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.
About the Series ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
1. Introduction: The Politics of Nature and the Making of
Environmental Subjects 1
Part I: Power/Knowledge and the Creation of Forests 25
2. Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges 32
3. Struggles over Kumaon's Forests, 1815–1916 65
Part II: A New Technology of Environmental Government: Politics,
Institutions, and Subjectivities 87
4. Governmentalized Localities: The Dispersal of Regulation 101
5. Inside the Regulatory Community 127
6. Making Environmental Subjects: Intimate Government 164
7. Conclusion: The Analytics of Environmentality 201
Notes 231
Bibliography 279
Index 309
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.
"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 has written an amazing book that draws on a very-long-term case study to make general lessons. He analyzes the development of the mentality of citizens and officials related to the environment in a particular setting undergoing major shifts from centralization to a form of decentralization. All of us can take some important lessons from this book about how people's mentalities change when they have power and knowledge to cope with a problem. That shift in knowledge and power took time and effort, but is one of the rare success stories of recent history."--Elinor Ostrom, coeditor of Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems "Dealing with challenging theoretical concepts, yet building from a wealth of rich empirical data, Environmentality has much to offer ... "--ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A, 2006 "Throughout the chapters, the analyses are of high quality. The authors know their cases and present them well. At the same time, they connect to the broader issues the volume intends to raise and to the rising literature on 'materiality...'"--Peter Wagner, American Journal of Sociology "This is an important book that readers of Technology and Culture should find both challenging and rewarding..." --Marcia-Anne Dobres, Technology and Culture "For museum scholars, careful consideration of materiality--and of the ideologies of the material world conveyed by museum practice--is imperative. This volume will be an important resource for such a project." --Jessica Cattelino, Museum Anthropology "A lively volume... This book makes the reader engage with a range of old and new arguments on materiality and pushes their boundaries in a way that makes it important reading for a broad anthropological public."-- Francesca Merlan, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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