The social nature of environmental knowledge among the nomadic Woɗaaɓe of Niger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4239902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Schareika (0000-0001-7692-7046, University of Göttingen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | art42 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-07056-190442 |
| OpenAlex | W2321228112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
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, and negotiating among peers. Drawing on theoretical ideas from science and technology studies, a number of concrete social situations of information management and pastoral decision making were explored in detail to reveal the distinctly social character of Woaae knowledge. Special emphasis has been given to the institutional framework of knowledge exchange; the blending of moral values and empirical facts in particular statements of knowledge; the dialogic and collaborative nature of information procurement and assessment; and the contingency of decisions reached after lengthy rounds of discussion among herders
Dialogic · Knowledge management · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Computer Science · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Introduction
A comparative analysis of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems in Kenya and Ghana
Transformations in livestock systems
Uniting business history and global environmental history
Cattle, capital, and the imagination of self-expanding value
Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa
Science in action
Linguistic Anthropology
Studies in ethnomethodology
Models of Social Organization.
The social construction of reality
The Social construction of technological systems
Indigenous Agricultural Revolution
Sacred Ecology
Notes on the theory of the actor-network
Ethnobiological Classification
Toward a knowledge of local knowledge and its importance for agricultural RD&E
Cattle Breeding, Complexity and Mobility in a Structurally Unpredictable Environment
Environmental Knowledge and Pastoral Migration among the Wod Aabe of South-Eastern Niger
The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts
The Social Shaping of Technology
Transhumance, Migratory Drift, Migration; Patterns of Pastoral Fulani Nomadism
Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
Technology is Society Made Durable
Ritual and Knowledge Among the Baktaman of New Guinea
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
The Development of Indigenous Knowledge
Myth as environmental message
Open Access, Open Systems
Changing Access to Labor, Pastures, and Knowledge
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |