Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists: Social Politics of Sustainable Agriculture in India

ISBN-13: 9781108425100 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 210 str.

Trent Brown

Opis

Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. India's agrarian crisis: a Gramscian view; 3. Embedded in power: potentials and constraints of sustainable agriculture ; 4. The Kheti Virasat Mission: people's movement or agrarian populism?; 5. The Tamil Nadu organic farmers' movement: the limits of participatory approaches; 6. The Beej Bachao Andolan: how 'grassroots' is the grassroots?; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.