Arun Agrawal Explained

Arun Agrawal
Birth Date:20 September 1962
Birth Place:Forbesganj, Bihar, India
Education:
Discipline:Political scientist
Workplaces:University of Michigan
Spouse:Rebecca Hardin
Children:Naina Agrawal-Hardin

Arun Agrawal (born September 20, 1962) is a political scientist and the Samuel Trask Dana Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. Agrawal is the coordinator for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions network and does research in Africa and South Asia.[1]

Agrawal was the editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal World Development from 2013-2021.[2] [3] Agrawal was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2011[4] and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.[5]

Education

Arun Agrawal was born in Forbesganj,[6] Bihar, India, where he grew up in a middle-class family. Eventually he moved to Patna to live with an aunt, so that he could attend a better school.

Agrawal received his BA in History from the University of Delhi in 1983. He received an MBA in Development Administration and Public Policy from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 1985. Moving to the United States, he received his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in 1992.[7] [8] His Ph.D. work involved following Indian shepherds in the Himalayas to better understand how those communities managed commonly held resources.[7]

Career

Agrawal has taught at the University of Florida (1993-1996), Yale University (1997-2002) and McGill University (2002-2003). In 2003, he began teaching at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he works on issues of environmental politics, governance, and sustainable development.[5] [8] [9] [10]

In 2022, Agrawal was chosen to be a co-chair of the Transformative Change Assessment for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The Transformative Change Assessment will address "the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, the determinants of transformative change, and options for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity".[11] [12]

Publications

Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as Science, Conservation Biology, World Development, and PNAS.[13] In a publication in Nature, Agrawal explores the positive side of disaster in his case study of a 1998 hurricane in Honduras. According to Agrawal, natural disasters like this set the stage for alternative social trajectories.[14]

Books

Agrawal's best known book is Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects, published in 2005.[15]

Previously published books included Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People, (1999)[16] and Decentralization in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis (1998).[4]

Reviews

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See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012-12-10. Arun Agrawal. 2021-03-29. International Forestry Resources and Institutions. en-US.
  2. Web site: McKenzie . David McKenzie . Goldstein . Markus Goldstein . Friedman . Jed Friedman . Özler . Berk Özler . Q&A with Arun Agrawal, Editor of World Development Part I . blogs.worldbank.org . 16 May 2022. April 1, 2013 . en.
  3. Web site: Arun Agrawal - Editorial Board - World Development - Journal - Elsevier . Elsevier . 16 May 2022.
  4. Web site: Arun Agrawal . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 17 May 2022.
  5. Web site: News from the National Academy of Sciences . May 1, 2018 . National Academy of Sciences .
  6. Web site: Arun Agrawal . Sustainable Food Systems Initiative . 16 May 2022 . 21 June 2018.
  7. Jones . Nicola . A lifetime of climate change . Knowable Magazine . 13 May 2022 . free . 10.1146/knowable-051322-1 . 16 May 2022.
  8. Web site: Arun Agrawal . University of Michigan . 16 May 2022.
  9. Agrawal . Arun . Sustainable Governance of Common-Pool Resources: Context, Methods, and Politics . Annual Review of Anthropology . October 2003 . 32 . 1 . 243–262 . 10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093112 . 17 May 2022 . en . 0084-6570.
  10. Mapfumo . Paul . Onyango . Mary . Honkponou . Saïd K. . El Mzouri . El Houssine . Githeko . Andrew . Rabeharisoa . Lilia . Obando . Joy . Omolo . Nancy . Majule . Amos . Denton . Fatima . Ayers . Jessica . Agrawal . Arun . Pathways to transformational change in the face of climate impacts: an analytical framework . Climate and Development . 29 July 2017 . 9 . 5 . 439–451 . 10.1080/17565529.2015.1040365 . 154082103 . 17 May 2022 . 1756-5529.
  11. Web site: Dr. Arun Agrawal Announced as Co-Chair on Intergovernmental Transformative Change Assessment . seas.umich.edu . January 27, 2022 . 17 May 2022.
  12. Web site: Annex II to decision IPBES-8/1 Scoping report for a thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and the determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity (transformative change assessment) . IPBES . 17 May 2022.
  13. Web site: Arun Agrawal . 2021-03-29. University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.
  14. Agrawal. Arun. May 19, 2011. A positive side of disaster. Nature. 473. 7347. 291–292. 10.1038/473291a. 21593857. 205064492. free.
  15. Book: Agrawal, Arun. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. 2005. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-3480-4.
  16. Contributors . In the Name of Humanity . 31 December 2020 . 359–362 . 10.1515/9780822393221-014 . 9780822393221 . 241224913 . 17 May 2022.
  17. News: Modernity and Nature. Gadgil. Madhav. December 12, 2006. The Hindu. 16 July 2012.
  18. News: If only we could see the teak for the trees. Chapman. Graham. September 1, 2006. The Times Higher Education. 16 July 2012.

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