A Political Ecology of Forest Conservation in India: Communities, Wildlife and the State

ISBN-13: 9780367440671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 202 str.

Amrita Sen

Opis

This book critically explores the political ecology of forest conservation and the political making of globally recognized forest landscapes, drawing on examples from India.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Reclaiming riverine forests: An environmental history of the Sundarbans  3. People and forests: Understanding social structures in a vulnerable ecology  4. Forest based livelihoods, survival crisis and politics of belonging in conservation landscapes  5. Decentralizing conservation processes through rights-based frameworks: Forest rights act and joint forest management  6. A political ecology of non-human subject making in forest conservation  7. Conclusions

O autorze

Amrita Sen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Visiting Faculty with Azim Premji University, India. Her research interests include cultural and political ecology, politics of forest conservation, urban environmental conflicts and Anthropocene studies. In 2019, she received the ‘Excellence in PhD Thesis award’ from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, for her doctoral research on the conservation politics in Sundarbans.