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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 Struggles over Collective Land Rights


Research Articles

Elisabeth Schubiger, Water for Oil: Fluid Dispossessions and Institutional Loopholes in Turkana’s Extractive Areas

Kelly Askew and Rie Odgaard, Collective Land Rights Reconsidered: Institutional Innovations from Tanzania

Amelia Burke, Partial Protections: Customary Law and the Governance of Moroccan Collective Lands

Giordano Marmone and Alfred Lenaola, Erasing the Zebu: Anti-Nomadic Narratives, Discursive Resistance and the Moral Economy of Mobility in Northern Kenya

Elifuraha Laltaika, Protection of Pastoralists’ Collective Land Rights in Tanzania: A Review of Institutional Hurdles


Opinion

Oussouby Touré, The Chadian Pastoral Code: Between Political Will and Power Plays


Short Communication

Gantulga Munkherdene and Ariell Ahearn, Fieldnote from Bayanhongor, July 2025


Book Reviews

Thomas White, China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier, by Joseph Bristley

Hermann Kreutzmann, Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond: Human Geography and Geopolitics, by Yonten Nyima

Indrani Sigamany, Nomadic Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Self-determination, Land Rights and Gender Justice in India, by Marcus Colchester

Benedetto Meloni and Francesca Uleri, Pastoralismo tra continuità e innovazione. Evidenze dal caso Sardegna, by Ester Cois