The Darjeeling Distinction (eBook)

Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India

Sarah Besky (Autor)

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2013
244 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95760-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Orthography and Usage

Introduction: Reinventing the Plantation for the Twenty-first Century
1. Darjeeling
2. Plantation
3. Property
4. Fairness
5. Sovereignty
Conclusion: Is Something Better Than Nothing?

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2013
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 21st century tea industry • Anthropology • california studies in food and culture series • colonial India • Colonialism • colonial rule • Darjeeling • disciplines • Environmental Studies • Ethnographic Research • expensive tea • Fairness • fair trade practices • Food Studies • Geography • himalayan foothills • Himalayas • History • India • indian tea industry • Justice • Labor • labor rights • large scale plantations • Northeast India • nuanced ethnography • Politics • postcolonial India • Postcolonialism • postcolonial separatist politics • Region • regional autonomy • Sociology • sociopolitical concerns • Tea • Tea Industry • tea leaves • tea workers • Value • violent movement
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95760-1 / 0520957601
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95760-2 / 9780520957602