Of Myths and Movements keyword-wall-street and the campaign for Indigenous

and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations

mapping the knot of memory and desire at the heart of the gendered body

Gayatri Spivak

historian Rebecca E

Of Myths and Movements keyword-wall-street and the campaign for IndigenousThe 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,