Buch, Englisch, 413 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Soyabean, Choupals, and the Changing Countryside in Central India
Buch, Englisch, 413 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-946533-0
Verlag: Hurst & Co.
This book is an ethnographic study of the processes of agrarian change in the Malwa region of central India, over the last forty years, beginning with the introduction of soyabean cultivation in the 1970s, known as the yellow revolution, and new information technology based markets in the 2000s, called the choupals. Examining the claims of prosperity and empowerment of farmers through the yellow revolution and the information revolution, this book challenges the
notion that science and technology can bring unparalleled economic growth and prosperity to rural India. It argues that both, techno-managerial ways of understanding and evaluating agriculture, as well as those which emphasize the lenses of caste, class and gender, are inadequate in capturing the diverse
processes at work, in shaping the lives of rural people. Highlighting the role of the environment and technology, not in deterministic ways, but as non-human forces working upon and with human agents, it suggests that both the social and the technical must be considered together, to understand the specific trajectories of agrarian change. Drawing upon science and technology studies (STS), together with critical scholarship on the political economy of development and agrarian change, this book
shows how people and things have reconfigured each other in producing the world they live in, thus contributing towards new theoretical framings of agriculture and rural transformation.
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notion that science and technology can bring unparalleled economic growth and prosperity to rural India. It argues that both, techno-managerial ways of understanding and evaluating agriculture, as well as those which emphasize the lenses of caste, class and gender, are inadequate in capturing the diverse
processes at work, in shaping the lives of rural people. Highlighting the role of the environment and technology, not in deterministic ways, but as non-human forces working upon and with human agents, it suggests that both the social and the technical must be considered together, to understand the specific trajectories of agrarian change. Drawing upon science and technology studies (STS), together with critical scholarship on the political economy of development and agrarian change, this book
shows how people and things have reconfigured each other in producing the world they live in, thus contributing towards new theoretical framings of agriculture and rural transformation.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
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