Mobility, multilocality and translocal development: changing livelihoods in the Karakoram
The people of the Karakoram have broadened the basis of their livelihoods over the last two to three generations by diversifying their income sources and activities along sectoral and spatial lines. Formal education, off-farm income generation and professional employment in the cities complement an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/69/259/2014/gh-69-259-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | The people of the Karakoram have broadened the basis of their livelihoods
over the last two to three generations by diversifying their income sources and
activities along sectoral and spatial lines. Formal education, off-farm
income generation and professional employment in the cities complement and
partly substitute local agricultural activities. Intensifying processes of
mobility and migration have created translocal rural–urban livelihoods,
straddling between various and often geographically distant places. Social
ties in multilocal configurations of households, families and communities
have established highly effective local-to-local connections, which directly
interlink processes of change and development in different locations. This
article traces in a historical analysis the specific interrelations of
mobility dynamics, livelihood change and socio-economic development for the
Wakhi community of Gojal in northern Pakistan and discusses the potential of
translocal livelihoods to overcome local constraints and facilitate
development in structurally disadvantaged regions. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |