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- Convenors:
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Cory Rodgers
(University of Oxford)
Matthew Porges (University of Oxford)
Ariell Ahearn Ligham (Oxford University)
Greta Semplici (European University Institute)
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- Chair:
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Dawn Chatty
(University of Oxford)
- Discussants:
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Marcus Colchester
J. Terrence McCabe (University of Colorado)
- Format:
- Roundtable
- Sessions:
- Tuesday 26 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
The 2002 Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation was the first major effort to incorporate mobile peoples scholarship into mainstream development and conservation policies. This roundtable will examine the impact of the declaration and explore directions for a prospective Dana+20 update.
Long Abstract:
Academic research on the contemporary challenges faced by mobile peoples initially came together in the late 1970s, when the Commission on Nomadic Peoples was established alongside the peer-reviewed journal Nomadic Peoples. These platforms paved the way for the 2002 Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation, which was one of the earliest global campaigns to bring critical scholarship on mobile peoples to bear on policy and practice. A shorter Dana+10 statement in 2012 updated the original declaration in several key areas.
As we approach the 20-year anniversary of the Dana Declaration, there is need for reflection on major ecological, technological and political shifts over the past two decades. This roundtable discussion would be chaired by Professor Dawn Chatty, who led the Standing Committee for the Dana Declaration. It would bring together senior scholars involved in the 2002 Dana Declaration - including Professor Terrence McCabe and Marcus Colchester - as well as junior scholars whose recent fieldwork with pastoralists and other mobile peoples provides insight on contemporary policy challenges.
The aim of this discussion is to examine core themes from the Dana Declaration as well as the Dana+10 statement and explore directions for a prospective Dana+20 update for next year. Short presentations and discussions would address how mainstream paradigms of sustainability and development have affected mobile peoples; interrogate "sedentist biases" in our epistemic infrastructures; and identify avenues for improved engagement with mobile populations on the interrelated priorities of conservation, climate adaptation / resilience, habitat loss, and human-animal entanglements.
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Session 1 Tuesday 26 October, 2021, -Short bio:
In Sahel (in Niger) access to pastures is made difficult by different actors appropriating land and resources. Political will on different levels is needed to enable mobile pastoralists right to choose their livelihoods. We will focus on dynamic conservation comanaged by mobile pastoralists.
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The right to choose mobile family herding livelihood is threatened by land appropriation of different actors in Sahel. In case of Niger land is appropriated by uranium mining and private processing of gold mining, by ranchers and by national parks. Additionally, violent extremist groups along the borders are imposing their conditions and preventing access to pastures for fear of violence.
The state did not fully recognise pastoralists’ livelihoods participate in sustainable management of environment and productive use of increasingly variable landscapes facing climate change. Even when there is new legislation to provide land use rights for mobile pastoralists, it is often sedentary biased. Even potentially favourable ecological laws are not always implemented in benefit of pastoralists. Policies in favour of mobile pastoralism are therefore political issue related to interests, but also mind set of those in power on different levels. In what ways diverse (gender, generation) mobile family herders can be included in debates and decisions about lands they use and how they can choose their livelihoods? Here we will focus on dynamic conservation comanaged by diverse mobile pastoralists. In case of important summer pastures we propose to implement ‘area reserved for small scale pastoralism’ in order to prevent devastation of resources and at the same time allowing for desired change.
Short bio:
Drawing on qualitative research on mining development in Mongolia's Umnugobi province spanning 2016-2020, this paper explores the intersecting sedentary biases inherent in national and international land expropriation resettlement standards for traditional mobile peoples.
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As mining expands in rural Mongolia, much land formerly used as pasture for mobile herders is being transformed into large mounds of dirt and deep pits in the ground. Currently the country has over 2000 licenses issued, with a majority located in the arid Gobi provinces. With most international standards suited to sedentary people, herders have been forcibly displaced from their traditional camp sites, water sources and pasture without appropriate compensation and efforts for appropriate resettlement. The lack of national legal mechanisms for traditional livelihoods to has led local government councils in the Gobi's rural districts to create conservation and protected areas to delay licensing processes and protect traditional pasture areas, inscribing the landscape with Western-oriented conservation ideals as an uncomfortable stopgap to protect mobile land rights. Drawing on qualitative research on mining development in Mongolia's Umnugobi province spanning 2016-2020, this paper explores the intersecting sedentary biases inherent in national and international land expropriation resettlement standards.