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SUMMARY:Engaging Conservation: Forest-Employed Villagers and Intervention 
 Bureaucracies in Central India - Adam Runacres\, UCL
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CONTACT:Lucy Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Social science studies of Indian conservation have done well t
 o expose the myriad conflicts between local people and conservation author
 ities\, highlighting the realities of crop and livestock depredation\, vil
 lage relocation or interference in local forest-dependent livelihoods.\nPa
 nna Tiger Reserve is no exception\, where a critical tiger habitat\, rich 
 in forest and mineral resources\, was brought back from the local extincti
 on of the tiger population\; a tense context for both villagers living aro
 und the reserve and the officers and officials managing and protecting it.
  While often pitted against each other\, my research has focused on the in
 terrelationships between these groups. The village and the forest should n
 ot be seen as always already monolithic entities perpetually in conflict\,
  but instead as multiple groups entangled in complicated relationships\, s
 ituated in local socio-political contexts. In many ways\, locally-employed
  forest workers and safari guides are at the heart of these relationships\
 , embroiled in the simultaneous dramas of both village and conservation li
 fe.\nThey provide an excellent case study of how village-forest relations 
 unfold and are negotiated\, what that reveals about the character of conse
 rvation authority and intervention in\nthis particular landscape\, its inc
 onsistencies and ambiguities\, and how competing vulnerabilities speak to 
 broader issues concerning rural citizens and the Indian state.
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101 (first floor)\, Downing Site\, Cambridge
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