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Generating Toxic Landscapes: Impact on Well-being of Cotton Farmers in Telangana, India

Jadhav, SS; Kannuri, N; (2018) Generating Toxic Landscapes: Impact on Well-being of Cotton Farmers in Telangana, India. Anthropology and Medicine , 25 (2) pp. 121-140. 10.1080/13648470.2017.1317398. Green open access

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Abstract

Existing literature demonstrates agro-chemicals result in physical toxicity and damages human health, flora and fauna. However, little is known about how such ‘toxicity’ relates to mental well-being and social suffering. This paper aims to demonstrate how local, national and international vectors are interlinked to shape social distress among cotton farmers in India. Ethnographic interviews and focus group discussions were conducted in a cotton-growing village of the Warangal district, Telangana state, India. The results advance the concept of counter therapeutic spaces and hypothesise that toxic landscapes emerge through a dynamic interaction between dispersed agencies that interact and reconfigure agricultural spaces into socially toxic places. The paper argues that the disciplines of public health and agriculture suffer from a failure of imagination to forge vital interdisciplinary links that could address farmer suffering. Unpacking local ecologies of farmer suffering offer innovative ways for enhancing mental health policy and interventions in India.

Type: Article
Title: Generating Toxic Landscapes: Impact on Well-being of Cotton Farmers in Telangana, India
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2017.1317398
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1317398
Language: English
Additional information: © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1551698
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