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Customary Rights of Farmers in Neoliberal India

Author : Sophy K. Joseph
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190990473
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Customary Rights of Farmers in Neoliberal India by : Sophy K. Joseph

Download or read book Customary Rights of Farmers in Neoliberal India written by Sophy K. Joseph and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer’s Rights Act, 2001, promises to balance the intellectual property rights of plant breeders and farmers under one umbrella legislation. However, there remain several grey areas and the rights of farmers, in reality, are still tenuous. Though the rights framework was foregrounded on an understanding between non-governmental organizations and industry, there is lack of clarity at both conceptual and procedural levels. In this context, Sophy K. Joseph analyses the impact of legal policy reforms during the ongoing Second Green Revolution on farmers’ customary rights and livelihood. The author discusses how the extension of private property rights to plant varieties, seeds, and other agrarian resources changed the demographic composition of the rural space, with increased migration of cultivators to the cities. The book argues that the transition from state interventionism (during the First Green Revolution) to state abstention (in the Second Green Revolution) has dramatically influenced India’s conventional agrarian practices and traditions. This work maps the evolutionary process of neoliberal economic and legal policies and its interference with primary concerns such as food security, food sovereignty, and agrarian self-reliance of the country.

Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India

Author : Deepak K. Mishra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811535116
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India by : Deepak K. Mishra

Download or read book Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India written by Deepak K. Mishra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India’s neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy. It covers many issues that have been impinging the political economy in land and livelihoods in India since the 1990s, examining the land question from diverse methodological standpoints. Most of the chapters rely on evidence generated through primary surveys in different parts of the country. The book, via its diversity of approaches and methodologies, brings out new and hitherto unexplored and/or less researched issues on the emerging land question in India. The range of issues addressed in the volume encompasses the contemporary developments in the political economy of land, land dispossession, SEZs, agrarian changes, urbanisation and the drive for the commodification of land across India. The authors also examine role of the state in promoting the capitalist transformation in India and continuities and changes emerging in the context of land liberalisation and market-friendly economic reforms.

The Land Question in Neoliberal India

Author : Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000077918
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Land Question in Neoliberal India by : Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly

Download or read book The Land Question in Neoliberal India written by Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the land question in neoliberal India based on a cohesive framework focusing on socio-legal and judicial interactions in a point of departure from the political-economy approach to land issues. It sheds light on several complex aspects of land matters in India and evolves a critical and multi-dimensional discourse by mapping out exchanges between social and political actors, the State, elites, citizenry, and the legal battle or judicial interpretations on land as right to property. Based on the themes of socio-legal policy and perspective on ‘land’ on the one hand and jurisprudence on the land question on the other, the volume discusses topics such as conclusive land titling; urban land governance; governance of forest land; land-leasing practices, policies, and interventions from the perspective of women; land acquisition policies and laws; how land matters interface with environmental issues; and judicial debates on ‘compensation’ against land acquisitions. It covers a wide range of case studies from all over India by bringing together specialists from across backgrounds. Comprehensive and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, political studies, law, sociology, political economy, and public policy, as well as to professionals in NGOs, civil society organisations, think tanks, planning and public administration, lawyers, civil services and training institutes, and judicial and forest academies. Those working on rural and urban land issues in India, land management, land governance, environmental laws and governance, property rights, resource conflicts, social work, and rural development will find this book to be of special interest.

Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists

Author : Trent Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108425100
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists written by Trent Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In theory, chemical-free sustainable agriculture not only has ecological benefits, but also social and economic benefits for rural communities. By removing farmers' expenses on chemical inputs, it provides them with greater autonomy and challenges the status quo, where corporations dominate food systems. In practice, however, organisations promoting sustainable agriculture often maintain connections with powerful institutions and individuals, who have vested interests in maintaining the status quo. This book explores this tension within the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies

Author : Akram-Lodhi, A. H.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788972465
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies written by Akram-Lodhi, A. H. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.

