The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India

Geoforum

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 189-198

  Singh, Neera M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect theory; Affective labor; Biopower; Community forestry; Environmentality; Governmentality; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM;

INDIA; ODISHA;

EID: 84878482932     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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