Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling

Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives in the idyllic tea hill-gardens of Darjeeling, India, where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepreneurial strategies and everyday practices of social justice that, at times, dovetail with, and, at other times, rub against the tenets of the emerging global morality market.

Sen questions why women beneficiaries of transnational justice-making projects remain sceptical about the potential for economic and social empowerment through Fair Trade while simultaneously seeking the use of movement to give voice to their situated demands for mobility, economic advancement and community level social justice.