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This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface Introduction - Echoes from the woods: at the crossroads of forest struggles and human rights in postcolonial India 1. State, forest and Adivasis at crossroads: Netarhat field firing range and contestations over rights 2. Our rights are carved in stone: the case of the Pathalgadi movement in Simdega, Jharkhand 3. Excluded Areas as the limit of the political: the murky boundaries of Scheduled Areas in India 4. Our land is banked: forest rights, consent and the invention of a legal exception as land banks 5. (Un)Doing rights: Adivasi participation in governance discourses in an area of civil unrest in India 6. The UN declaration on the rights of peasants, national policies, and forestland rights of India's Adivasis
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Rahul Ranjan is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of International Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He is working on the Riverine Rights project funded by the Research Council of Norway. Prior to this, he worked as the Social Media Coordinator at the Human Rights Research Network in London. He was awarded his PhD in 2020 from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
Zusammenfassung
This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.
