Bt cotton and the voices of the widows in the face of farmer-suicides

Title

Bt cotton and the voices of the widows in the face of farmer-suicides

Creator

Falnikar A.; Dutta M.J.

Description

This article deploys the culture-centered approach to foreground the everyday constructions of farmer-suicides amid the agrarian epidemic among the farmer-widows to attend to the everyday structures that constitute the meanings of the suicides. The depictions of the patriarchal structures of decision-making in agriculture are intertwined with the broader erasure of the interplays of inequality in farmers experiences from the discursive sites of neoliberal agriculture. Furthermore, the voices of the widows disrupt the monolithic construction of agricultural technologies as tools of modernization and progress dominant in the development communication scholarship, instead, depicting the ways in which new technologies (such as Bt cotton) are constituted within, and reproduce, the overarching inequalities. 2020 National Communication Association.

Source

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Vol-14, No. 2, pp. 95-111.

Date

2021-01-01

Publisher

Routledge

Subject

culture-centered approach; Development communication; farmer suicides; subalternity; voice

Coverage

Falnikar A., School of Business and Social Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India; Dutta M.J., School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing; Director, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Rights

All Open Access; Green Open Access

Relation

ISSN: 17513057

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1764611

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