@inbook{015baaf5268d4cdbbc771eed203bae27,
title = "Environmental movements and law",
abstract = "Environmental movements in India are grassroots-based calls for just political conditions for sustaining subsistence living. Such movements have a long history dating back to British rule, including peasant revolts in 1859–63 against indigo plantations and 1893 agitations against the commercialization of forests and Adivasis{\textquoteright} lands; to post-Independence movements against dam-building, seed capitalism, and mining, and the farmers{\textquoteright} movements against agricultural neoliberalization. This chapter takes a socio-legal approach by borrowing heterogeneous concepts and sources from social sciences to critically examine the substantive field of law, development, and environmental movements in the context of India{\textquoteright}s post-coloniality. Through a description of some key post-Independence movements, the chapter shows how they engage in confrontational and non-confrontational strategies to resist the colonial legacy and neoliberal ideology of development, the ontological duality that separates nature and culture and the Westphalian state{\textquoteright}s legal and political domination over local sovereignty, and their negative ecological and social consequences.",
author = "{Roy Chaudhuri}, Nairita",
year = "2024",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198884682.013.5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780198884682",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "101–118",
editor = "Philippe Cullet and Lovleen Bhullar and { Koonan}, Sujith",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India",
}