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Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
Arun Agrawal
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Description for Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
Paperback. An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ecology, and common property scholarship, explains why villagers in the Kumaon Himalaya have begun to conserve forests. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 344 pages, 3 photos, 17 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: TQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 468.
In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state’s regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his innovative historical and political study, Arun Agrawal analyzes this striking transformation. He describes and explains the emergence of environmental identities and changes in state-locality relations and shows how the two are related. In so doing, he demonstrates that scholarship on common property, political ecology, and feminist environmentalism can be combined—in an approach he calls environmentality—to better understand changes in conservation efforts. ... Read more
In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state’s regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his innovative historical and political study, Arun Agrawal analyzes this striking transformation. He describes and explains the emergence of environmental identities and changes in state-locality relations and shows how the two are related. In so doing, he demonstrates that scholarship on common property, political ecology, and feminist environmentalism can be combined—in an approach he calls environmentality—to better understand changes in conservation efforts. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822334927
SKU
V9780822334927
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About Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal is Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People and a coeditor of Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India, both also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
“Arun Agrawal achieves, in Environmentality, something of a breakthrough to new analytical territory where the binaries of state and society, structure and agency, public and private are transcended. He parlays the humble subject of community-based forestry and Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’ into the makings of an original and subtle analysis of modernity and nature.”—James C. Scott, Yale University “Arun Agrawal ... Read more