Conflict, Negotiations and Natural Resource Management
A legal pluralism perspective from India
- 200 pages
- English
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Conflict, Negotiations and Natural Resource Management
A legal pluralism perspective from India
About this book
Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is dependent on these resources for their livelihoods. Issues of governance and management are complicated by the competing claims of parallel legal systems, including state, customary, religious, project and local laws.
Whereas much has been written about property rights, this unique collection takes a legal anthropological perspective to explore how the coexistence and interaction between multiple legal orders provide bases for claiming property rights. It examines how hybrid legal institutions have developed over time in India and how these impact on justice in the governance and distribution of natural resources. The book brings together original case studies that offer fresh perspectives on the governance of forests, water, fisheries and agricultural land in a diverse range of social and spatial contexts.
This brand new research provides a timely and persuasive overview of the fundamental role of parallel legal systems in shaping how people manage natural resources. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of environmental law, property law, environmental politics, anthropology, sociology and geography.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the legal pluralism perspective
- 2 Law-breakers and law-makers: critical legal pluralism, normative subjects and ecological regimes in India
- 3 The Godavarman judgment: erasing the plurality of land use in Gudalur, Nilgiris
- 4 Unearthing the roots of statutory forest law: iron smelting and the state in pre- and early-colonial India
- 5 Land, law and resistance: legal pluralism and tribal conflicts over land alienation in Odisha
- 6 Community rights and statutory laws: politics of forest in Uttarakhand, Himalayas
- 7 Handling fishery conflicts in the context of legal pluralism: a case-study analysis of street-level bureaucracy in Tamil Nadu, India
- 8 A political ecology of legal plural disconnection in the marine fishery of Junagadh District, Gujarat, India
- 9 Institutional pluralism, multi-level arrangements and polycentricism: the case of Chilika Lagoon, India
- 10 Legal pluralism and the governability of fisheries and coastal systems in the world: a conceptual enquiry
- Index