Conflict, negotiations and natural resource management [electronic resource] : a legal pluralism perspective from India / edited by Maarten Bavinck and Amalendu Jyotishi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : the legal pluralism perspective / Maarten Bavinck and Amalendu Jyotishi -- 2. Law-breakers and law-makers : critical legal pluralism, normative subjects and ecological regimes in India / D. Parthasarathy -- 3. The Godavarman judgment : erasing the plurality of land use in Gudalur, Nilgiris / Ajit Menon -- 4. Unearthing the roots of statutory forest law : iron smelting and the state in pre- and early-colonial India / Sashi Sivramkrishna and Amalendu Jyotishi -- 5. Land, law and resistance : legal pluralism and tribal conflicts over land alienation in Odisha / Satyapriya Rout -- 6. Community rights and statutory laws : politics of forest in Uttarakhand, Himalayas / Pampa Mukherjee -- 7. Handling fishery conflicts in the context of legal pluralism : a case-study analysis of street-level bureaucracy in Tamil Nadu, India / Maarten Bavinck -- 8. A political ecology of legal plural disconnection in the marine fishery of Junagadh District, Gujarat, India / Derek Johnson -- 9. Institutional pluralism, multilevel arrangements and polycentricism : the case of Chilika Lagoon, India / Prateep Kumar Nayak -- 10. Legal pluralism and the governability of fisheries and coastal systems in the world : a conceptual enquiry / Svein Jentoft.