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

Knudsen, M. (2019). Agrarian transition in the southern Philippines: More than poverty, dispossession, and violence. Critical Asian Studies. (On-line Version).

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

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.