Shaila Seshia Galvin - Sustainable Organic Farming and Questions of Value

Prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin (Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland) discusses 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.

For more information about Prof. Galvin’s work, please see:

• https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215014/becoming-organic/
• https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12704
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105070

This podcast was produced with the help of Renée Manderville (Project Manager, IOWC), Philip Gooding, and Archisman Chaudhuri (both postdoctoral fellows, IOWC, McGill).