Video Abstract - Beyond bad weather:Climates of Uncertainty in Rural India by Tanya Matthan

30 May 2024

The Krishna Bharadwaj and Eric Wolf Prize winner (1 of 2) of 2021-2022 Tanya Matthan takes readers through her award winning paper, Beyond bad weather:Climates of uncertainty in rural India. Matthan examines how farmers navigate risk in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh through the complex interactions between capitalism and climate change. Bringing forward the insights of political ecology for the age of climate change, Matthan demonstrates ​ethnographically how “experiences of climate change are always refracted through existing production relations and power structures” (132). She further shows how conventional adaptation measures and crop insurance programs fail precisely because they do not act on these relations and thus wind up excluding those that need them the most.

Find full article at the Journal of Peasant Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2022.2116316