ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in this book. The book reveals the embedded, embodied and constitutive market-livelihood interdependencies of exchange relations and the exposure and opening of pastoralism and pastoral economies to globalizing and regionalizing processes. The enquiry of the book into the economic spaces of pastoralism and pastoral economies tables once again, the urgency of taking seriously knowledge approaches that assemble situated framings that are hospitable to a wider range of inhabiting people, animals, plants and things. It shows pastoralism and pastoral economies as very relevant and meaningful ways of making a living in the twenty-first century. Mahmoud's study of northern Kenyan livestock marketing explores seller-seller and buyer-seller relationships as part of linking herders and bush traders in southern Somalia to urban-based livestock traders and livestock transporters. The book concludes with some reflections about how we might improve our capacities and capabilities to produce different knowledge systems.
