Kreutzmann Pastoral practices in High Asia

Agency of 'development' effected by modernisation, resettlement and transformation
2012
ISBN: 978-94-007-3846-1
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research

In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena independent of ideological contexts. The 20th century experienced a variety of concepts to settle mobile groups and to transfer their lifestyles to modern perceptions. Permanent settlements are the vivid expression of an ideology-driven approach. Modernization theory captured all walks of life and tried to optimize breeding techniques, pasture utilization, transport and processing concepts.
New insights into other aspects of pastoralism such as its role as an adaptive strategy to use marginal resources in remote locations with difficult access could only be understood as a critique of capitalist and communist concepts of modernization. In recent years a renaissance of modernization theory-led development activities can be observed. Higher inputs from external funding, fencing of pastures and settlement of pastoralists in new townships are the vivid expression of 'modern' pastoralism in urban contexts. The new modernization programme incorporates resettlement and transformation of lifestyles as to be justified by environmental pressure in order to reduce degradation in the age of climate change.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kreutzmann, Hermann

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceList of acronyms and abbreviations1. Pastoral practices in transition - animal husbandry in High Asian contexts2. Herding on high grounds. Diversity and typology of pastoral systems in the Eastern Hindukush (Chitral, Northwest Pakistan)3. Pastoralism, power and politics: access to pastures under conditions of tenure insecurity in Northern Afghanistan4. Pastoral production strategies and market orientation of the Afghan Kirghiz5. Livelihoods of the 'New Livestock Breeders' in the Eastern Pamirs of Tajikistan 6. Kirghiz in Kara Köl – the forces of modernisation in Xinjiang7. Legal arrangements and pasture-related socio-ecological challenges in Kyrgyzstan8. Conflicting strategies for contested resources: Pastoralists’ responses to uncertainty in postsocialist rural Kyrgyzstan9. Pastoral people and shepherding practices in the Western Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh): A historical perspective10. State policy and local performance: Pasture use and pastoral practices in the Kumaon Himalaya11. The changing role of hunting and wildlife in pastoral communities of Northern Tibet12. Implementation of resettlement programmes among pastoralist communities in Eastern Tibet13. “Everybody likes houses. Even birds are coming!” Housing Tibetan pastoralists in Golok: Policies and everyday realities14. Change and continuity in a nomadic pastoralism community in the Tibet Autonomous Region, 1959-200915. Tibetan pastoralists in transition. Political change and state interventions in nomad societies16. Enclosure and resettlement in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: dilemma of pastoral development during the last three decades17. Pastoral communities’ perspectives on climate change and their adaptation strategies in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya18. Pastoralism - a way forward or back?Index16. Enclosure and resettlement in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: dilemma of pastoral development during the last three decades17. Pastoral communities’ perspectives on climate change and their adaptation strategies in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya18. Pastoralism - a way forward or back?Index

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Hermann Kreutzmann has been a professor of human geography at Freie Universität Berlin since April 2005. He had previously completed his doctorate at the Department of Earth Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin in 1989. Kreutzmann’s research focuses on geographical development studies. He conducts his research mainly in high mountain areas, especially in South and Central Asia, in the context of globalization and climate change debates. His research also focuses on sustainable resource use as well as minority studies and migration research.

Hermann Kreutzmann is a recipient of the Tianshan Prize China from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He received the award for his “outstanding contribution to the economic and social progress” of this region located in northwest China. For more than 25 years Kreutzmann has been conducting research there on issues of resource use and the development of mountain regions. In addition, he was honored for his contribution to scientific cooperation and his support of German-Chinese cooperation in the education of young scientists. This award is the highest that can be awarded to a foreign expert in Xinjiang.