Environmentality - Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 conser Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Agrawal, Arun Agrawal, Arun Agrawal
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822334927
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3492-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F; New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous