Andrew Walker

Areas of expertise
Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific
Social And Cultural Anthropology
Studies Of Asian Society
Environmental Politics
Natural Resource Management
Political Science

Research interests
Andrew's research interests include rural development, politics, agricultural modernisation, borders and borderlands, environmental management, ritual and spirits. There are numerous posts on New Mandala about his research interests.

Biography
Andrew has been working in mainland Southeast Asia since 1993 when he conducted PhD research on cross-border trading links between northern Thailand, northern Laos and southern China. For the past 12 years he has been working on issues of rural development, resource management and modernisation in northern Thailand. His new book Thailand's Political Peasants, based on ethnographic fieldwork in Chiang Mai province, was published in 2012 by University of Wisconsin Press.

Andrew is the co-founder of the New Mandala blog which provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland southeast Asia. It is required reading for all serious scholars of the region.

Career highlights

Co-founder of New Mandala blog - one of the world's leading blogs discussing mainland southeast Asia; Co-convenor of the Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development; ethnographic research in Laos and northern Thailand; consultancy work for the World Bank and AusAID; international advisory committee member for the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.