Environmentality - Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects (Paperback, New)

In this innovative political and historical study, Arun Agrawal illuminates changing environmental processes, institutions, and identities through an examination of forest protection by villagers in the northern Indian state of Kumaon. In the early 1920s, Kumaoni villagers set hundreds of fires protesting the colonial state's environmental regulations. By the 1990s, residents of Kumaon had begun to carefully conserve their forest land and resources. Agrawal analyzes and explains this striking transformation. In so doing, he demonstrates how scholarship on common property, political ecology, and feminist environmentalism can be combined--in an approach he calls environmentality--to better understand Kumaon's changes in environmental government. Such an understanding is relevant to other parts of the world, where local populations in more than fifty countries are engaged in similar efforts to protect environmental resources. economics, and Foucauldian theories of power and subjectivity to bear on his ethnographical and archival research. He visited nearly forty villages in Kumaon, where he examined local records, assessed the state of village forests, and interviewed hundreds of Kumaonis. He describes how, in response to the fierce protests against centralized rule, the colonial state decentralized its regulation of the forest. This decentralization changed relations between states and localities, between community decision-makers and common residents, and between individuals and the environment. In exploring these changes and their significance, Agrawal shows how awareness of environmental politics is enriched by attention to the connections between power, knowledge, institutions, and subjectivities.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Arun Agrawal
Dimensions:	155 x 229 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	344
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-3492-7
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Sanitary & municipal engineering > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8223-3492-5
Barcode:	9780822334927

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