Social Risk-Management Strategies in Pastoral Systems: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Moritz, Mark; Giblin, Julia; Ciccone, Miranda; Davis, Andrea M.; Fuhrman, Jesse; Kimiaie, Masoumeh; Madzsar, Stefanie; Olson, Kyle; Senn, Matthew

doi:10.1177/1069397111402464

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“…Studies that fall into this category focus on identifying sufficient conditions that explain a specific management phenomenon. Commonly, these studies confirm (Kalleberg & Vaisey, 2005), complement (Vis et al, 2007) or provide more nuances to the existing knowledge (e.g., Moritz et al, 2011;Ordanini & Maglio, 2009). Other studies seek to confirm existing knowledge (Schneider et al, 2010).…”

Section: Investigation Of New Hypotheses/propositions Deriving From Ementioning

confidence: 86%

On the use of qualitative comparative analysis in management

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Adegbite

Omari

et al. 2016

Journal of Business Research

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Section: Investigation Of New Hypotheses/propositions Deriving From Ementioning

confidence: 86%

On the use of qualitative comparative analysis in management

Kan

Adegbite

Omari

et al. 2016

Journal of Business Research

131

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“…These diverse, temporary occupations may best be understood as tactics in a 'risk minimisation' strategy enabling the nomads to persist in a risky, hazard-prone environment (e.g. Moritz et al 2011). Human life in this wilderness requires a rich knowledge of places.…”

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Bedouin Place Names in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Hobbs¹

2014

Nomadic Peoples

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This paper analyses Maʿaza Bedouin toponymy in the northern half of Egypt's Eastern Desert. Maʿaza people started naming places as they began immigrating from northwest Arabia about 250 years ago. The main place objects are valleys, mountains, water sources, trees and tracks. These are named after individuals and groups, historic events, perennial plants, animals and their behaviour, material culture and environmental perceptions. Place naming helps assert the people's claim to this land. The named cultural landscape is a kind of autobiography that continues to be written and is perpetuated only orally. For nomadic pastoralists, place names help to reduce risk in a challenging environment and to conserve natural resources, especially woody trees that sustain livestock during drought. Sedentarisation is threatening this rich body of oral tradition.

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“…Many work for wages or otherwise supplement their pastoral incomes. Their multipronged efforts reveal livelihoods not limited to pastoralism; they practice what anthropologists of nomadism describe as "multi-resource nomadism" based on "risk minimization" (Dyson-Hudson 1972;Salzman 1972;Moritz et al 2011). Movement between pastures following rainfall is a common pattern of pastoral nomadism within much of the study area, as is dependence on browse from perennial tree resources.…”

Section: Environment and Peoplementioning

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Acacia trees on the cultural landscapes of the Red Sea Hills

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This paper examines interactions between five pastoral nomadic culture groups of the Egyptian and Sudanese Red Sea Hills and the acacia trees Acacia tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne subsp. tortilis and subsp. raddiana growing in their arid environments. A. tortilis is described as a keystone species both ecologically and culturally: the trees play such critical roles in ecosystems and social groups that their removal would greatly impact both systems. Interviews in the field with the Semitic, Arabic-speaking Ma'aza and Ababda, and the Cushitic, Beja, Bidhaawyeet-speaking Bishaari, Amar Ar and Hadandawa nomads probed the cultural and ecological contexts of acacias in pastoral nomadism, revealing deep insight into traditional ecological knowledge and traditional perceptions and uses of the trees. The paper describes how this knowledge guides pastoral decision-making, with acacias as a particularly critical component of the pastoral livelihood in both normal and stressful circumstances. A. tortilis is the most important reliable vegetation resource for nomads while also providing fuel and other useful products, ecosystem services for people and animals, and increased biodiversity by providing diverse microhabitats and resources for other species. We describe aspects of kinship, territorial organization, spiritual beliefs and tribal law underlying the significance of trees on the cultural landscape. We discuss environmental and economic challenges to human/tree relationships and to pastoral livelihoods. We challenge views of nomads as agents of ecological destruction, and propose maintenance and restoration of traditional pastoralism as viable alternatives in dryland development.

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Social Risk-Management Strategies in Pastoral Systems: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Cited by 22 publications

References 40 publications

On the use of qualitative comparative analysis in management

On the use of qualitative comparative analysis in management

Bedouin Place Names in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

Acacia trees on the cultural landscapes of the Red Sea Hills

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