Negotiating environmentality: implementation of Joint Forest Management in eastern India

This article helps to reconcile developmental and conservation goals in community forest management. Through a case study design, using the conceptual lenses of governmentality, it unpacks how the regional networks of developmental aspirations in the Hazaribagh region of eastern India shaped people&...

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Published inRegional studies, regional science Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 446 - 456
Main Author Jain, Amit
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 31.12.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Aspiration
Case studies
Collective action
commons
Community
community forest management
Community relations
environmentality
Forest management
Forestry
Governmentality
Hazaribagh
India
Jharkhand
Joint Forest Management
Management
Regional studies
Regions
India
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Summary:This article helps to reconcile developmental and conservation goals in community forest management. Through a case study design, using the conceptual lenses of governmentality, it unpacks how the regional networks of developmental aspirations in the Hazaribagh region of eastern India shaped people's perception of their forests and their engagement with India's Joint Forest Management programme. The outcome of such an engagement was a hybrid community forest management, comprising elements of both the rationalities of the state and the local community. Thus, the article suggests that the recognition of regionally grounded networks of developmental aspirations becomes a key to achieving socio-ecological justice in regionally meaningful ways in many countries of the Global South.
ISSN:2168-1376
2168-1376
DOI:10.1080/21681376.2022.2084446