{"id":6225,"date":"2024-11-24T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:21:37","slug":"kenyan-co-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/2024\/11\/24\/kenyan-co-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan co-researchers take center stage at the MYNA symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stanley ole Neboo, Lenaai ole Mowuo and Richard ole Supeet. Photo: Angela Kronenburg Garc\u00eda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A highlight of the MYNA symposium in Lisbon was the participation and invaluable contributions of our dynamic co-researchers from Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanley ole Neboo, Lenaai ole Mowuo, and Richard ole Supeet are Maasai pastoralists from the Maasai Mara, the Loita Hills in Narok County, and Loitokitok in Kajiado County. Lenaai and Richard are also farmers and have started working with Angela and Joana during their respective PhD field research. The three of them are seasoned field researchers who have collaborated on numerous research projects over the past decades. For instance, Stanley and Lenaai contributed significantly as researchers to the COVID-19 in Drylands Working Group<\/strong><\/a>, collecting data and sharing firsthand experiences of the pandemic and analytical insights (see also this project<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2022, when post-COVID-19 travel resumed, Joana and Angela have conducted ethnographic fieldwork for MYNA Project in both Narok and Kajiado counties alongside Lenaai, Stanley, and Richard. During these trips, they stayed with their families and shared their daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the MYNA symposium, Richard, Stanley, and Lenaai showcased East African pastoral ecological knowledge and responses to environmental challenges. They also shared insights on how their personal journeys as Christians\u2014Pentecostal and Catholic\u2014intersect with broader cultural and environmental changes, and changes to pastoralism. Each of them is a respected leader in his church and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond co-authoring the papers presented by Angela and Joana, our three co-researchers offered commentary on contemporary religious transformations in Maasai society. They discussed the short documentary Oreteti: Connecting Humans to God<\/strong><\/a> by Lorenzo d’Angelo, participated in the Pastoralists and Religion: Real Life<\/em> session alongside Batbuyan Batjav from Mongolia, and joined an Open Space conversation on sacred places in nature in the gardens of the Pal\u00e1cio Pimenta\/Museu de Lisboa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The days following the symposium were busy for Stanley, Richard and Lenaai: they were invited speakers at a special round table on Pastoralism in Kenya, Mongolia and Portugal at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia; they communed with Portuguese cattle in Alentejo farms; and jet-skied in Nazar\u00e9, the big wave surfing capital of the world, with\u00a0Team Red Herrings<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t

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Stanley ole Neboo, Lenaai ole Mowuo and Richard ole Supeet. Photo: Angela Kronenburg Garc\u00eda A highlight of the MYNA symposium in Lisbon was the participation and invaluable contributions of our dynamic co-researchers from Kenya. Stanley ole Neboo, Lenaai ole Mowuo, and Richard ole Supeet are Maasai pastoralists from the Maasai Mara, the Loita Hills in… Ler mais »Kenyan co-researchers take center stage at the MYNA symposium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en00"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myna-project.cei.iscte-iul.pt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}