Explores how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. This work provides an insight into the motivations of national governments in managing nature, and deals with the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature.
Explores how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. This work provides an insight into the motivations of national governments in managing nature, and deals with the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature.
Gunnel Cederlof is associate professor of history, Uppsala University, Sweden. K. Sivaramakrishnan is professor of anthropology and international studies and director of the South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington. The other contributors are Nina Bhatt, Vinita Damodaran, Claude A. Garcia, Urs Geiser, Götz Hoeppe, Bengt G. Karlsson, Antje Linkenbach, Wolfgang Mey, Kathleen D. Morrison, J. P. Pascal, and Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn. Gunnel Cederlof is professor of history at Uppsala University, Sweden. K. Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asian Studies, professor of anthropology, forestry, and environmental studies, and director of undergraduate studies at Yale University. Contributors include Kathleen D. Morrison, Urs Geiser, Vinita Damodaran, Antje Linkenbach, Bengt G. Karlsson, Claude A. Garcia, J.P. Pascal, Götz Hoeppe, Wolfgang Mey, Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn, and Nina Bhatt.
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Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Ecological Nationalisms: Claiming Nature for Making History / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Gunnel Cederlof Part One Regional Natures, Nations, and Empire 2. Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India / Kathleen D. Morrison 3. The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820-1843 / Gunnel Cederlof 4. Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy between the "Ecological," the "National," and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier / Urs Geiser Part Two Competing Nationalisms 5. Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002 / Vinita Damodaran 6. Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India / Antje Linkenbach 7. Indigenous Natures: Forest and Community Dynamics in Meghalaya, North-East India / Bengt G. Karlsson 8. Sacred Forests of Kodagu: Ecological Value and Social Role / Claude A. Garcia and J.-P. Pascal Part Three Commodified Nature and National Visions 9. Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in the Fishery (Kerala, India) / Gotz Hoeppe 10. Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Wolfgang Mey 11. Forest Managementin a Pukhtun Community: The Construction of Identities / Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn 12. "There Is No Life Without Wildlife": National Parks and National Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal / Nina Bhatt Bibliography Index
Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Ecological Nationalisms: Claiming Nature for Making History / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Gunnel Cederlof Part One Regional Natures, Nations, and Empire 2. Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India / Kathleen D. Morrison 3. The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820-1843 / Gunnel Cederlof 4. Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy between the "Ecological," the "National," and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier / Urs Geiser Part Two Competing Nationalisms 5. Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002 / Vinita Damodaran 6. Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India / Antje Linkenbach 7. Indigenous Natures: Forest and Community Dynamics in Meghalaya, North-East India / Bengt G. Karlsson 8. Sacred Forests of Kodagu: Ecological Value and Social Role / Claude A. Garcia and J.-P. Pascal Part Three Commodified Nature and National Visions 9. Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in the Fishery (Kerala, India) / Gotz Hoeppe 10. Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Wolfgang Mey 11. Forest Managementin a Pukhtun Community: The Construction of Identities / Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn 12. "There Is No Life Without Wildlife": National Parks and National Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal / Nina Bhatt Bibliography Index
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