Vol. 5 · No. 2 · 2001 · pp. 6-20 (15)
Environment, Property Resources and the State:An Introduction
Lioba Lenhart and Michael J. Casimir
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This is the third time in one decade that Nomadic Peoples is publishing a special issue on the relationship between nomads and the state. In 1990, Mohamed Salih guest-edited the first such issue ('Perspectives on Pastoralists and the African States') and six years later, Georg Klute guest-edited the issue 'Nomads and the State'. Apparently, the topic elicits enough interest among scholars of nomadism to warrant a third issue. However, the present issue differs from its predecessors in some respects. The cases referred to in the 1990 and 1996 issues were, with two exceptions, restricted to the African context, dealt exclusively with pastoralists, and had a more general focus on the nomad-state relationship.