Sarah Besky

738 total citations
26 papers, 356 citations indexed

About

Sarah Besky is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Besky has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 356 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 5 papers in Strategy and Management and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sarah Besky's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers), Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (5 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 papers). Sarah Besky is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers), Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (5 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 papers). Sarah Besky collaborates with scholars based in United States. Sarah Besky's co-authors include Sandy Brown and Alex Blanchette and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Social Studies of Science and Antipode.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Besky

24 papers receiving 318 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sarah Besky United States 10 117 116 80 79 78 26 356
Elaine Hartwick United States 4 67 0.6× 85 0.7× 54 0.7× 35 0.4× 78 1.0× 6 283
Mark Moberg United States 10 73 0.6× 139 1.2× 36 0.5× 56 0.7× 123 1.6× 39 354
Bradley Wilson United States 11 119 1.0× 130 1.1× 57 0.7× 94 1.2× 109 1.4× 19 406
Arūnas Juška United States 14 155 1.3× 89 0.8× 82 1.0× 177 2.2× 119 1.5× 37 482
Rudi Colloredo‐Mansfeld United States 11 18 0.2× 63 0.5× 69 0.9× 50 0.6× 95 1.2× 31 307
Deborah Fitzgerald United States 9 108 0.9× 43 0.4× 21 0.3× 164 2.1× 57 0.7× 25 449
Pablo Lapegna United States 12 68 0.6× 94 0.8× 105 1.3× 186 2.4× 180 2.3× 30 443
Farshad Araghi United States 5 63 0.5× 71 0.6× 60 0.8× 229 2.9× 131 1.7× 13 337
Priti Ramamurthy United States 10 30 0.3× 62 0.5× 72 0.9× 97 1.2× 198 2.5× 21 387
Kregg Hetherington Canada 10 27 0.2× 39 0.3× 220 2.8× 125 1.6× 150 1.9× 26 505

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Besky

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Besky

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Besky

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Besky. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Besky based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sarah Besky. Sarah Besky is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Besky, Sarah. (2024). Regeneration and its discontents: biodynamic agriculture and Darjeeling tea plantations. Social & Cultural Geography. 26(9). 977–996. 1 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2023). Agrarian crisis, affect, and accumulation. Dialogues in Human Geography. 13(2). 207–210. 2 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2022). Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India. Agricultural History. 96(4). 627–628.
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Besky, Sarah. (2022). Reproducing the Plantation. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 114(10). 2212–2215. 4 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2021). Lobsters, Whales, and Traps: The Politics of Endangerment in the Gulf of Maine. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 5(4). 1994–2010. 4 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2021). The Plantation's Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 63(2). 433–463. 7 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2020). Tasting Qualities. 1 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2020). Empire and indigestion: Materializing tannins in the Indian tea industry. Social Studies of Science. 50(3). 398–417. 3 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2020). Tasting Qualities.
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Besky, Sarah. (2019). The Darjeeling Distinction. 29 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2017). Fixity: On the inheritance and maintenance of tea plantation houses in Darjeeling, India. American Ethnologist. 44(4). 617–631. 20 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2017). The Land in Gorkhaland. Environmental Humanities. 9(1). 18–39. 17 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2016). Tea as Hero Crop? Embodied Algorithms and Industrial Reform in India. Science as Culture. 26(1). 11–31. 8 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2015). The Future of Price: Communicative Infrastructures and the Financialization of Indian Tea. Cultural Anthropology. 31(1). 4–29. 27 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah & Sandy Brown. (2015). Looking for Work: Placing Labor in Food Studies. Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. 12(1-2). 19–43. 16 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2013). The labor of terroir and the terroir of labor: Geographical Indication and Darjeeling tea plantations. Agriculture and Human Values. 31(1). 83–96. 47 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2013). Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture. 13(3). 81–82. 1 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2013). The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 61 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2008). Can a Plantation be Fair? Paradoxes and Possibilities in Fair Trade Darjeeling Tea Certification. Anthropology of Work Review. 29(1). 1–9. 46 indexed citations
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Besky, Sarah. (2007). Rural Vulnerability and Tea Plantation Migration in Eastern Nepal and Darjeeling. UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico). 2 indexed citations

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