Shinya Konaka is Professor, School of International Relations, and Dean, Graduate
School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka. He has been
conducting field research among Maa-speaking pastoralists, mainly the Samburu,
since 1992. He was awarded the 13th Okita Prize in International Development,
the 8th Japan Consortium for Area Studies Award for Prominent Scholar, and the
JASID Special Award, 2018. He is the author of Localization of Humanitarian
Assistance Frameworks for East African Pastoralists, African Study Monographs.
Supplementary Issue, 53 (coedited with Sun Xiaogang, 2017) and
‘Livestock as interface: The case of the Samburu in Kenya’ in Anthropology of
Things (TransPacific Press 2018).
School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka. He has been
conducting field research among Maa-speaking pastoralists, mainly the Samburu,
since 1992. He was awarded the 13th Okita Prize in International Development,
the 8th Japan Consortium for Area Studies Award for Prominent Scholar, and the
JASID Special Award, 2018. He is the author of Localization of Humanitarian
Assistance Frameworks for East African Pastoralists, African Study Monographs.
Supplementary Issue, 53 (coedited with Sun Xiaogang, 2017) and
‘Livestock as interface: The case of the Samburu in Kenya’ in Anthropology of
Things (TransPacific Press 2018).
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