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 is editor of the scholarly journal World Development.

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.

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).

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