Professor Shaila Seshia Galvin collaborated with the Indian Ocean World Centre in the most recent episode of their podcast series.
Professor Shaila Seshia Galvin of the Graduate Institute discusses with Renee Manderville, Philip Gooding, and Archisman Chaudhuri from the Indian Ocean World Centre her anthropological and sociological work on organic Basmati rice farming in the Doon Valley, Uttarakhand, India. She explores how a locally produced commodity acquires new meanings through organic certification procedures, as well as the socio-economic and cultural implications of such agrarian practices for sustainable trade and development.
https://www.appraisingrisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Seshia-Galvin_Podcast.mp3
Listen to more Podcasts by the IOWC here.
The Appraising Risk Partner is an international collaboration of scholars and researchers dedicated to exploring the critical role of climatic crises in the past and future of the Indian Ocean World. With generous support from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the partnership seeks to create a comprehensive spatial and temporal database of human-environment interaction and interdependence during periods of climatic change.
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