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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
wiley   +1 more source

Respectful maternity care and intersectional identities in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
Adepoju VA, Odueniyi C, Abdulrahim A, Adnani QES.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Puzzle of Open Defecation in Rural India: Evidence from a Novel Measure of Caste Attitudes in a Nationally Representative Survey. [PDF]

Econ Dev Cult Change, 2019
Spears D, Thorat A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Human Dignity: the Case of Migrant Labourers in India. [PDF]

J Hum Rights Soc Work, 2021
Choolayil AC, Putran L.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard, Kelly Redouté, María Gabriela Durán Valis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The narrative governance of life: Morality, melodrama, and the limits of biopower in western Indian efforts against sex selection. [PDF]

Med Anthropol Q
Sandesara UN.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

Inclusiveness of social participation for health reform: findings from a realist review. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Mishra S, Chadha N, Esandi ME, Serrao C, Acuña RH, Surendran S, Saini A, Aristegui I, Nambiar D.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

The postcolonial sociology of love in Gandhi's non-violent political culture of <i>Satyagraha</i>. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Gianolla C.
europepmc   +1 more source