Standing up for Forest: A Case Study on Baiga Women's Mobilization in Community Governed Forests in Central India

Source: Ecological Economics, 2020

Author(s): Niharika Tyagi and Smriti Das

Countries: India

Topics: Gender, Governance, Renewable Resources

In response to state usurpation that threatened the livelihood and household well-being, Baiga women collectively struggled to regain control over local forest resources. The analysis of this gendered environmental movement establishes an intersection between local structural, economic and ecological concerns and signals possibility of several gendered social movements in contested resource geographies.