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Legitimation in a World at Risk = The Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India /

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Title/Author:	Legitimation in a World at Risk/ by E.L. Desmond.
Reminder of title:	The Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India /
Author:	Desmond, E.L.
Description:	XXIX, 346 p. 9 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Technology—Sociological aspects. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6065-6
ISBN:	9789811060656

Legitimation in a World at Risk = The Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India /
Desmond, E.L.

Legitimation in a World at RiskThe Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India /[electronic resource] :by E.L. Desmond. - 1st ed. 2018. - XXIX, 346 p. 9 illus. in color.online resource.

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.

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. .

ISBN: 9789811060656

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-10-6065-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1266803
Technology—Sociological aspects.

LC Class. No.: HM846-851

Dewey Class. No.: 303.483

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