Chipko movement was a challenge to hierarchy of development: Murali Sivaramakrishnan
Academic Murali Sivaramakrishnan discussed the legacy of the Chipko movement on its 50th anniversary, framing it as a challenge to traditional development hierarchies. The movement is described as a philosophy connecting human compassion with environmental protection.
Why it matters
The Chipko movement remains a foundational case study for environmental activism and ecofeminism, influencing modern discourse on sustainable development.
The Chipko movement was not merely a sustenance movement but also a challenge to the hierarchy of development, poet, painter, and academic Murali Sivaramakrishnan has said.
He was speaking on 50 years of Chipko, a seminal environment movement in India in the early 1970s, at a discussion on a book, 50 Years of Chipko – the Movement and its Afterlives, that has been edited by him, at an event organised by the Institute of English and the publishers Orient BlackSwan here on Wednesday.
Mr. Sivaramakrishnan pointed out that Chipko was an awakening. It eventually grew into talking about environment protection. It started in the Himalayas but spread quickly. It questioned how development was perceived to be urbanisation.
Mr. Sivaramakrishnan also spoke about the collaborators on the book and their perspectives such as ecofeminism, ecocinema, deep ecology, gender, and so on.
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