Becoming Organic : Nature and Agriculture in the Indian Himalaya
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| Title: | Becoming Organic : Nature and Agriculture in the Indian Himalaya |
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| Description: | A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how the fraught concept of 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. |
| Authors: | Shaila Seshia Galvin |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Agriculture and state--Himalaya Mountains Region, Organic farming--India, Organic farming--Himalaya Mountains Region, Agriculture and state--India |
| Categories: | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Organic, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how the fraught concept of 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780300215014 9780300258080 |
