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25-27 Nov 2021 Paris (France)
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Thematic session 4Session 4: What future for nomads?
Defining nomadism, designating nomads, leads explicitly or implicitly to defining or evoking the territory on which this way of life is practiced and the human populations evolve. And this can have major consequences for the future of nomadic populations. In what way are nomadic practices threatened in the contemporary world (state borders = shrinking of nomadic territories, forced sedentarization, development of agriculture or other activities and increase of antagonisms and exactions between nomads and sedentary people, global warming and impoverishment of the rangelands...). Is the nomadic way of life compatible with our westernized and state-run societies? Or, on the contrary, can the adoption of motorized means of travel and modern communication (cell phones) contribute to the maintenance of nomadism? Are new forms of nomadism (such as the de-territorialization of declassed populations, as illustrated by the film Nomadland), and new figures of the nomad (travellers, backpackers), becoming more widespread? |
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