2016 Ph.D., Clark University, Graduate School of Geography M.A., Clark University, Graduate School of Geography

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1 MILES KENNEY-LAZAR Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku Kyoto, Japan Phone: EDUCATION 2016 Ph.D., Clark University, Graduate School of Geography 2012 M.A., Clark University, Graduate School of Geography 2009 B.A. (hons), University of Miami, Geography/International Studies ACADEMIC POSITIONS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles Forthcoming Pathammavong, B., M. KENNEY-LAZAR and E.V. Sayaraj. Financing the 450 Year Road: Land Expropriation and Politics 'All the Way Down' in Vientiane, Laos. Development and Change. (Accepted for Publication) Forthcoming Kay, K. and M. KENNEY-LAZAR. Value in Capitalist Natures: An Emerging Research Agenda. Dialogues in Human Geography. (Accepted for Publication) 2017 KENNEY-LAZAR, M. and K. Kay. Value in Capitalist Natures. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 28(1): (Introduction to Guest-Edited Special Issue) 2012 KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Plantation Rubber, Land Grabbing, and Social-Property Transformations in Southern Laos. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(3-4): Book Reviews and Commentary Forthcoming KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Excavating the Hidden Politics of Land Governance in Laos. Newsletter of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. No. 76, Fall KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Review of Land s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier by Tania Murray Li, International Development Planning Review, 38(4): KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Review of Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos by Holly High, The Journal of Peasant Studies. 43(5):

2 2012 KENNEY-LAZAR, M. and J. Lauermann. The 18 th Annual Critical Geography Conference. Human Geography, 5(1): Manuscripts in Submission In revision KENNEY-LAZAR, M., D. Suhardiman, and M.B. Dwyer. Beyond the Everyday: State Spaces of Resistance to Industrial Plantation Development in Laos. Antipode. (Major revision) In revision In review KENNEY-LAZAR, M., G. Wong, H. Baral, and A.J.M. Russell. Greening rubber? The challenges of sustainability in Laos and Myanmar. Geoforum. (Revise and resubmit) KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Governing Dispossession: Relational Land Grabbing in Laos. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. (Revised and resubmitted) Consultancy Reports and Working Papers 2016 KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Protected Area Governance and Equitable Access in the Lao PDR. Pakse, Laos: Global Association for People and the Environment (GAPE) KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Linking Food and Land Tenure Security in the Lao PDR. Vientiane: Land Issues Working Group KENNEY-LAZAR, M. and G. Wong. Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Rubber in the Lao People s Democratic Republic. Info Brief No Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) KENNEY-LAZAR, M. and G. Wong. Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Rubber in Myanmar. Info Brief No Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Assessment of Governance Mechanisms, Livelihood Outcomes and Incentive Instruments for Green Rubber in the Lao PDR. Working Paper 206. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Assessment of Governance Mechanisms, Livelihood Outcomes and Incentive Instruments for Green Rubber in Myanmar. Working Paper 207. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Authoritarian Resource Governance and Emerging Peasant Resistance in the Context of Sino-Vietnamese Tree Plantations, Southeastern Laos. BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies Working Paper No. 1. The Hague: The International Institute of Social Studies KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Shifting Cultivation in Laos: Transitions in Policy and Perspective. Vientiane: The Sector Working Group on Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. 2

3 2010 KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Land Concessions, Land Tenure, and Livelihood Change: Plantation Development in Attapeu Province, Southern Laos. Vientiane: Faculty of Forestry, National University of Laos KENNEY-LAZAR, M. Rubber Production in Northern Laos: Geographies of Growth and Contractual Diversity. Vientiane: Faculty of Forestry, National University of Laos. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2014 BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies, The International Institute of Social Studies, Authoritarian Resource Politics: Peasant Struggles Against Sino-Vietnamese Land Investments in Laos 2013 Young Explorers Grant, National Geographic Society, Governing Transnational Land Acquisitions for Plantation Development in Laos 2013 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, Land and Livelihoods: Governing Multinational Plantation Investments in Laos 2013 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award, U.S. National Science Foundation, Land and Livelihoods: Governing Multinational Plantation Investments in Laos, Co-PI with Jody Emel, Clark University 2012 Pruser Dissertation Enhancement Award, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University 2012 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, Financialized Global Land Acquisitions and Resource Commodity Production in Laos 2010 Graduate Research Fellowship Program, U.S. National Science Foundation, Social Impacts of Large-Scale Agricultural Land Concessions in Laos 2009 Fulbright U.S. Student Research Grant, Department of State, The Socioeconomic Effects of Rubber Growing on Rural Households of Northern Laos PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks 2017 Researching the Politics of Land in Laos, Seminar at the Graduate School of African and Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, June Industrial Tree Plantations, Political Power, and the Uneven Geographies of Socio Environmental Change in Laos, Workshop on Land Transactions, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, April. 3

4 2015 Land and Livelihoods: Governing Industrial Tree Plantations in Laos, Plenary Session, 6 th ASEAN Social Forestry Network Conference, Inle Lake, Myanmar, June. Conferences Organized 2011 The 18 th Annual Critical Geography Conference on Constructing Radical Politics in an Age of Crisis, Clark University, Worcester, MA, November. Panel and Paper Sessions Organized 2017 Financializing Rural Geographies, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April Critical Environmental Governance: Politics and Power in the Material World, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April Authoritarian Resource Governance, Emergent Resistance and Unequal Development, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April The Value of Capitalist Natures, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April Financialization, Property, and Rent, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February Land Concessions in Laos, the Third International Conference on Lao Studies, Khon Kaen, Thailand, July. Presentations 2017 Neoliberalizing Authoritarian Nature: Producing the Lao Resource Extraction Regime, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April Resisting with the State: Contesting Dispossession in Authoritarian Laos, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April Industrial Tree Plantations, Political Power, and Uneven Development in Laos, Development Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference, Worcester, MA, April Governing Dispossession: Industrial Tree Plantations and the Emergence of Resistance in Authoritarian Laos, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April Authoritarian Resource Governance and Emerging Peasant Resistance in the Context of Sino-Vietnamese Tree Plantations, Southeastern Laos, Conference on Land Grabbing, Conflict and Agrarian-Environmental Transformations: Perspectives 4

5 from East and Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand, June Authoritarian Resource Governance and Emerging Peasant Resistance in Southern Laos, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April Exploring the linkages between land tenure and food security (presented in Lao language), National Research for Development Forum, National University of Laos, December Evaluating the State of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in the Lao PDR, World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Washington, DC, March State Strategies of Agricultural Modernization: Approaches to Shifting Cultivation in Laos, The Fourth International Conference on Lao Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 'Gold with a Coupon': Financializing Global Farmland, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April Financialization, Property, and Rent in the Global Land Grab, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February Land Grabbing as Exclusionary Acquisition, 18 th Annual Critical Geography Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, November Dispossession, Semi-Proletarianization, and Enclosure: Primitive Accumulation and the Land Grab in Laos, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April Primitive Accumulation and Land Grabbing in Laos, International Conference on Land Grabbing, Brighton, UK, 2011, April Continuous Primitive Accumulation, Land Grabbing and the Destruction of Common Land in Laos, International Association for the Study of the Commons Conference, Hyderabad, India, January Sports, Aid, and Land: Resource-Led Development in Laos, 17th Annual Mini- Conference on Critical Geography, Milwaukee, WI, November Plantation Concessions and Livelihood Change in Southern Laos, Village Focus International, Vientiane, Laos, August Land Concessions, Land Tenure, and Livelihood Change: Plantation Development in Attapeu Province, Southern Laos, the Third International Conference on Lao Studies, Khon Kaen, Thailand, July Socioeconomic Effects of Contract Farming on Rural Households: The Case of Rubber in Northern Laos, the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March. 5

6 TEACHING Undergraduate Courses Worcester Polytechnic Institute Environment and Development in the Global South (Fall 2016) Undergraduate Courses Clark University The Earth Transformed by Human Action (Fall 2016) Research Design and Methods in Geography (Spring 2016) Property and the Global Environment (Fall 2015) Global Change, Regional Challenges (Spring 2013) Teaching Assistantships Clark University Miracles of Asia: Economic Growth in Global Contexts (Fall 2012) SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS Professional Service Referee for the following journals: Asia Pacific Viewpoint; Development and Change; Geoforum; Globalizations; Human Geography; Journal of Contemporary Asia; Journal of Peasant Studies; Law & Policy; Regulation & Governance; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Territory, Politics, Governance Reviewer for Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) analysis of data on indigenous and community land rights in Laos Funding proposal reviewer for: Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Water, Land, and Ecosystems Greater Mekong Region open call for proposals on Research for Development Clark University Food Systems Working Group, Faculty Chair (Fall 2016) Clark University Geographical Society, Professional Development Workshop Committee (Fall 2012 Spring 2013) Clark University Geographical Society, Elected Student Representative (Fall 2011 Spring 2012) Clark University Geographical Society, Colloquium Committee (Fall 2010 Spring 2011) Research affiliations Member of American Association of Geographers, BRICS Initiative for Critical Agrarian Studies, Land Deal Politics Initiative LANGUAGES Lao: excellent speaking, reading and writing 6