Conjunctures in Law and Development: Assemblages for Progress in Indian Agricultural Futures

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dc.contributor.advisorCoombe, Rosemary
dc.contributor.authorMalik, Sajjad Ali
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T14:24:55Z
dc.date.available2022-03-03T14:24:55Z
dc.date.copyright2021-12
dc.date.issued2022-03-03
dc.date.updated2022-03-03T14:24:55Z
dc.degree.disciplineSocio-Legal Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation asks: how are the legal, political, and social legacies of the Green Revolution and India's incorporation into the global knowledge economy shaping or undermining the emergent discourses, practices, and regulatory rationalities of India's current Climate Smart Agriculture development initiatives? To answer this question, I construct a theoretical/methodological framework that brings together conjunctural analysis, assemblage theory, Foucaultian governmentality, and transnational legal pluralism. I identify two previous historical eras of significant agricultural and developmental change in India: the Green Revolution (1950s-early 1970s) and the liberalization of Indian agriculture as part of India's broader incorporation into the global knowledge economy (1991-mid 2000s). I study the historical relationship between the modern Indian state and Indian farmers across these eras of agricultural and developmental transformation to investigate how they are informing current Climate Smart Agriculture programs, how these contemporary programs work, and the extent to which these programs and the political struggles they incite represent a new historical phase of state power in India. I argue that Climate Smart Agriculture programs and the accompanying introduction of Big Data technology in Indian agriculture should not be understood as a singular event or a unique and novel initiative, but as the most recent project of governmentality mediating the relationship between the Indian state and Indian farmers. This dissertation further shows how relationships between states in the Global South and farmers are shaped by the interplay of technologies (understood both conventionally and in the Foucaultian sense) that are constructed and regulated through the law. I simultaneously demonstrate how the entwined processes of postcolonial state- and subject-making in the domains of agriculture and development always invokes forms of resistance that often result in contradictory regulatory outcomes, which continue to establish the conditions for future political contestation. This dissertation contributes to the field of Socio-legal Studies at large, and the subfields of Law and Development, Law and Globalization/TWAIL, and Green Criminology.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39151
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subject.keywordsSocio-legal studies
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and society
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and development
dc.subject.keywordsThird World Approaches to International Law
dc.subject.keywordsTWAIL
dc.subject.keywordsIndia
dc.subject.keywordsBiodiversity
dc.subject.keywordsClimate smart agriculture
dc.subject.keywordsDigital agriculture
dc.subject.keywordsPrecision agriculture
dc.subject.keywordsBig data in agriculture
dc.subject.keywordsBiopiracy
dc.subject.keywordsGreen Revolution
dc.subject.keywordsGovernmentality
dc.subject.keywordsConjunctural assemblage
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational legal pluralism
dc.subject.keywordsLegal subjectivity
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and dispossession
dc.subject.keywordsTechnologies of government
dc.subject.keywordsKnowledge economy
dc.subject.keywordsBiotechnology
dc.titleConjunctures in Law and Development: Assemblages for Progress in Indian Agricultural Futures
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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