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Legitimation in a World at Risk [electronic resource] : the Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India / by E.L. Desmond.

Desmond, E. L., author.
2018
SB123.57 .D476 2018
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Title
Legitimation in a World at Risk [electronic resource] : the Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India / by E.L. Desmond.
Author
Desmond, E. L., author.
ISBN
9789811060656
9811060657
9789811060649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6065-6
Published
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XXIX, 346 pages 9 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-10-6065-6 doi
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SB123.57 .D476 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.5233
Summary
This book provides a sociological analysis of the controversy surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops in the newly-formed state of Telangana, India. The issue of GM crops continues to be topical worldwide. There is much debate as to whether GM technology holds the key to improving the welfare of poor farmers globally or, instead, serves primarily to increase the profits of multinational corporations while enhancing cultivator risk. This is a particular concern for the impoverished agricultural contexts of the Global South whose plight continues to be used as a justification for extending the scope of the technology to more crops, locations and uses. Desmond's study is located in the economically vulnerable and politically volatile context of the Warangal district of Telangana. Warangal has been described as the most controversial district in India, not least given the strongly polarised views regarding the impact of GM crops on the high numbers of farmer suicides with which the district is associated. Uniquely foregrounding the perspectives of cultivators and the landless, Desmond explores how GM crops are variously legitimated and delegitimated in three Warangal villages by those whose livelihoods are at stake in the debate, but whose voices are rarely heard within it. This book will be significant for those with an interest in GM crops, power and knowledge and their relation to understandings of development, democracy and the global governance of risk.
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Chapter One: Introduction
Legitimation and Genetically Modified Crops in a World at Risk
Chapter Two: The Legitimation of Risk in the Villages
Chapter Three: Bt Cotton and the Legitimation of Democracy
Chapter Four: The Legitimation of Risk and Democracy in Telangana
Chapter Five: Methodology: Legitimation and Ethics in Risk Research
Chapter Six: Analysis I: Risk, Power and Bt Cotton in the Villages
Chapter Seven:Analysis II: Democracy and State Legitimacy in the Villages
Chapter Eight: Legitimation in a World at Risk: Lessons from the Villages
Chapter Nine: Conclusion: Science, Power and the Struggle for Legitimation.

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