Aniket Aga
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170600 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aniket Aga |
| NOMBRES | Aniket |
| APELLIDO | Aga |
| FIRMA | AGA A |
| AFILIACIONES | Ashoka University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1074-3441 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Transnational Plants, Nationalist Frames
What is the relationship of nationalism to genetically modified (GM) crops? This article explores this question in the context of India, a country central to the global GM debate. The debate has moved far beyond the question of subordination of farmers in the global South to transnational agribusinesses like Monsanto/Bayer. It today encompasses GM crops developed through transnational networks of research and germplasm, but with domestic capital …
Responsible to Science and Responsive to Society
This article provides a fine-grained account of negotiations at the highest level of government on the question of releasing genetically modified (GM) crops, which are at the heart of the global food industry. I analyze the tenure of three successive federal environment ministers in India at the peak of the controversy over GM food crops and trace the shifting configurations of power and expertise in the production of governance. My ethnography h…
Science Studies Meets Colonialism
Environment and its Forms of Knowledge
A fierce controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops has been raging in India for over two decades. Analyzing India’s regulatory regime for GM crops, this article focuses on the modes through which state bureaucracies know the environment. It argues that two epistemologies - scientific and legal-administrative – underpin environment protection. By unraveling the course of regulatory disputes, I demonstrate that bureaucracies are not just hie…
Manufacturing Consent
This article traces how substantive decision-making power over extractive projects is denied to India's indigenous and forest-dwelling communities, even as they have clinched rights to ownership and consent under the landmark Forest Rights Act of 2006. By examining the consent mechanism provided under the act, we contend that the possibilities, and limits of such mechanisms are shaped by the larger architecture of the state-bureaucratic apparatus…
The marketing of corporate agrichemicals in Western India
This article focuses on the young men from agrarian backgrounds who work as field marketing agents for companies like Monsanto in western Maharashtra, India. They promote pesticides, herbicides and other agrichemicals to farmers who often belong to higher castes. My ethnography suggests that the promotion of agrichemicals deploys the idiom of agricultural extension, upsetting India's tenacious social hierarchies on the one hand, and driving corpo…
A Dappled Sun
This article explores how transparency laws reconfigure work practices and relations within the bureaucracy, and between bureaucrats and citizens. In a bureaucratic setup where a culture of secrecy looms large, India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act (2005), sometimes called the “sunshine law,” promised citizens unprecedented access to information. By tracing the journeys of multiple RTI requests within the largely understudied high offices of Ind…
Merchants of knowledge
This article focuses on the intermediary figure of the village-level petty retailer of chemical inputs, providing an account of the everyday relationships of farmers with transnational and domestic agribusiness capital. Retailers are figures from whom farmers purchase seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals. The article traces the rise of village-level retailers in western Maharashtra, India, since the 1990s, and finds that Maratha (a…
The marketing of corporate agrichemicals in Western India
This article focuses on the young men from agrarian backgrounds who work as field marketing agents for companies like Monsanto in western Maharashtra, India. They promote pesticides, herbicides and other agrichemicals to farmers who often belong to higher castes. My ethnography suggests that the promotion of agrichemicals deploys the idiom of agricultural extension, upsetting India's tenacious social hierarchies on the one hand, and driving corpo…
Merchants of knowledge
This article focuses on the intermediary figure of the village-level petty retailer of chemical inputs, providing an account of the everyday relationships of farmers with transnational and domestic agribusiness capital. Retailers are figures from whom farmers purchase seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals. The article traces the rise of village-level retailers in western Maharashtra, India, since the 1990s, and finds that Maratha (a…
Manufacturing Consent
This article traces how substantive decision-making power over extractive projects is denied to India's indigenous and forest-dwelling communities, even as they have clinched rights to ownership and consent under the landmark Forest Rights Act of 2006. By examining the consent mechanism provided under the act, we contend that the possibilities, and limits of such mechanisms are shaped by the larger architecture of the state-bureaucratic apparatus…
A Dappled Sun
This article explores how transparency laws reconfigure work practices and relations within the bureaucracy, and between bureaucrats and citizens. In a bureaucratic setup where a culture of secrecy looms large, India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act (2005), sometimes called the “sunshine law,” promised citizens unprecedented access to information. By tracing the journeys of multiple RTI requests within the largely understudied high offices of Ind…
A Dappled Sun
This article explores how transparency laws reconfigure work practices and relations within the bureaucracy, and between bureaucrats and citizens. In a bureaucratic setup where a culture of secrecy looms large, India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act (2005), sometimes called the “sunshine law,” promised citizens unprecedented access to information. By tracing the journeys of multiple RTI requests within the largely understudied high offices of Ind…
Merchants of knowledge
This article focuses on the intermediary figure of the village-level petty retailer of chemical inputs, providing an account of the everyday relationships of farmers with transnational and domestic agribusiness capital. Retailers are figures from whom farmers purchase seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals. The article traces the rise of village-level retailers in western Maharashtra, India, since the 1990s, and finds that Maratha (a…
The marketing of corporate agrichemicals in Western India
This article focuses on the young men from agrarian backgrounds who work as field marketing agents for companies like Monsanto in western Maharashtra, India. They promote pesticides, herbicides and other agrichemicals to farmers who often belong to higher castes. My ethnography suggests that the promotion of agrichemicals deploys the idiom of agricultural extension, upsetting India's tenacious social hierarchies on the one hand, and driving corpo…
Manufacturing Consent
This article traces how substantive decision-making power over extractive projects is denied to India's indigenous and forest-dwelling communities, even as they have clinched rights to ownership and consent under the landmark Forest Rights Act of 2006. By examining the consent mechanism provided under the act, we contend that the possibilities, and limits of such mechanisms are shaped by the larger architecture of the state-bureaucratic apparatus…
Environment and its Forms of Knowledge
A fierce controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops has been raging in India for over two decades. Analyzing India’s regulatory regime for GM crops, this article focuses on the modes through which state bureaucracies know the environment. It argues that two epistemologies - scientific and legal-administrative – underpin environment protection. By unraveling the course of regulatory disputes, I demonstrate that bureaucracies are not just hie…
Science Studies Meets Colonialism
Responsible to Science and Responsive to Society
This article provides a fine-grained account of negotiations at the highest level of government on the question of releasing genetically modified (GM) crops, which are at the heart of the global food industry. I analyze the tenure of three successive federal environment ministers in India at the peak of the controversy over GM food crops and trace the shifting configurations of power and expertise in the production of governance. My ethnography h…
Transnational Plants, Nationalist Frames
What is the relationship of nationalism to genetically modified (GM) crops? This article explores this question in the context of India, a country central to the global GM debate. The debate has moved far beyond the question of subordination of farmers in the global South to transnational agribusinesses like Monsanto/Bayer. It today encompasses GM crops developed through transnational networks of research and germplasm, but with domestic capital …
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