Research on Sustainable Development Seminar
"Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Political Subjects"
Speaker: Arun Agrawal, Professor, University of Michigan and Visiting Scholar, Center for International Development
Hosted by Prof. William Clark, Science, Environment and Development Group, Center for International Development
Thursday, 6
October 2005
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch will be served
Perkins Room, 4th Floor,
Rubenstein
Building, KSG
In the northern Indian region of Kumaon, 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. Arun Agrawal analyzes this striking transformation in his new book, Environmentality. His talk will briefly discuss the book, and examine the implications of his work for new research on the relationship between environmental institutions and identities.
Arun Agrawal teaches environmental politics at the University of Michigan, and is a visiting fellow this year at the Center for International Development. His main research interests lie across the intersection of political economy of development, environmental policy, and property rights.
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