) · Pastoralism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Transboundary Water Resource Management (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Animal Diversity and Health Studies (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works)