N Schareika
Biographic Data
| ID | 30427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Schareika |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Schareika |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAREIKA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7692-7046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Covid-19 and Pastoralism in Northern Benin
This article deals with pastoralists’ perceptions of and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in northern Benin. Starting from the idea that pastoralists are well situated to respond successfully to the uncertainty that the pandemic has brought to the world, as their livelihood demands flexible responses to ever-changing situations, we examine how people living in pastoralism in this region perceive and manage the unprecedented event and thus aim t…
Transformations in livestock systems: Beyond Ranching and Pastoralism
Livestock systems across the world are transformed by capitalist forces. Understanding these social, economic, and cultural transformations is important because it has major implications for rural populations across the world. Traditionally, the study of livestock systems has been organized along the conceptual classification of ranching in North America and Australia and pastoralism in Africa and Asia, but this intellectual division has limited …
Cattle, capital, and the imagination of self-expanding value
As cattle-keeping pastoralists continue to attract the intellectual interest of anthropologists worldwide, research focuses particularly on livelihood and resource management as well as on pastoral development and participation in a globalizing world. While this orientation implies an epistemological division between acting subjects (people) and managed objects (cattle), this article goes back to the earlier anthropology of pastoralists to ask ho…
Rurbanity: A concept for the interdisciplinary study of rural–urban transformation
Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned. Example…
Land tenure, food security, gender and urbanization in Northern Ghana
Links between land tenure and food and nutritional insecurity are receiving increased attention. Nevertheless, urban and periurban dwellers face challenges in accessing land to produce food for subsistence and sale. An ethnographic study and food and nutrition insecurity survey were conducted between October 2013 and November 2014 in Tamale, Northern Region of Ghana, to explore the dynamic and recursive links between land access, food access and …
Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa
The goal of this paper is to explain why and how increasing commoditization and incorporation in the market economy are only now leading to a critical transition from pastoralism to ranching in Central Africa. While there are similarities between pastoralism and capitalism-in both systems, entrepreneurs are strategically maximizing their "stock"-there are also differences. We argue that these differences can be understood as two distinct types of…
Managing for the middle: Rancher care ethics under uncertainty on Western Great Plains rangelands
Nomads/Pastoralists and Development
Pastoral development constitutes an interface between two different, difficult to reconcile, sociocultural systems: that of pastoral nomads as opposed to that of nation‐states and development agencies. Pastoral development originated in colonial policies and projects to boost the livestock sector, organize the colonial economy, and sedentarize mobile people. It initially opposed key values and requirements of pastoral nomads such as mobility and …
Crude Moves: Oil, Power, and Politics in Niger
In this article, we analyse the political and social process through which Niger has emerged as a new oil state since 2008. Instead of viewing the situation as a clear-cut resource-curse scenario, we see oil as an important, but by no means determining factor in the country's current political workings. Analysing the main features and narratives of the Nigerien political game in this time of incipient oil production, we first of all observe how v…
Creative Encounters: African Trade and Chinese Oil Production in Western Chad
The oil industry tends to remain disconnected from local realities surrounding production sites, a situation that can be explained by theories of enclaving and technological zones. Despite these barriers, local people try to connect to and profit from oil projects that are set up in their vicinity. This article explores the relationships between a Chadian merchant, who started as a worker in the oil fields, his suppliers of goods and credit, and …
Mobile Phones and Socio-economic Transformation Among Fulani Pastoralists in Northern Benin
The mobile phone has spread recently in rural Benin as one of the new technologies most widely adopted by Fulani pastoralists, who have generally been regarded as hostile to novelty. This article analyses the logic and forms of appropriation of mobile phones in connection with the socio-economic transformation that accompany it. An ethnographic approach was used, involving individual interviews with participant observation in various settings whe…
A comparative analysis of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in Kenya and Ghana: Sustainable agricultural intensification in the rural–urban interface
The social nature of environmental knowledge among the nomadic Woɗaaɓe of Niger
Pastoral nomads such as West Africa's Woaae are renowned for the impressive environmental knowledge they apply to successfully raise animal herds in arid and variable environments. We looked at such herders' knowledge not as based on individual learning and expertise but as ultimately social in the sense that it is formed, made available, and linked to pastoral decision making in the public and interactive space of permanent talking, discussing, …
Living Off Uncertainty: The Intelligent Animal Production of Dryland Pastoralists
Kommentar zum Beitrag von Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Significations of oil in Africa or: What (more) can anthropologists contribute to the study of oil
Forum: Anthropology of oil and the resource curse For half a century, oil production has been a key factor in the development of a small number of African states south of the Sahara. Only now, however, it is ecoming a source of substantial social, economic and cultural transformation for an increasing number of new African oil states. This is partly due to the fact that political instability in the Near and Middle East, the inexorable move toward…
