Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan

An Ecological Approach for Political Cooperation

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

AvDaniel Akech Thiong

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In this important, multidisciplinary, open access study, Daniel Akech Thiong shows that the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict in Africa reach farther, both in time and space, than we realize.Focusing on the climate-shock-induced migrations of the Dinka people of South Sudan's Jonglei state into the Equatoria region, Thiong investigates the long-term ecological roots of conflicts among pastoralists, or between pastoralists and agriculturalists, over access shrinking waterholes and grazing zones. In so doing, he not only offers important correctives to prevalent, short-term narratives around individual political conflicts—narratives that provide little fodder for any long-term solutions--but also sheds new light on the role of governance, both national and local, in creating or mitigating the conflicts. Thiong in fact reveals examples of unusual cooperation between diverse ethnic groups amidst climate-change-induced disasters, and these findings shed new light on similar developments elsewhere in Africa, all of which offers new lessons for those who wish to mitigate future clashes related to climate-shock-induced displacement and encourage social stability. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-18
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350439931

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Daniel Akech Thiong was born in southern Sudan (now South Sudan) and spent his early life in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. He holds a PhD in mathematical analysis from Claremont Graduate University in California. He is a South Sudan Senior Analyst at the International Crisis Group. Thiong's writing has appeared in the Oxford Journal of African Affairs, openDemocracy, and African Arguments. Zed Books published his previous book, The Politics of Fear in South Sudan, in 2021.

Daniel Akech Thiong’s book offers an immersive and hugely valuable account of multilayered experiences of flooding, drought, disease, migration and conflict in South Sudan’s precarious Sudd landscape - an ecosystem on the global “frontline of climate change”. The book directs our attention away from the role of the country’s political and military elites in instigating conflict (who are the focus in the majority of contemporary analyses on South Sudan’s wars), towards the perspectives of the affected pastoralist communities themselves, offering new depth and dimensions to our understanding of why displacement and conflict have been so prevalent in this landscape.