Mads Yding
Biographic Data
| ID | 216927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mads Yding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mads |
| FAMILY NAME | Yding |
| SIGNATURE | YDING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2336-2237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Echoes of colonial disruption
The British conquest of the Turkana in the 1910s devastated the pastoral economy. • Colonial livestock theft and border enforcement made the Turkana vulnerable to environmental fluctuations. • In the colonial era, ecological conditions became the primary driver of conflict between the Turkana and neighboring groups. • The droughts in 1928 and 1933 mark the beginning of new conflict dynamics in Turkana. • The vulnerability and insecurity experienc…
Scarcity reimagined
Reframes resource conflict debates with the concepts: global green scarcity imaginaries, greening frontiers, and green conflicts. • Argues how climate and biodiversity crisis narratives justify accelerated interventions in Africa, reshaping land rights and governance. • Shows how green projects can reproduce the same exclusion and conflict that are associated with traditional extraction of e.g. oil. • Demonstrates that if equity and justice are s…
Between two fires
Drawing on archival material, supplemented by oral history interviews done in Turkana in 2018 and oral history work by Lamphear from the mid-1970s, this article investigates the different dilemmas and challenges faced by the chiefs in Turkana District during the colonial occupation from the 1910s to 1963. Through the lens of Pratt's 'contact zone,' I show how two Turkana chiefs, Abong and Ekadille, acted as both colonial agents and legitimate loc…
Echoes of colonial disruption
The British conquest of the Turkana in the 1910s devastated the pastoral economy. • Colonial livestock theft and border enforcement made the Turkana vulnerable to environmental fluctuations. • In the colonial era, ecological conditions became the primary driver of conflict between the Turkana and neighboring groups. • The droughts in 1928 and 1933 mark the beginning of new conflict dynamics in Turkana. • The vulnerability and insecurity experienc…
Between two fires
Drawing on archival material, supplemented by oral history interviews done in Turkana in 2018 and oral history work by Lamphear from the mid-1970s, this article investigates the different dilemmas and challenges faced by the chiefs in Turkana District during the colonial occupation from the 1910s to 1963. Through the lens of Pratt's 'contact zone,' I show how two Turkana chiefs, Abong and Ekadille, acted as both colonial agents and legitimate loc…
Between two fires
Drawing on archival material, supplemented by oral history interviews done in Turkana in 2018 and oral history work by Lamphear from the mid-1970s, this article investigates the different dilemmas and challenges faced by the chiefs in Turkana District during the colonial occupation from the 1910s to 1963. Through the lens of Pratt's 'contact zone,' I show how two Turkana chiefs, Abong and Ekadille, acted as both colonial agents and legitimate loc…
Echoes of colonial disruption
The British conquest of the Turkana in the 1910s devastated the pastoral economy. • Colonial livestock theft and border enforcement made the Turkana vulnerable to environmental fluctuations. • In the colonial era, ecological conditions became the primary driver of conflict between the Turkana and neighboring groups. • The droughts in 1928 and 1933 mark the beginning of new conflict dynamics in Turkana. • The vulnerability and insecurity experienc…
Scarcity reimagined
Reframes resource conflict debates with the concepts: global green scarcity imaginaries, greening frontiers, and green conflicts. • Argues how climate and biodiversity crisis narratives justify accelerated interventions in Africa, reshaping land rights and governance. • Shows how green projects can reproduce the same exclusion and conflict that are associated with traditional extraction of e.g. oil. • Demonstrates that if equity and justice are s…
Colonialism (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Climate change (1 works) · Climate justice (1 works) · Colonial rule (1 works) · CONQUEST (1 works) · Ecological modernization (1 works) · Equity (law) (1 works)