| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Arun Agrawal. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 325. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.

This interesting book is a work of political economy, conceptually informed by Michel Foucault, that examines the making of environmental subjects among the Kumaon villagers in the foothills of the Himalayas in North India. It is part of a series put out by Duke University Press called "New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century," edited by Arturo Escobar and Diane Rocheleau. The series' editors hope to engender dialogue between experts in different fields about "environment, place, and alternative socionatural orders." Arun Agrawal follows the transformation of environmental identities among the Kumaons over a 150-year period as they relate to politics, technologies, and new forms of knowledge. To better understand the relationship among these factors, the author merges the terms "environmental" and "governmentality" to form the new term "environmentality" that characterizes the changing beliefs of constructed subjects negotiating the space between a hierarchical power structure and an imagined and idealized forest. Resistance to the centralized colonial forest regime before Indian independence and the resulting decentralized community forest councils that emerged provide new ways of imagining and constructing narratives about forests.

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