Radical Democracy, Ecology, and Justice in India: Experiences from Four Decades of Activist Research
Shrishtee Bajpai
Dear friends,
We are happy to share this new chapter with you as part of edited volume on Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures.
It attempts to distil key findings and lessons from a history of engagement of members of Kalpavriksh with various aspects of local community political governance in India. We give a brief history of political governance in India followed by describing the conceptual framework that the authors use to analyse some of the cases of radical democracy mentioned here. The next section gives an overview of examples where communities are asserting self-governance and control over their territories. The last section highlights key learnings from these experiences and lists some key elements of swaraj (self-governance) embedded in these varied examples. The conclusion briefly weaves the intersectional nature of transformation in the initiatives described.
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