Everyday sustainability : gender justice and fair trade tea in Darjeeling /

Sen, Debarati, 1976-

Everyday sustainability : gender justice and fair trade tea in Darjeeling / Debarati Sen. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Praxis: theory in action .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Locations: homework and fieldwork -- Marginality of Darjeeling Nepalis -- The reincarnation of tea -- Fair trade and women without history: the consequences of transnational affective solidarity -- Ghumauri: interstitial sustainability in fair trade-organic certified tea plantations -- Fair trade vs. Swachcha Vyapar: ethical counter-politics of women's empowerment in fair trade certified small farmers "cooperative" -- "Will my daughter find an organic husband?" : domesticating fair trade through cultural entrepreneurship -- "Tadpoles in water" versus "police of our fields:" competing subjectivities and women's political agency and fair trade -- Conclusion.



9781438467153

2017014061


Women tea plantation workers--India--Darjeeling.
Women--Social conditions.--India--Darjeeling
Tea trade--Environmental aspects--India--Darjeeling.
Fair trade associations--India--Darjeeling.


Electronic Books.

HD6073 / .E947 2017