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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. It highlights the ongoing struggles of the communities in postcolonial India that are confronted with the most brutal and unprecedented assault on their economic and sociocultural rights - often led by the political establishment.
The contributions in this edited volume present multiple narratives of these struggles, theoretical inquiries into a diversity of political imaginations, and the intertwined changes in the legal and biophysical landscapes. These contributions speak to some of the most important contemporary debates within the human rights community that stands in the crossroads with rights of Indigenous Peoples and other members of subaltern groups.
This volume will be of great value to scholars, students, and researchers interested in human rights politics, power, forest governance, and environmental movements in postcolonial India.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.
List of contents
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
Summary
This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.
