Image above by Jan Jassen Author: Jamal Alkirnawi, A New Dawn in the Negev, Rahat, Israel (jamal@anewdawninthenegev.org)When most people picture therapy, they imagine an office: a couch, a closed door, maybe a box of tissues on a side table. But in parts of Israel's Bedouin society, therapy is happening somewhere very different — in family compounds, backyard…
Image above: Two camels in pasture with Jbel Taïssa in the background, Photo B.P. 2026 Author: Bastien Pillon, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France. bastien.pillon.bp@gmail.comThe Saharan region of Guelmim-Oued Noun is the northernmost of the three regions within the camel breeding area in Morocco (the others are Laayoune and Dakhla).…
Image above: Toddlers watching juvenile goats and sheep. Photo by the author (2025). Author: Xiaojie Tian (email: tian.xiaojie.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp), Associate Professor, Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, JapanImagine handing a young child sole responsibility for his or her family’s assets. In most modern households, this idea is almost unthinkable. Most adults would…
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…
