Background Papers

Who will be left to cheer the end of illegal US cotton subsidies? (PDF)
Why African cotton farmers cannot afford US inaction on cotton subsidies
Oxfam Briefing Paper

Finding the Moral Fiber (PDF)
Why reform is urgently needed for a fair cotton trade
Oxfam Briefing Paper

Herring, Ron

Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds, and the Poor (PDF)

What's Left Out When the Left Goes Discursive? Science, Property and the Politics of "GMOs" in India (PDF)
Figure 1 (PDF)

Ramamurthy, Priti

The Cotton Commodity Chain, Women, Work and Agency in India and Japan: The Case for Feminist Agro-Food Systems Research (PDF)

Why Is Buying a “Madras” Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis (PDF)

Material Consumers, Fabricating Subjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research (PDF)

Stone, Glenn Davis

A Science of the Gray: Malthus, Marx, and the Ethics of Studying Crop Biotechnology. In Embedding Ethics: Shifting Boundaries of the Anthropological Profession, ed. L. Meskell and P. Pels, pp. 197-217. Berg, Oxford. (PDF)

Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in India. Human Organization 63:127-140 (HTML)

Both Sides Now: Fallacies in the Genetic-Modification Wars, Implications for Developing Countries, and Anthropological Perspectives. Current Anthropology, 43(4):611-630 (PDF)

Biotechnology and Suicide in India. Anthropology News 43(5):5. (HTML)

Alicia Ory DeNicola

Chapter IV - Designing: Imagining Tradition
Excerpt from Creating Borders, Maintaining Boundaries Traditional work and global markets in Bagru’s handblock textile industry

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