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On Conservation Politics: Cooperation, Conflicts and Contestations

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Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research ((AAHER))

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In this chapter, I have concluded that power is not concentrated in a single site but is dispersed and fluid, and that nature conservation interventions rather than resulting in fixed and determined outcomes are accepted, resisted and reconfigured by various actors at multiple levels. In the case of conflict regions like J&K, these conservation interventions may also coincide with the ongoing struggles between the state and citizens on the question of legitimacy to rule as well as with the attempts of the historically powerful actors to dominate the poor and marginalised. Although there are valid arguments in favour of conserving both chirus and forests, it is the poor that bear the brunt of nature conservation costs.

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Gupta, S. (2018). On Conservation Politics: Cooperation, Conflicts and Contestations. In: Contesting Conservation. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72257-3_9

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