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This book brings together essays that critique entrenched discourses on development. Using culturalist frameworks, the essays advance public and scholarly debates on development that move beyond globally dominant and homogenized views of modernity. Drawing on extensive ethnographic treatments, the contributors to the volume point out the diversity of both the development experience, and the nature of modernities that development puts in place. The essays ...
Social scientists theorizing about political economy and the allocation of resources have usually omitted migrant communities from their studies. In Greener Pastures Arun Agrawal uses the story of the Raikas, a little known group of migrant shepherds in Western India, to re-examine current scholarship on markets and exchange, local and state politics, and community and hierarchy. The Raikas are virtually invisible in the regions through which they travel, as well ...
This unusual study describes and investigates the transformation of popular attitudes toward environmental protection in the north Indian Himalayas. Villagers in Kumaon who set their forests on fire to protest British regulations to project the environment in the 1920s, themselves began to conserve the same forests by the 1990s. ‘Environmentality’ accounts for this radical change in an ‘original and subtle analysis of modernity and nature’. this ...