XVIth IUAES Congress 2009: Academic Session of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples Sub-Panel 2: 'Resilience to Resistance: Pastoralist Strategies in Response to Contemporary Political and Ecological Disruption and Change in Africa'
Chairs: John Galaty and Michael Bollig

1. Property, Mobility, and Sedentarization
   1. Elliot FRATKIN (Department of Anthropology, Smith College) Samburu Resistance to Colonial Rule in Kenya – The Powys Murder and Deportation of the Laibon medicine man Ole Odume
   2. Matthias ÖSTERLE (Institut für Volkerkünde, University of Köln) From Cattle to Goats: The Transformation of East Pokot Pastoralism
   3. John GALATY (Department of Anthropology, McGill University) Landing, Soft and Hard: Pastoral responses to tenure changes in East Africa
   4. Youssouf DIALLO (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) Pastoral mobility, resource management and state intervention (Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire)
   5. Clare OXBY (Research Services, University of Oxford): Disentangling 'forced displacement' from pastoralist mobility – recovery and reconstruction in South Sudan in the light of the Tuareg experience in the Sahel
   6. Salem MEZHOUD (EPES Consulting, London and VA) Presented with Clare Oxby Disentangling 'forced displacement' from pastoralist mobility – recovery and reconstruction in South Sudan in the light of the Tuareg experience in the Sahel
2. Pastoral Livelihoods and Economic Diversification
   1. Stephen MOIKO (Department of Anthropology, McGill University) Herders at Cross-Roads: Searching for Tenure Security and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Face of Changing Land Policies
   2. Peter LITTLE (Department of Anthropology, Emory University) Uncertain Pastoral Alliances in a Global Age: Shifting Political Relationships and Violence in Baringo, District, Kenya, 1900-2007
   3. Hassan SACHEDINA (Centre for the Environment, Oxford University) Labyrinths of Poverty: Tanzanite mining and Maasai economic renaissance in Tanzania
   4. Sandra CALKINS (Collaborative Research Center "Difference and Integration" SFB 586, University of Leipzig) Transformed Lives: The Rashayda Pastoralists of Northeastern Sudan - New Patterns of Mobility and the Role of Conflict.
3. Pastoral Strategies in Contemporary & Historical Perspective
   1. Lawrence H. ROBBINS (Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University) The spread of livestock and paleoenvironmental change: A tale of two lakes in Africa.
   2. Robert HITCHCOCK (Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University) Livestock Production Systems In The Kalahari: Transformations in Land, Labor, and Property Relations in Southwestern, Eastern and Northern Botswana.
   3. Nikolaus SCHAREIKA (Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz) Conserving the Clan: Wodaabe (Fulani) struggling against the dissolution of their lineage group
   4. Angela KRONENBURG GARCIA (TBA) ‘Grabbing’ and ‘booking’ land in Loita Maasai, Kenya: a historical perspective to current forms of land demarcation
4. Pastoral Conflicts and Mediation
   1. Georg KLUTE (Institute for African Studies, University of Bayreuth) Will we ever be nomads? Negotiating identities, political order and the way of life among Tuareg in Northern Mali
   2. Bilinda STRAIGHT (Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University) Wild Journeys: Memories of Home, War, and Uneasy Movement
   3. Sandra GRAY (Department of Anthropology, Kansas University) Where have all the young men gone? Demographic and social consequences of modern cattle raiding in Karamoja (Moroto District), Uganda.
   4. Ben KNIGHTON (African Studies Centre, Oxford University) The State as Invader in Karamoja: “Let them go!”
   5. Günther SCHLEE (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) The political ecology of pastoralsism: The development of ethnic territoriality in northern Kenya.
   6. Boubacar OUMAROU (Departement d’anthropologie, Universite Laval) Rapport agriculteurs éleveurs à Say (Niger): Un espace commun géré par des communautés différentes
   7. Hussein A. MAHMOUD (Department of Geography, Egerton University) Living between a “troublesome” people and a troubled borderland: the Boran, Somali onslaught, and “Tigrean terror” in northern Kenya
5. Pastoralists and Conservation
   1. Terry MCCABE (Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder) Risk, Intensification, Conservation, and Complexity: Competing flows of ideas and capital in northern Tanzania
   2. David K. Ole NKEDIANYE (Center for International Development, Harvard University) The impacts of the 2005/6 drought and emerging coping strategies among the Maasai of East Africa
   3. Michael BOLLIG (Institut für Völkerkunde, University of Köln) Water-Point Committees, Game Guards and Grazing Associations - Institutional Change and Vitality of Pastoralism in Northwestern Namibia
   4. Cameron WELCH (Department of Anthropology, McGill University) Grazing, Gathering and Game: Land and Resource Conflict in the N=a Jaqna Conservancy, North Eastern Namibia Session F: Globalizing Institutions and Cultural Change
   5. Aud TALLE (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo) ‘Women at a loss’ – twenty-five years later
   6. Barbara CASCIARRI (Department of Sociology, Université de Paris 8 and Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economique et Juridique, Khartoum) Religious revival and « civil society » organizations as strategies to face the impact of globalization trends: the case of the Ait Unzar pastoralists in South-Eastern Morocco
   7. Caroline ARCHAMBAULT (Department of Anthropology, McGill University) Presentations of Maasai Identity in Contrasting Political Economies: The Explicit and Hidden Curriculum of Maasai Schools in Kenya and Tanzania
   8. Stefano MANFREDI (Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi", Unbiversità L'orientale (Naples)) Presented with Barbara Casciarri Dynamics of adaptation to conflict and to political and economical changes among the Hawazma pastoralists (Baggara) of Southern Kordofan (Sudan): an insight through process of education