Daniel Münster
Biographic Data
| ID | 207775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Münster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Münster |
| SIGNATURE | MÜNSTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Nectar of Life
In response to an agrarian crisis, small-scale farmers in South India are experimenting with the application of agricultural ferments to their degraded soils. This article focuses on the Nectar of Life, a fermented preparation made by practitioners of Zero Budget Natural Farming out of the urine and dung of native cows. Based on ethnography in Wayanad, Kerala, and textual analysis of statements by Subhash Palekar, the inventor of the ferment, I u…
The Anthropology of Suicide
Suicide and Agency
Land als Ressource, Boden und Landschaft
The Anthropocene reorients the agrarian question as an ecological question of planetary scale. Rather than resolving the inherent tension between political economy and the biophysical environment by moving political ecology closer to the natural sciences, we propose an active engagement with impulses from the environmental humanities and anthropological engagements with alternative ontologies. The relational political ecology of agriculture that …
Ginger is a gamble
Responding to agrarian crisis at home, cash crop cultivators hailing from the South Indian district of Wayanad increasingly engage in the seasonal production of ginger in other states of India. This is a purely profit-based and unsustainable crop boom that takes a toll on both labor and the environment. This ethnographic analysis of speculative ginger cultivation situates this emerging economic complex in the regional political ecology, farming p…
The anthropology of neoliberal India
This special issue brings together ethnographic accounts exploring local and regional effects of transformations in India that social scientists have described under the heading of 'neoliberalism' (Alternative Survey Group 2007; Oza 2006; Patnaik 2007). Chief among these transformations in India are the economic restructuring processes after 1991 when the Government of India launched far-reaching policies of economic liberalisation, arguably unde…
Postkoloniale Ethnologie. Vom Objekt postkolonialer Kritik zur Ethnografie der neoliberalen Globalisierung
»The complicity of colonialism and social sciences«, schrieb Ranajit Guha, der indische Historiker und Begründer der Subaltern Studies, »is nowhere more explicit than in anthropology.« (1987: xiii) Die Ethnologie hat somit eine paradoxe Stellung innerhalb des vorliegenden Versuches, das inter- und transdisziplinäre Projekt der postkolonialen Studien in ausdifferenzierten ›postkolonialen Wissenschaften‹ zu normalisieren: Einerseits hat die Ethnolo…
Consuming the Forest in an Environment of Crisis
This article engages ethnographically with the neoliberalization of nature in the spheres of tourism, conservation and agriculture. Drawing on a case study of Wayanad district, Kerala, the article explores a number of themes. First, it shows how a boom in domestic nature tourism is currently transforming Wayanad into a landscape for tourist consumption. Second, it examines how tourism in Wayanad articulates with projects of neoliberalizing forest…
Farmers' suicides and the state in India
This article reflects on the challenge of making 'farmers' suicides' an object of ethnographic enquiry. This challenge is not just a matter of methods, ethics and access but also a matter of categorical choices involved in studying this over-determined and politicised category of self-killing. Drawing on fieldwork in the Wayanad district of Kerala, the article argues that 'farmers' suicides' are not self-evident types of rural death, but become r…
Postkoloniale Traditionen
»Postkoloniale Traditionen« verbindet die Ansätze der postkolonialen Theorie und der Subaltern Studies mit einer modernen Ethnografie des ländlichen Südindiens. Dabei wird ein südindisches Dorf als ein Ort der Realisierung einer alternativen nicht-westlichen Moderne beschrieben. Zwei Merkmale der indischen Moderne werden herausgearbeitet: ihre Postkolonialität - das allgegenwärtige Erbe des Kolonialismus - und ihre Traditionalität - ihre Verhandl…
Postkoloniale Traditionen
Farmers' suicides and the state in India
This article reflects on the challenge of making 'farmers' suicides' an object of ethnographic enquiry. This challenge is not just a matter of methods, ethics and access but also a matter of categorical choices involved in studying this over-determined and politicised category of self-killing. Drawing on fieldwork in the Wayanad district of Kerala, the article argues that 'farmers' suicides' are not self-evident types of rural death, but become r…
Consuming the Forest in an Environment of Crisis
This article engages ethnographically with the neoliberalization of nature in the spheres of tourism, conservation and agriculture. Drawing on a case study of Wayanad district, Kerala, the article explores a number of themes. First, it shows how a boom in domestic nature tourism is currently transforming Wayanad into a landscape for tourist consumption. Second, it examines how tourism in Wayanad articulates with projects of neoliberalizing forest…
The anthropology of neoliberal India
