The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible
Publisher: Critical Globalisation Research Collective (UK and India)
Published: November 2025
Copyright date: 2025
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 The Development Issue; title: Chapter 2 Crisis and Control: Endgame Logic of Late Capitalism; title: Chapter 3 Grief, Guilt and Graffiti: The Legacy of ‘Killer Carbide’; title: Chapter 4 Comforting Myth in a Dispossessed Reality; title: Chapter 5 Toxic Platter for India; title: Chapter 6 Big Ag’s Humanitarian Propaganda; title: Chapter 7 The Sour Taste of Modern Development; title: Chapter 8 Decentralisation: India’s Fruit and Vegetable Markets; title: Chapter 9 Rhythm of the Lanes and the Repercussions of Progress; title: Chapter 10 Beneath the Flyover, Beside the Temple; title: Chapter 11 Copenhagenising Cities; title: Chapter 12 The Agrarian Imagination: Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky’s Moral Underground; title: Chapter 13 Agrarianism: The Moral Function of ‘The Impossible’; title: Chapter 14 Revolution from the Soil in Burkina Faso; title: Chapter 15 Revolutionising the Self; title: Chapter 16 Moving Forward