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and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations

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

Of Myths and Movements keyword-wall-street historian Rebecca EThe 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,