Jennifer Keating1; 1 University College Dublin, Ireland
Discussion
By the late nineteenth century, southern Central Asia had become one of many zones of encounter between imperial and/or settled conceptions of ‘local’ land use and attendant mobility patterns, and pastoral traditions of transhumance which involved regularized vertical and horizontal migration across landscapes that were tens or hundreds of kilometres apart. This paper centres the actions and movements of Central Asian pastoral communities, imperial officials and settled migrant farmers in the province of Semirech’e from the 1870s onwards as a means of reflecting on scalar conflict and its socio-environmental implications.
