Ronald J Herring
Biographic Data
| ID | 156050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald J Herring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Herring |
| SIGNATURE | HERRING R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Biotechnology
James C. Scott's prodigious work has influenced numerous fields of inquiry, often profoundly, as documented in this forum. This essay suggests how an extension of Scott's theoretical apparatus might provide fresh understanding of stalemated contentious politics of great importance to rural well-being
Whatever Happened to Class
1. Introduction - Restoring Agency to Class: Puzzles from South Asia Ronald J. Herring and Rina Agarwala 2. On the Decline of Class Analysis in South Asian Studies Vivek Chibber 3. Was the Indian Labor Movement Ever Co-opted? Evaluating Standard Accounts Emmanuel Teitelbaum 4. From Work to Welfare: A New Class Movement in India Rina Agarwala 5. Middle-Class Activism and the Politics of the Informal Working Class: A Perspective on Class Relations …
The Oxford handbook of food, politics, and society
Más allá del teorema de la imposibilidad política de la reforma agraria
El autor se propone explorar vías para entender las condiciones políticas que alivien la pobreza mediante la reforma agraria. Argumenta que la visión tradicional de la reforma agraria y sus políticas, prácticamente imposibles dentro de las configuraciones políticas típicas, es demasiado limitada. El enfoque económico tradicional es la intersección entre los derechos sobre la tierra, la agricultura y la pobreza, debe ampliarse para incorporar camb…
State science, risk and agricultural biotechnology
Agricultural biotechnology has been a project of India's developmental state since 1986, but implementation generated significant conflict. Sequential cases of two crops carrying the same transgene - Bt cotton and Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine) - facing the same authorization procedures produced different outcomes. The state science that approved Bt cotton was attacked as biased and dangerously inadequate by opponents, but the technology spread …
Poor choices
The surprising loss of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led national government in India's 2004 general elections has been generally understood as a rejection of the National Democratic Alliance's campaign that celebrated a ‘Shining India’ among voters who had not shared in the wealth produced by India's recent growth boom—especially Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe electorates. A close look at the empirical evidence demonstrates that Dalit an…
Naturalising transgenics
Cotton farmers in Gujarat, western India, faced a novel decision matrix when Delhi gave provisional approval, in March 2002, to Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech Ltd. to release three Bt-cotton varieties. These varieties represented India's first legally commercialised transgenics: official seeds. Unofficial transgenic seeds were also available to farmers both as unpackaged, unbranded 'loose seeds' - mostly F2 progeny of a popular but banned transgenic var…
The genomics revolution and development studies
The genomics revolution in biology has enabled technologies with unprecedented potential; genetic engineering is changing the terrain of development studies. Societies have reacted with indifference or appreciation to genetically engineered pharmaceuticals, beginning with insulin; yet for food and agriculture, a globally contentious politics and unprecedented policy dilemmas have arisen. Transgenic organisms raise questions of property, ethics an…
Stealth seeds
Transgenic seeds in both India (Bt cotton) and Brazil (glyphosate-resistant soybeans) spread widely and rapidly through farming communities outside the reach of biosafety or bioproperty institutions. Stealth transgenics are saved, cross-bred, repackaged, sold, exchanged and planted in an anarchic agrarian capitalism that defies surveillance and control of firms and states. The outcome is more pro-poor than alternative modes of diffusion, but unde…
Locked in Place
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. By Vivek Chibber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 335p. $39.50 cloth. Vivek Chibber's book is exceptionally clear, fresh, empirically rich, and analytically tight. It clears some conventional cobwebs in thinking about developmental states. It should be read widely
Persistent Poverty and Path Dependency
Summaries The historical experience of the United States, where aggregate wealth multiplied in abundance but persistent poverty is glaring, offers concrete illustration that growth is not a sufficient condition for poverty alleviation in the transition from agrarian society. In contrast, the State of Kerala in South India abolished an agrarian system based on agrestic serfdom and slavery in a compressed time period and has been notably successful…
The State and the Poor
New seeds and poor people
Rethinking the commons
State Autonomy and Agrarian Transformation in India
How Facts Replace Fads
Dilemmas of agrarian communism
The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka. Mick Moore
Western Economists and Eastern Societies. Agents of Change in South Asia, 1950-1970
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India.Ranajit Guha
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Economics
Land to the Tiller. The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment
Land to the Tiller
Locked in Place
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. By Vivek Chibber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 335p. $39.50 cloth. Vivek Chibber's book is exceptionally clear, fresh, empirically rich, and analytically tight. It clears some conventional cobwebs in thinking about developmental states. It should be read widely
Guaranteeing employment to the rural poor
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the 'Eradication of Feudalism' in Pakistan
Early in his tenure in office, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced that his agrarian reforms would affect the lives of the common people of Pakistan more than any other measure contemplated by his avowedly socialist and populist regime. Almost seven years later, the martial law regime of Zia-ul-Haq issued a White Paper on the performance of Bhutto's government (which Zia ended with a coup in July of 1977), charging that the land reforms were in practic…
State science, risk and agricultural biotechnology
Agricultural biotechnology has been a project of India's developmental state since 1986, but implementation generated significant conflict. Sequential cases of two crops carrying the same transgene - Bt cotton and Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine) - facing the same authorization procedures produced different outcomes. The state science that approved Bt cotton was attacked as biased and dangerously inadequate by opponents, but the technology spread …
