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Farmers, subalterns, and activists : social politics of sustainable agriculture in India /
Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi, India :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Images; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; The Promise of Sustainable Agriculture; India's Sustainable Farming Movement: A Brief Overview; A Gramscian Approach: Sustainable Agriculture in the Context of Hegemony; Case Studies and Methodological Framework; Synopsis; 2. India's Agrarian Crisis: A Gramscian View; Civil Society, Hegemony, and Crises of Authority; Hegemony in Rural India; Origins of the Green Revolution; The Green Revolution in India; The aftereffects and decline of the Green Revolution
- Liberalisation and the Agrarian CrisisAgrarian crisis as 'crisis of authority'; Conclusion; 3. Embedded in Power: Potentials and Constraints of Sustainable Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture as a Response to Crisis and Challenge to Hegemony; Resources, Political Opportunities, and the Capacity to Mobilise; Mobilising in a Challenging Environment; Challenges of the rural setting; The uneven terrain of Indian civil society; The prominence of NGOs; Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives within Webs of Power Relations; Donor organisations; The state; Middle-class activist networks; Rural elites
- The rural subalternConclusion; 4. The Kheti Virasat Mission: People's Movement or Agrarian Populism?; Punjab History: From Green Revolution to Crisis; KVM Origins: Forging an Identity as a 'People's Movement'; How does a Movement Differ? KVM's Structure and Mode of Engagement; The Chiranjivi Gram Abhiyan; 'Our Agricultural Heritage': Natural Farming and Agrarian Populism; A Movement No More? KVM in Transition; The challenge of natural farming in Punjab; Towards a 'professional' approach; Conclusion; 5. The Tamil Nadu Organic Farmers' Movement: The Limits of Participatory Approaches
- Regional ContextRevathi: A Teacher's Journey to Ecological Farming; The 2004 South Asian Tsunami: Consolidating the Facilitative Strategy; Facilitating Community-Based Organisations and Regional Federations; The Demonstration Farm; Long-term Impact in the Cauvery Delta; Conclusion; 6. The Beej Bachao Andolan: How 'Grassroots' is the Grassroots?; Regional Context; History of Struggle in Garhwal; The Chipko Origins of BBA; From Tree Hugging to Seed Saving; The Philosophy of BBA; Impact: Local, National, and International; Sustaining a Tradition of Activism; Conclusion; 7. Conclusion
- Glimpses of Food SovereigntyWithin the Fabric of Hegemony; Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Development; Locating the Counter-Hegemonic in Rural India; Bibliography; Index