Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture in women farmers' voices: culture-centering gender and development

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dutta, Mohan J. (author) and Thaker, Jagadish (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11906
    Journal Title:
    Communication Theory
    Journal Title Details:
    30 : 126-148
    Subject Term:
    communication theory, cooperatives, decision making, development issues, farm women, farming, gender, indigenous knowledge, information control, information issues, participation, rural poor, social structure, sustainability, theory, traditional knowledge, women, role, India (Southern Asia), and cultural factors
    Notes:
    23 pages, Via UI Library online subscription., Authors described issues and potentials addressed by poor women farmers in India through sanghams (cooperatives). Findings pointed toward the desire and need for communication sovereignty in resistance to patriarchal, expert-led concepts of privatization that discount their knowledge and their role in making decisions.

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