Pastoral Resilience and Transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)

INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Pastoral Resilience in a Changing World in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Wu Ning, Srijana Joshi, Yi Shaoliang

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Pastoralism in Shimshal: Adapting Old Practices to Meet New Challenges Hermann Josef Kreutzmann

Yak Pastoralism in Transition: Changes and Challenges in Yak-Rearing Practices in Lhonak Valley, Sikkim Nirjala Rai, Uttam Lal

Yak Herding as a Livelihood Teetering on the Brink of Extinction: A Case Study from Ura Village in Bhutan Jigme Wangdi

Changing Mountain Pastoralism and Its Impacts in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: The Case of Kushum, Pakistan Zahir Ahmad, Julio C. Postigo, Fazlur-Rahman, Kamal Hussain, Farhana Altaf

Safeguarding Mountain Pastoralism through an Alternative Insurance Mechanism Susmita Satyal, Rajesh K. Rai, Srijana Joshi, Tashi Dorji, Basant Pant

The Transformation of Maldarai (Pastoralist Livelihood) in Yarkhun Valley, Chitral, Pakistan: Impacts of Neoliberalism, School Education and Climate Change Abdul Wahid Khan

Behavioural Biology of Kashmir Markhor for Sustainable Rangeland Management in the Hindu Kush Region Shah Fahad Ali Khan, Muhammad Khisroon

PERSPECTIVE
Pastoralism and the State: The Changing Profile of Pastoralism in India Today Anita Sharma

BOOK REVIEWS
Giannandrea Mencini, Pascoli di carta. Le mani sulla montagna Luca Battaglini

Anthony Sattin, Nomads: the Wanderers Who Shaped Our World Freya Hope

EDITORIAL
Editorial Saverio Krätli

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Customary Land Governance and Conflict Resolution among the Debne and Weima Afar Clans, Northeast Ethiopia Dejene Debsu

SPECIAL SECTION: MOUNTAIN PASTORALISM, MOBILITY AND ENVIRONMENT IN MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE, edited by Julio Sa Rego and Athanasios Ragkos
Introduction to Special Section Júlio Sá Rêgo, Athanasios Ragkos

Special Section – Research Articles
Beyond the ‘Wild Shepherd’: How Global Capitalism Has Reshaped Pastoralism. Suggestions from a Mediterranean Island Domenica Farinella

The Decline and Revitalisation of Transhumance in the Valles Occidentales of Spain’s Aragonese Pyrenees María E. Fernández-Giménez

A Classification of Pastoralism in Spain: Understanding the past to Address Present Challenges Rubén Serrano-Zulueta, Antonio Gómez-Sal, Ferrán Pauné, Elena Velado-Alonso, Jesús Garzón, Agustín Del Prado, Pedro María Herrera, Julio Majadas, Francesca Pasetti, Esther Prada-Llorente, Pablo Manzano

Special Section – Opinion Piece
The Shepherd Community of the Albanian Alps: Perspective on the Importance of Preserving Transhumance Practices Martine Wolff

BOOK REVIEWS
Kobi Peled, Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin Dawn Chatty, Linda Pappagallo

I. Scoones (Ed.), Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development. Katherine Homewood

Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, Hoofprints on the Land: How Traditional Herding and Grazing Can Restore the Soil and Bring Animal Agriculture Back in Balance with the Earth Cory Rodgers

EDITORIAL
Editorial Saverio Krätli

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Human Mediation between Mother Animals and Their Young in Livestock Reproduction – a Case Study on Lamb Bags Haiyan Bao, Jiligen Fu, Takahiro Ozaki, Zhenzhen Liu, Saqiri 

Pastoralist Mobility along the Sudanese Ethiopian Borderland: Towards Cooperative Land Management Hussein M. Sulieman, Adam Babekir, Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed

Gender-Differentiated Roles and Perceptions on Climate Variability among Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Communities in Marsabit, Kenya Armara Macimilliam Galwab, Oscar K. Koech, Oliver V. Wasonga, Godfrey Kironchih

Bedouin Poetry as an Art of Memory. The Dialogue between the Present and the past in the Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin Kobi Peled

Pastoralists, Camels and State-Making: The Banu Sakhr and Glubb Pasha in Early Twentieth-Century Jordan Patrick Hegarty Morrish

REPORT
Herder–Scientist Gathering and Herder Festival in Hungary Margareta Amy Lelea, Zsolt Molnár, Bálint Sándor, Ann Waters-Bayer, Sina Maghami Nick, Sacha Mouzin, Martin Nadarzinski, Elena Galán, Ibolya Sáfiánné

IN MEMORIAM
Carolyn Kornfeld Lesorogol (1965–2023) – In Memoriam Bilinda Straight

BOOK REVIEWS
Carolyn K. Lesorogol, Conservation and Community in Kenya: Milking the Elephant Lucas Elius Yamat, Pablo Manzano

Letizia Bindi (Ed.), Grazing Communities. Pastoralism in the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions Bernard Hubert

Anna Odland Portisch, A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia Raphael Blancher

Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John G. Galaty and Günther Schlee, Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa Cory Rodgers

Sedentist Biases in Law, Policy and Practice 

EDITORIAL
Sedentism as Doxa: Biases against Mobile Peoples in Law, Policy and Practice Greta Semplici, Cory Rodgers

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Seeing Cattle like a State: Sedentist Assumptions of the Namibian Livestock Identification and Traceability System Max Mauerman, Venomukona Tjiseua, Dylan W. Groves

The Bureaucratic Trap: Registered Residence and Sedentist Bias in Italian Social Cohesion Policies for Roma and Sinti Stefania Pontrandolfo, Marco Solimene

Sedentist Epidemiology: COVID-19 Policies and Pastoral Mobility in Turkana County, Kenya Cory Rodgers, Greta Semplici

Schooled Tuaregs’ Engagement with Mobile Pastoralism in the Agadez Region (Niger): Avoidable Sedentism and Alternative Forms of Cooperation Sarah Lunaček

Legal Ambiguity and Land Dispossession: Multi-Scale Conflicting Views on Territorial Authority at the Herlen Bayan-Ulaan State Reserve Pasture Area, Mongolia. Sandagsuren Undargaa

No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya Rahma Hassan, Karuti Kanyinga, Iben Nathan

COMMENTARY
Concluding Commentary Maryam Niamir-Fuller

BOOK REVIEWS
Antonio Allegretti, Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming in the Local-Global Interface John G. Galaty