LEADER 04316nam 22005535 450 001 9910300854503321 005 20200705114713.0 010 $a981-10-6065-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-10-6065-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000000882117 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-10-6065-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5113326 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000882117 100 $a20171025d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLegitimation in a World at Risk$b[electronic resource] $eThe Case of Genetically Modified Crops in India /$fby E.L. Desmond 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIX, 346 p. 9 illus. in color.) 311 $a981-10-6064-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis 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. . 606 $aTechnology?Sociological aspects 606 $aEnvironmental sociology 606 $aEthnology 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aScience and Technology Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22270 606 $aEnvironmental Sociology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22160 606 $aSocial Anthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12030 606 $aRegional and Cultural Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000 615 0$aTechnology?Sociological aspects. 615 0$aEnvironmental sociology. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 14$aScience and Technology Studies. 615 24$aEnvironmental Sociology. 615 24$aSocial Anthropology. 615 24$aRegional and Cultural Studies. 676 $a631.5233 700 $aDesmond$b E.L$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0891599 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300854503321 996 $aLegitimation in a World at Risk$91991430 997 $aUNINA