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xvi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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Yale agrarian studies series |
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Yale agrarian studies
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index |
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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 |
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Organic farming -- India
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Organic farming -- Himalaya Mountains Region
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Agriculture and state -- India
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Agriculture and state -- Himalaya Mountains Region
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