Fair Trade vs. Swaccha Vyāpār: Women's Activism and Transnational Justice Regimes in Darjeeling, India.

The article examines the effects of the fair trade movement on a smallholder tea farmers' cooperative in rural Darjeeling, India, with a particular focus on women's experiences of and attitudes toward free trade. According to the author, fair trade interventions sometimes reinforce existing gendered power relations in produce communities. Women's creative adaptation of free trade practices and the Nepali concept of fair trade known as swaccha vyāpār are discussed.