Environmental Knowledge and Pastoral Migration among the Wod Aabe of South-Eastern Niger
Introduction The present paper describes and analyses environmental knowledge among Wodaabe cattle raisers of West Africa with respect to their organisation of herd management. The Wodaabe pastoral system focuses mainly on raising Zebu cattle (na'i bodeeji) and has two primary aims: first, to guarantee and increase herd reproduction; second, to bring the herd with minimal loss in weight and size through the dry season when fodder is in short supp…
Bruijn, Mirjam De and Han Van Dijk (1995) Arid Ways: Cultural Understandings of Insecurity in Fulbe Society, Central Mali
Living Off Uncertainty: The Intelligent Animal Production of Dryland Pastoralists
Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa
The goal of this paper is to explain why and how increasing commoditization and incorporation in the market economy are only now leading to a critical transition from pastoralism to ranching in Central Africa. While there are similarities between pastoralism and capitalism-in both systems, entrepreneurs are strategically maximizing their "stock"-there are also differences. We argue that these differences can be understood as two distinct types of…
Environmental Knowledge and Pastoral Migration among the Wod Aabe of South-Eastern Niger
Introduction The present paper describes and analyses environmental knowledge among Wodaabe cattle raisers of West Africa with respect to their organisation of herd management. The Wodaabe pastoral system focuses mainly on raising Zebu cattle (na'i bodeeji) and has two primary aims: first, to guarantee and increase herd reproduction; second, to bring the herd with minimal loss in weight and size through the dry season when fodder is in short supp…
Significations of oil in Africa or: What (more) can anthropologists contribute to the study of oil
Forum: Anthropology of oil and the resource curse For half a century, oil production has been a key factor in the development of a small number of African states south of the Sahara. Only now, however, it is ecoming a source of substantial social, economic and cultural transformation for an increasing number of new African oil states. This is partly due to the fact that political instability in the Near and Middle East, the inexorable move toward…
Managing for the middle: Rancher care ethics under uncertainty on Western Great Plains rangelands
The social nature of environmental knowledge among the nomadic Woɗaaɓe of Niger
Pastoral nomads such as West Africa's Woaae are renowned for the impressive environmental knowledge they apply to successfully raise animal herds in arid and variable environments. We looked at such herders' knowledge not as based on individual learning and expertise but as ultimately social in the sense that it is formed, made available, and linked to pastoral decision making in the public and interactive space of permanent talking, discussing, …
Rurbanity: A concept for the interdisciplinary study of rural–urban transformation
Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned. Example…
Crude Moves: Oil, Power, and Politics in Niger
In this article, we analyse the political and social process through which Niger has emerged as a new oil state since 2008. Instead of viewing the situation as a clear-cut resource-curse scenario, we see oil as an important, but by no means determining factor in the country's current political workings. Analysing the main features and narratives of the Nigerien political game in this time of incipient oil production, we first of all observe how v…
Mobile Phones and Socio-economic Transformation Among Fulani Pastoralists in Northern Benin
The mobile phone has spread recently in rural Benin as one of the new technologies most widely adopted by Fulani pastoralists, who have generally been regarded as hostile to novelty. This article analyses the logic and forms of appropriation of mobile phones in connection with the socio-economic transformation that accompany it. An ethnographic approach was used, involving individual interviews with participant observation in various settings whe…
Transformations in livestock systems: Beyond Ranching and Pastoralism
Livestock systems across the world are transformed by capitalist forces. Understanding these social, economic, and cultural transformations is important because it has major implications for rural populations across the world. Traditionally, the study of livestock systems has been organized along the conceptual classification of ranching in North America and Australia and pastoralism in Africa and Asia, but this intellectual division has limited …
Cattle, capital, and the imagination of self-expanding value
As cattle-keeping pastoralists continue to attract the intellectual interest of anthropologists worldwide, research focuses particularly on livelihood and resource management as well as on pastoral development and participation in a globalizing world. While this orientation implies an epistemological division between acting subjects (people) and managed objects (cattle), this article goes back to the earlier anthropology of pastoralists to ask ho…
Land tenure, food security, gender and urbanization in Northern Ghana
Links between land tenure and food and nutritional insecurity are receiving increased attention. Nevertheless, urban and periurban dwellers face challenges in accessing land to produce food for subsistence and sale. An ethnographic study and food and nutrition insecurity survey were conducted between October 2013 and November 2014 in Tamale, Northern Region of Ghana, to explore the dynamic and recursive links between land access, food access and …
A comparative analysis of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in Kenya and Ghana: Sustainable agricultural intensification in the rural–urban interface
Bruijn, Mirjam De and Han Van Dijk (1995) Arid Ways: Cultural Understandings of Insecurity in Fulbe Society, Central Mali
Environmental Knowledge and Pastoral Migration among the Wod Aabe of South-Eastern Niger
Introduction The present paper describes and analyses environmental knowledge among Wodaabe cattle raisers of West Africa with respect to their organisation of herd management. The Wodaabe pastoral system focuses mainly on raising Zebu cattle (na'i bodeeji) and has two primary aims: first, to guarantee and increase herd reproduction; second, to bring the herd with minimal loss in weight and size through the dry season when fodder is in short supp…
