Spiritual Farming and the Demons of the Market: Agrarian Crisis and the Cultural Politics of Food Sovereignty in South India

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spiritual Farming and the Demons of the Market: Agrarian Crisis and the Cultural Politics of Food Sovereignty in South India

Original language description

In critical nature-society studies, food sovereignty movements, such as La Vía Campesina, are among the more hopeful movements towards a global agro-ecological transition. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the "zero budget spiritual farming" movementin Kerala, this paper demonstrate how this food sovereignty movement represents a novel metabolic relationships between humans, soils and livestock. Emerging in the context of a protracted agrarian crisis and an epidemic of farmers' suicides the zero budget spiritual farming movement embodies hope by drawing on three registers: Firstly, it builds on the affective labor of restoring soil fertility and intimacy in human non-human relations by utilizing an innovative technology, putatively built on Vedicknowledge, of fermenting urine and dung of native cow breeds. Secondly, the movement aims at building alternative economic rationalities by insulating farmers from the market by avoiding certain substances such as hybrid cows, hybrid seed

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Type

W - Workshop organization

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Praha

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

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Total number of attendees

20

Foreign attendee count

6

Type of event by attendee nationality

EUR - Evropská akce