Description: Further DetailsTitle: EnvironmentalityCondition: NewSubtitle: Technologies of Government and the Making of SubjectsISBN-10: 0822334925EAN: 9780822334927ISBN: 9780822334927Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/06/2005Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Weight: 467gAuthor: Arun AgrawalGenre: Technology & EngineeringBook Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First CenturyRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Environmentality
Title: Environmentality
Subtitle: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
ISBN-10: 0822334925
EAN: 9780822334927
ISBN: 9780822334927
Release Date: 04/06/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Environmentality : Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Environmental Economics, Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Development / Sustainable Development
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2005
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.5 Oz
Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Business & Economics
Author: Arun Agrawal
Item Length: 9 in
Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
