At the Crossroads of Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Forest Struggles and Human Rights in Postcolonial India
Redaktion: Ranjan, Rahul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000550269
• Artikelnr.: 63279301

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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