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The aim of this article is to analyze how India has built its arsenal of defense against biopiracy since the ratification of the Nagoya Protocol in 2012. We want to emphasize and analyze the linkages between the activist movements in favor of environmental justice, their speeches and the arguments they use to tip the scales on their side, and the Indian state. This perspective is particularly interesting insofar as militant movements have largely influenced the country's legislative policy. Moreover, this influence was not achieved solely by the use of a fairly formatted discourse on environmental justice but also by the use of arguments linked to international legal frameworks. After studying the points of convergence and divergence between environmental justice and the protection of biodiversity in a global context, we analyze through case studies how this protection was built in India. Finally, the study of two relevant tools put in place by the Indian legislative system is proposed as a complementary track to strengthen the protection of biodiversity.
Keywords: justice environnementale, biopiraterie, Inde, inégalité environnementale, protocole de Nagoya, environmental justice, biopiracy, India, environmental inequality, the Nagoya protocol
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This text questions the implementation of "good governance" in the Pondicherry Region, South of India. It focuses on participatory water management which is an interesting prism to understand the transformation of local governance systems, including the changes and resistance of traditional elites. This text is based on 4-year field study, based in Pondicherry (2013-2017). In 2016, the opportunity of a new program promoting participatory management of tanks and of a water festival made it possible to study the positions of the persons and institutions involved as well as the conflicts and coordination concerning the maintenance and rehabilitation of tanks. We observed resistance from traditional elites who participate in a corruption system that benefits from funding for tank maintenance. It involves politicians, administrations and contractors. Meanwhile, alternative mediations are developing, involving associations and members of the administration within a broader coalition that promotes other points of view on tank management. The "horizontal governance" they implement, however, fails to engage more broadly.
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In the theory of literature, like in any scientific domain, some categories become so popular that they are left unquestioned by the scholars. This is the case of idealism and realism when it comes to the interpretation of the fiction works of Premchand. These categories, from theoretical concepts, become the base on which an ideological schema of this writer's work and thought is constructed in three steps, evolving from the stage of the idealism to that of the realism. The present article looks at how this shift finds its way with the critics of Premchand and the consequences they have on the analysis of the religious dimension of his work.
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This article points out the necessity of studying tribal groups in India in their cultural context and with a women's perspective. Using data from her study among Saharia tribals of Central India, the author analyses the differential impact of development projects on men and women arising out of the constraints the latter face in the process.