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The Darjeeling distinction : labor and justice on fair-trade tea plantations in India

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Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule. In this nuanced...

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"Daniel McClure's book tracks the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the arrival of neoliberalism at the dawn of the 1980s. During those years, civil rights reforms and the opening of the workplace to people of color and women...

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Bolivia in the age of gas

Gustafson, Bret - 2020

seeking progressive change and to offer a critique of fossil fuel capitalism and the troubled relationship - past and present … - between the Left and fossil fuel nationalism. Through this analysis, Gustafson pushes us to rethink how radical and … military infrastructures in direct relation to oil and gas infrastructures; and the masculine excesses produced by fossil fuel …

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