1. How is the plantation system in Darjeeling organized? What is the tripartite moral economy?

2. What is Geographical Indication? How, according to Besky, does it recast plantation production as traditional knowledge? With what effects? Is GI a form of contemporary Orientalism?

3. What is fair trade's vision of justice? How, according to Besky, does fair trade enable particular kinds of extractive practices on Darjeeling tea plantations? Is fair trade a form of contemporary Orientalism?

4. According to Besky, Geographical Indication and fair trade, as visions of social justice, work to obscure the tripartite moral economy in which laborers work. How? With what effects? What broader lessons should we take from Besky's analysis of workers' experiences and worldviews?

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