Poor choices
The surprising loss of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led national government in India's 2004 general elections has been generally understood as a rejection of the National Democratic Alliance's campaign that celebrated a ‘Shining India’ among voters who had not shared in the wealth produced by India's recent growth boom—especially Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe electorates. A close look at the empirical evidence demonstrates that Dalit an…
Rethinking the commons
Dilemmas of agrarian communism
State Autonomy and Agrarian Transformation in India
Embedded production relations and the rationality of tenant quiescence in tenure reform
The tenure reform policy model in operation in South Asia has generally failed to achieve its modest aims and has often led to net deterioration in the life chances of the class it claims to protect and rehabilitate. The causes for failure include the distribution of political power, as is frequently recognized, but as importantly include the nature of production relations, the social matrix within which production relations are embedded, and the…
Biotechnology
James C. Scott's prodigious work has influenced numerous fields of inquiry, often profoundly, as documented in this forum. This essay suggests how an extension of Scott's theoretical apparatus might provide fresh understanding of stalemated contentious politics of great importance to rural well-being
Land to the Tiller. The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the 'Eradication of Feudalism' in Pakistan
Early in his tenure in office, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced that his agrarian reforms would affect the lives of the common people of Pakistan more than any other measure contemplated by his avowedly socialist and populist regime. Almost seven years later, the martial law regime of Zia-ul-Haq issued a White Paper on the performance of Bhutto's government (which Zia ended with a coup in July of 1977), charging that the land reforms were in practic…
Embedded production relations and the rationality of tenant quiescence in tenure reform
The tenure reform policy model in operation in South Asia has generally failed to achieve its modest aims and has often led to net deterioration in the life chances of the class it claims to protect and rehabilitate. The causes for failure include the distribution of political power, as is frequently recognized, but as importantly include the nature of production relations, the social matrix within which production relations are embedded, and the…
Land to the Tiller
Guaranteeing employment to the rural poor
Land to the Tiller. The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment
Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Economics
Western Economists and Eastern Societies. Agents of Change in South Asia, 1950-1970
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India.Ranajit Guha
The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka. Mick Moore
Dilemmas of agrarian communism
Rethinking the commons
State Autonomy and Agrarian Transformation in India
How Facts Replace Fads
New seeds and poor people
The State and the Poor
Persistent Poverty and Path Dependency
Summaries The historical experience of the United States, where aggregate wealth multiplied in abundance but persistent poverty is glaring, offers concrete illustration that growth is not a sufficient condition for poverty alleviation in the transition from agrarian society. In contrast, the State of Kerala in South India abolished an agrarian system based on agrestic serfdom and slavery in a compressed time period and has been notably successful…
Locked in Place
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. By Vivek Chibber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 335p. $39.50 cloth. Vivek Chibber's book is exceptionally clear, fresh, empirically rich, and analytically tight. It clears some conventional cobwebs in thinking about developmental states. It should be read widely
Naturalising transgenics
Cotton farmers in Gujarat, western India, faced a novel decision matrix when Delhi gave provisional approval, in March 2002, to Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech Ltd. to release three Bt-cotton varieties. These varieties represented India's first legally commercialised transgenics: official seeds. Unofficial transgenic seeds were also available to farmers both as unpackaged, unbranded 'loose seeds' - mostly F2 progeny of a popular but banned transgenic var…
The genomics revolution and development studies
The genomics revolution in biology has enabled technologies with unprecedented potential; genetic engineering is changing the terrain of development studies. Societies have reacted with indifference or appreciation to genetically engineered pharmaceuticals, beginning with insulin; yet for food and agriculture, a globally contentious politics and unprecedented policy dilemmas have arisen. Transgenic organisms raise questions of property, ethics an…
Stealth seeds
Transgenic seeds in both India (Bt cotton) and Brazil (glyphosate-resistant soybeans) spread widely and rapidly through farming communities outside the reach of biosafety or bioproperty institutions. Stealth transgenics are saved, cross-bred, repackaged, sold, exchanged and planted in an anarchic agrarian capitalism that defies surveillance and control of firms and states. The outcome is more pro-poor than alternative modes of diffusion, but unde…
Poor choices
The surprising loss of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led national government in India's 2004 general elections has been generally understood as a rejection of the National Democratic Alliance's campaign that celebrated a ‘Shining India’ among voters who had not shared in the wealth produced by India's recent growth boom—especially Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe electorates. A close look at the empirical evidence demonstrates that Dalit an…
The Oxford handbook of food, politics, and society
Más allá del teorema de la imposibilidad política de la reforma agraria
El autor se propone explorar vías para entender las condiciones políticas que alivien la pobreza mediante la reforma agraria. Argumenta que la visión tradicional de la reforma agraria y sus políticas, prácticamente imposibles dentro de las configuraciones políticas típicas, es demasiado limitada. El enfoque económico tradicional es la intersección entre los derechos sobre la tierra, la agricultura y la pobreza, debe ampliarse para incorporar camb…
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