Everyday sustainability : gender justice and fair trade tea in Darjeeling / Debarati Sen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sen, Debarati, 1976- author.

Series:

SUNY series, praxis, theory in action.

SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women tea plantation workers--India--Darjeeling.

Women tea plantation workers.

Women--India--Darjeeling--Social conditions.

Women.

Tea trade--Environmental aspects--India--Darjeeling.

Tea trade.

Fair trade associations--India--Darjeeling.

Fair trade associations.

India--Darjeeling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, [New York] : Suny Press, 2017.

Summary:

Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology, Winner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies Association, Winner of the 2018 Global Development Studies Book Award presented by the Global Development Studies Section of the International Studies Association. Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives-Darjeeling, India-where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial strategies and everyday practices of social justice that at times dovetail with and at other times rub against the tenets of the emerging global morality market. The author questions why women beneficiaries of transnational justice-making projects remain skeptical about the potential for economic and social empowerment through Fair Trade while simultaneously seeking to use the movement to give voice to their situated demands for mobility, economic advancement, and community level social justice.

Contents:

Introduction

Locations: homework and fieldwork

Marginality of Darjeeling Nepalis

The reincarnation of tea

Fair trade and women without history: the consequences of transnational affective solidarity

Ghumauri: interstitial sustainability in fair trade-organic certified tea plantations

Fair trade vs. Swachcha Vyapar: ethical counter-politics of women's empowerment in fair trade certified small farmers "cooperative"

"Will my daughter find an organic husband?" : domesticating fair trade through cultural entrepreneurship

"Tadpoles in water" versus "police of our fields:" competing subjectivities and women's political agency and fair trade

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438467153

143846715X

OCLC:

978712560

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access