Blossier: The Achilles’ Heel of the Brazilian Economy 1 Copyright © 2021 SAGE Publications www.sagepublications.com (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne) Vol 1–16. DOI: 10.1177/0169796X211001229 We Are All Environmentalists! Framing Life in the National Green Tribunal, India Sudha Vasan Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi ABSTRACT India has set up one of the first national-level legal bodies, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), dedicated exclusively to address cases under environmental laws. My research follows a case filed in the NGT by an indigenous community against a hydel power project in the western Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, examining how diverse and opposing parties in this case represent themselves as environmentalists. It reveals a narrative sphere where entirely opposite actions and actors are legitimated in and through the NGT in environmental terms. This article suggests that green courts provoke green narratives and examines how diverse actors respond and engage with this demand. Individuals are interpellated in this juridical field to understand and present themselves as environmentalists. Environment is a meta-narrative in this juridical field, constituting environmentalist subjectivity of all actors within this field by the very process of hailing them. Keywords: Metanarrative, law, Himalayas, NGT, hydel power, Bourdieu Law is the quintessential form of ‘active’ discourse, able by its own operation to produce effects. It would not be excessive to say that it creates the social world, but only if we remember that it is this world which first creates the law. (Bourdieu, 1987, p. 839) Our house is in danger. Will we get some compensation if we go to the NGT(National Green Tribunal)? (Vimla Devi, Urni village, November 2016) Our orchard is gone; it just slid into the field below. Will I get any relief from the NGT? (Ram Negi, Urni village, November 2016) Didi, you must come and see our house. There is a large crack in the wall; God knows when this house will fall. Please note this down. (Nimmo, Urni village, November 2016)