1.
Interfacing pastoral movements and modern mobilities
Michele NORI
European University Institute

2.
Outline
Ian : theoretical framework
• Pastoral mobilities
• Interface with other disciplines
• TRAmed Project
Natasha: rethinking mobility on the ground

3.
Pastoral mobilities
looking for greener pastures
Different articulations of livestock, land and labor (H&h)
• nomadic,
• transhumant,
• agro-pastoral,
• semi-sedentary, etc…
Dycothomy with sedentary farming
A cultural remnant waiting to disappear

4.
Pastoral transhumance in the Sahel

5.
Pastoral mobilities
Shifting through societal transformations
• Inverse
• Boxed in
• Substitutional
• Partial
• Hired
• …

6.
Substitutional herding
• Absentee owners
• Emigrated pastoralists
• Hired shepherds
• Remittance

7.
My experience with the TRAMEd project
• Immigrant shepherds in EUMed pastoralism
Fiorino, a Romanian
shepherd active in
Triveneto (It).
TRAMed

8.
My experience with the TRAMEd project
a) History repeating
b)Shepherding as a skill for
intl. labour market
a) Inconsistency btw geo-
and social mobilities

9.
Conceptual and methodological challenges
similar constituency
• Mobile
• Crossing borders
• Split
• Networks
• Illegal
• Vulnerable
• Insecure
• Uncertain
• Grey
• Unofficial

10.
Facing the challenges of mobility
could we learn from Migration Studies ?
Mechanical Fluidity
Structure, Policies Agency
Origin and destination Navigating, translocations
Push and pull Networks
Shifting paradigms