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{{infobox academic
| name = Arun Agrawal
| image = Arunagrawal.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|09|20}}
| education = {{plainlist|
* [[University of Delhi]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
* [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]] ([[Master of Business Administration|MBA]])
* [[Duke University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
}}
| discipline = [[Political science|Political scientist]]
| workplaces = [[University of Michigan]]

}}

'''Arun Agrawal''' (born September 20, 1962) is a [[political scientist]] in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the [[University of Michigan]]. He was the editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal ''[[World Development (journal)|World Development]]''.
He was elected to the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/May-1-2018-NAS-Election.html|title=May 1 2018 NAS Election|first=National Academy of Sciences -|last=http://www.nasonline.org|website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> Agrawal is the coordinator for the [[International Forestry Resources and Institutions|International Forestry Resources]] and Institutions network.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-12-10|title=Arun Agrawal|url=http://ifri.forgov.org/about-us/collaborating-research-centers/michigan/arun-agrawal/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=International Forestry Resources and Institutions|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Education==
*PhD - Political Science, [[Duke University]] 1992
*MA - Political Science, Duke University 1988
*MBA - Development Administration and Public Policy, [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]], 1985
*BA - History, [[University of Delhi]], 1983 <ref>{{cite web|title=CV Arun Agrawal |url=http://seas.umich.edu/sites/all/files/default_images/AgrawalCV.pdf }}</ref>

==Publications==
Some of Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as [[Science (journal)|Science]], [[Conservation Biology (journal)|Conservation Biology]], [[World Development (journal)|World Development]], and [[PNAS]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arun Agrawal {{!}} University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability|url=https://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/arun-agrawal|access-date=2021-03-29|website=seas.umich.edu}}</ref> In a publication in ''[[Nature (journal)|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.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Agrawal|first=Arun|date=May 19, 2011|title=Economics: A positive side of disaster|journal=Nature|volume=473|issue=7347|pages=291–292|doi=10.1038/473291a|pmid=21593857|s2cid=205064492|doi-access=free}}</ref>

===Books===

His best known book is ''Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects'', published in 2005.<ref>{{cite book|last=Agrawal|first=Arun|title=Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=faPuAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-3480-4}}</ref>

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

====Reviews====
*"Arun Agrawal (in ''Environmentality'') provides a most lucid account of the people-government- forest interplay in the 20th century Kumaon Himalayas in this book.... Arun Agrawal addresses these fascinating questions on the basis, not only of archival research, but significantly, on the strength of extensive long-term fieldwork."—The Hindu<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2006/12/12/stories/2006121200751600.htm|title=Modernity and Nature|last=Gadgil|first=Madhav|date=December 12, 2006|work=The Hindu|access-date=16 July 2012}}</ref>
*"This book (''Environmentality'') aims to promote Arun Agrawal's own neologism - "environmentality" ... This book, too, has hidden its worthwhile arguments in thickets of verbal profusion, which make it hard to see the teak for the forest."--The Times Higher Education<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=205082&sectioncode=34|title=If only we could see the teak for the trees|last=Chapman|first=Graham|date=September 1, 2006|work=The Times Higher Education|access-date=16 July 2012}}</ref>

===Books edited===
*2001: ''Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations and Rule in India''. Duke University Press, Durham, {{ISBN|0-8223-2555-1}}
*2001: ''Social Nature: Resources, Representations and Rule in India''. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, {{ISBN|0-19-565460-9}}
*2001: ''Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation''. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, {{ISBN|0-8135-2914-X}}
*2003: ''Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India''. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, {{ISBN|0-8047-4415-7}}

== See also ==

* [[Central African Forest Initiative]]
* [[International Forestry Resources and Institutions]]

==References==
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