Living Off Uncertainty: The Intelligent Animal Production of Dryland Pastoralists
Kommentar zum Beitrag von Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Significations of oil in Africa or: What (more) can anthropologists contribute to the study of oil
Forum: Anthropology of oil and the resource curse For half a century, oil production has been a key factor in the development of a small number of African states south of the Sahara. Only now, however, it is ecoming a source of substantial social, economic and cultural transformation for an increasing number of new African oil states. This is partly due to the fact that political instability in the Near and Middle East, the inexorable move toward…
The social nature of environmental knowledge among the nomadic Woɗaaɓe of Niger
Pastoral nomads such as West Africa's Woaae are renowned for the impressive environmental knowledge they apply to successfully raise animal herds in arid and variable environments. We looked at such herders' knowledge not as based on individual learning and expertise but as ultimately social in the sense that it is formed, made available, and linked to pastoral decision making in the public and interactive space of permanent talking, discussing, …
A comparative analysis of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in Kenya and Ghana: Sustainable agricultural intensification in the rural–urban interface
Creative Encounters: African Trade and Chinese Oil Production in Western Chad
The oil industry tends to remain disconnected from local realities surrounding production sites, a situation that can be explained by theories of enclaving and technological zones. Despite these barriers, local people try to connect to and profit from oil projects that are set up in their vicinity. This article explores the relationships between a Chadian merchant, who started as a worker in the oil fields, his suppliers of goods and credit, and …
Mobile Phones and Socio-economic Transformation Among Fulani Pastoralists in Northern Benin
The mobile phone has spread recently in rural Benin as one of the new technologies most widely adopted by Fulani pastoralists, who have generally been regarded as hostile to novelty. This article analyses the logic and forms of appropriation of mobile phones in connection with the socio-economic transformation that accompany it. An ethnographic approach was used, involving individual interviews with participant observation in various settings whe…
Nomads/Pastoralists and Development
Pastoral development constitutes an interface between two different, difficult to reconcile, sociocultural systems: that of pastoral nomads as opposed to that of nation‐states and development agencies. Pastoral development originated in colonial policies and projects to boost the livestock sector, organize the colonial economy, and sedentarize mobile people. It initially opposed key values and requirements of pastoral nomads such as mobility and …
Crude Moves: Oil, Power, and Politics in Niger
In this article, we analyse the political and social process through which Niger has emerged as a new oil state since 2008. Instead of viewing the situation as a clear-cut resource-curse scenario, we see oil as an important, but by no means determining factor in the country's current political workings. Analysing the main features and narratives of the Nigerien political game in this time of incipient oil production, we first of all observe how v…
Managing for the middle: Rancher care ethics under uncertainty on Western Great Plains rangelands
Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa
The goal of this paper is to explain why and how increasing commoditization and incorporation in the market economy are only now leading to a critical transition from pastoralism to ranching in Central Africa. While there are similarities between pastoralism and capitalism-in both systems, entrepreneurs are strategically maximizing their "stock"-there are also differences. We argue that these differences can be understood as two distinct types of…
Rurbanity: A concept for the interdisciplinary study of rural–urban transformation
Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned. Example…
Land tenure, food security, gender and urbanization in Northern Ghana
Links between land tenure and food and nutritional insecurity are receiving increased attention. Nevertheless, urban and periurban dwellers face challenges in accessing land to produce food for subsistence and sale. An ethnographic study and food and nutrition insecurity survey were conducted between October 2013 and November 2014 in Tamale, Northern Region of Ghana, to explore the dynamic and recursive links between land access, food access and …
Covid-19 and Pastoralism in Northern Benin
This article deals with pastoralists’ perceptions of and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in northern Benin. Starting from the idea that pastoralists are well situated to respond successfully to the uncertainty that the pandemic has brought to the world, as their livelihood demands flexible responses to ever-changing situations, we examine how people living in pastoralism in this region perceive and manage the unprecedented event and thus aim t…
Transformations in livestock systems: Beyond Ranching and Pastoralism
Livestock systems across the world are transformed by capitalist forces. Understanding these social, economic, and cultural transformations is important because it has major implications for rural populations across the world. Traditionally, the study of livestock systems has been organized along the conceptual classification of ranching in North America and Australia and pastoralism in Africa and Asia, but this intellectual division has limited …
Cattle, capital, and the imagination of self-expanding value
As cattle-keeping pastoralists continue to attract the intellectual interest of anthropologists worldwide, research focuses particularly on livelihood and resource management as well as on pastoral development and participation in a globalizing world. While this orientation implies an epistemological division between acting subjects (people) and managed objects (cattle), this article goes back to the earlier anthropology of pastoralists to ask ho…
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