Author Talk: Future of the Forest

Future of the Forest is the story of legal transformations of forests across India through collective action. At the turn of the twenty-first century, a national movement led to the passage of the Forest Rights Act, a landmark law that recognizes the tenure and use rights of India's millions of landless forest dwellers. Anand P. Vaidya tracks the Forest Rights Act from the movements that pushed for its passage to its drafting—and the many revisions it underwent to satisfy coalitions of local peoples, conservationists, and a wide spectrum of political parties and movements—and finally to its impact on two neighboring villages in central India's forest belt.

Join us for this author's discussion of his new book. Anand P. Vaidya is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

This event is sponsored by: PSU Honors College, Anthropology, Environmental Science and Management, Geology, and Politics and Global Affairs