Critical polycentric governance: Indigenous peoples’ tenure (in)security in India’s forests

Polycentric systems of governance–where diverse institutional actors from government, community, civil society organisation etc., operate across multiple jurisdictional levels interdependently–is argued to offer unique opportunities to address complex collective action problems at scale. While there is a growing body of literature that focuses on polycentric governance of natural resource governance, only a few have paid attention to how critical polycentric configuration may shape Indigenous tenure security in forest commons.