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| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2020.1817001 |
| Waiting for accelerations. Speculating on guar seeds in the Indian desert | |
| Puri, Stine Simonsen | |
| 通讯作者 | Puri, SS |
| 来源期刊 | HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
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| ISSN | 0275-7206 |
| EISSN | 1477-2612 |
| 英文摘要 | This article unfolds how an extreme acceleration in the price of a seed in 2012 changed farming in a rural area of India by reorienting the imagined sources of wealth in farming. The seed in question is guar which have been grown for centuries for cow fodder, but which is also used in fracking, and because of a growing international demand combined with a limited supply and wild speculation, the prices in 2012 grew exponentially with 1500% in a period of 3 months, after which it crashed at a similar rate. The article argues that this acceleration of prices caused an escalation that changed the perspective of change for farmers. it shifted the main focus from farming as a repetitive event tied to the seasonal weather changes, to one of future potentiality tied to sudden market movements. This shift in the scale of measuring change in farming moved farmers from producing seeds to also speculating in seeds, through methods of trading and stocking. The guar price acceleration opened up to imaginaries of new avenues of future income from farming that was not flowing in with the rain, but with the market. |
| 英文关键词 | India farming speculation escalation guar trade |
| 类型 | Article ; Early Access |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | SSCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000571061400001 |
| WOS类目 | Anthropology ; History |
| WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; History |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/328256 |
| 作者单位 | [Puri, Stine Simonsen] Univ Copenhagen, Dept Cross Cultural & Reg Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Puri, Stine Simonsen. Waiting for accelerations. Speculating on guar seeds in the Indian desert[J]. |
| APA | Puri, Stine Simonsen. |
| MLA | Puri, Stine Simonsen."Waiting for accelerations. Speculating on guar seeds in the Indian desert".HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY |
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