Just like two years ago, Troy co-organized the stimulating 7th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference at the University of Oxford. Hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment on 20-21 March 2025, this meeting brought together Mongolian camel pastoralists, students, practitioners, activists, policy-makers, and scholars of all things deserts.
In a special session entitled “Desert Wisdom and Navigation across Continents and Generations”, religious leaders from northern Kenya (Gabbra), Mongolia and Arizona (US) shared their perspectives on indigenous knowledge, resilience and the importance for sustainability of spiritual connections to the land.
Joana presented a co-authored paper on the Pentecostal dimensions of land privatization in Kenya Maasailand in the “Anthropology and Political Economy of Pastoralism” session, with Angela, Richard, Stanley and Lenaai.