Forced from the Forest: Mobile Indigenous Peoples, Gender Equality and the Forest Rights ACT

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-714-9
Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Forced Migration

Access to justice remains uneven and sometimes elusive for indigenous peoples displaced from ancestral lands. While the Forest Rights Act of India enhanced land security for forest peoples, justice is subverted by several factors: a legal chronology of land expropriation from colonial occupation, contemporary extractive neoliberal policies, and unjust governance. Gender inequalities and legal violations further marginalize indigenous peoples, compounding their forced migration. Nevertheless, the Forest Rights Act also revolutionized the potential to challenge displacement and support indigenous empowerment. This research establishes a new analytical framework contextualizing control of indigenous forest land rights through access to justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sigamany, Indrani

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction: “When the Camel Grows Horns”

Chapter 1. ‘Access to Justice’: An Analytical Review of Literature

Chapter 2. Legal Mechanisms for Indigenous Peoples and the Forest Rights Act of India

Chapter 3. A Critical Examination of Forest Rights Legislation, Indigenous Access to Justice, and Land Expropriation

Chapter 4. Gender Resilience and Deconstructing Inequality

Chapter 5. Livelihoods and Forest Rights - The Struggle for Self-Determination

Conclusion: The Unevenness of Access to Justice

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sigamany, Indrani
Indrani Sigamany is a Research Consultant working in social justice and poverty alleviation. Her publications include Land Rights and Neoliberalism: An Irreconcilable Conflict for Indigenous Peoples in India? (2017, Cambridge University Press) and Destroying a Way of Life: The Forest Rights Act of India and Land Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples (2015, Routledge).