Research
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Latest funding
- $50,500
The Institutional Canopy of Community Conservation: Governance and Environmentality in East Africa
CFI · 2014 · Principal investigator
- $196,000
An ethnography of social complexity and strategic choice: how pastoralists in East Africa respond to drought, poverty, land fragmentation, and globalization
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
- $145,500
Property and poverty: Maasai transitions from collective to private land holding in Kenya
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
The Institutional Canopy of Community Conservation: Governance and Environmentality in East Africa
Principal investigators: Galaty, John
Keywords: Pastoralism, Anthropology, Rural development, Indigenous peoples, Environment, Land tenure Computers, GPS, Field Research Vehicle, Video Equipment
An ethnography of social complexity and strategic choice: how pastoralists in East Africa respond to drought, poverty, land fragmentation, and globalization
Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.
Keywords: pastoralism; East Africa; rangelands; drylands; decision-making; land tenure; development; rangeland ecology; civil society; food security; demography; livelihoods; conservation; social action; poverty
Property and poverty: Maasai transitions from collective to private land holding in Kenya
Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.
Keywords: common property; privatization; land tenure; property rights; development; poverty; east Africa; pastoralism; natural resource governance; civil society; livestock markets; NGO's; food security; demography; social change
Political agency and de-territorialization in East Africa: how institutions mediate displacement due to insecurity, conservation and land reform
Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.
Keywords: displacement; deterritorialization; East Africa; food insecurity; conflict; conservation; land reform; international organizations; discourse
Interpreting local violence in East Africa: power, identity, and land in three forms of pastoral conflict
Principal investigators: Galaty, John
Keywords: environment; Arid lands; development; pastoralism; land tenure; East Africa; conflict; culture; discourse; narrative theories
Culture, Difference, Inequality
Principal investigators: Galaty, John
Keywords: globalization; political identity; cultural identity; social and cultural change; gender relations; ethnic relations; migration; technoscience; development policies; indigenous rights
Traversing post-colonial frontiers: tenure, conflict and identity in the pastoral borderlands of Kenya
Principal investigators: Galaty, John
Keywords: East Africa; Kenya; rangelands; pastoralism; frontiers; tenure; privatization; conflict; warfare; identity
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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