
Everyday Sustainability
Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
Debarati Sen(Author)
State University of New York Press
Published on 2. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4384-6714-6 (ISBN)
Description
Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.
Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology
Winner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies Association
Winner of the 2018 Global Development Studies Book Award presented by the Global Development Studies Section of the International Studies Association
Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives-Darjeeling, India-where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial strategies and everyday practices of social justice that at times dovetail with and at other times rub against the tenets of the emerging global morality market. The author questions why women beneficiaries of transnational justice-making projects remain skeptical about the potential for economic and social empowerment through Fair Trade while simultaneously seeking to use the movement to give voice to their situated demands for mobility, economic advancement, and community level social justice.
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Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology
Winner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies Association
Winner of the 2018 Global Development Studies Book Award presented by the Global Development Studies Section of the International Studies Association
Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives-Darjeeling, India-where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial strategies and everyday practices of social justice that at times dovetail with and at other times rub against the tenets of the emerging global morality market. The author questions why women beneficiaries of transnational justice-making projects remain skeptical about the potential for economic and social empowerment through Fair Trade while simultaneously seeking to use the movement to give voice to their situated demands for mobility, economic advancement, and community level social justice.
SUNY Press has collaborated with Knowledge Unlatched to unlock KU Select titles. The Knowledge Unlatched titles have been made open access through libraries coming together to crowd fund the publication cost. Each monograph has been released as open access making the eBook freely available to readers worldwide. Discover more about the Knowledge Unlatched program here: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/.
Reviews / Votes
"Unique for its foregrounding of women's narratives, this ethnography is a valuable contribution to sustainability studies and an important text for scholars, students, and practitioners studying women's work and sustainable development in South Asia ... Everyday Sustainability is compelling and praiseworthy for its vision to push feminist ethnography beyond the reflexive gaze and into the intersections of privilege, caste, and location." - Pacific AffairsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white; 1 Figures
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-6714-6 (9781438467146)
DOI
10.1353/book.110884
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10/2017
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Person
Debarati Sen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Houston, and prior to that was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University.
Content
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Locations: Homework and Fieldwork
2. Everyday Marginality of Nepalis in India
3. The Reincarnation of Tea
4. Fair Trade and Women Without History: The Consequences of Transnational Affective Solidarity
5. Ghumauri: Interstitial Sustainability in India's Fair Trade?Organic Certified Tea Plantations
6. Fair Trade vs. Swachcha Vyapar: Ethical Counter-Politics of Women's Empowerment in a Fair Trade?Certified Small Farmers Cooperative
7. "Will My Daughter Find an Organic Husband?" Domesticating Fair Trade through Cultural Entrepreneurship
8. "Tadpoles in Water" vs. "Police of Our Fields": Competing Subjectivities, Women's Political Agency and Fair Trade
Conclusion: Everyday Sustainability
Notes
References
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. Locations: Homework and Fieldwork
2. Everyday Marginality of Nepalis in India
3. The Reincarnation of Tea
4. Fair Trade and Women Without History: The Consequences of Transnational Affective Solidarity
5. Ghumauri: Interstitial Sustainability in India's Fair Trade?Organic Certified Tea Plantations
6. Fair Trade vs. Swachcha Vyapar: Ethical Counter-Politics of Women's Empowerment in a Fair Trade?Certified Small Farmers Cooperative
7. "Will My Daughter Find an Organic Husband?" Domesticating Fair Trade through Cultural Entrepreneurship
8. "Tadpoles in Water" vs. "Police of Our Fields": Competing Subjectivities, Women's Political Agency and Fair Trade
Conclusion: Everyday Sustainability
Notes
References
Index