Nomadic Peoples 30.1 (2026) is now published: link: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/30/1 Guest Edited by: Giordano Marmone and Kelly Askew Preface Giordano Marmone, Preface to the Special Issue: Collective Rights to Land and Resources: An Institutionalist Perspective on Pastoralism in Africa Introduction John G. Galaty, Overview: Institutional Pluralism and Innovation in African Pastoralist…
Image above retrieved from https://iyrp.info/pastoral-commons IYRP2026 'Pastoralism and Land Rights' working groupThe IYRP2026 'Pastoral Commons' working group has published a conceptual framework highlighting the values, challenges and importance of pastoral commons worldwide. More information here https://iyrp.info/ and here https://iyrp.info/pastoral-commons.
Image above: A woman and ex-forest dwellers displaced from the Kirisia Forest Shinya Konaka (University of Shizuoka, Japan)‘Nomads displaced by climate change narratives should also be recognised as “climate change refugees”’. This argument is proposed in a new article published in Climate and Development, entitled Relational approach to examine the cascading effects of climate narratives: Eviction cases…
Photo above retrieved from https://www.pastoralistfilmfestival.com/The Perspectives on Pastoralism film festival is organized by CELEP in preparation for and during the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP2026). Check out the fantastic range of films, including films directed and produced by pastoralists, and/or created by CNP members. Some can be watched…
Hosts: Dr. Ariell Ahearn - Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Oxford. Dr. Daniel Murphy - Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Cincinnati.Listen to the podcast here: https://econanthro.org/podcasts/pastoralism-and-social-change-in-mongolia-a-conversation-with-our-hosts/
In the latest "Outgrowing offsetting" policy brief, prepared by the IYRP Global Alliance Working Group on Pastoralism & Carbon Markets", the authors argue that sustaining rangeland–pastoralism systems on their own terms, with the institutions that underpin them, is a valuable climate strategy in its own right—it does not need to…
Image above: Professor Dawn Chatty. Photo retrieved from website of University of Oxford. We are so happy to announce that this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Professor Dawn Chatty! We, Allison and Joana, would like to express our thanks and appreciation for Dawn – as young and now older scholars, Dawn has been a continual…
We are very happy to announce that this year’s Best Student Essay Prize goes to Munkh-Erdene Gantulga (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) for his paper Moving with the Internet: Nationalist Expression in the Digital Environment of Rural Mongolia. It will be published in a forthcoming issue of Nomadic Peoples. The honorary mention goes to Bhakti Lostaunau (University of Sussex) for their essay…
Photo above by Joana Roque de PinhoThe Commission is happy to invite submissions for the 2026 Photo Contest on the broad topic of nomadic peoples, as defined in Nomadic Peoples. This is a new, annual contest. The winner receives recognition as well as the chance to have their image featured…
Photos above: right: Professor Anne-Marie Brisebarre, left: Professor Pierre Bonte We are thrilled to introduce a new grant for graduate students: the Bonte–Brisebarre Grant. The grant, made possible through generous fundraising efforts of colleagues in France, is named in memory of Professor Anne-Marie Brisebarre (who passed away in June 2025)…
Photo above by Dawn Chatty The Commission on Nomadic Peoples is reviving its “news round-up” with this edition covering the second half of 2025. The next newsletter will come out in June 2026. Please, let us know any announcement, initiative, project or publication you’d like to see in it. Click…
Photo above: Sibaouaih Mohammed Yahdih (Camel herder from Morocco) speaking with Ms Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim (Chad) President of the 23rd UNPFIIProfessor Dawn Chatty (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) just published a new article on the French journal Nomopolis on mobile indigenous peoples and human rights. The article nicely summarizes…
