II SEMINAR IN KENYA - 1-12. October 2021
On October 1-12, 2021, the Department of Tourism and Health Resort Management, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University in cooperation with GEOLABTUR network organized a geographical seminar in Kenya entitled Kenya: the social and economic function of protected areas and tourism in the context of global connections. The group consisted of 10 people from 4 partner universities. This kind of trip is primarily intended for field research, i.e. collecting data on an interesting problem as a basis for developing and verifying models and concepts developed previously in tourism geography. During the stay, the participants visited various forms of nature protection in Kenya, e.g. Aberdare National Park, Samburu National Reserve and Buffalo Springs National Reserve. The group also reached Loiyangalani, right on the shores of Lake Turkana, one of Kenya's northernmost cities and visited three pastoral tribes - Samburu, Turkana, and El Molo, the least numerous ethnic group in the country. The purpose of these visits was to recognize daily life and functioning of pastoral tribes of this region in the face of climate change. The seminar ended with a meeting with representatives of the University of Nairobi.
FIELD RESEARCH IN KENYA - 27.11-16.12. 2022:
On 27.11 - 16.12.2022, field research was conducted in Kenya as part of the doctoral project entitled Tribal community in the face of civilizational change. A case study of the Samburu ethnic group in Kenya. The aim of the research was to identify, using ethnographic method, the social, cultural and economic changes, that are taking place among the Samburu. By collecting the statements of selected members of the tribe using the method of free interviews, we attempted to determine their opinions, beliefs, and assessments of ongoing changes, as well as the benefits and threats civilizational changes may bring to the Samburu culture. Twenty-two interviews were conducted with a selected group of respondents, which will include representatives of the Samburu community, including members of tribal elders, young warriors (morani) and women, as well as employees of local and regional administration and missionaries, teachers and doctors as representatives of the communities working directly for this community. Interviews with tribe members were conducted in the Samburu language with the assistance of a local translator.