The Neoliberal Diet

Author : Gerardo Otero
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 147731699X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Book Synopsis The Neoliberal Diet by : Gerardo Otero

Download or read book The Neoliberal Diet written by Gerardo Otero and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “remarkable, comprehensive” study of neoliberal agribusiness and the obesity epidemic “is critical reading for food studies scholars” (Contemporary Sociology). Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much “energy-dense” food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger than individual lifestyle choices. Since the 1980s, the shift toward neoliberal regulation has enabled agribusiness multinationals to thrive by selling a combination of meat and highly processed foods loaded with refined flour and sugars—a diet that originated in the United States. Drawing on extensive empirical data, Gerardo Otero identifies the socioeconomic and political forces that created this diet, which has been exported around the globe at the expense of people’s health. Otero shows how state-level actions, particularly subsidies for big farms and agribusiness, have ensured the dominance of processed foods and made fresh foods inaccessible to many. Comparing agrifood performance across several nations, including the NAFTA region, and correlating food access to class inequality, he convincingly demonstrates the structural character of food production and the effect of inequality on individual food choices. Resolving the global obesity crisis, Otero concludes, lies not in blaming individuals but in creating state-level programs to reduce inequality and make healthier food accessible to all.

Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India

Author : Raju J. Das
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415564
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India by : Raju J. Das

Download or read book Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India written by Raju J. Das and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Das deploys class theory to decipher India’s economic and political situation. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, and their economic consequences. It critically examines lower-class struggles led by the Left, and the fascistic politics of the Right.

Why Would I Be Married Here?

Author : Reena Kukreja
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501762575
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Why Would I Be Married Here? written by Reena Kukreja and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India. Why Would I Be Married Here? reveals how predatory capitalism links with patriarchy to dispossess many poor women from India's marginalized Dalit and Muslim communities of marriage choices in their local communities. It reveals how, within the context of the increasing spread of capitalist relations, these women's pragmatic cross-region migration for marriage needs to be reframed as an exercise of their agency that simultaneously exposes them to new forms of gender subordination and internal othering of caste discrimination and ethnocentrism in conjugal communities. Why Would I Be Married Here? offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labor, and their lives.

Neoliberal Culture

Author : Patricia Ventura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317089081
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberal Culture written by Patricia Ventura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from the conventional understanding of neoliberalism as a set of economic and political policies favoring free markets, Neoliberal Culture presents a framework for analyzing neoliberalism in the United States as a culture-or structure of feeling- which shapes American everyday life. The book proposes five 'components' as the keys to any study of American neoliberal culture: biopower, corporatocracy, globalization, the erosion of welfare-state society, and hyperlegality, these five components enabling rich analyses of key artifacts of the neoliberal era, including the Iraq War, Las Vegas, welfare reform, Walmart, and Oprah's Book Club. Carefully organized according to its central themes and adopting a case study approach in order to allow for thorough, illustrated analyses, this book is an important tool for scholars and students of contemporary cultural studies, popular culture, American Studies, and sociology.

Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa

Author : D. Kapoor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230111815
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa written by D. Kapoor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa.

Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

Author : Tania Bubela
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781002622
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge written by Tania Bubela and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study describes efforts to define and protect traditional knowledge and the associated issues of access to genetic resources, from the negotiation of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Nagoya Protocol. Drawing on the expertise of local specialists from around the globe, the chapters judiciously mix theory and empirical evidence to provide a deep and convincing understanding of traditional knowledge, innovation, access to genetic resources, and benefit sharing. Because traditional knowledge was understood in early negotiations to be subject to a property rights framework, these often became bogged down due to differing views on the rights involved. New models, developed around the notion of distributive justice and self-determination, are now gaining favor. This book suggests – through a discussion of theory and contemporary case studies from Brazil, India, Kenya and Canada – that a focus on distributive justice best advances the interests of indigenous peoples while also fostering scientific innovation in both developed and developing countries. Comprehensive as well as nuanced, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge will be of great interest to scholars and students of law, political science, anthropology and geography. National and international policymakers and those interested in the environment, indigenous peoples' rights and innovation will find the book an enlightening resource.

