The Darjeeling distinction : labor and justice on fair-trade tea plantations in India /
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Author / Creator: | Besky, Sarah, 1981- |
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Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] |
Description: | xx, 233 pages ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | California studies in food and culture ; 47 California studies in food and culture ; 47. |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9751037 |
Summary: | 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.<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. |
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Physical Description: | xx, 233 pages ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520277380 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520277384 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520277397 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520277392 (pbk. : alk. paper) |