scholarly journals Review of Land, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring East Africa’s Pastoral Drylands. Edited by Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa & Ian Scoones. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer, 2020.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Galaty
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Agrarian Change ◽  
London School ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
European Research ◽  
European Research Council ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
London School Of Economics

Book detailsEdited by Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa & Ian ScoonesLand, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring East Africa’s Pastoral Drylands.Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer, 2020.224 pages, ISBN 978-1-84701-252-4 (James Currey hardback) and ISBN 978-1-84701-249-4 (James Currey paper)Jeremy Lind, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Co-editor of “Pastoralism and Development in Africa” (2013)Doris Okenwa, Ph.D student in Anthropology, London School of Economics. Ph.D research on oil discoveries in Turkana County, Kenya.Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Co-Director of ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre, and leader of the European Research council project PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience). Author of “Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change”.

scholarly journals Gypsy Policy and Roma Activism: From the Interwar Period to Current Policies and Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Marushiakova ◽  
Vesselin Popov
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
European Research ◽  
European Research Council ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Individual

The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the birth of the Roma civic emancipation movement and impacted Roma communities’ living strategies and visions about their future, worldwide. The aspiration of this thematic issue is to present the main dimensions of the processes of Roma civic emancipation and to outline the role of the Roma as active participants in the historical processes occurring in the studied region and as the creators of their own history. The editorial offers clarifications on the terminology and methodology employed in the articles included in this issue and their spatial and chronological parameters while also briefly introducing the individual authored studies of this issue.

Raymond William Firth, 1901–2002

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. R. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
London School ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Second World

Raymond Firth was an anthropologist, working chiefly in the Pacific, Malaysia and London, in the fields of economics, religion and kinship. Firth held permanent teaching posts at Sydney (1930–2) and at the London School of Economics (1932–40, 1944–68). During the Second World War he served in Naval Intelligence; he became secretary of the Colonial Social Science Research Council in 1944–5, and was a founding member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth in 1946. Firth was a patient and generous teacher whose many graduate students remained loyal throughout their lives; he was an able and purposeful administrator of great integrity: no one alive can remember him doing a mean or malicious or self-interested act. In anthropology he was resolutely humane and empirical: his aim was always to convey the variety and complexity of people's experience, and to show how his theory was based on that understanding.

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