Working Group Resources
Grants
Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany. “Mobilities and Socialities: COVID-19 in the Drylands of Africa and Beyond” (Angela Kronenburg García and Joana Roque de Pinho, with Andrea Behrends, Cyrus Samimi and the members of the Covid-19 in African, Asian and North American Drylands Working Group). https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Research/1research-sections/mobilities/Covid-19/index.html
CONVERGE Quick Response Grant, US National Science Foundation and CONVERGE; Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. “Imagining and Building post-Covid-19 futures: Tourism, conservation and dryland communities in Africa” (Mara Goldman, with Joana Roque de Pinho, Angela Kronenburg García, Eduard Gargallo and Jona Heita).
CUPC Faculty Affiliate Seed Grant, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. “Covid-19, Tourism, and Conservation in Dryland Africa: Changing Environments and Populations” (Mara Goldman, with Joana Roque de Pinho, Angela Kronenburg García, Eduard Gargallo and Jona Heita).
The Research & Public Policy Partnership Scheme, a partnership between the University of Oxford and the UK Civil Service Policy Profession (2009-RPPPS-553). “Designing COVID-19 policy for Mongolian pastoralist communities” (Troy Sternberg, with Batbuyan Batjav and Bolor-Erdene Battsengel).
Publications
Gargallo, E. and Heita, J. (2022) COVID-19, conservation and tourism in Namibia’s conservancies: socioeconomic and land-use impacts. In Musavengane, R. and Leonard, L. (eds.), Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa: Contemporary Issues and Approaches, pp: 150-164. Abingdon: Routledge.
Roque de Pinho, J., A. Kronenburg García, N. Hashimshony-Yaffe, T. Sternberg, A. Pase, S. ole Neboo, D. Seenoi, D. Mayiani, L. ole Mowuo, M. ole Mowuo, S. Wario, B. Batjav, B. Battsengel and E. Sainbayar (2023) Pastoralists under Covid-19 lockdown: Collaborative research on impacts and responses in Kenyan and Mongolian drylands. In: A. Kronenburg García, T. Haller, H. van Dijk, C. Samimi and J. Warner (eds.), Drylands Facing Change: Interventions, Investments and Identities, pp: 215–235. Abingdon: Routledge. DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9781003174486-16.
Goldman, M., Roque de Pinho, J., Kronenburg García, A., Gargallo, E., and Heita, J. (2022) Community-Based Conservation in the Drylands of East and Southern Africa During COVID-19. Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Grant Report Series, 341. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder (Peer-reviewed). Available at: https://hazards.colorado.edu/quick-response-report/community-based-conservation-in-the-drylands-of-east-and-southern-africa-during-covid-19
Sternberg, T., Batjav, B., Battsengel, B. and Sainbayar, E. 2021. Research Report: COVID-19 resilience in Mongolian pastoralist communities. Nomadic Peoples 25: 141–147. doi: 10.3197/np.2021.250117
Tallio, V. (2021). Uganda’s Social Policy Response to Covid-19: Rudimentary Relief Measures. (CRC 1342 Covid-19 Social Policy Response Series, 26). Bremen: Universität Bremen, SFB 1342 Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik / CRC 1342 Global Dynamics of Social Policy. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-73166-8
Blogs
Sternberg, T., Roque de Pinho, J. and Kronenburg García, A. 2021. Pastoralist-to-Pastoralist discussion on Covid-19, featuring pastoralists from Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia & Tanzania, International Virtual Forum. The Commission on Nomadic Peoples. April 19, 2021. https://www.waunet.org/iuaes/comm/cnp/blog/pastoralist-to-pastoralist-international-virtual-form-on-covid-19-featuring-pastoralists-from-kenya-kyrgyzstan-mongolia-tanzania/
Sternberg, Troy. 2021. Mongolian pastoralists face Covid-19 with traditional calm. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/04/29/mongolian-pastoralists-face-covid-19-with-traditional-calm/
Completed Theses
Tas Kronenburg, Zaira. 2022. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Achievement of the Management Goals of the Maputo National Park, Mozambique. Leiden University College, The Hague, The Netherlands
Meetings
Covid-19 in Drylands Conference. AA Lodge, Maasai Mara, Narok County, Kenya. October 10-13th, 2022. Funded by the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Pastoralist to Pastoralist International Virtual Forum on Covid-19. April 19, 2021.
Organized by Troy Sternberg, with Joana Roque de Pinho and Angela Kronenburg García.
With co-researchers Stanley ole Neboo and Debra seenoi (Kenya), Mamus (Tanzania), Batbuyan (Mongolia), Mongolian co-researchers and Kyrgyz pastoralists.
https://www.waunet.org/iuaes/comm/cnp/blog/pastoralist-to-pastoralist-international-virtual-form-on-covid-19-featuring-pastoralists-from-kenya-kyrgyzstan-mongolia-tanzania/
Conference Panels
African Studies Association Annual Meeting 2020. November 2020.
Panel: Drylands facing Covid-19: Collaborative research on gendered impacts, electoral politics and local (mis)understandings of the pandemic in dryland Eastern Africa.
Convened by Virginie Tallio.
Chair: Angela Kronenburg García; Discussant: Han van Dijk.
Speakers: Joana Roque de Pinho, Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe & Mara Goldman
The 5th Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference. 1-2 July 2021
Organized by Troy Sternberg.
Presenter: Joana Roque de Pinho, with presentation in roundtable on Covid-19: “A perfect (good) storm for pastoralists: grass, viruses, and lockdown measures in the Maasai Mara, Kenya”.
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference. 25-29 October 2021.
Panel on Covid-19 and Conservation, convened and chaired by Eduard Gargallo.
Discussant: Mara J. Goldman
Presenters:
Joana Roque de Pinho, Stanley ole Neboo and Debra Seenoi: “A perfect (good) storm for pastoralists: grass, viruses, and lockdown measures in the Maasai Mara, Kenya”.
Jona Heita and Eduard Gargallo: “Socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on communal conservancies in Namibia”
The 47th General Assembly of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SSAS). University of Bern, 26 November 2021.
Panel and Roundtable “Uncertain Perspectives and Changing Strategies towards a Pandemic: The Covid‐19 Crisis in Tales of the Everyday in Africa”. Speakers: Eduard Gargallo; Carla Braga.
Presentation by Eduard Gargallo, Jona Heita & Steve Kaisuma: “The Impact of Covid-19 on Conservation and Tourism in Namibia’s Conservancies”.
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