Saving sheep : On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming
- Title
- Saving sheep : On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming
- Publication type
- Article
- Author(s)
- Schaumann, Eleanor
- Year
- 2024
- Abstract
- The Namibian Swakara industry, a type of sheep farming focused on the production of lamb pelts for the fashion industry, currently faces a crisis situation. Formerly one of the most important export products from Namibia, a combination of drought, falling pelt prices and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic now threaten the survival of Swakara, the Namibian Karakul. The current crisis is articulated in extinction narratives. The potential end of Swakara farming as a way of life and a set of knowledge practices is narratively interwoven with the potential disappearance of Swakara from the Namibian landscape. Extinction narratives in the context of Swakara farming in Namibia blur the lines of human and nonhuman ways of life and their disappearance.
- Language
- English
- Journal
- Cambridge Prisms : Extinction
- volume
- 2
- Page start
- 0
- Source ID (eref-/epub-)
- eref-92399
- Repository URL
- https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/92399/
- ISSN
- 2755-0958
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
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