Cultural and political ecology, with principal specialization on agrarian change in developing countries; comparative regional study of the dynamics of people-environment interaction in the Pacific and southeast Asia
Elected 2009
Unequal geographies; the dynamics and integration of housing, mortgage and financial markets; the uneven geographies of credit and investment risks in housing; the uneasy encounter between market mechanisms and an ethic of care
The social anthropology of religion, politics and ethnicity in Nepal and South Asia, including caste and concepts of hierarchy, class, borderlands, activism, democracy and elections, Buddhism and Hinduism; Max Weber.
Social and cultural histories of photographic practices; photography, anthropology and colonialism; history of museums, archives, collecting and cultural heritage; photographs in historiography, theory of history and historical method
