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Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India
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Description for Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India
Paperback. An interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the politics of environmental degradation and agrarian life in India. Editor(s): Agrawal, Arun; Sivaramakrishnan, K. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change. The contributors claim that attempts to explain environmental conflicts in terms of the local versus the global, indigenous versus outsiders, women versus men, or the community versus the market or state obscure vital dynamics of mobilization and organization that critically influence thought and policy.
Editors Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan claim that rural social change in India cannot be understood without exploring how environmental changes articulate major aspects ... Read more
Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change. The contributors claim that attempts to explain environmental conflicts in terms of the local versus the global, indigenous versus outsiders, women versus men, or the community versus the market or state obscure vital dynamics of mobilization and organization that critically influence thought and policy.
Editors Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan claim that rural social change in India cannot be understood without exploring how environmental changes articulate major aspects ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822325741
SKU
V9780822325741
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99-1
About Agrawal
Arun Agrawal is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People, also published by Duke University Press. K. Sivaramakrishnan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and author of Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India.
Reviews for Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India
“[T]he chapters in this book are very cogently argued, and combine to create a coherent whole. They raise important questions, relevant not only to India but also to many other countries in the world.” - Wolfgang Hoeschele, International Politics “Agrarian Environments makes a pathbreaking theoretical contribution. . . .” - Brian Caton, The Journal of Asian Studies “[A] stimulating and ... Read more