This week the PASTRES programme shares two newly published books: The Rangelands: Collected Photography from the PASTRES Research Programme by Roopa Gogineni and Photovoice with Pastoralists: A Practical Guidebook by Shibaji Bose.
Photography, in academia and beyond, has a chequered past. In the hands of elites, cameras were long treated as objective tools of documentation. Photography’s early use from war reporting to anthropological research rendered complex worlds in two dimensions. Over time, visual narratives converged and cemented.
This article is from PASTRES, a research programme that aims to learn from pastoralists about responding to uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global challenges. PASTRES is co-hosted by IDS.
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