The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification> of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an insightful account of present-day challenges for indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic sovereignty and development.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Abbreviations
PART I
Introduction
Chapter 1. Nature and Nation
PART II
Chapter 2. Elusive Forests
Chapter 3. Shifting Land Rights
Chapter 4. Mining Matters
PART III
Chapter 5. Indigenous Governance
Chapter 6. Political Ecology at the Frontier
References
About the author
Bengt G. Karlsson is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is the author of Contested Belonging: An Indigenous People’s Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal (Routledge 2000) and two edited books, Indigeneity in India (Kegan Paul 2006) and Human Rights: An Anthropological Enquiry (Earthworm Books 2005).
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