embracing environment : learning's from the chipko movement
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Embracing Environment
Revisiting the Chipko Movement
SUMIT MITTAL
3/26/2014
Environmental movements have been part of Indian history and since the time of colonization India has seen numerous uprising against the unjust forest policies but no other movement affected and left its impact as the Chipko Movement did. This paper is an attempt to revisit the uprising of Chipko
Movement and its impact.
“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
-
Mahatma Gandhi
INTRODUCTION
“Since no society is found in a state of perfect structural equilibrium, there are always situations of conflict. Each society, moreover, has established ways and means of
Enunciating and resolving such conflicts. If a need is felt for altering or transforming structures in a certain fashion, some form of collective mobilization of people and their resources is resorted to; such an activity is given the name of "social movement". By contrast, there is also sometimes collective resistance to social change. Social movements, in short, can aim at either changing or preserving the way things are - or both” (Jain, 1984).
Environmental movements are networks of casual communications that may include individuals and groups who have no organizational association, organizations of varying degrees of formality (including even political parties) that are involved in collective action driven by shared identity or concern about environmental issues. Such networks are generally loose and uninstitutionalized, but their methods of action and their degree of integration differ
(Rootes and Brulle, 2004).
The Chipko Movement was a forest protection movement in the north Indian state of
Uttarakhand from 1973 to 1981. The word Chipko is derived from Hindi and it literally means to hug and is derived from the fact that the protesters hugged the trees in order to prevent them from being cut and protest against commercial
Embracing Environment
Revisiting the Chipko Movement
SUMIT MITTAL
3/26/2014
Environmental movements have been part of Indian history and since the time of colonization India has seen numerous uprising against the unjust forest policies but no other movement affected and left its impact as the Chipko Movement did. This paper is an attempt to revisit the uprising of Chipko
Movement and its impact.
“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
-
Mahatma Gandhi
INTRODUCTION
“Since no society is found in a state of perfect structural equilibrium, there are always situations of conflict. Each society, moreover, has established ways and means of
Enunciating and resolving such conflicts. If a need is felt for altering or transforming structures in a certain fashion, some form of collective mobilization of people and their resources is resorted to; such an activity is given the name of "social movement". By contrast, there is also sometimes collective resistance to social change. Social movements, in short, can aim at either changing or preserving the way things are - or both” (Jain, 1984).
Environmental movements are networks of casual communications that may include individuals and groups who have no organizational association, organizations of varying degrees of formality (including even political parties) that are involved in collective action driven by shared identity or concern about environmental issues. Such networks are generally loose and uninstitutionalized, but their methods of action and their degree of integration differ
(Rootes and Brulle, 2004).
The Chipko Movement was a forest protection movement in the north Indian state of
Uttarakhand from 1973 to 1981. The word Chipko is derived from Hindi and it literally means to hug and is derived from the fact that the protesters hugged the trees in order to prevent them from being cut and protest against commercial