Magne Knudsen
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Academic Qualifications
- MA in Applied Economics (University of Michigan)
- MA Anthropology (Australian National University)
- PhD Anthropology (Australian National University)
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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.
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.