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  title info:
    title: Legitimation in a World at Risk
    sub title: The Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India
  name:
    name part: Desmond, E.L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIX, 346 p. 9 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by E.L. Desmond.
  subject:
    topic: Technology-Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sociology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Culture-Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Science and Technology Studies
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  classification: HM846-851
  classification: 303.483
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      title: Springer eBooks
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