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7 produkter
7 produkter
Del 47 - California Studies in Food and Culture
Darjeeling Distinction
Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
786 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule. In this nuanced ethnography, Sarah Besky narrates the lives of tea workers in Darjeeling. She explores how notions of fairness, value, and justice shifted with the rise of fair-trade practices and postcolonial separatist politics in the region. This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations. Readers in a variety of disciplines--anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studies--will gain a critical perspective on how plantation life is changing as Darjeeling struggles to reinvent its signature commodity for twenty-first-century consumers. The Darjeeling Distinction challenges fair-trade policy and practice, exposing how trade initiatives often fail to consider the larger environmental, historical, and sociopolitical forces that shape the lives of the people they intended to support.
Del 47 - California Studies in Food and Culture
Darjeeling Distinction
Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
253 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule. In this nuanced ethnography, Sarah Besky narrates the lives of tea workers in Darjeeling. She explores how notions of fairness, value, and justice shifted with the rise of fair-trade practices and postcolonial separatist politics in the region. This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations. Readers in a variety of disciplines--anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studies--will gain a critical perspective on how plantation life is changing as Darjeeling struggles to reinvent its signature commodity for twenty-first-century consumers. The Darjeeling Distinction challenges fair-trade policy and practice, exposing how trade initiatives often fail to consider the larger environmental, historical, and sociopolitical forces that shape the lives of the people they intended to support.
Del 5 - Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
Tasting Qualities
The Past and Future of Tea
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
786 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the meaning of quality has been subjected to nearly constant experimentation and debate throughout the history of the tea industry. Working across fields of political economy, science and technology studies, and sensory ethnography, Tasting Qualities argues for an approach to quality that sees it not as a final destination for economic, imperial, or post-imperial projects but as an opening for those projects.
Del 5 - Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
Tasting Qualities
The Past and Future of Tea
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
253 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the meaning of quality has been subjected to nearly constant experimentation and debate throughout the history of the tea industry. Working across fields of political economy, science and technology studies, and sensory ethnography, Tasting Qualities argues for an approach to quality that sees it not as a final destination for economic, imperial, or post-imperial projects but as an opening for those projects.
421 kr
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Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule.In this nuanced ethnography, Sarah Besky narrates the lives of tea workers in Darjeeling. She explores how notions of fairness, value, and justice shifted with the rise of fair-trade practices and postcolonial separatist politics in the region. This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations. Readers in a variety of disciplines—anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studies—will gain a critical perspective on how plantation life is changing as Darjeeling struggles to reinvent its signature commodity for twenty-first-century consumers. The Darjeeling Distinction challenges fair-trade policy and practice, exposing how trade initiatives often fail to consider the larger environmental, historical, and sociopolitical forces that shape the lives of the people they intended to support.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
678 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
We now live on a planet that is troubled--even overworked--in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people. In Malaysia, dispossessed farmers are training captive orangutans to earn their own meals. In India, a Prized dairy cow suddenly refuses to give more milk. Built from these sorts of scenes and sites, where the ultimate Subjects and agents of work are ambiguous, How Nature Works develops an anthropology of labor that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a Language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 634 kr
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Featuring contributions from fifteen leading and emerging scholars of the environmental humanities, this groundbreaking volume explores human creativity and artistry in the face of climate change through a focus on multiple narratives, mediums, and forms in South Asia. Home to a quarter of the world’s population and rich in cultural and geographic diversity, South Asia offers a compelling case for exploring the impacts of climate change on diverse cultural forms. From the river deltas of Bangladesh, megalopolises in India, mountain tops of Nepal, glaciers in Pakistan, and cities in Sri Lanka: climate change has indelibly altered landscapes and people. Bringing together a rich array of methodologies from different disciplines – including ethnography, creative nonfiction, visual analysis, and ecocriticism – this book positions climate change discourse within everyday practices, epistemologies, and infrastructures. Showcasing multidisciplinary perspectives, chapters explore the profound impacts of environmental change, centering human creativity as a vital lens for understanding one of the most urgent crises of our time. Ultimately, the book underscores the necessity of cultural, collaborative, and cross-border practices in addressing climate change. This important volume will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of art and visual culture, South Asian studies, human geography, architectural studies, and environmental anthropology. It will also appeal to NGO, multilateral, and international institutions investigating the cultural and creative ramifications of climate change in South Asia.