Routledge readings on law, development and legal pluralism : ecology, families, governance
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Routledge readings on law, development and legal pluralism : ecology, families, governance
Routledge India, 2022
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Readings on law, development and legal pluralism
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1) This accessible volume and comprehensive subject guide comprises key readings on law and social justice, with a focus on environment, rights and governance. It examines issues in biodiversity, agro-ecology, disaster, and forest rights. The book covers critical themes such as ecology, families and governance and establishes the trajectory of contemporary ecology and law.
2) A topical volume that brings together expert analyses and emerging research on contemporary themes.
3) It will be of interest to departments of law, socio-legal studies, environment studies and ecology, social exclusion studies, development studies, legal history, South Asian studies, human rights, jurisprudence and constitutional studies, gender studies, history, politics, conflict and peace studies, sociology and social anthropology. It will also appeal to legal historians and practitioners of law, environmentalists, and those in public administration, migration studies, cultural studies, labour studies and economics.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Sites and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Law PART I Questions of Justice: Environment, Ecology, and Disaster 1 Law, Agro-Ecology and Colonialism in Mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s 2 Historical Wrongs and Forest Rights: Nascent Jurisprudence on FRA and Participatory Evidence Making 3 Feminist Dimension of Biodiversity Challenges 4 An Overview of the Law Governing Hazardous Substances in the Post-Bhopal Era 5 Disability, Disaster and the Law: Legislating Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction PART II Families in Law: Property, Custom, and Violence 6 Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for Women and Children 7 Sex-selective Abortion and Reproductive Rights: A Syncretic Feminist Approach 8 Adjudicating Domestic Violence in the Courts 9 Feminist Activism, Violence in the Family, and Law Reform in India: A Three Decadal History 10 Saving Custom or Promoting Incest? Post-Independence Marriage Law and Dravidian Marriage Practices PART III Plural Domains of Law and Governance 11 Conflict Resolution in Tribal Societies of Northeast India: Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy 12 Forums for Conflict Resolution in the Jaintia Tribal Community over Land Resources 13 Pathalgadi Movement and Conflicting Ideologies of Tribal Village Governance
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