Cultivating distress: cotton, caste and farmer suicides in India.
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| Title: | Cultivating distress: cotton, caste and farmer suicides in India. |
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| Authors: | Kannuri, Nanda Kishore, Jadhav, Sushrut |
| Source: | Anthropology & Medicine. Dec 2021, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p558-575. 18p. |
| Subjects: | Suicide prevention, Agriculture, Anthropology, Ethnology research, Case studies, Social skills, Agricultural laborers, Psychological distress |
| Abstract: | Nearly 4,00,000 farmers committed suicide in India between 1995 and 2018. This translates into approximately 48 suicides every day. The majority of suicides were those from 'backwarded' castes including Dalit farmers. This ethnographic study on cotton farmer suicide reports narratives of surviving Dalit families. The results reveal that financial and moral debt when accrued within a web of family and caste-related relationships result in patterns of personal and familial humiliation, producing a profound sense of hopelessness in the Self. This loss of hope and pervasive humiliation is 'cultivated' by a cascade of decisions taken by others with little or no responsibility to the farmers and the land they hope to cultivate as they follow different cultural and financial logic. Suicide resolves the farmers' humiliation and is a logical conclusion to the farmer's distress, which results from a reconfiguration of agricultural spaces into socially toxic places, in turn framing a local panopticon. The current corona virus pandemic is likely to impact adversely on peoples who are culturally distanced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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