Arun Agrawal

Arun Agrawal

Arun Agrawal (born September 20, 1962) is a political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan. He is editor of the scholarly journal, World Development.

Education

Publications

Some of Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as Science, Conservation Biology, World Development, and PNAS.[2] In a publication in Nature, Agrawal explores the positive side of disaster in his case study of a 1998 hurricane in Honduras. According to Agrawal, natural disasters like this set the stage for alternative social trajectories.[3]

Books

His best known book is Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects, published in 2005.[4]

Previously published books included Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People, (1999) and Decentralization in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis (1998).

Reviews

Books edited

See also

References

  1. "CV Arun Agrawal" (PDF). Retrieved March 2013.
  2. http://snre.umich.edu/profile/arunagra Retrieved 20 November 2011
  3. Agrawal, Arun (May 19, 2011). "Economics: A positive side of disaster". Nature 473: 291–292. doi:10.1038/473291a.
  4. Agrawal, Arun (2005). Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3480-1.
  5. Gadgil, Madhav (December 12, 2006). "Modernity and Nature". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  6. Chapman, Graham (September 1, 2006). "If only we could see the teak for the trees". The Times Higher Education. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
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