Legitimation in a World at Risk

The Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-13-5560-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

This book provides a sociological analysis of the controversy surrounding GM crops in Telangana, India. There is much debate as to whether GM technology holds the key to improving the welfare of poor farmers globally or serves primarily to increase the profits of multinational corporations while enhancing cultivator risk. Desmond’s study is located in the economically vulnerable and politically volatile district of Warangal in Telangana, a context associated with high numbers of farmer suicides.  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 risk management worldwide. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desmond, E. L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Wissenschaft, Technologie, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

E.L. Desmond is a sociologist affiliated with the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge University, UK and the Ireland-India Institute at Dublin City University, Ireland.