Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia

Changing the Local-Global Interface
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3253-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 156 g

`[This book offers] interesting empirical data to support or question a number of gender and women-related assumptions. This book will provide evidence, if need be, to those protagonists of a "natural" determination of gender roles' - Development and Change

Globalization has profoundly affected both the ways of life and the livelihoods of indigenous peoples worldwide. The 12 original essays in this book are based on fieldwork conducted in India, China, Nepal and parts of the Himalaya-Hindukush region. In the first section the contributors explore the possibility of devising a more democratic and equitable alternative for indigenous peoples within the process of globalization. The essays in the second section discuss the changes in the social and economic systems of the indigenous peoples that have resulted from the transition to a market economy. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how new forms of community and continued non-market access to critical productive resources—for example, land and forests—would allow for a greater and more equitable spread of the benefits of globalization and simultaneously address some of its negative features including increased male domination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nathan, Dev

Kelkar, Govind

Walter, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Phrang Roy
Introduction - Dev Nathan
PART ONE: ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AND FOREST MANAGEMENT
Environmental Services and the Case for Local Forest Management - Dev Nathan
Indigenous Communities' Knowledge of Local Ecological Services, Jharkhand, India - Sanjay Kumar
Local Environmental Services - Wang Qinghua
Forest Management and Terraced Agriculture, A Case Study of the Hani of the Ailao Mountains, Yunnan, China
Conflict in Resource Management for Ecosystem Services - Yu Xiaogang
Water in the Lashi Watershed, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
Impact of the State Logging Ban in Meghalaya, India - Tiplut Nongbri
PART TWO: MARKETS AND CIVILIZATIONAL CHANGE
Timber and Local Accumulation in China - Dev Nathan and Yu Xiaogang
Northeast India - Dev Nathan
Market and the Transition from Communal to Private Property
Tourism and Forest Management among the Hani in Xishuangbanna, China - Pierre Walter

Tourism and Gender Relations in Lijiang, China - Govind Kelkar

Crafting an Alternative - Dev Nathan and Girija Shreshta
Leasehold Forestry for Livelihoods of the Poor in Nepal
External Trade and Development of Upland Peoples in the Himalaya-Hindukush - Dev Nathan and N S Jodha
Conclusion - Dev Nathan and Govind Kelkar
Civilizational Change: Markets and Privatization among Indigenous Peoples
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan, Dev
Dev Nathan, an economist by training, is, Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. He is also a columnist and a regular contributor to the Economic and Political Weekly. Dr Nathan has previously co-authored Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and Forests (1991), Assessment of Rural Poverty in Asia and the Pacific (2002), edited From Tribe to Caste (1997), and co-edited Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds (2003). Dr Nathan frequently serves as a consultant to IFAD, Rome, several UN organizations and ICIMOD, Kathmandu, on issues of rural poverty and the development of indigenous peoples.

Kelkar, Govind
Govind Kelkar is Coordinator, IFAD–UNIFEM Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, New Delhi, and the founding Editor of the journal Gender, Technology and Development. She has previously taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand where she also founded the graduate programme in Gender and Development Studies. Dr Kelkar has previously co-authored Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and Forests (1991), and co-edited Feminist Challenges in the Information Age (2002), and Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds (2003). Dr Kelkar is a frequent consultant to IFAD, Rome, UNIFEM, New Delhi and other UN organizations on mainstreaming gender in development besides being a keynote speaker at many related conferences.

Walter, Pierre
Pierre Walter is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dr Walter’s research interests include literacy, immigrant and extension education, comparative education and policy studies, alternative education, Asian studies and gender and development. He has contributed numerous articles to leading scholarly journals, besides serving as an Assistant Editor of Gender, Technology and Development. He has co-edited Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds (2003).