Arun Agrawal

Arun Agrawal is a political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan.

Education

 * Ph. D - Political Science, Duke University 1992
 * MA - Political Science, Duke University 1988
 * MBA - Development Administration and Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, India, 1985
 * BA - History, Delhi University, India, 1983

Publications
Some of Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as Science, Conservation Biology, World Development, and PNAS. 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.

Books

 * 2005: Environmentality: Technologies of Government And The Making of Subjects, Duke University Press, Durham, ISBN 0-8223-3480-1
 * 1999: Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People, Duke University Press, Durham, ISBN 0-8223-2233-1
 * 1998: Decentralization in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis, ICS Press, Oakland, ISBN 1-55815-507-4

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