Landscapes and the Law
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-949974-8 (ISBN)
Basing her archival and field work on the Nilgiri Hills in South India, Gunnel Cederlöf explores conflicting perceptions of nature and political visions that are projected onto landscapes and people. She traces debates on property and land rights, and how the empirical sciences merge with the legal claims justifying land acquisition. Popular resistance strategies to such exploitation are analysed, and a cross-cultural comparison made between early legal processes and social history in India, New Zealand, and North America.
Gunnel Cederlöf is Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. Her research spans modern Indian and British imperial history, and environmental and legal history. She was Professor of History at Uppsala University and has taught at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Among her publications are Founding an Empire on India's North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790-1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity (2014), Bonds lost : Subordination, Conflict and Mobilisation in Rural South India c. 1900-1970 (1997), At Nature's Edge: The Global Present and Long-Term History (2018 with M. Rangarajan), Subjects, Citizens and Law: Colonial and independent India (2017 with S. Das Gupta), and Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia (2006, 2012 with K. Sivaramakrishnan).
Illustrations and Maps
Glossary
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1 Histories of Rights in Nature: An Introduction
2 A Narrative on the Toda and Its Problems
3 Negotiating Law
4 Perceptions of Land and People
5 Local Politics and Regional Confrontations
6 Towards an Environmental History of Law
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | b/w illus. |
Verlagsort | New Delhi |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 142 x 214 mm |
Gewicht | 318 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-949974-8 / 0199499748 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-949974-8 / 9780199499748 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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