Arun Agrawal

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".
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. Agrawal is the coordinator for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions network.
Publications.
Some of Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as Science, Conservation Biology, World Development, and PNAS. 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.
Books.
His best known book is "Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects", published in 2005.
Previously published books included "Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People," (1999) and "Decentralization in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis" (1998).