Environmentality : Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

Name: Environmentality
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822334927
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ISBN: 9780822334927

by Arun Agrawal

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-10 0822334925

ISBN-13 9780822334927

Publisher Duke University Press

Imprint Duke University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 6th, 2005

Print length 344 Pages

Weight 468 grams

Dimensions 15.50 x 22.90 x 2.80 cms

Product Classification: Sanitary & municipal engineering Sanitary and municipal engineering

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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.

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. Such an understanding is relevant far beyond Kumaon: local populations in more than fifty countries are engaged in similar efforts to protect their environmental resources.

Agrawal brings environment and development studies, new institutional economics, and Foucauldian theories of power and subjectivity to bear on his ethnographical and historical research. He visited nearly forty villages in Kumaon, where he assessed the state of village forests, interviewed hundreds of Kumaonis, and examined local records. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and archival research, he shows how decentralization strategies change relations between states and localities, community decision makers and common residents, and individuals and the environment. In exploring these changes and their significance, Agrawal establishes that theories of environmental politics are enriched by attention to the interconnections between power, knowledge, institutions, and subjectivities.

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