Constructing farmer-pastoralist conflict as Islamization: Transformation and adaptation of resource competition discourse in the Nigerian Benue Valley
Geoforum,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
148, С. 103937 - 103937
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Язык: Английский
From ejecting the herds to hidden dangers: farmer-herder conflict and criminality in ungoverned forests along the Benue-Nasarawa-Taraba border
Trees Forests and People,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
17, С. 100626 - 100626
Опубликована: Июль 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.
Язык: Английский
Proposing critical realism and second-generation environmental justice for advancing sacrifice zone analysis
Progress in Environmental Geography,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 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.
Язык: Английский
Perceptions of injustices in the struggle for scarce critical lands: Farmer-herder conflict and violence escalation in the Benue-Nasarawa borderland
World Development,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
186, С. 106824 - 106824
Опубликована: Ноя. 13, 2024
Язык: Английский
The case for a ‘cognitive turn’ in conflict analysis: Lessons from Afghanistan and the Sahel
Global Change Peace & Security,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 18
Опубликована: Ноя. 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.
Язык: Английский
Articulatory flow of Fulanisation discourse of the farmer-herder conflicts in the Benue Valley region, Nigeria
Critical African Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 20
Опубликована: Ноя. 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.
Язык: Английский
Out of Frame: Invisibilisation of Non-Human Nature in Media Framing of a Land Conflict Transformation Policy in Nigeria
Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu,
Ter Moses Akase
African Journalism Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 22
Опубликована: Дек. 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.
Язык: Английский
Geopolitical ecology: Climate change geopolitics and farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa
Environment and Security,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Дек. 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.
Язык: Английский