Can Social Mobilizations Democratize Forest Governance? The “Making” and “Unmaking” of India’s Forest Rights Act

IF 0.7 4区 农林科学 Q3 ECONOMICS Journal of Forest Economics Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI:10.1561/112.00000573
Priyanshu Gupta, Arnab Roy Chowdhury
{"title":"Can Social Mobilizations Democratize Forest Governance? The “Making” and “Unmaking” of India’s Forest Rights Act","authors":"Priyanshu Gupta, Arnab Roy Chowdhury","doi":"10.1561/112.00000573","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sustained advocacy by the indigenous people and a coalition of civil society organizations led the government to pass the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of <em>Forest Rights</em>) <em>Act</em>, 2006 (FRA) in India. But the Act failed to democratize forest governance as its implementation failed, and subsequent dilutions resulted in its unmaking. Using primary data – collected through ethnographic fieldwork-based observations and in-depth interviews in Chhattisgarh from 2014 to 2020 – and secondary data, we critically analyze the stages and processes of the making and unmaking of the law. We argue that the coalition structure of the mobilizing groups was loose and its efficacy and longevity limited; framing its demands after the FRA was passed proved too challenging for the coalition; the Act had shortcomings; and a new political regime came to power in 2014 and subverted the intent of the Act and diluted its governance framework and provisions, which finally led to its unmaking.</p>","PeriodicalId":54831,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forest Economics","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Forest Economics","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1561/112.00000573","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

Sustained advocacy by the indigenous people and a coalition of civil society organizations led the government to pass the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA) in India. But the Act failed to democratize forest governance as its implementation failed, and subsequent dilutions resulted in its unmaking. Using primary data – collected through ethnographic fieldwork-based observations and in-depth interviews in Chhattisgarh from 2014 to 2020 – and secondary data, we critically analyze the stages and processes of the making and unmaking of the law. We argue that the coalition structure of the mobilizing groups was loose and its efficacy and longevity limited; framing its demands after the FRA was passed proved too challenging for the coalition; the Act had shortcomings; and a new political regime came to power in 2014 and subverted the intent of the Act and diluted its governance framework and provisions, which finally led to its unmaking.

查看原文
分享 分享
微信好友 朋友圈 QQ好友 复制链接
本刊更多论文
社会动员能否使森林治理民主化?印度《森林权利法》的 "制定 "与 "废除"
在原住民和民间社会组织联盟的持续倡导下,印度政府通过了 2006 年《在册部落和其他传统森林居民(承认森林权利)法》(《森林法》)。但是,该法案未能实现森林治理的民主化,因为其实施失败了,而且随后的稀释导致了该法案的废除。我们利用 2014 年至 2020 年在恰蒂斯加尔邦通过人种学实地观察和深入访谈收集的原始数据以及二手数据,批判性地分析了该法制定和废除的阶段和过程。我们认为,动员团体的联盟结构松散,其效力和持久性有限;事实证明,在《家庭关系法》获得通过后提出诉求对联盟来说太具挑战性;该法存在缺陷;2014 年新政权上台,颠覆了该法的初衷,淡化了其治理框架和规定,最终导致该法被废除。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 去求助
来源期刊
Journal of Forest Economics
Journal of Forest Economics 农林科学-林学
CiteScore
1.70
自引率
0.00%
发文量
16
审稿时长
>36 weeks
期刊介绍: The journal covers all aspects of forest economics, and publishes scientific papers in subject areas such as the following: forest management problems: economics of silviculture, forest regulation and operational activities, managerial economics; forest industry analysis: economics of processing, industrial organization problems, demand and supply analysis, technological change, international trade of forest products; multiple use of forests: valuation of non-market priced goods and services, cost-benefit analysis of environment and timber production, external effects of forestry and forest industry; forest policy analysis: market and intervention failures, regulation of forest management, ownership, taxation; land use and economic development: deforestation and land use problem, national resource accounting, contribution to national and regional income and employment. forestry and climate change: using forestry to mitigate climate change, economic analysis of bioenergy, adaption of forestry to climate change.
期刊最新文献
Wildfires and Wind Turbine Plants: A Story Never Told The Impact of Forest Policy Modernization in British Columbia: A Stock Market Perspective Feasibility of Landscape Value Trade between Landowners and Citizens in Reducing the Landscape Damage Caused by Wind Power Impacts of Long-term Strategies for the Swedish Forest Sector: Analyses with the BioFrame Integrated Modelling Framework Climate Change and Wood Production
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
已复制链接
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
×
扫码分享
扫码分享
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1