Publications of Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Schareika

Contributions in Journals & Edited Volumes

2025

Schareika, Nikolaus
Cattle, Capital, and the Imagination of Self-expanding Value. In: Anthropological Theory 25 (4): 483–504. [DOI]

2025

Martin, Jeannett, Abiguël Elijan and Nikolaus Schareika
Covid-19 and Pastoralism in Northern Benin. In: Nomadic Peoples (0): 1-19. [DOI]

2025

Moritz, Mark, Jasmine E. Bruno, Daniel J. Murphy, María E. Fernández-Giménez, and Nikolaus Schareika
Transformations in livestock systems: beyond ranching and pastoralism. In: Agriculture and Human Values 42 (3): 1689–1705. [DOI]

2024

Schareika, Nikolaus
In the Event of the Lineage. In: Katja Föllmer, Lisa M. Franke and Ramzi Ben Amara (ed.): In Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam. Dynamics of Change in Muslim Societies. In Honour of Roman Loimeier. Berlin: De Gruyter, S. 3-21. [DOI]

2023

Schareika, Nikolaus
Capitalizing Contradictoriness: Ranchers between State and Open Range – and vis-à-vis Pastoralists. Pastoralism 13: 22. [DOI]

2023

Hoffmann, Ellen M., Nikolaus Schareika, Christoph Dittrich, Eva Schlecht, Daniela Sauer and Andreas Buerkert
Rurbanity: a Concept for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rural–urban Transformation. Sustainability Science. 18: 1739–1753. [DOI]

2023

Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Takemore Chagomoka, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Axel Drescher, Nikolaus Schareika and Johannes Schlesinger
Land Tenure, Food Security, Gender and Urbanization in Northern Ghana. Land Use Policy 132: 106834. [DOI]

2021

Nikolaus Schareika, Christopher Brown and Mark Moritz
Critical Transitions from Pastoralism to Ranching in Central Africa. Current Anthropology 62: 53–76. [DOI]

2018

Nikolaus Schareika
Nomads/Pastoralists and Development. In: Hilary Callan (ed.): The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford, UK: John Wiley, pp. 1–11.

2018

Jannik Schritt and Nikolaus Schareika
Crude Moves: Oil, Power and Politics in Niger. Africa Spectrum 53: 65–89. [DOI]

2018

Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Lesley Hope, Yvonne K. Nchanji, Wilfred A. Abia, Samuel A. Donkoh and Nikolaus Schareika
Pest Management among Smallholder Cabbage Growers. International Journal of Vegetable Science 24: 1–16. [DOI]

2017

Nikolaus Schareika
Creative Encounters: African Trade and Chinese Oil Production in Western Chad. Social Analysis 61: 41–55. [Link]

2017

Nikolaus Schareika
Mensch und Umwelt. In: Bettine Beer, Hans Fischer and Julia Pauli (eds.): Ethnologie. Einführung in die Erforschung kultureller Vielfalt. Neunte Auflage, erweiterte und aktualisierte Neufassung. Berlin: Reimer, pp. 299–316.

2017

Georges Djohy, Honorat Edja and Nikolaus Schareika
Mobile Phones and Socio-economic Transformation among Fulani Pastoralists in Northern Benin. Nomadic Peoples 21: 111–35. [Link]

2017

Ivan S. Adolwa, Stefan Schwarze, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Nikolaus Schareika and Andreas Buerkert
A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems in Kenya and Ghana: Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in the Rural-urban Interface. Agriculture and Human Values 34: 453–472. [Link]

2017

Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Nikolaus Schareika, Takemore Chagomoka, Johannes Schlesinger, Axel Drescher and Rüdiger Glaser
Assessing the Sustainability of Vegetable Production Practices in Northern Ghana. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 11: 1–17. [Link]

2016

Tobias Haller, Han van Dijk, Michael Bollig, Clemens Greiner, Nikolaus Schareika and Christina Gabbert
Conflicts, Security and Marginalisation: Institutional Change of the Pastoral Commons in a 'Glocal' World. Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) 35: 405–416. [Link]

2015

Kaderi N. Bukari and Nikolaus Schareika
Stereotypes, Prejudices and Exclusion of Fulani Pastoralists in Ghana. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 5: 18. [Link]

2014

Nikolaus Schareika
The Social Nature of Environmental Knowledge among the Nomadic Woɗaaɓe Of Niger. Ecology and Society 19. [Link]

2013

Nikolaus Schareika
To Move with Nomads. In: Ivo A. Strecker and Shauna LaTosky (eds.): Writing in the Field. Festschrift for Stephen Tyler. Berlin. Lit Verlag, pp. 33–38.

