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<p>The Chipko movement emerged in the early 1970s in the Garhwal region of the Indian Himalayas. In attempting to draw attention to the difficulty of sustaining their livelihoods in the region, local communities engaged in protest by hugging trees that were marked for felling in state-owned commercial forests. As the story of these protests spread across India and the globe, Chipko was transformed into a shining symbol of grassroots activism. Ironically, as the Chipko story was embraced worldwide by ecologists, ecofeminists, policy makers and academics so it became increasingly disconnected from the realities that gave rise to the original protests.</p> <p>Chipko now exists as a myth, tenuously linked to an imagined space of the Himalayas that represents the timeless realm of pristine nature and simple peasant life – the terrain that escapes history. Or, in the more prosaic language of policy makers, it is one of several 'disturbances' to have emerged from a mountainous region that has, since the late 1800s, been characterized as 'backward' or 'isolated.'</p> <p>This book brings the Chipko movement back from the realm of myth into the world of geographical history. It traces the mo
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- Author
- Haripriya Rangan
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781859847831
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, History, Nature
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14