عنوان

Transforming Agricultural Practice:

شماره

LA129552

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Transforming Agricultural Practice:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Hindu Narrative and the Moral Imagination

نام نخستين پديدآور

A. Whitney Sanford

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

"The environmental degradation and social dislocations caused by industrial agriculture have created an urgency to rethink food production and consumption. The proliferation of farmers markets is one example of the public response to perceived problems with the existing food system, however the bewildering array of food choices suggest a need for new guidelines for food and agriculture. This paper asks how expanding the moral imagination through narrative can help us rethink human behavior in the context of agricultural practice. Agriculture is an inherently relational, and rethinking practice means revisiting metaphors and narratives that guide behavior in the biotic community. I use a Hindu agricultural narrative to think through existing practices and the narratives contexts. This story does not romanticize human relations with nature, but instead reflects power dynamics in human (and particularly gendered) relationships, and, more important, in human interactions in the biotic community. My analysis considers relevant tropes and themes, e.g. citizenship and community, so that we can ask "what stories about agriculture do we tell ourselves?" and "what stories might we be telling?" to address the current agrarian crises. The environmental degradation and social dislocations caused by industrial agriculture have created an urgency to rethink food production and consumption. The proliferation of farmers markets is one example of the public response to perceived problems with the existing food system, however the bewildering array of food choices suggest a need for new guidelines for food and agriculture. This paper asks how expanding the moral imagination through narrative can help us rethink human behavior in the context of agricultural practice. Agriculture is an inherently relational, and rethinking practice means revisiting metaphors and narratives that guide behavior in the biotic community. I use a Hindu agricultural narrative to think through existing practices and the narratives contexts. This story does not romanticize human relations with nature, but instead reflects power dynamics in human (and particularly gendered) relationships, and, more important, in human interactions in the biotic community. My analysis considers relevant tropes and themes, e.g. citizenship and community, so that we can ask "what stories about agriculture do we tell ourselves?" and "what stories might we be telling?" to address the current agrarian crises."

تاريخ نشر

2011

توصيف ظاهري

88-116

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

15/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

اصطلاح موضوعی

HINDU

اصطلاح موضوعی

INDIA

اصطلاح موضوعی

NARRATIVE

اصطلاح موضوعی

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

A. Whitney Sanford

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156853511X553778

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y