Esther’s Life Story within a Dryland Biography: Livelihood Viability in Central Pokot, Kenya

Abstract

From the introduction:This article represents our first attempt in exploring life stories by bringing the subtle details of one such story into dialogue with a broader scholarly concept, namely that of ‘system viability’ (Mistry et al. 2010; Berardi et al. 2013). The concept provides a generalised framework through which one can evaluate a system’s ability to survive, stay healthy, and prosper.