Geopolitical ecology: Climate change geopolitics and farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa DOI Creative Commons
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Environment and Security, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 27, 2024

Climate change impacts various social systems and has been linked to conflicts, especially resource conflicts in dry semi-dry lands of West Africa. exacerbates by influencing the migration pastoralists towards southern Thus, resolving farmer–herder can be placed context addressing climate impacts. The political imbroglio negotiating regime impacted communities exposed change. difficulty reaching a global binding that addresses ethically because power struggles among states defines geopolitics. geopolitics thus remains challenge sustainable development goals 15 16 concerning use land promoting peace, respectively. This article argues geopolitical ecology framework help analyse link between address limitation eco-violence thesis. Building on emerging literature conservation dubbed ‘geopolitical ecology’, it demonstrates how integrating critical perspective received little attention with blossoming ‘access resource’ helps achieve this.

Language: Английский

Assemblage thinking and actor–network theory: Reconciling the perspectives of environmental security and political ecology for improving the understanding of farmer–herder conflicts in Africa DOI Creative Commons
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Progress in Environmental Geography, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 3(2), P. 160 - 181

Published: March 14, 2024

The two main theoretical approaches to study the farmer–herder conflicts (FHCs) in Africa, namely, environmental security (ES) and political ecology (PE), demonstrate disagreement. This review proposes that disagreement between needs be resolved, account for complexity of conflicts. Notably, resolution can benefit analysts help them understand comprehensively. contributes literature on FHCs, by integrating aspects ES PE analyzing FHCs a single framework. Particularly, this reveals some factors shape It uses assemblage thinking actor–network theory, incorporate issues related conflicts, which are often ignored either these perspectives previously, develops detailed FHC method allows us provide comprehensive analysis does not downplay essential details may have been previous studies.

Language: Английский

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From ejecting the herds to hidden dangers: farmer-herder conflict and criminality in ungoverned forests along the Benue-Nasarawa-Taraba border DOI Creative Commons
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Trees Forests and People, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 17, P. 100626 - 100626

Published: July 17, 2024

The conflict between farmers and pastoralists in Benue State has been an ongoing issue but become more serious since 2011. In 2017, the Government of decided to intervene by enacting anti-open grazing law confine livestock ranches. Rather than reduce conflict, it escalated it, leading increased fatalities displacement both herders who were fleeing being arrested attacked as a rejoinder. This article delves into forests these contexts violence associated with farmer-herder Benue-Nasarawa-Taraba borderland Nigeria. is based on interviews field observations; uses political ecology new institutionalism theories bring together literature warfare (specifically impacts forests) ungoverned spaces understand impact forests. led land abandonment 2017 triggering forest regrowth. However, reforested area now serves safe haven for criminals kidnappers kidnap their victims ransom, rob villagers money property. Thus, which attempted eject herds inadvertently created hidden dangers kidnapping rape, robbery abandoned villages forested serving criminals. paper underscores usefulness blending comprehend why ungoverned.

Language: Английский

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Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands: Farmer-herder conflict and violence escalation in the Benue-Nasarawa borderland DOI
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

World Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 186, P. 106824 - 106824

Published: Nov. 13, 2024

Language: Английский

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Navigating Credibility and Approachability in Conflict Zones: Insights from Fieldwork in Nigerian Communities Facing Eco-Violence DOI Creative Commons

Olumba Ezenwa

The Qualitative Report, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: July 24, 2024

This article contributes to the literature by proposing an expanded “framework for credibility and approachability,” extending framework’s applicability in conflict-affected societies. The approachability framework aids researchers comprehending evaluating their fieldwork experiences, enabling them articulate experiences clearly insightfully. Drawing on reflexive of a diaspora-based researcher who used this prepare Nigeria, illustrates components plus added “bearability” component. were borne out study with 54 participants across focus groups communities affected eco-violence Nigerian Middle Belt. researcher’s positionality “betweenness” is also discussed, highlighting complexities conducting research as academic “homecomer” located areas.

Language: Английский

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Interactions between territorial partitioning, indigeneity crises, and farmer-pastoralist conflicts in the Benue-Nasarawa region DOI
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Political Geography, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 117, P. 103262 - 103262

Published: Dec. 30, 2024

Language: Английский

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Articulatory flow of Fulanisation discourse of the farmer-herder conflicts in the Benue Valley region, Nigeria DOI
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Critical African Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: Nov. 29, 2024

In Nigeria, farmer-herder conflicts have been examined through environmental security and political ecology lenses. More recently, discourse approaches emerged, but they largely need to incorporate ethnographic accounts. While studies focused on different facets of religious in northern how the surrounding Muslim-non-Muslim relates conflict region needs further scrutiny. Against this background, paper examines Islamisation narrative a (Wukari Religious Crisis) intersects with leading emergence Fulanisation Benue Valley Nigeria. It analysed data documents explore discourse, what I call articulatory flow from critical geopolitical perspective. Through concept – articulations one discursive field another linked desires shows Wukari Crisis flowed into conflict, producing because specific desires. This finding contributes ongoing discussions using assemblage frameworks rework post-structuralist theory by arguing that discourses spatial agency via assemblages can crisscross fields discursivity.

Language: Английский

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Geopolitical ecology: Climate change geopolitics and farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa DOI Creative Commons
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Environment and Security, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 27, 2024

Climate change impacts various social systems and has been linked to conflicts, especially resource conflicts in dry semi-dry lands of West Africa. exacerbates by influencing the migration pastoralists towards southern Thus, resolving farmer–herder can be placed context addressing climate impacts. The political imbroglio negotiating regime impacted communities exposed change. difficulty reaching a global binding that addresses ethically because power struggles among states defines geopolitics. geopolitics thus remains challenge sustainable development goals 15 16 concerning use land promoting peace, respectively. This article argues geopolitical ecology framework help analyse link between address limitation eco-violence thesis. Building on emerging literature conservation dubbed ‘geopolitical ecology’, it demonstrates how integrating critical perspective received little attention with blossoming ‘access resource’ helps achieve this.

Language: Английский

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