Approaching the capital: Nomadic pastoralist (im)mobilities in Mali

Giulia Gonzales’s work explores issues of collective boundary-making and ethnicity, mobility, space, and everyday politics. Her recently-completed Phd in Anthropology “Mobility, Politics, and Ambiguity among Kel Tamasheq in Bamako” (University of Torino, 2016-2019) focuses on everyday strategies of navigating uncertainties, discourses on crisis and its effects on nomadic-pastoralist practices by Kel Tamasheq urban subjects in Bamako.In this article, she retraces Aicha’s journey to describe the processes of transformation Kel Tamasheq families live and how they respond to change.