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__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 th

Who reads Agrarian Environments : Resources, Representations, and Rule in India?

Author

Agrawal, Arun (editor);Sivaramakrishnan, K. (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822325550

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Anthropology, Agriculture