NP Vol.30 (1), March 2026

Collective Rights to Land and Resources: An Institutionalist Perspective on Pastoralism in Africa

PREFACE
Preface to the Special Issue: Collective Rights to Land and Resources: an Institutionalist Perspective on Pastoralism in Africa Giordano Marmone

INTRODUCTION
Overview: Institutional Pluralism and Innovation in African Pastoralist Struggles over Collective Land Rights John G. Galaty

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Water for Oil. Fluid Dispossessions and Institutional Loopholes in Turkana’s Extractive Areas Elisabeth Schubiger

Collective Land Rights Reconsidered: Institutional Innovations from Tanzania Kelly Askew, Rie Odgaard

Partial Protections: Customary Law and the Governance of Moroccan Collective Lands Amelia Burke

Erasing the Zebu: Anti-Nomadic Narratives, Discursive Resistance and the Moral Economy of Mobility in Northern Kenya Giordano Marmone, Alfred Lenaola

Protection of Pastoralists’ Collective Land Rights in Tanzania: A Review of Institutional Hurdles Elifuraha Laltaika

OPINION
The Chadian Pastoral Code: Between Political Will and Power Plays Oussouby Touré

FIELD NOTE
Fieldnote from Bayanhongor, July 2025 Gantulga Munkherdene, Ariell Ahearn

BOOK REVIEWS
Thomas White, China’s Camel Country. Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier Joseph Bristley

Hermann Kreutzmann, Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond: Human Geography and Geopolitics. Yonten Nyima

Indrani Sigamany, Nomadic Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Self-Determination, Land Rights and Gender Justice in India Marcus Colchester

Benedetto Meloni and Francesca Uleri (eds), Pastoralismo Tra Continuità E Innovazione. Evidenze Dal Caso Sardegna [Pastoralism between Continuity and Innovation. Evidence from the Sardinian Case] Ester Cois