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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Note on Transliteration
  10. Introduction
    1. Late Capitalism and Fair Trade in Darjeeling
    2. Gendered Projects of Value
    3. Gender and Sustainability
    4. Empowerment Lite?
    5. Everyday Gendered Translations of Transnational Justice Regimes
    6. Making Gendered Sense of Fair Trade
    7. Overview of the Book
  11. Chapter 1 Locations: Homework and Fieldwork
    1. Fieldwork: Pressures to be a “Conventional Anthropologist”
    2. Informant, Interlocutor, Researcher, or Activist?
    3. Note on Methodology
  12. Chapter 2 Everyday Marginality of Nepalis in India
    1. Politics of Recognition
    2. Struggles of Darjeeling Nepalis
  13. Chapter 3 The Reincarnation of Tea
    1. Plantations and the Reincarnation of Tea
    2. The Shadow History of Tea in Darjeeling
    3. Sānu Krishak Sansthā: The Cooperative of “Illegal” Tea Farmers
    4. Fair Trade in Darjeeling’s Tea Sector
    5. Fair Trade and Plantations
    6. Unions, Joint Body, and Fair Trade
    7. Conclusion
  14. Chapter 4 Fair Trade and Women Without History: The Consequences of Transnational Affective Solidarity
    1. Encounters
    2. Rituals of Witnessing
    3. Recollections and Documentation of Witnessing Fair Trade
    4. Fair Trade and Privatized Political Fields
    5. Conclusion
  15. Chapter 5 Ghumāuri: Interstitial Sustainability in India’s Fair Trade−Organic Certified Tea Plantations
    1. Survival Narratives
    2. Gendered Transitions in Regional Labor Politics
    3. Ethnicized Subnationalism and Plantation Labor Politics
    4. Chhāyā
    5. Competing Communities, Interstitial Spaces
    6. Conclusion
  16. Chapter 6 Fair Trade vs. Swachcha Vyāpār: Ethical Counter-Politics of Women’s Empowerment in a Fair Trade−Certified Small Farmers Cooperative
    1. Smallholder Tea Production and Fair Trade in Darjeeling
    2. From Debating to Contesting Fair Trade
    3. Middlemen, Gendered Spatial Politics, and the Government of Women’s Work
    4. “We Are the Police of Our Own Fields”: Gendered Boundaries within Sānu Krishak Sansthā
    5. Conclusion: Empowerment Fix?
  17. Chapter 7 “Will My Daughter Find an Organic Husband?” Domesticating Fair Trade through Cultural Entrepreneurship
    1. “She ate my work:” Women’s Work and Household Relations within the Plantation
    2. Household Relations in the Cooperative (Sānu Krishak Sansthā)
    3. Household Conflicts in Sānu Krishak Sansthā
    4. Household Politics and Public Discourses of “Risk”
    5. Consequences of Differential Visibilities of Women’s Work
  18. Chapter 8 “Tadpoles in Water” vs. “Police of Our Fields”: Competing Subjectivities, Women’s Political Agency and Fair Trade
    1. Being “Tadpoles in Water” vs. “Police of our Fields”
    2. Ghumāuri vs. Women’s Wing Meetings
    3. The Politics of Clean Hands vs. the Politics of Clean Trade
    4. Conclusion
  19. Conclusion: Everyday Sustainability
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1

Locations: Homework and Fieldwork

Chapter 2

Everyday Marginality of Nepalis in India

Chapter 3

The Reincarnation of Tea

Chapter 4

Fair Trade and Women Without History: The Consequences of Transnational Affective Solidarity

Chapter 5

Ghumāuri: Interstitial Sustainability in India’s Fair Trade−Organic Certified Tea Plantations

Chapter 6

Fair Trade vs. Swachcha Vyāpār: Ethical Counter-Politics of Women’s Empowerment in a Fair Trade−Certified Small Farmers Cooperative

Chapter 7

“Will My Daughter Find an Organic Husband?” Domesticating Fair Trade through Cultural Entrepreneurship

Chapter 8

“Tadpoles in Water” vs. “Police of Our Fields”: Competing Subjectivities, Women’s Political Agency and Fair Trade

Conclusion: Everyday Sustainability

Notes

References

Index

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