Publications

Publications by OTuRN Affiliates

Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (Eds.). (2021). Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa (Vol. 23). Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GabbertLands

Girke, F. (2021): Establishing Ethos: The Rhetorical Work of Bondfriendship. In: Abbink, Jon and Shauna LaTosky (eds.), Rhetoric of Social Relations. Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation. Studies in Rhetoric and Culture Vol. 8. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 116-141. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AbbinkRhetoric

Girke, Felix und Dunga Nakuwa Batum (2021): Bittamo. Authority, Legitimacy, and Duty in Kara, Southern Ethiopia. In: Steinforth, Arne S. and Sabine Klocke-Daffa (eds.), Challenging Authorities, Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6_5, https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030769239#aboutBook

Hodbod, J., Stevenson, E.G.J., and Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta (2021). Resilience dynamics in a rapidly changing social-ecological system: shifting inequalities in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley. In: Lautze, J., McCartney, M., & Gibson, J. (Eds.). (2021). The Omo-Turkana Basin: Cooperation for Sustainable Water Management. Routledge.

Lokuruka, M. N. I. (2021). Improving Food and Nutrition Security in Kenya’s Arid Lands-A Mini Review. Asian Research Journal of Agriculture, 14(3), 45-63. https://doi.org/10.9734/arja/2021/v14i330129

Kennedy Mkutu, Marie Müller-Koné & Evelyne Atieno Owino (2021) Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 15:4, 707-727, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2021.1987700

Müller-Mahn, D., Mkutu, K. & Kioko, E. (2021). Megaprojects—mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya. Eur J Dev Res 33, 1069–1090.

Semplici, Greta. 2021. ‘Resilience and the mobility of identity: belonging and change among Turkana herders in northern Kenya’. Nomadic Peoples 25(2):226-252.

Stevenson, E. G. J., Buffavand, L., & Keestra, S. (2021). Thinking upstream: A critical examination of a cholera outbreak in Ethiopia. Forced Migration Review, 67, 14–16. https://www.fmreview.org/issue67

Tröger, S. (2021). Just Societal Transformation: Perspectives of Pastoralists in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia. In: W. Leal Filho et al (eds), African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, Springer.

Avery, S. (2020). Kenya's Rift Valley lakes have been this high before. But there's cause for concern. The Conversation.

Derbyshire, S. F. (2020). Remembering Turkana: Material Histories and Contemporary Livelihoods in North-Western Kenya. Routledge.

Fana Gebresenbet. (2020). Divergent Terms of Market Integration of Agro-Pastoralists: Marketisation and Distress Selling of Livestock in South Omo, Ethiopia APRA working paper 27, Future Agricultures Consortium.

Lind, J., Okenwa, D., & Scoones, I. (2020). The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa’s Pastoral Drylands. James Currey.

Mkutu, K., & Mdee, A. (2020). Conservancies, Conflict and Dispossession: The Winners and Losers of Oil Exploration in Turkana, Kenya. African Studies Review, 1-27. doi:10.1017/asr.2020.2

Semplici, G. (2020). ‘Clotting Nomadic Spaces: On Sedentism and Nomadism’. Nomadic Peoples, 24(1): 56–85.

Semplici, G (2020). ‘Resilience in Action. Local Practices and Development/Humanitarian Policies. A Review of Resilience in the Drylands of Turkana.’

Tebbs, E. J., Avery, S. T., & Chadwick, M. A. (2020). Satellite remote sensing reveals impacts from dam‐associated hydrological changes on chlorophyll‐a in the world's largest desert lake. River Research and Applications, 36(2), 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3574

Yu-Chun, K., M. Rogers, D. Bunnell, I. Cowx, S. Qian, O. Anneville, T. Beard Jr., A. Brinker, R. Britton, R. Chura-Cruz, N.J. Gownaris, J.R. Jackson, K. Kangur, J. Kolding, R. Chura-Cruz, A.J. Lynch, N. Mercado-Silva, R. Moncayo-Estrada, F.J. Njaya, I. Ostrovsky, L.G. Rudstam, A.L.E. Sandstrom, Y. Sato, H. Siguayro-Mamani, A. Thorpe, P.A.A. van Zwieten, P. Volta, Y. Wang, A. Weiperth, O.L.F. Wely, and J. Young (2020). Assessing Effects of Climate and Land-Use Change on Fish Catches Across Global Lakes. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14624-2

