Denuded forests, wooded estates
Statemaking in a Janmam area of Gudalur, Tamil Nadu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8961566 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ajit Menon (0000-0001-8857-003X, Madras Institute of Development Studies, corresponding author), Christelle Hinnewinkel (0000-0002-3274-8713, UFR Géographie et Aménagement – TVES – Université Lille 1), Sylvie Guillerme (0000-0001-9979-0185, CNRS Laboratoire GEODE – Université Toulouse II) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 449-471 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019464613502415 |
| OpenAlex | W2036220057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
Small farmers have been blamed for forest degradation in O’Valley, Gudalur. The state’s response to this perceived forest degradation in the post-colonial period has been to increasingly environmentalise forest policy and law through extending its territorial control over the ‘forested commons’, consequently labelling farmers as encroachers. This article argues that the state was in fact very much implicated, along with the Nilambur Kovilagam janmi (landlord), in the transformation of the forested landscape into a plantation economy so as to increase its revenue. It also highlights the contradictions in the post-colonial state’s environmentalisation of policy, the impact of this environmentalisation on small farmers and how small farmers, along with larger estate owners, resisted mostly through legal recourse the state’s efforts to reclaim undeveloped forest land. By doing so, the article highlights the contested meanings often ascribed to the forested commons that underlie conflicts over resources
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Business · Colonialism · Commons · Economics · Estate · Forest degradation · Geography · Land degradation · Landlord · Natural resource economics · Political science · Resource (disambiguation · Revenue · State (computer science · Tamil · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Finance · Law
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A Time for Tea
Modern Forests
The Art of Not Being Governed
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Environmentality
The New Imperialism
Of land, legislation and litigation
Landscapes and the Law
Penetration of Capital into a Traditional Economy
Castes and Tribes of Southern India
Colonialism and coffee plantations
British imperium and forested zones of anomaly in Bengal, 1767-1833
Colonial commercial forest policy and tribal private forests in Madras Presidency
Authority and Environment
Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
A Limited Forest Conservancy in Southwest Bengal, 1864-1912
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Territorialization and state power in Thailand
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2019 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |