W. NATHAN GREEN
W. Nathan Green is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His scholarship critically examines the political ecology of agrarian finance and infrastructure in Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on Cambodia.
His doctoral research analyzed the intersection of household debt, commodity markets, and translocal livelihoods under conditions of neoliberal financialization. Building on this research, his current project, entitled “The Financialization of Agrarian Landscapes in Cambodia,” advances geographic theory on variegated financial capitalism. It examines how regulatory and financial institutions at multiple scales have integrated Cambodia’s rural banking system into a financially-based regime of accumulation.
In separate, collaborative projects, he has studied an emerging Chinese food regime, whereby Chinese state- and private-capital investments into rice agriculture and large-scale irrigation systems have transformed Cambodia’s agrarian landscapes. He has also carried out research about hydropower dam development in Laos and Cambodia. This research interrogated the political ecology of compensation programs, the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism, and the scalar politics of impact assessments.
Dr. Green has been recognized for his contributions to geography and Southeast Asian Studies. He is the recipient of awards from the Association of Asian Studies and American Association of Geographers. His work has been published in top disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, including Progress in Human Geography, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Antipode, Political Geography, Development and Change, and The Journal of Peasant Studies.
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