TY - JOUR

T1 - Transhumance revisited

T2 - on mobility and process between ethnography and history

AU - Palladino, Paolo Salvatore Andrea

PY - 2018/6/1

Y1 - 2018/6/1

N2 - This paper advances the argument that transhumance, the seasonal movement of pastoral people and their livestock, is a useful site for critical reflection on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Thousand Plateaus (1988) and its importance to the understanding of mobility and process. It does so by bringing into dialogue ethnographic and historical perspectives on the resonance between transhumance and Deleuzian configurations of both nomadism and relations between human and non-human animals. It concludes that adjacent juxtaposition and syncretic ordering of diversity, rather than any ontological reconstruction, may be key to a more constructive engagement with the complexities of contemporary existence.

AB - This paper advances the argument that transhumance, the seasonal movement of pastoral people and their livestock, is a useful site for critical reflection on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Thousand Plateaus (1988) and its importance to the understanding of mobility and process. It does so by bringing into dialogue ethnographic and historical perspectives on the resonance between transhumance and Deleuzian configurations of both nomadism and relations between human and non-human animals. It concludes that adjacent juxtaposition and syncretic ordering of diversity, rather than any ontological reconstruction, may be key to a more constructive engagement with the complexities of contemporary existence.

U2 - 10.1111/johs.12161

DO - 10.1111/johs.12161

M3 - Journal article

VL - 31

SP - 119

EP - 133

JO - Journal of Historical Sociology

JF - Journal of Historical Sociology

SN - 0952-1909

IS - 2

ER -