Introduction -- Locations: homework and fieldwork -- Marginality of Darjeeling Nepalis -- The reincarnation of tea -- Fair trade and women without history: the consequences of transnational affective solidarity -- Ghumauri: interstitial sustainability in fair trade-organic certified tea plantations -- Fair trade vs. Swachcha Vyapar: ethical counter-politics of women's empowerment in fair trade certified small farmers "cooperative" -- "Will my daughter find an organic husband?" : domesticating fair trade through cultural entrepreneurship -- "Tadpoles in water" versus "police of our fields:" competing subjectivities and women's political agency and fair trade -- Conclusion.