Community Biodiversity Management

Author : Walter de Boef
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415502195
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Community Biodiversity Management written by Walter de Boef and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to set out a clear overview of CBM as a methodology for meeting socio-environmental changes.

The Land Question in India

Author : Anthony P. D'Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192510924
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Land Question in India written by Anthony P. D'Costa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India. Instead of re-engaging in the rich transition debate in which the transformation of agriculture is seen as a necessary historical step to usher in dynamic capitalist (or socialist) development, this collection critically examines the centrality of land in contemporary development discourse in India. Consequently, the focus is on the role of the state in pushing a process of dispossession of peasants through direct expropriation for developmental purposes such as acquisition of land by (local) states for infrastructure development and to support accumulation strategies of private business through industrialization. Land in India is sought for non-agricultural purposes such as purchasing land to reduce risk and real estate development. Land is also central to tribal communities (adivasis), whose livelihoods depend on it and on a moral economy that is independent of any price-driven markets. Adivasis tend to hold on to such property, not as individual owners for profit, but for collective security and to protect a way of life. Thus land, notwithstanding its role in the accumulation process, has been, and continues to be, a turbulent arena in which classes, castes, and communities are in conflict with each other, with the state, and with capital, jockeying to determine the terms and conditions of land transactions or their prevention, through both market and non-market mechanisms. The volume goes beyond the traditional political economy of the agrarian transition question, and deals with, inter alia, distributional conflicts arising from acquisition of land by the state for capital accumulation on the one hand and its commodification on the other. It provides new analytical insights into the land acquisition processes, their legal-institutional and ethical implications, and the multifaceted regional diversity of acquisition experiences in India.

Possibility of Politics in India

Author : Akshat Jain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000902633
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Possibility of Politics in India written by Akshat Jain and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to find new ways of inter-disciplinary theorisation about this moment when both the unitary idea of the Indian nation and the bureaucratic dream of a centralised Indian state are falling apart. At this juncture, the Indian state has two choices. Either it can recognise the political nature of the struggles confronting it and radically re-imagine itself or it can wage a losing war against the democratic aspirations of people. It is essential that political movements in the subcontinent let go of their differences and organise together to agitate for modernisation. By bringing these disparate struggles together, this book explores the possibility of an alliance between them such that they are able to inform each other against a colonial state. Taken together, this book is thus an experiment in politics, rather than being about specific events. The chapters in this book were originally published in various Taylor & Francis journals.

Communication, Culture and Ecology

Author : Kiran Prasad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811071047
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Communication, Culture and Ecology written by Kiran Prasad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of contributions and case studies from leading experts in Asia to highlight the debates on environmental communication and sustainable development that are relevant today, and to provide an overview of the positive traditions of ecological sensitivity and cultural communication that may find common ground between communities. This well-researched guide to the dynamic and complex terrain of communication for sustainable development offers uniquely practical perspectives on communication, environment and sustainable development that are of immense value for policy makers, media scholars, development practitioners, researchers and students of communication and media studies.

Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India

Author : RITANJAN. DAS
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367887674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)

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Book Synopsis Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India by : RITANJAN. DAS

Download or read book Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India written by RITANJAN. DAS and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a reappraisal of the political economic history of the CPIM/Left Front regime against the backdrop of the Indian reform experience. It examines two distinct areas: the conditions that necessitated the regime to engineer a transition from an erstwhile agricultural-based growth model to a more pro-market economic agenda post-199

Property, Territory, Globalization

Author : William D. Coleman
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774820209
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Property, Territory, Globalization written by William D. Coleman and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of flux, as old territorial borders dissolve and new nations come together, who controls ideas, information, and creativity? Who patrols the new frontiers? This volume opens a window to the dark side of globalization and the struggles for autonomy it has generated from forest disputes to Indigenous land claims to conflicts between farmers and the patent owners of genetically modified seeds. The work of Palestinian poets, whose attachment to the land is explored in a powerful Coda, shows that a politics of place brings to the fore intense feelings of attachment, something common to all struggles over territory and autonomy.