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    Dr. Sarah Besky duikt in de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen arbeid, milieu en ethiek binnen een mondiaal kader. Haar wetenschap richt zich vaak op landbouwplantages en ethische handel, waarbij de complexe morele kwesties worden blootgelegd die inherent zijn aan de productie van consumptiegoederen. Door een antropologische bril analyseert ze hoe kwesties van gender en ontwikkeling milieurechtvaardigheid en ethiek vormgeven in regio's als de Himalaya en India. Haar onderzoek biedt diepgaande inzichten in de onderlinge verbondenheid van mondiale economieën en lokale realiteiten.

    The Darjeeling Distinction
    Tasting Qualities

    • Tasting Qualities

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      What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the meaning of quality has been subjected to nearly constant experimentation and debate throughout the history of the tea industry. Working across fields of political economy, science and technology studies, and sensory ethnography, Tasting Qualities argues for an approach to quality that sees it not as a final destination for economic, imperial, or post-imperial projects but as an opening for those projects.

      Tasting Qualities

    • The Darjeeling Distinction

      Introduction : reinventing the plantation for the 21st century -- Darjeeling -- Plantation -- Property -- Fairness -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion : is something better than nothing?

      The Darjeeling Distinction