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Struggle for Indian forests / Ghosh, Soumitra

Ghosh, Soumitra	Journal Article
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2010.

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Forest Policy ; Forest - India ; India - Forest ; Forest Area

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ID: 090592

Tribal-forest nexus in law and society in India: conflicting narratives / Suykens, Bert

Suykens, Bert	Journal Article
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2009.

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This article examines two conflicting narratives concerning the relationship between tribals and forests in India-narratives that have been counterpoised in India at least since colonial times. The first narrative sees tribals as the natural protectors of the forest; the second argues that tribal practices are detrimental to forest conservation. The author investigates how these two representations of Indian tribals have shaped and are still shaping legal and societal relations between tribals and forests. The author shows how these narratives are deeply embedded in Indian forest legislation and how local officials, rights activists, and tribals themselves all make selective use of the two narratives to gain or deny access to forest resources.

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India ; Forest Policy ; Forest Resources ; Tribals ; Forest Conservation ; Tribal Farmers

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ID: 081390

Tropical forests in the global states system / Cock, Andrew Robert

Cock, Andrew Robert	Journal Article
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2008.

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The purpose of this article is to point to an inherent ambivalence within international society related to tropical forests. As peripheral and often relatively insulated terrestrial spaces, tropical forests have been subject to enduring attempts by state structures to consolidate political authority and their connection to nodes of economic power. However, as they have come to be increasingly degraded and cleared, policy reform agendas have been enacted to promote their conservation. Involving a range of state and non-state actors at a national and international level, forest policy reform agendas have sought to create a structure of economic incentives aimed at their 'sustainable management' and thus their preservation as forests. Paradoxically, a key impact of these evolving agendas has been to further the extension of state power. Arguing that this points to a deep-seated tension within international society related to the governance of peripheral spaces, it will be suggested that state-making ambitions have tended to shape and ultimately negate international tropical forest conservation initiatives

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Environment ; Forest Policy

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