Contesting Conservation Shahtoosh Trade and Forest Management in Jammu and Kashmir, India /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gupta, Saloni (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Θέματα: Nature conservation.; Environmental sociology.; Environmental policy.; Forestry management.; Economic development-Environmental aspects.; Nature Conservation.; Environmental Sociology.; Environmental Policy.; Forestry Management.; Development and Sustainability.

This book explores today's changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions. By carefully examining two such processes - the ban on shahtoosh trade...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• 1. Wildlife and forest conservation in J&K: an introduction
• 2. Political ecology: approaches and analytical framework
• 3. Theoretical positioning
• 4. Contesting conservation: what this study contributes
• 5. Chapter layout
• Chapter 2: Jammu and Kashmir: contextualising conservation in specific sites
• 1.1. Jammu and Kashmir: an introduction
• 1.2. Field locations
• 2.1. Ethnography of conservation interventions
• 2.2. Description of fieldwork
• 2.3. Research in the context of violent conflict
• Chapter 3: Tibetan Antelope and Shahtoosh Shawl: a brief history
• 1.1. Chiru and its habitat
• 1.2. The shahtoosh wool: myths and realities
• 2.1. From raw wool to finished shawl: the production process
• 2.2. Shahtoosh workers: population and distribution
• 3.1. Origin and development of the shawl industry
• 3.2. Marginalisation and exploitation of the shawl workers: pre-independence
• 3.3. Shahtoosh workers and the new state: post-independence
• 4. Conclusion
• Chapter 4: The Ban on Shahtoosh: sustainability for whom?
• 1.1. The ban on shahtoosh: a chronology of events
• 1.2. The prospects of chiru farming: observations of the 'expert group'
• 2.1. Weak enforcement and split role of the state
• 2.2. Shawl workers response to the ban: protest and politics
• 3.1. The trade continues: illegality and shadow networks of shahtoosh
• 3.2. Militancy and shahtoosh: exploring the connections
• 4.Conclusion
• Chapter 5: The Micropolitics of the Ban on Shahtoosh: costs and reparations
• 1.1. The origin of wool and the unpopularity of the ban
• 1.2. Different categories, differential impact
• 1.3. Machines and adulteration
• 1.4. Decreasing wages, increasing prices: strategies of labour exploitation and control
• 1.5. Declining social prestige and cultural heritage
• 2. Rehabilitation and alternative livelihoods: accountability of whom?
• 3. Conclusion
• Chapter 6: Forests, State and People: a historical account of forest management and control in J&K
• 1. Forest management in early colonial period
• 2. Local access versus commercial needs: the politics of scientific forestry in the late colonial period
• 3. National interests versus local needs: the politics of forest management in the post-colonial period
• 4. Conclusion
• Chapter 7: Joint Management of Forests and Split Role of the State: the politics of forest conservation in J&K
• 1. Joint management of forests: new arenas of 'partnership' and 'participation'
• 2. Setting the scene: interplay between centre, state and non-state actors
• 3.1. Navni and Chinnora: a brief introduction
• 3.2. Our forests, their timber: the politics of resource control
• 3.3. Split role of the field-staff: forest regulations vis-a-vis local needs
• 4. Conclusion
• Chapter 8: The Micropolitics of Forest Use and Control: new spaces for cooperation and conflict
• 1.1. From centralisation to decentralisation: do blockages disappear?
• 1.2. Panchayat and JFMC: conflicting powers and functions
• 2. Increased biomass, reduced access
• 3. Illegal timber felling: what if fence eats the grass?
• 4. Conclusion
• Chapter 9: On Conservation Politics: cooperation, conflicts and contestations
• 1. Power as dispersed and fluid
• 2. Between cooperation and conflict: spaces for contestation
• 3. Who is accountable?
• 4. Policy implications
• 5. Conclusion
• Bibliography.