Environmental popular education helps shape indigenous social movements in India through a continual process of reflection and action that connects concerns about ecological degradation, subsistence, and marginalization. (Contains 56 references.) (SK)

An indigenous group in rural India worked with activist-educators to use environmental popular education as a tool for social change. Acting in small localized movements, villagers acquired power and voice regarding land management and conservation. (SK)

The process of globalisation and modernisation of the south through "the development project" continues to "invite" resistance to ecological destruction and displacement of rural and forest-based communities. Post-developmentalist critics emphasise the significance of social movements in ushering in a new partnership for social…