Agrawal, Arun. (2005) Environmentality Community, Intimate Government, and the Makingof Environmental Subjects in Kumaon, India

This paper examines how and for what reasons rural residentscome to care about the environment. Focusing on Kumaon, In-dia, it explores the deep and durable relationship between gov-ernment and subjectivity and shows how regulatory strategies as-sociated with and resulting from community decision makinghelp transform those who participate in government. Using evi-dence drawn from the archival record and fieldwork conductedover two time periods, it analyzes the extent to which varyinglevels of involvement in institutional regimes of environmentalregulation facilitate new ways of understanding the environment.On the basis of this analysis, it outlines a framework of under-standing that permits the joint consideration of the technologiesof power and self that are responsible for the emergence of newpolitical subjects.