Teaching

• AZ-1202 Understanding Culture
• AZ-2201 Social Thought
• AZ-2303 Kinship, Marriage & Gender
• 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

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. (Online Version)

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.

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.