Becoming Organic

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Becoming Organic is written by Shaila Seshia Galvin and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300258089 (ISBN 10) and 9780300258080 (ISBN 13).

A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality, this book yields new understandings of this fraught concept. Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India’s central Himalayas, revealing how organic is less a material property of land or its produce than a quality produced in discursive, regulatory, and affective registers. Becoming Organic is a nuanced account of development practice in rural India, as it has unfolded through complex relationships forged among state authorities, private corporations, and new agrarian intermediaries.