Future of the Forest (eBook)

Struggles over Land and Law in India

Anand P. Vaidya (Autor)

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2025
204 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8052-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Future of the Forest is the story of legal transformations of forests across India through collective action. Since the nineteenth century, Indian forest dwellers have been unable to enforce their claims to the land on which they live or the products of it that they use. But at the turn of the twenty-first century, a new national movement led to the passage of the Forest Rights Act, a landmark law that recognizes the tenure and use rights of India's millions of landless forest dwellers.

Anand P. Vaidya tracks the Forest Rights Act from the movements that pushed for its passage to its drafting—and the many revisions it underwent to satisfy coalitions of local peoples, conservationists, and a wide spectrum of political parties and movements—and finally to its impact on two neighboring villages in central India's forest belt. The forests have seen a long history of political authority enacted to the benefit of the powerful; Future of the Forest follows the work of activists and forest dwellers who turned to the law to shift this balance of power.

Autor

Anand P. Vaidya is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
• Zusatzinfo: 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: forest rights, national politics, indigenous movements, collective action, property law, Marxism, conservation, land dispossession
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-8052-2 / 1501780522
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-8052-3 / 9781501780523