TY - JOUR
T1 - Protecting Sacred-groves
T2 - Community-led Environmental Organizing by Santhals of Eastern India
AU - Dutta, Uttaran
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - In the face of widespread degradation of natural resources (including deforestation), and socio-economic disparities, underserved populations from rural and indigenous spaces of the global south face challenges to conserve environmental resources. Many of these spaces, such as sacred-groves, are important to indigenous people and are deeply intertwined with their identity, worldviews and existence. This research, embracing principles of critical/cultural environmental communication, examines how indigenous people of eastern India mobilized collectively to protect their sacred environmental resources, thus improving community members’ well-being. Paying attention to engaged environmental action; critical listening and dialoguing; and local-centric participation, this research argues that contextually meaningful and community-led environmental initiatives help motivate and raise consciousness among future generations as well as among wider indigenous (and marginalized) populations.
AB - In the face of widespread degradation of natural resources (including deforestation), and socio-economic disparities, underserved populations from rural and indigenous spaces of the global south face challenges to conserve environmental resources. Many of these spaces, such as sacred-groves, are important to indigenous people and are deeply intertwined with their identity, worldviews and existence. This research, embracing principles of critical/cultural environmental communication, examines how indigenous people of eastern India mobilized collectively to protect their sacred environmental resources, thus improving community members’ well-being. Paying attention to engaged environmental action; critical listening and dialoguing; and local-centric participation, this research argues that contextually meaningful and community-led environmental initiatives help motivate and raise consciousness among future generations as well as among wider indigenous (and marginalized) populations.
KW - India
KW - Indigenous
KW - environment organizing
KW - participation
KW - protecting nature
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U2 - 10.1080/17524032.2019.1585895
DO - 10.1080/17524032.2019.1585895
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066858367
SN - 1752-4032
VL - 14
SP - 36
EP - 51
JO - Environmental Communication
JF - Environmental Communication
IS - 1
ER -