Growing stories from India : religion and the fate of agriculture /

"The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis. In response to growing dissatisfaction with the existing food s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanford, A. Whitney, 1961-
Other Authors: Shiva, Vandana
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky ©2012.
Series:Culture of the land.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcwh4
Table of Contents:
  • The ecological imagination: from paradigm to practice
  • Narratives of agriculture: how did we get here?
  • Balaram and the Yamuna River: entitlement and presumptions of control
  • Borrowing Balaram: alternative narratives
  • The festival of Holi: celebrating agricultural and social health
  • The land in between: constructing nature, wilderness, and agriculture
  • Restoration, reciprocity, and repair: revising the ecological imagination.