Convention 169 recognizes Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination within a nation-state while setting standards for national governments regarding Indigenous peoples' economic, socio-cultural and political rights, including the right to a land base. It is based on recognising indigenous and tribal peoples' aspirations to exercise control over their own institutions, ways of life and economic development and to maintain and develop their identities, languages and religions within the framework of the States in which they live.
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Santals, Sal, and Forest Policy of Bangladesh: Reminiscence of Ethnographic Experience
Copyright: © 2024
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1742-6.ch018
Abstract
This chapter reflects on the Ph.D. journey within the Santals of Bangladesh, followed by an ethnographic method at Birganj in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh formulated diverse forest policies, acts, and rules and either ratified or approved international treaties/documents to preserve, guide, and nurture the forests. However, when the author entered the remote Santals hamlet, they talked about their grief regarding the Sal Forest. Before starting the academic journey, the first author was born and developed in a village where the Indigenous research methodology was embedded informally in his mind as a consciousness part; moreover, as a student spent with Santals neighbours in the agri-field, school, colleges, and even the common playground in the countryside. As a result, it is decorated with field experiences and deals with the “capability approach” while the PhD candidate stayed in the research field for a long time and observed an intricate relationship between Santals and the international legal frameworks to ratify in Bangladesh.