In the 1970s and 1980s, struggles over forest rights in the Garhwal Himalayas drew worldwide attention via the Chipko movement. to a large extent, this also entailed a subsuming of local experiences under global discourses: many of the messages and meanings of the Chipko movement's varied struggles were homogenized, changed, and rewritten. Antje Linkenbach persuasively argues that global representation took away narrative control from local actors and ...
