Becoming organic : nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya / Shaila Seshia Galvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galvin, Shaila Seshia, author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies series.

Yale scholarship online.

Yale agrarian studies series

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organic farming--India.

Organic farming.

Organic farming--Himalaya Mountains Region.

Agriculture and state--India.

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture and state--Himalaya Mountains Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.) : 17 b-w illus.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Remaking the Agrarian on a Himalayan Frontier

ONE. Fertile Ground

TWO. The Limits of Transparency and the Farming of Trust

THREE. Becoming Basmati

FOUR. Market Imaginaries and the Horizons of Aspiration

FIVE. Exhibiting Organic Uttarakhand

Epilogue: Promises of Transformation

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 25, 2021).

ISBN:

0-300-25808-9

OCLC:

1245662959