Table of Contents

Introduction: Resilience and collapse: Histories, ecologies, conflicts and identities in the Baringo-Bogoria basin, Kenya Adaptive cycles in the savannah: pastoral specialization and diversification in northern Kenya The beginning of time? Evidence for catastrophic drought in Baringo in the early nineteenth century Landscape, time and cultural resilience: a brief history of agriculture in Pokot and Marakwet, Kenya Changes in landscape vegetation, forage plant composition and herding structure in the pastoralist livelihoods of East Pokot, Kenya Land use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo Agricultural change at the margins: adaptation and intensification in a Kenyan dryland Comparative nutritional indicators as markers of resilience: the impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoral communities of northern Kenya 'Dust people’: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape A victory in theory, a loss in practice: struggles for political representation in the Lake Baringo-Bogoria Basin, Kenya What’s in a name? The politics of identity in the Cherangany Hills, Kenya, Gabrielle Lynch

About the Author

David M Anderson is Professor of African History in the Global History and Culture Centre, at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on history and politics in Eastern Africa, including Eroding the Commons (2002), The Khat Controversy (2007), Histories of the Hanged (2005) and The Routledge Handbook of African Politics (ed. 2013).

Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne, Germany. His recent books include African Pastoralism: Past, Present and Future (2013), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on African Landscapes (2009) and Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment (2006). He is currently researching the political ecology of conversation in Southern Africa and land use changes in dryland East Africa.