Amrita Sen

A Political Ecology of Forest Conservation in India (eBook, ePUB)

Communities, Wildlife and the State

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000477665
• Artikelnr.: 62842878

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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