
Environmental Movements of India
Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya
- English
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About this book
In her detailed retelling of three iconic movements in India, Professor Emerita Krishna Mallick, PhD, gives hope to grassroots activists working toward environmental justice. Each movement deals with a different crisis and affected population: Chipko, famed for tree-hugging women in the Himalayan forest; Narmada, for villagers displaced by a massive dam; and Navdanya, for hundreds of thousands of farmers whose livelihoods were lost to a compact made by the Indian government and neoliberal purveyors of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Relentlessly researched, Environmental Movements of India: Chipko, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Navdanya presents these movements in a framework that explores Hindu Vedic wisdom, as well as Development Ethics, Global Environment Ethics, Feminist Care Ethics, and the Capability Approach. At a moment when the climate threatens populations who live closest to nature – and depend upon its fodder for heat, its water for life, and its seeds for food – Mallick shows how nonviolent action can give poor people an effective voice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Glossary
- Introduction: Three Grassroots Movements That Made a Global Impact
- 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts in India
- 2 Chipko (Hug the Trees) Movement
- 3 Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA): Save the Narmada
- 4 Navdanya (Nine Seeds) Movement
- 5 Moral Implications of Environmental Movements
- 6 Hindu Ethics and Ecology
- Conclusion: The Symbiosis of Natural Resources and Local Needs
- Index