Jump to content

Arun Agrawal: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 3: Line 3:
| image = Arunagrawal.jpg
| image = Arunagrawal.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|09|20}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|09|20}}
| birth_place = Forbesganj,<ref name="Sustainable"/> [[Bihar, India]]<ref name="Jones"/>
| education = {{plainlist|
| education = {{plainlist|
* [[University of Delhi]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
* [[University of Delhi]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
Line 19: Line 20:


==Education==
==Education==
Arun Agrawal was born in Forbesganj,<ref name="Sustainable">{{cite web |title=Arun Agrawal |url=https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/faculty-staff/affiliated-faculty-staff/arun-agrawal/ |website=Sustainable Food Systems Initiative |access-date=16 May 2022 |date=21 June 2018}}</ref> [[Bihar, India]]<ref name="Jones"/>.
⚫
*PhD - Political Science, [[Duke University]] 1992<ref name="Jones">{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Nicola |title=A lifetime of climate change |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=13 May 2022 |doi=10.1146/knowable-051322-1 |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/lifetime-climate-change |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref>

*MA - Political Science, Duke University 1988
*MBA - Development Administration and Public Policy, [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]], 1985
Agrawal received his BA in History from the [[University of Delhi]] in 1983. He received an MBA in Development Administration and Public Policy from the [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]] in 1985.
⚫
Moving to the United States, he received his Ph.D. in political science from [[Duke University]] in 1992.<ref name="Jones">{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Nicola |title=A lifetime of climate change |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=13 May 2022 |doi=10.1146/knowable-051322-1 |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/lifetime-climate-change |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="CV">{{cite web |title=Arun Agrawal |url=https://umich.academia.edu/ArunAgrawal/CurriculumVitae |website=University of Michigan |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref>
*BA - History, [[University of Delhi]], 1983

Agrawal has previously taught at the [[University of Florida]] (1993-1997), [[Yale University]] (1997-2002) and [[McGill University]] (2002-2003). Beginning in 2003, he has taught at the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor]], where he works on issues of environmental politics, governance, and sustainable development.<ref name="NAS"/><ref name="CV"/>


==Publications==
==Publications==
Some of Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as [[Science (journal)|Science]], [[Conservation Biology (journal)|Conservation Biology]], [[World Development (journal)|World Development]], and [[PNAS]].<ref name="Faculty">{{Cite web|title=Arun Agrawal |url=https://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/arun-agrawal|access-date=2021-03-29|website=University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability}}</ref> In a publication in ''[[Nature (journal)|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.<ref name="Agrawal">{{cite journal|last=Agrawal|first=Arun|date=May 19, 2011|title= A positive side of disaster|journal=Nature|volume=473|issue=7347|pages=291–292|doi=10.1038/473291a|pmid=21593857|s2cid=205064492|doi-access=free}}</ref>
Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', ''[[Conservation Biology (journal)|Conservation Biology]]'', ''[[World Development (journal)|World Development]]'', and ''[[PNAS]]''.<ref name="Faculty">{{Cite web|title=Arun Agrawal |url=https://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/arun-agrawal|access-date=2021-03-29|website=University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability}}</ref> In a publication in ''[[Nature (journal)|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.<ref name="Agrawal">{{cite journal|last=Agrawal|first=Arun|date=May 19, 2011|title= A positive side of disaster|journal=Nature|volume=473|issue=7347|pages=291–292|doi=10.1038/473291a|pmid=21593857|s2cid=205064492|doi-access=free}}</ref>


===Books===
===Books===
⚫
Agrawal's best known book is ''Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects'', published in 2005.<ref>{{cite book|last=Agrawal|first=Arun|title=Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=faPuAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-3480-4}}</ref>

⚫
His best known book is ''Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects'', published in 2005.<ref>{{cite book|last=Agrawal|first=Arun|title=Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=faPuAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-3480-4}}</ref>


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

Revision as of 21:44, 16 May 2022

Arun Agrawal
Born (1962-09-20) September 20, 1962 (age 61)
Forbesganj,[1] Bihar, India[2]
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical scientist
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Arun Agrawal (born September 20, 1962) is a political scientist and the Samuel Trask Dana Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan.[3] Agrawal is the coordinator for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions network and does research in Africa and South Asia.[4]

Agrawal was the editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal World Development from 2013-2021.[5][6] Agrawal was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.[7]

Education

Arun Agrawal was born in Forbesganj,[1] Bihar, India[2].

Agrawal received his BA in History from the University of Delhi in 1983. He received an MBA in Development Administration and Public Policy from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 1985. Moving to the United States, he received his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in 1992.[2][8]

Agrawal has previously taught at the University of Florida (1993-1997), Yale University (1997-2002) and McGill University (2002-2003). Beginning in 2003, he has taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he works on issues of environmental politics, governance, and sustainable development.[7][8]

Publications

Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as Science, Conservation Biology, World Development, and PNAS.[3] 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.[9]

Books

Agrawal's best known book is Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects, published in 2005.[10]

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

  • "Arun Agrawal (in Environmentality) provides a most lucid account of the people-government- forest interplay in the 20th century Kumaon Himalayas in this book.... Arun Agrawal addresses these fascinating questions on the basis, not only of archival research, but significantly, on the strength of extensive long-term fieldwork."—The Hindu[11]
  • "This book (Environmentality) aims to promote Arun Agrawal's own neologism - "environmentality" ... This book, too, has hidden its worthwhile arguments in thickets of verbal profusion, which make it hard to see the teak for the forest."--The Times Higher Education[12]

Books edited

  • 2001: Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations and Rule in India. Duke University Press, Durham, ISBN 0-8223-2555-1
  • 2001: Social Nature: Resources, Representations and Rule in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, ISBN 0-19-565460-9
  • 2001: Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, ISBN 0-8135-2914-X
  • 2003: Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, ISBN 0-8047-4415-7

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Arun Agrawal". Sustainable Food Systems Initiative. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Jones, Nicola (13 May 2022). "A lifetime of climate change". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-051322-1. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Arun Agrawal". University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  4. ^ "Arun Agrawal". International Forestry Resources and Institutions. 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  5. ^ McKenzie, David McKenzie; Goldstein, Markus Goldstein; Friedman, Jed Friedman; Özler, Berk Özler (April 1, 2013). "Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part I". blogs.worldbank.org. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Arun Agrawal - Editorial Board - World Development - Journal - Elsevier". Elsevier. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  7. ^ a b "News from the National Academy of Sciences". National Academy of Sciences. May 1, 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Arun Agrawal". University of Michigan. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  9. ^ Agrawal, Arun (May 19, 2011). "A positive side of disaster". Nature. 473 (7347): 291–292. doi:10.1038/473291a. PMID 21593857. S2CID 205064492.
  10. ^ Agrawal, Arun (2005). Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3480-4.
  11. ^ Gadgil, Madhav (December 12, 2006). "Modernity and Nature". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  12. ^ Chapman, Graham (September 1, 2006). "If only we could see the teak for the trees". The Times Higher Education. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arun_Agrawal&oldid=1088231615"