Gebresenbet, F. (2019). Transforming the Bodi from Pastoralists to Outgrowers: Land and State Capitalism in South Omo, Southwest Ethiopia. In A. O. Akinola & H. Wissink (Eds.), Trajectory of Land Reform in Post-Colonial African States: The Quest for Sustainable Development and Utilization (pp. 43–55). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78701-5_4

Hodbod, J., Stevenson, E. G. J., Akall, G., Akuja, T., Angelei, I., Bedasso, E. A., Buffavand, L., Derbyshire, S., Eulenberger, I., Gownaris, N., Kamski, B., Kurewa, A., Lokuruka, M., Mulugeta, M.F., Okenwa, D., Rodgers, C., Tebbs, E. (2019). Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin: A synthesis of current developments. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1139-3

Hodbod, J., Tebbs, E., Chan, K., & Sharma, S. (2019). Integrating Participatory Methods and Remote Sensing to Enhance Understanding of Ecosystem Service Dynamics Across Scales. Land, 8(9), 132. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/8/9/132

Kamski, B. (2019) Water, sugar, and growth: the practical effects of a ‘failed’ development intervention in the southwestern lowlands of Ethiopia, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13:4, 621-641, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2019.1669374

Mulugeta, M. F., Gebresenbet, F., Tariku, Y., & Nettir, E. (2019). Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia. IDS Bulletin, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2019.108

Pertaub, D.-P., & Stevenson, E. G. J. (2019). Pipe Dreams: Water, Development and the Work of The Imagination in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley. Nomadic Peoples, 23(2), 177–194. https://doi.org/info:doi/10.3197/np.2019.230202

Stevenson, E. G. J. (2019). Water access transformations: Metrics, infrastructure, and inequities. Water Security, 8, 100047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2019.100047

Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin: a synthesis of current developments

Published December 12, 2018

Avery, S. T., & Tebbs, E. J. (2018). Lake Turkana, major Omo River developments, associated hydrological cycle change and consequent lake physical and ecological change. Journal of Great Lakes research, 44(6), 1164-1182.

Clack, T., & Brittain, M. (Eds.). (2018). The River: Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Girke, F. (2018). The wheel of autonomy: Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Regassa, A., & Korf, B. (2018). Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12(4), 613-631. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17531055.2018.1517854

Stevenson, E. (2018). Plantation Development in the Turkana Basin: The Making of a New Desert?. Land, 7(1), 16.

Stevenson, E., & Buffavand, L. (2018). “Do Our Bodies Know Their Ways?” Villagization, Food Insecurity, and Ill-Being in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley. African Studies Review, 61(1), 109-133. doi:10.1017/asr.2017.100

Tagel Wondimu & Fana Gebresenbet (2018) Resourcing land, dynamics of exclusion and conflict in the Maji area, Ethiopia, Conflict, Security & Development, 18:6, 547-570. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2018.1532644

Agade, K. M. (2017). Oil and emerging conflict dynamics in the Ateker Cluster: the case of Turkana, Kenya. Nomadic Peoples, 21(1), 34-62.

Agade, K. M., & Lokwang, A. E. (2017). New Challenges for African Potentials in Mediating Conflicts: The Case of Turkana, Northwestern Kenya. African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality: Exploring Local Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions, 73-106.

Gownaris, N. J., Pikitch, E. K., Aller, J. Y., Kaufman, L. S., Kolding, J., Lwiza, K. M., ... & Rountos, K. J. (2017). Fisheries and water level fluctuations in the world's largest desert lake. Ecohydrology, 10(1), e1769.

Buffavand, L. (2016). ‘The land does not like them’: contesting dispossession in cosmological terms in Mela, south-west Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 10(3), 476-493. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2016.1266194

Kamski, B. (2016). The Kuraz Sugar Development Project (KSDP) in Ethiopia: between ‘sweet visions’ and mounting challenges. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 10(3), 568-580.

Other Relevant Publications

OTuRN affiliates quoted in Guardian article: Reflecting on the publication of the Oakland Institute report 'How They Tricked Us: Living with the Gibe II I dam and sugarcane plantations in southwest Ethiopia', multiple OTuRN affiliates were cited in a Guardian article on June 13th, 2019.

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Flawed development processes in African governments and its consequences on human rights for indigenous people. Examining major river basin development in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan.

Impacts of dam development on native fish diversity.

Extractive activities in the Horn of Africa and the regional potential and challenges of these activities.

How large-scale development projects in Kenya and Ethiopia are posing risks to the population rather than the intended benefit.

An award winning Kenyan production on the challenges facing Lake Turkana, featuring OTuRN affiliate Dr. Sean Avery. Originally screened as part of Nation TV’s Nature series, the full film is now accessible online: