The Darjeeling Distinction
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The Darjeeling Distinction
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Author : Sarah Besky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014
The Darjeeling Distinction written by Sarah Besky and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
Introduction : reinventing the plantation for the 21st century -- Darjeeling -- Plantation -- Property -- Fairness -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion : is something better than nothing?
The Darjeeling Distinction
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Author : Sarah Besky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-11-23
The Darjeeling Distinction written by Sarah Besky and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-23 with Social Science categories.
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. 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.Ê This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations.Ê Readers in a variety of disciplinesÑanthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studiesÑwill 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.
Tasting Qualities
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Author : Sarah Besky
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Tasting Qualities written by Sarah Besky and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Social Science categories.
What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the meaning of quality has been subjected to nearly constant experimentation and debate throughout the history of the tea industry. Working across fields of political economy, science and technology studies, and sensory ethnography, Tasting Qualities argues for an approach to quality that sees it not as a final destination for economic, imperial, or post-imperial projects but as an opening for those projects.
The Darjeeling Distinction
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Author : Sarah Besky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Darjeeling Distinction written by Sarah Besky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Competition, Unfair categories.
Darjeeling
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Author : Jeff Koehler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-05-21
Darjeeling written by Jeff Koehler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-21 with Cooking categories.
_______________ 'Koehler ... has the polymath's curiosity for everything, as well as the writer's ability to listen to and retell a good story ... A richly digressive book' - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'This exhaustively researched and eminently readable book will delight foodies, history buffs and armchair travelers alike' - Seattle Times 'Koehler has the knack of a good storyteller who has found a great story to tell' - South China Morning Post _______________ WINNER OF THE IACP AWARD FOR LITERARY FOOD WRITING Set against the backdrop of the looming Himalayas and drenching monsoons, this is the story of how Darjeeling developed its tea industry under Imperial British rule and eventually came to produce the world's finest leaves. But today the industry is battling dropping production ,a violent struggle for independent statehood, labour unrest and the devastating effect of climate change. It's the story, too, of the measures being taken to counter these challenges and save India's most exclusive and iconic brew that are nothing short of radical. A fascinating portrait of the region and a story rich in intrigue and empire, full of adventurers and romance, it illuminates the historic, arcane and changing world of this celebrated tea. _______________ 'His prose is both sensory and balletic' - Chicago Tribune 'The history of this elixir turns out to be fascinating' - Geographical 'The perfect present for a tea toper' - Oldie 'It makes you want to sip a perfectly brewed cup and so makes your life better' - Mark Kurlansky, author of Cod, Salt and The Big Oyster
Beyond Fair Trade
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Author : Mark Pendergrast
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books
Release Date : 2015-09-19
Beyond Fair Trade written by Mark Pendergrast and has been published by Greystone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-19 with Business & Economics categories.
The author of Uncommon Grounds offers “a rich and resonantly detailed account of an unlikely partnership” that redefined the concept of fair trade (Coffee Review). The Akha hill Tribe of Thailand has a long, tumultuous history. Politics, economics, and land development consistently worked against the Akha’s desire to move away from their dependency on opium production and create a stable future for their children. That all changed in 2006 when Canadian businessman John Darch met with Thai entrepreneur Wicha Promyong. Their meeting resulted in the establishment of an equal partnership business venture that goes beyond fair trade: the Doi Chaang Coffee Company. Beyond Fair Trade tells the story of the growth of this unique partnership, its successes and challenges, and the incredible people who made it happen.
A Grammar Of Lepcha
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Author : Heleen Plaisier
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007
A Grammar Of Lepcha written by Heleen Plaisier and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
This highly readable book is the first comprehensive reference grammar of the Lepcha language of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. This grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history.
Everyday Sustainability
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Author : Debarati Sen
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2017-10-26
Everyday Sustainability written by Debarati Sen and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with Social Science categories.
Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology Winner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa 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/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8447 .
Feeding The Crisis
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Author : Maggie Dickinson
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Feeding The Crisis written by Maggie Dickinson and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Social Science categories.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Although it’s commonly believed that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s, Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expansion and reformulation of the food safety net in the twenty-first century. Today, receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements, which essentially subsidizes low-wage jobs. Excluded populations—such as the unemployed, informally employed workers, and undocumented immigrants—must rely on charity to survive. Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of food assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to regulate people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance, Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States.
Signs Of Difference
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Author : Susan Gal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Signs Of Difference written by Susan Gal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An important study of how signs and sign relations create social and linguistic differences - and unities.