Becoming organic nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya Shaila Seshia Galvin.

By:

Galvin, Shaila Seshia [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Yale agrarian studiesPublisher: New Haven Yale University Press [2021]Description: xvi, 301 pages illustrations 23 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300215014

Subject(s): DDC classification:

631.5840954 23

LOC classification:

S605.5 .G35 2021

Contents:

Fertile ground -- The limits of transparency and the farming of trust -- Becoming basmati -- Market imaginaries and the horizons of aspiration -- Exhibiting organic Uttarakhand.

Summary: Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality, this book yields new understandings of this fraught concept. Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how organic is less a material property of land or its produce than a quality produced in discursive, regulatory, and affective registers. Becoming Organic is a nuanced account of development practice in rural India, as it has unfolded through complex relationships forged among state authorities, private corporations, and new agrarian intermediaries.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

List(s) this item appears in: IFP SS Acquisition list 2023

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	French Institute of Pondicherry	IFP Social Science collection	RUR 0918 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		SS21683

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fertile ground -- The limits of transparency and the farming of trust -- Becoming basmati -- Market imaginaries and the horizons of aspiration -- Exhibiting organic Uttarakhand.

Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality, this book yields new understandings of this fraught concept. Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how organic is less a material property of land or its produce than a quality produced in discursive, regulatory, and affective registers. Becoming Organic is a nuanced account of development practice in rural India, as it has unfolded through complex relationships forged among state authorities, private corporations, and new agrarian intermediaries.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

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