Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Editors – Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar and Pierre Walter
The volume is divided into two sections consisting of 12 essays based on fieldwork conducted in India, China, Nepal and parts of Himalaya-Hindukush region. The first section details the links between forests, environmental services and the livelihoods of indigenous peoples in Asia. The essays in the second section of the book discuss the changes in the social and economic systems of the indigenous peoples that have resulted from the transition to a market economy. The volume serves as an important source to those interested in gender issues among the indigenous communities across Asia. The volume also serves as an important contribution to those interested in environmental issues, especially forest conservation, across Asia. |
The
volume explores the two major consequences of globalisation for
indigenous populations i.e. the role that their resources play in
the provision of environmental services required by outside communities;
and the civilisational change of privitisation that accompanies
the globalisation of market systems.| |