Elephant Conservation and Society in India - Encounters, Spaces and Politics

This book focuses on human-elephant encounters and relationships, showing how these have been politicized and pose challenges for rural development and conservation. It draws from a sustained ethnography of human-elephant conflict and co-operation in India to address key questions at the interface of biodiversity conservation, animal and development geographies.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Encounter Value and Lively Capital 3. Elephants, Empire and Empiricism 4. The Rise of Elephant Conservation in India 5. Between Gods and Demons: Culture and Elephants 6. Brewing Conflict: Tea, Elephants and Politics in Northeast India 7. The Hidden Impacts of Human-Elephant Conflict: Development, Wellbeing and Conservation 8. The Cosmopolitan Elephant 9. Constructing Connectivity: Corridors and Conservation 10. Conclusion: Animals are Good to Practice

About the author

Maan Barua is a DPhil Scholar in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. He has a degree in zoology from Dibrugarh University, Assam, India

Summary

This book focuses on human-elephant encounters and relationships, showing how these have been politicized and pose challenges for rural development and conservation. It draws from a sustained ethnography of human-elephant conflict and co-operation in India to address key questions at the interface of biodiversity conservation, animal and development geographies.

Product details

• Authors: Maan Barua, Barua Maan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9780415844284
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84428-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, India, The environment, Biodiversity, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Human Geography, Development Studies, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Development and environmental geography