Teaching

• AZ-2303 Kinship, Marriage & Gender
• AZ-2309 Doing Fieldwork
• AZ-3310 Undergraduate Research Opportunity
• AZ-4202 Research Project
• AZ-4310 Anthropology of Food

Research Interests

• Land tenure and conflict
• Coastal and upland livelihoods
• Natural resource management
• Development discourse and practice
• Class, kinship and community formations in urbanising Asia
• Indigenous peoples and ethnic identities in the Philippines/Southeast Asia

Selected Publications

Papers in Refereed Journals

Fabinyi, M., Belton, B., Dressler, W. H., Knudsen, M., Adhuri, D. S., Aziz, A. A., Akber, M. A., Kittitornkool, J., Kongkaew, C., Marschke, M., Pido, M., Stacey, N., Steenbergen, D. J., & Vandergeest, P. (2022). Coastal transitions: Small-scale fisheries, livelihoods, and maritime zone developments in Southeast Asia. Journal of Rural Studies 91, 184-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.02.006

Carnegie, P., King, V., & Knudsen, M. (2021). Human security, marginality and precariousness in Southeast Asia. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 17(1), 1-28. (Online version)

Knudsen, M. (2019). Agrarian transition in the southern Philippines: More than poverty, dispossession, and violence. Critical Asian Studies, 51(2), 232-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2019.1571427

Knudsen, M. (2016). Poverty and beyond: Small-scale fishing in overexploited marine environments. Human Ecology, 44(3), 341–352. (Online Version)

Knudsen, M. (2013) Beyond clientelism: Neighbourhood leaders on a Philippine island. Anthropological Forum 23 (3): 242-265.

Knudsen, M. (2012) Fishing families and cosmopolitans in conflict over land on a Philippine island. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 43 (3): 478-499.

Fabinyi, M., Knudsen, M., Segi, S. (2010) Social Complexity, Ethnography and Coastal Research Management in the Philippines. Coastal Management 38 (6): 617-632.

Book Chapters

Knudsen, M. (2022). (Re)Locating the ‘Danger Zone’: Post-disaster planning and class-based displacement in Tacloban City, Philippines. In R. Siriwardane-de Zoysa, K. Low, N. Abdullah, & A-K. Hornidge (Eds.), Coastal urbanities: Mobilities, meanings, manoeuvrings (pp. 85-108). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004523340

Knudsen, M. (2022). Changing tides: Temporal dimensions of low-cost, high-skill fisheries in the Central Visayas, Philippines. In M. Franco, M. Knudsen, & Noor Hasharina Hassan (Eds.), Case studies in biocultural diversity from Southeast Asia: Traditional ecological calendars, folk medicine and folk names (pp. 1-20). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6719-0

Edited Books

Franco, F. M., Knudsen, M., & Noor Hasharina Hassan. (Eds.). (2022). Case studies in biocultural diversity from Southeast Asia: Traditional ecological calendars, folk medicine and folk names. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6719-0

Working Papers

King, V.T., & Knudsen, M. (2021). The Iban of Temburong: Migration, adaptation and identity in Brunei Darussalam (Institute of Asian Studies Working Paper No. 65). Universiti Brunei Darussalam. (Link)

Knudsen, M. (2018). Agrarian transition and smallholder success through local networks: A case study from Mindanao (Institute of Asian Studies Working Paper No. 43). Universiti Brunei Darussalam. (Link)

Recent Reviews

Knudsen, M. (2015) The environments of the poor in Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. Aris Ananta, Armin Bauer and Myo Than (2013 eds.). Singapore: Asian Development Bank and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Reviewed in Asian Journal of Social Science 43, pp. 209-211.