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

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

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.