Unraveling Farmer Suicides in India: Egoism and Masculinity in Peasant Life - Couverture rigide

Kumar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199466858 ISBN 13 : 9780199466856

Editeur : OUP India, 2016

Synopsis

Farmers' suicides' have been typically framed through official statistics and they have been explained in terms of agrarian economic distress. This book revises and extends such explanations on the basis of ethnographic work in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. It describes spatially grounded transformations taking place in the domains of production, consumption, social relationships, and gender identities in south India today. Its focus is on exploring how these interconnected transformations-and their engendered, emotional experiences-set the context for understanding suicidal behavior in a particular location. The understanding that 'farmers' suicides' are objectively, uniformly, and exclusively marked by 'farm-related' factors are thus interrogated. The book concludes by suggesting that 'farmers' suicides' are motivationally related to the wider field of rural suicides. Overall, the book contends that rural suicides relate to emerging mentalities and interactions around status, equality, and honour in contemporary India.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nilotpal Kumar

Nilotpal Kumar is Assistant Professor, School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199466858
• ISBN 13: 9780199466856
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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