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Seshia Galvin, Shaila.

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State of Nature: Argiculture, Development, and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	State of Nature: Argiculture, Development, and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand./
Author:	Seshia Galvin, Shaila.
Description:	349 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-12A(E).
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3571849
ISBN:	9781303316678

State of Nature: Argiculture, Development, and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand.
Seshia Galvin, Shaila.

State of Nature: Argiculture, Development, and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand. - 349 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2013.

Focusing on a strategy to promote commercially-oriented, globally ambitious organic agriculture in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, this dissertation examines intersecting processes of state and market formation as they are wrought in agrarian landscapes and reshape the identities of those who cultivate them. At the outset of the new millennium, on November 9, 2000, Uttarakhand became the newest state of the Indian Union. Shortly after its formation, and in the wake of over a decade of liberalizing economic reforms across India, the government of this Himalayan state worked to develop organic agriculture as a key component of rural development. In doing so, it promoted an ideal of "Organic Uttarakhand" that invoked an historical and mythic ecological imagination of the region as "pure and pristine" against India's Green Revolution past and the transgenic frontiers of its present. While Himalayan nature has long been seen as a foil to modernity both within and outside the region, the promotion of "Organic Uttarakhand" marked a significant shift in this relation as claims to nature instead became part of what it means to be modern in Uttarakhand in the twenty-first century. The central argument of this dissertation is that the promotion and development of organic agriculture in Uttarakhand refigures this enduring relation of nature and modernity within the region, enabling new expressions of agrarian identity and agency through interconnected processes of state and market formation.

ISBN: 9781303316678Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

State of Nature: Argiculture, Development, and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand.
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