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

Constructing farmer-pastoralist conflict as Islamization: Transformation and adaptation of resource competition discourse in the Nigerian Benue Valley DOI Open Access
Cletus Famous Nwankwo

Geoforum, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 148, P. 103937 - 103937

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

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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Proposing critical realism and second-generation environmental justice for advancing sacrifice zone analysis DOI Creative Commons
Víctor Cobs, René Westerholt

Progress in Environmental Geography, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 13, 2025

This article addresses the complex social-ecological challenges faced by sacrifice zones—territories subjected to severe environmental degradation and social injustices. Traditional justice research, with its emphasis on distributive justice, often fails capture intricate dynamics of these not-recognized areas. In light limitations, this proposes a second-generation approach, employing critical realist paradigm, identify zones explore their deeper causal mechanisms. which transcends distributional focus traditional reveals mechanisms commonly observed in zones. These enable sustain injustices through such as economic exploitation, policy failures, power imbalances. Intertwined within systems, create cycles poverty, health disparities, ecological harm. Moreover, offers methodological reflection theoretical proposal planning practices toward justice. It concludes recommendations for future emphasizing importance systemic change inclusive policy-making achieve sustainability.

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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The case for a ‘cognitive turn’ in conflict analysis: Lessons from Afghanistan and the Sahel DOI Creative Commons
Ezenwa E. Olumba

Global Change Peace & Security, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 18

Published: Nov. 19, 2024

This paper advocates for an integrated approach to exploring and analysing contemporary conflicts, especially in complex socio-political cultural contexts. It examines how a framework that incorporates cognitive, historical factors can enhance our understanding of these conflicts. Grounded the 'cognitive turn', idea combining cognitive social sciences insights understand human experiences actions, this draws on secondary sources demonstrate neglecting emotion-laden local contextual realities has undermined conflict analysis. Using as case studies US intervention Afghanistan French missions Sahel region it argues emotional blind spots led them overlook critical while focusing narrowly rational aspects The promotes development adoption cross-disciplinary theoretical models integrate influences, environmental conditions politico-historical contexts improve analysis outcomes.

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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Out of Frame: Invisibilisation of Non-Human Nature in Media Framing of a Land Conflict Transformation Policy in Nigeria DOI Creative Commons

Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu,

Ter Moses Akase

African Journalism Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 22

Published: Dec. 3, 2024

Public policy response to land-use conflict often exacerbates contestation rather than fostering consensus, further polarising stakeholders and darkening peacebuilding prospects. The Nigerian government conceived the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) tackle protracted between nomadic pastoralists sedentary crop farmers. This study examined framing of in three select newspapers, Daily Sun, Trust, Punch, published January 2018 June 2021. findings revealed preponderance five anthropocentric frames. environmental frame was absent from newspaper NLTP, reflecting a blind spot representation farmer–herder rooted asymmetric visions human–nature relations parties. voices actors scientific community did not feature discourse on Plan. Their detachment contest contributed information blackout policy's relationship with natural environment. Nature is stakeholder conflict, reality that may be obscured, misrepresented, or underrepresented by human-centred news framing. Media should aim at nuanced reflection universe embeddedness biodiversity – voiceless, non-aligned, indispensable actants ecological conflict.

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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