Agrarian Environments : Resources, Representations, and Rule in India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agrawal, Arun, Editor.

Contributor:

Sivaramakrishnan, K., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Environmental aspects--India.

Land tenure.

Economic development--Economic aspects--India.

Economic development.

Agriculture--India.

Agriculture.

Agriculture and state--India.

Agriculture and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC, USA Duke University Press 20001001

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change. The contributors claim that attempts to explain environmental conflicts in terms of the local versus the global, indigenous versus outsiders, women versus men, or the community versus the market or state obscure vital dynamics of mobilization and organization that critically influence thought and policy.Editors Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan claim that rural social change in India cannot be understood without exploring how environmental changes articulate major aspects of agrarian transformations—technological, cultural, and political—in the last two centuries. In order to examine these issues, they have reached beyond the confines of single disciplinary allegiances or methodological loyalties to bring together anthropologists, historians, political scientists, geographers, and environmental scientists who are significantly informed by interdisciplinary research. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, the contributors demonstrate the powerful political implications of blurring the boundaries between dichotomous cultural representations, combine conceptual analyses with specific case studies, and look at why competing powers chose to emphasize particular representations of land use or social relations. By providing a more textured analysis of how categories emerge and change, this work offers the possibility of creating crucial alliances across populations that have historically been assumed to lack mutual goals.Agrarian Environments will be valuable to those in political science, Asian studies, and environmental studies.Contributors. Arun Agrawal, Mark Baker, Molly Chattopadhyaya, Vinay Gidwani, Sumit Guha, Shubhra Gururani, Cecile Jackson, David Ludden, Haripriya Rangan, Paul Robbins, Vasant Saberwal, James C. Scott, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Ajay Skaria, Jennifer Springer, Darren Zook

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Agrarian Environments

State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, 1818-1947

Colonial Influences on Property, Community, and Land Use in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

Environmental Alarm and Institutionalized Conservation in Himachal Pradesh,1865-1994

State Power and Agricultural Transformation in Tamil Nadu

Famine in the Landscape: Imagining Hunger in South Asian History, 1860-1990

Economic Rents and Natural Resources: Commons and Conflicts in Premodern India

Identities and Livelihoods: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nature in a South Bihar Village

Regimes of Control, Strategies of Access: Politics of Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India

Pastoralism and Community in Rajasthan: Interrogating Categories of Arid Lands Development

Labored Landscapes: Agro-ecological Change in Central Gujarat, India

Reflections

Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia

Cathecting the Natural

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9780822396062

0822396068

OCLC:

891395187