Staying Alive Examining the position of women in relation to nature - the forests, the food chain and water supplies - the author links the violation of nature with the violation and marginalization of women in the...

Excerpt from the book Staying Alive by Vandiva Shiva, on the Women of the Chipko Movement 🌳 📚 💙

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The Chipko Movement - Right Livelihood The Chipko Movement is a non-violent resistance aiming to protect India’s forests. It received the Right Livelihood Award in 1987.

The Chipko movement, was a pioneering nonviolent, eco-feminist movement in India that began in the early 1970s, focused on protecting forests from commercial exploitation and deforestation.

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