Future of the forest : struggles over land and law in India /

"Future of the Forest is a historical and ethnographic account of the life of India's 2006 Forest Rights Act. The book follows the law from the movements that pushed for its passage to a North Indian forest village, showing how the law's meaning was shaped through ongoing collective a...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Vaidya, Anand P., 1982- (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.
Saila:Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment Series.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.16275975
Aurkibidea:
  • How the forests became Indian
  • Historical injustices and the movement to create the Forest Rights Act
  • The Law as rumor
  • Abandoned solidarities and new legal futures
  • National politics and the scales of the Forest Rights Act.