ABSTRACT

This article deploys the culture-centered approach to foreground the everyday constructions of farmer-suicides amid the agrarian epidemic among the farmer-widows to attend to the everyday structures that constitute the meanings of the suicides. The depictions of the patriarchal structures of decision-making in agriculture are intertwined with the broader erasure of the interplays of inequality in farmers’ experiences from the discursive sites of neoliberal agriculture. Furthermore, the voices of the widows disrupt the monolithic construction of agricultural technologies as tools of modernization and progress dominant in the development communication scholarship, instead, depicting the ways in which new technologies (such as Bt cotton) are constituted within, and reproduce, the overarching inequalities.

摘要

本文采用了以文化为中心的方法，以在农民寡妇之间的农业流行中突出农民自杀的日常结构，以研究构成自杀意义的日常结构。农业决策中的父权制结构与新自由主义农业话语场所中农民经验不平等相互作用的更广泛消除相互交织。此外，寡妇的声音打乱了农业技术的整体建设，使之成为现代化工具和在发展交流奖学金中占主导地位的进步，相反，描绘了新技术（如Bt棉花）在内部构成和繁殖的方式。总体不平等。