Abstract This article centers the voices of the widows of farmers from Yavatmal, Maharashtra, who give meaning to the patriarchal structures that unfold amid neoliberal agriculture in India. The theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach presented in the article works in solidarity with transnational feminist scholarship to interrupt the dominant discourse of development that reproduces the disempowerment experienced by these widows. Based on in-depth interviews conducted across villages, this article foregrounds the meanings and explanations of India’s agrarian crisis through the voices of widows of farmers. Their narratives position the suicides of their husbands amid the high-investment Bt cotton farming that incurred debts from which it became impossible to recover. By deploying voices of the gendered subaltern to interrogate the agrarian crisis, the article highlights the multiple structures that make widows’ lives precarious. Their reflective journeys address the communicative erasures faced by the widows within households and the larger discourse of neoliberal development of agriculture.

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印度农业危机中农民寡妇的声音

摘要 本文以来自马哈拉施特拉邦 Yavatmal 的农民寡妇的声音为中心，他们赋予印度新自由主义农业中展现的父权结构以意义。文章中提出的以文化为中心的方法的理论框架与跨国女权主义学术合作，以打断再现这些寡妇所经历的权力剥夺的主导发展话语。本文在跨村深入访谈的基础上，通过农民寡妇的声音，对印度农业危机的含义和解释进行了展望。他们的叙述将他们丈夫的自杀置于高投资的 Bt 棉花种植中，该种植欠下了无法收回的债务。文章通过使用性别底层的声音来审问土地危机，突出了使寡妇生活不稳定的多重结构。他们的反思之旅解决了家庭中寡妇面临的交流擦除问题以及新自由主义农业发展的更大话语。