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082			_a338.17 BES
100			_aBesky, Sarah.
245			_aThe Darjeeling Distinction _c/ Sarah Besky.
260			_aBerkeley _b: University of California Press, _c , 2014.
300			_axx, 233p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1997
520			_aNestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule. In this nuanced ethnography, Sarah Besky narrates the lives of tea workers in Darjeeling. She explores how notions of fairness, value, and justice shifted with the rise of fair-trade practices and postcolonial separatist politics in the region. This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations. Readers in a variety of disciplines—anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studies—will gain a critical perspective on how plantation life is changing as Darjeeling struggles to reinvent its signature commodity for twenty-first-century consumers. The Darjeeling Distinction challenges fair-trade policy and practice, exposing how trade initiatives often fail to consider the larger environmental, historical, and sociopolitical forces that shape the lives of the people they intended to support.
650			_a Tea trade
650			_aDarjeeling
650			_aLabor and Justice on Fair
700			_aSarah Besky.
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