This special issue brings together ethnographic accounts exploring local and regional effects of transformations in India that social scientists have described under the heading of 'neoliberalism' (Alternative Survey Group 2007; Oza 2006; Patnaik 2007). Chief among these transformations in India are the economic restructuring processes after 1991 when the Government of India launched far-reaching policies of economic liberalisation, arguably unde…
Ginger is a gamble
Responding to agrarian crisis at home, cash crop cultivators hailing from the South Indian district of Wayanad increasingly engage in the seasonal production of ginger in other states of India. This is a purely profit-based and unsustainable crop boom that takes a toll on both labor and the environment. This ethnographic analysis of speculative ginger cultivation situates this emerging economic complex in the regional political ecology, farming p…
The Nectar of Life
In response to an agrarian crisis, small-scale farmers in South India are experimenting with the application of agricultural ferments to their degraded soils. This article focuses on the Nectar of Life, a fermented preparation made by practitioners of Zero Budget Natural Farming out of the urine and dung of native cows. Based on ethnography in Wayanad, Kerala, and textual analysis of statements by Subhash Palekar, the inventor of the ferment, I u…
Postkoloniale Traditionen
»Postkoloniale Traditionen« verbindet die Ansätze der postkolonialen Theorie und der Subaltern Studies mit einer modernen Ethnografie des ländlichen Südindiens. Dabei wird ein südindisches Dorf als ein Ort der Realisierung einer alternativen nicht-westlichen Moderne beschrieben. Zwei Merkmale der indischen Moderne werden herausgearbeitet: ihre Postkolonialität - das allgegenwärtige Erbe des Kolonialismus - und ihre Traditionalität - ihre Verhandl…
Postkoloniale Traditionen
Postkoloniale Ethnologie. Vom Objekt postkolonialer Kritik zur Ethnografie der neoliberalen Globalisierung
»The complicity of colonialism and social sciences«, schrieb Ranajit Guha, der indische Historiker und Begründer der Subaltern Studies, »is nowhere more explicit than in anthropology.« (1987: xiii) Die Ethnologie hat somit eine paradoxe Stellung innerhalb des vorliegenden Versuches, das inter- und transdisziplinäre Projekt der postkolonialen Studien in ausdifferenzierten ›postkolonialen Wissenschaften‹ zu normalisieren: Einerseits hat die Ethnolo…
Consuming the Forest in an Environment of Crisis
This article engages ethnographically with the neoliberalization of nature in the spheres of tourism, conservation and agriculture. Drawing on a case study of Wayanad district, Kerala, the article explores a number of themes. First, it shows how a boom in domestic nature tourism is currently transforming Wayanad into a landscape for tourist consumption. Second, it examines how tourism in Wayanad articulates with projects of neoliberalizing forest…
Farmers' suicides and the state in India
This article reflects on the challenge of making 'farmers' suicides' an object of ethnographic enquiry. This challenge is not just a matter of methods, ethics and access but also a matter of categorical choices involved in studying this over-determined and politicised category of self-killing. Drawing on fieldwork in the Wayanad district of Kerala, the article argues that 'farmers' suicides' are not self-evident types of rural death, but become r…
The anthropology of neoliberal India
This special issue brings together ethnographic accounts exploring local and regional effects of transformations in India that social scientists have described under the heading of 'neoliberalism' (Alternative Survey Group 2007; Oza 2006; Patnaik 2007). Chief among these transformations in India are the economic restructuring processes after 1991 when the Government of India launched far-reaching policies of economic liberalisation, arguably unde…
Ginger is a gamble
Responding to agrarian crisis at home, cash crop cultivators hailing from the South Indian district of Wayanad increasingly engage in the seasonal production of ginger in other states of India. This is a purely profit-based and unsustainable crop boom that takes a toll on both labor and the environment. This ethnographic analysis of speculative ginger cultivation situates this emerging economic complex in the regional political ecology, farming p…
The Anthropology of Suicide
Suicide and Agency
Land als Ressource, Boden und Landschaft
The Anthropocene reorients the agrarian question as an ecological question of planetary scale. Rather than resolving the inherent tension between political economy and the biophysical environment by moving political ecology closer to the natural sciences, we propose an active engagement with impulses from the environmental humanities and anthropological engagements with alternative ontologies. The relational political ecology of agriculture that …
The Nectar of Life
In response to an agrarian crisis, small-scale farmers in South India are experimenting with the application of agricultural ferments to their degraded soils. This article focuses on the Nectar of Life, a fermented preparation made by practitioners of Zero Budget Natural Farming out of the urine and dung of native cows. Based on ethnography in Wayanad, Kerala, and textual analysis of statements by Subhash Palekar, the inventor of the ferment, I u…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agrarian society (5 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works)