ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the idea of history and shows that how this idea takes on a specific resonance when it is taken from the North, instead of being situated in the fields of the West, the East or the South. It argues that not just a region of the globe with its own particular history, to be added into the mix with the histories of every other region. It rather stands for a different kind of history. The chapter explores the three key terms –environment, movement, narrative–and shows how history from gives to each of these terms a particular inflection. It deals with the North is everywhere, but that the North's everywhere is quite different from the West's, and for that matter, from the everywheres of the South and the East. Suffice it to say at this point that habitation–the North kind of habitation–repudiates any division between humanity and nature.
