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The book develops a fresh approach to understanding governance using key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu (symbolic violence, doxa, field and habitus) and Jurgen Habermas (deliberative politics). Taking a case study of forest governance in Nepal Terai, the book analyses Habermas’s ideal of deliberative governance from the perspective of Bourdieu’s theory of practice. The case study shows that despite growing rhetoric of participatory and decentralized ...
These experiences to document lessons from different CBFM initiatives that have taken place over the past few decades in Nepal. The book analyzes not only the dynamics of community-level interactions but also how policy and programme processes shape, determine and influence the practices and outcomes of community-based natural resource management activities. Together, the eight chapters of the book demonstrate the pitfalls and potentials of ...