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Kapadia K (2010) Liberalisation and transformations in India’s informal economy Female
breadwinners in working-class households in Chennai in B Harriss-White and J
Heyer (eds) The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and South
Asia. London, Routledge [Study Direct]
Momsen, J. H. (2004) Gender and Development, Routledge, London.
Nightingale, A. (2006) The nature of gender: work, gender, and environment Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space 2006, 24(2):165-185
Ransom E and C Bain (2011) ‘Gendering Agricultural Aid An Analysis of Whether
International Development Assistance Targets Women and Gender’, Gender and
Society 25(1): 48-74.
Rao N (2012), ‘Male ‘Providers’ and Female ‘Housewives’: A Gendered Co-performance in
Rural North India’ Development and Change 43(5): 1025-1048
Whitehead, A. and Kabeer, N. (2001) Living with Uncertainty: gender, livelihoods and propoor
growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa IDS Working Paper 134.
Caste
Another ‘axis’ of differentiation is caste. We don’t have time to discuss this in class, but
anyone who is interested can take a look at some of these:
Basu, P. and J. Chakraborty (2008) Land, Labor and Rural Development: Analyzing
Participation in India’s Village Dairy Cooperatives, Professional Geographer,
60(3): 299-313.
De Neve G and G Carswell (2013) T-shirts and Tumblers: caste, politics and
industrial work in Tiruppur’s textile belt, Tamilnadu Contributions to Indian
Sociology (forthcoming, copy available on Study Direct under Week 7)
Gorringe, H 2010: ‘Shifting the “grindstone of caste”? Decreasing Dependency
among Dalit labourers in Tamil Nadu’, pp248-266 in B Harriss-White and J
Heyer (eds) The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and
South Asia. London, Routledge. [Study Direct]
Gupta, D. (2004) Introduction: The Certitudes of Caste: When Identity Trumps
Hierarchy, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 38 (1/2).
Jeffrey C. (2001) ‘A fist is stronger than five fingers’: caste and dominance in rural
north India’ Trans Inst Br Geogr NS 26 217–236 .
Krishna, A. (2003) What is Happening to Caste? A View from Some North Indian
Villages, Journal of Asian Studies, 62 (4).
Shah, AM (2007) Caste in the 21st Century: From System to Elements Economic
and Political Weekly (Nov. 3 - 9, 2007), 42(44): 109-116.
Tanabe, A., 2006, Recast(e)ing Identity: Transformation of Inter-Caste
Relationships in Post-Colonial Rural Orissa, Modern Asian Studies, 40 (3),
761-796.
Week 5: Agriculture and Livelihoods: the role of modern biotechnology
This week we will consider how ‘agricultural development’ has been experienced by the
rural poor. We will critically review the Green Revolution - for some commentators, this
was a social and environmental failure; for others, it was an economic success that helped
stave off a Malthusian hunger trap. With the experience of the Green Revolution in our
minds, we turn our attention to modern biotechnology and ‘GM’ crops. We consider why
there is a need for modern, high-energy input agricultural development, and what have
been the environmental, economic and socio-political problems associated with modern
agriculture. We consider the debate around the impact of GM crops on poverty and food
security.
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