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Of Myths and Movements - Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History (Paperback)
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Of Myths and Movements - Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History (Paperback)
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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. 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.' This book brings the
Chipko movement back from the realm of myth into the world of
geographical history. It traces the modes of administration and
policy intervention in the region through the pre-colonial,
colonial and post-colonial phases, and reveals how its biogeography
has been shaped by varying struggles over resources, livelihoods
and autonomy. Chipko, when seen in the context of its geographical
history, shows that the question of sustainability in Garhwal, or
in any other 'backward' or 'pristine' realm of the world, hinges
more on an understanding of substantive democratic processes than
on the need to make heroes or villains of those who participate in
activist movements.
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