2011

Nikolaus Schareika
Die Mühlen der Lineage. Friktionen und Fraktionen um das Projekt Getreidebank bei den Wodaabe Südostnigers. In: Nikolaus Schareika, Eva Spies and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (eds.): Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas Bierschenk. Köln: Köppe, pp. 185–195.

2011

Nikolaus Schareika
Subject, Leader, Chief, Commander. Wodaabe Politics between Clan and Communal Structure. In: Jul-Larson, Eyol, Pierre-Joseph Laurent, Pierre-Yves Le Meur and Eric Léonard (eds.): Une anthropologie entre pouvoirs et histoire. Conversations autour de Jean-Pierre Chauveau. Paris: Karthala, pp. 477-508.

2011

Nikolaus Schareika
Mensch und Umwelt. In: Hans Fischer and Bettina Beer (eds.): Ethnologie. Einführung und Überblick. 7 Aufl. Berlin: Reimer, pp. 333–356.

2011

Eva Spies, Nikolaus Schareika and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (2011)
Einleitung: Ethnologie auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. In: Nikolaus Schareika, Eva Spies and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (eds.): Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas Bierschenk. Köln: Köppe, pp. 9–26.

2011

Andrea Behrends and Nikolaus Schareika
Öl, Staat, Ressourcenfluch. In: Nikolaus Schareika, Eva Spies and Pierre-Yves Le Meur (eds.): Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas Bierschenk. Köln: Köppe, pp. 465–475.

2010

Nikolaus Schareika
Pulaaku in Action. Words at Work in Wodaabe Clan Politics. Ethnology 49: 207–227. [Link]

2010

Nikolaus Schareika
Rituell gezeugt: Verwandtschaft als symbolische Interaktion bei den Wodaabe Südostnigers. In: Erdmunte Alber, Bettina Beer, Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg (eds.): Verwandtschaft heute. Berlin: Reimer, pp. 93–117.

2010

Andrea Behrends and Nikolaus Schareika
Significations of Oil in Africa Or: What (More) Can Anthropologists Contribute to the Study of Oil? Suomen Antropologinen Seura 35: 83–86.

2010

Saverio Krätli and Nikolaus Schareika
Living off Uncertainty: The Intelligent Animal Production of Dryland Pastoralists. European Journal of Development Research 22: 605–22. [Link]

2009

Christian Meyer and Nikolaus Schareika
Neoklassische Feldforschung: Die mikroskopische Untersuchung sozialer Ereignisse als ethnographische Methode. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie: 79–129. [Link]

2009

Christian Meyer and Nikolaus Schareika
Participant Audition. Audio-recording as Ethnographic Method. Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 101. Mainz.

2006

Nikolaus Schareika
Modelle der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit zwischen Ethnologie und Naturwissenschaften. Sociologus 56: 15–36. [Link]

2004

Nikolaus Schareika
Bush for Beasts: Lake Chad from the Nomadic Wodaabe Point of View. In: Matthias Krings and Editha Platte (eds.): Living with the Lake. Perspectives on History, Culture and Economy of Lake Chad. Köln: Rüdiger Koppe, pp. 171–190.

2004

Nikolaus Schareika
Lokales Wissen: ethnologische Perspektiven. In: Nikolaus Schareika and Thomas Bierschenk (eds.): Lokales Wissen – sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 9–39.

2004

Nikolaus Schareika
Nomadic Cattle Husbandry among the Wodaabe in the Lake Chad Basin. In: Caterina Batello (ed.): The Future is an Ancient Lake. Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Lake Chad Basin Ecosystems. Rom: FAO, pp. 58–60.

2004

Nikolaus Schareika and Thomas Bierschenk
Einführung. In: Nikolaus Schareika and Thomas Bierschenk (eds.): Lokales Wissen – sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 1–7.

2001

Nikolaus Schareika
Environmental Knowledge and Pastoral Migration among the Wodaabe of South-eastern Niger. Nomadic Peoples 5: 65–88.

2000

Nikolaus Schareika, Frieder Graef, Marion Moser and Klaus Becker
Pastoral Migration as a Method of Goal-oriented and Site-specific Animal Nutrition among the Wodaabe of South-eastern Niger. Die Erde 131: 125–141.

1998

Nikolaus Schareika
Élevage bovin et économie familiale chez les Fulbe au Nord-Bénin. In: Elisabeth Boesen, Christine Hardung and Richard Kuba (eds.): Regards sur le Borgou. Pouvoir et altérité dans une région ouest-africaine. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 311–328.