Ian Baird

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Ian Baird is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. His research areas include transnational ethnic conflicts, nationalism in Southeast Asia, and the political ecology of urban environments, with recent articles focusing on topics such as communal land titling, transnational marriage among Hmong communities, and the impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative. He examines the complex interactions between development, cultural practices, and environmental challenges across the region.

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The Agrarian Transition in Mainland Southeast Asia: Changes in Rice Farming - 1995 to 2018

Open Date: 2018-05-01

Close Date: 2021-12-01

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Political Ecology as Practice: A Regional Approach to the Anthropocene

Open Date: 2016-12-01

Close Date: 2019-12-01

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Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance

Open Date: 2014-04-01

Close Date: 2022-06-01

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Forest, agricultural, and urban transitions in Mainland Southeast Asia: Synthesizing knowledge and developing theory

Open Date: 2013-05-01

Close Date: 2017-03-01

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Fisheries Impacts of Hydropower Dams on Thailand Mekong Tributary Rivers

Open Date: 2013-04-01

Close Date: 2017-03-01

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Danny Marks

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Dublin City University

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Michael Thorne

British Antarctic Survey

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The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Transnational Ethnic Khmu Anti-Lao PDR Insurgents during the Late Cold War

Nationalism First: Late Cold War Politics and the ‘Really Secret War’ in Laos

Communal Land Titling and New Geographies of Development in Northern Thailand

Unlikely Allies: Lao Insurgent Perspectives of Armed Group Transnational Collaboration in the Emerald Triangle Region during the Third Indochina War

Hmong Transnational Marriages: Nuancing Stereotypes

The urban political ecology of worsening flooding in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Neopatrimonialism, displacement, and uneven harm

Financialization and rural development: comparing credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia

“Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand

Going organic: Challenges for government-supported organic rice promotion and certification nationalism in Thailand

The Belt and Road Initiative and spirit mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and sacred space in northeastern Cambodia

The Communist Party of Thailand's education for young children in Northern Laos and Southern China

Exclusion and New Contact Zones

The downstream impacts of dams on the seasonally flooded riverine forests of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia

Hydropower Dam Development and Fish Biodiversity in the Mekong River Basin: A Review

The value of wild fish: diet and livelihoods in two rural villages in the Mun River Basin, northeastern Thailand

The problem of the urban–rural binary in geography and political ecology

Labour, mechanization, market integration, and government policy: Agrarian change and lowland rice cultivation in northeastern Thailand and southern Laos

Hmong women's rights and the Communist Party of Thailand

Political violence, migration, lack of citizenship, and agrobiodiversity loss in the borderlands of Thailand and Laos

The Hmong and the Communist Party of Thailand: A Transnational, Transcultural and Gender-Relations-Transforming Experience

Catastrophic and slow violence: thinking about the impacts of the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam in southern Laos

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Michael Thorne

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