Rethinking On Territories Of Life https://thefrontiermanipur.com/rethinking-on-territories-of-life/
The modern ways of thinking on the concept of ‘development’, and the pursuit of developmental activities by States and private entities that shamelessly intrude into the ancient domain of the natives without their consent and expressed knowledge, is what causes the maximum conflicts of interest between States and local people.
There are hundreds of cases across the globe where IPLCs are fighting for their rights within their territories of life, even as rich and powerful nations and companies are slowly eating into their territories in the pursuit of minerals, oil and gas, and the extraction of natural resources in large scale, destroying pristine forests and reclaiming water bodies along the way.
instances of the ethnicities in Manipur, too, where there are several issues of local people’s objections to the extension of PAs in areas where IPLCs have the right to the territories. Land in Manipur’s uplands is traditionally owned, managed and administered by the natives in their own best ways and, therefore, any form of intrusion into these territories without the communities’ knowledge and consent can only be met with objections.
Comment: Today "development" seems to "trump" even modern formations eg. Greenland, Canada, Gulf of Mexico, Gaza strip, and many straits, and strips through out the world..