CASE / 1973–1981
Chipko actions in Garhwal, 1973–1981
Selected forest-protection actions and disputes over their interpretation in the Garhwal Himalaya.
DETAILS
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Scope, selection, freshness, and background links
Boundary: Selected Garhwal forestry actions from the first Mandal action through the movement's early expansion and interpretation; not every action called Chipko or all Himalayan forest politics.
Why this case: The case exposes livelihood, gender, conservation, and state–community boundaries through both movement history and serious rival interpretations.
Selected Garhwal Chipko actions, 1973–1981 1973–1981
Documented actions and interpretations in the selected sources, excluding later programs and universal claims about women or village communities.
Formal design
Rules in use
observation
Participants in selected Garhwal actions used collective presence and nonviolent obstruction to prevent contracted tree felling.
Interactions
observation
Agarwal relates rural women's participation in forest protection to gendered divisions of labor, subsistence responsibilities, property, and decision-making power rather than an innate female closeness to nature.