Landscapes and the Law
Environmental Politics, Regional Histories, and Contests over Nature
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9780199499748
Publication date:
05/08/2019
Paperback
316 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 1195.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199499748
Publication date:
05/08/2019
Paperback
316 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Gunnel Cederlöf
Landscapes and the Law is situated at the crossroads of environmental, colonial, and legal history. It examines the role of law in consolidating early colonial rule from the perspective of people’s access to nature in forests and hill tracts.
The book is focused equally on the multitude of colliding claims for access to land and resources, and the complex ways in which customary rights are redefined and codified for the purpose of securing and legitimizing colonial sovereign rule.
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Gunnel Cederlöf
Description
Landscapes and the Law is situated at the crossroads of environmental, colonial, and legal history. It examines the role of law in consolidating early colonial rule from the perspective of people’s access to nature in forests and hill tracts. This major interdisciplinary study is thus concerned with the social history of legal processes and the making of law, being as relevant today as it was when first published a decade ago.
The book is focused equally on the multitude of colliding claims for access to land and resources, and the complex ways in which customary rights are redefined and codified for the purpose of securing and legitimizing colonial sovereign rule.
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.
About the Author
Gunnel Cederlöf is Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and PostcolonialStudies, 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: TheGlobal 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).
Gunnel Cederlöf
Table of contents
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
Gunnel Cederlöf
Gunnel Cederlöf
Review
‘Cederlöf allows us a long overdue introduction to work we need to explore further if we are to develop stronger analyses of our own local and regional environmental histories.’
— HEATHER GOODALL, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney
‘Landscapes and the Law is a significant contribution...a fresh and innovative paradigm for understanding the colonial project in south Asia.’
— ROHAN D’SOUZA, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
‘A landmark study that not only remaps, but reconstitutes the fields of environmental, legal, and colonial history.’
— LAUREN MINSKY, Assistant Professor of history, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Description
Landscapes and the Law is situated at the crossroads of environmental, colonial, and legal history. It examines the role of law in consolidating early colonial rule from the perspective of people’s access to nature in forests and hill tracts. This major interdisciplinary study is thus concerned with the social history of legal processes and the making of law, being as relevant today as it was when first published a decade ago.
The book is focused equally on the multitude of colliding claims for access to land and resources, and the complex ways in which customary rights are redefined and codified for the purpose of securing and legitimizing colonial sovereign rule.
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.
About the Author
Gunnel Cederlöf is Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and PostcolonialStudies, 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: TheGlobal 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).
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‘Cederlöf allows us a long overdue introduction to work we need to explore further if we are to develop stronger analyses of our own local and regional environmental histories.’
— HEATHER GOODALL, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney
‘Landscapes and the Law is a significant contribution...a fresh and innovative paradigm for understanding the colonial project in south Asia.’
— ROHAN D’SOUZA, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
‘A landmark study that not only remaps, but reconstitutes the fields of environmental, legal, and colonial history.’
— LAUREN MINSKY, Assistant Professor of history, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Read MoreTable of contents
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
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