Brown Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists

Social Politics of Sustainable Agriculture in India
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-56162-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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In theory, chemical-free sustainable agriculture not only has ecological benefits, but also social and economic benefits for rural communities. By removing farmers' expenses on chemical inputs, it provides them with greater autonomy and challenges the status quo, where corporations dominate food systems. In practice, however, organisations promoting sustainable agriculture often maintain connections with powerful institutions and individuals, who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo. This book explores this tension within the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Trent

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. India's agrarian crisis: a Gramscian view; 2. Embedded in power: potentials and constraints of sustainable agriculture; 3. The Kheti Virasat Mission: people's movement or agrarian populism?; 4. The Tamil Nadu organic farmers' movement: the limits of participatory approaches; 5. The Beej Bachao Andolan: how 'grassroots' is the grassroots?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Brown, Trent
Trent Brown is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has also been associated with the Australia-India Institute, working on rural development and rural-urban relations in contemporary India. His research interests are South and South-East Asian studies, rural development and agrarian change, rural-urban migration and urbanization, rural-urban relations, and sociological perspectives on sustainability, contemporary social and political theory.