The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 3

Where this source is used

• Protected-land and forestry projects can restrict customary access and political authority, so conservation status alone cannot establish justice or environmental benefit for affected communities.

  • supports · chapters 2–4, pp. 35–116

• Guha locates Chipko actions in Garhwal conflicts over state forestry, commercial felling, local access, and village livelihood during the 1970s.

  • supports · chapters 3–5, pp. 61–152

• Participants in selected Garhwal actions used collective presence and nonviolent obstruction to prevent contracted tree felling.

  • supports · chapter 5, pp. 130–152