Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Dynamic farmers, dead plantations, and the myth of the lazy native.
2023. The Journal of Peasant Studies. VOL. 50, NO. 2, 519–538
Indonesia’s Plantationocene
2023. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 0(0) 2023, pp. 1–5.
Commons, co-ops, and corporations: assembling Indonesia’s twenty-first century land reform.
2021. The Journal of Peasant Studies 48(3):613-639
Epilogue: Customary Land Rights and Politics, 25 Years On.
2020. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 21(1), 77-84.
Fixing Non-market Subjects: Governing Land and Population in the Global South
2014. Foucault Studies, 18: 34-48.
Involution's Dynamic Others.
2014. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, NS: 20:276-292.
Indigeneity, Capitalism, and the Management of Dispossession.
2010. Current Anthropology 51(3): 385-414.
Reflections on Indonesian violence: two tales and three silences.
2008. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (Eds.) 2009 Socialist Register VIOLENCE TODAY: Actually existing barbarism Pontypool: Merlin Press, pp163-180.
Adat in Central Sulawesi: Contemporary Deployments.
2007. Jamie Davidson and David Henley (Eds.) The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics: The Deployment of Adat from Colonialism to Indigenism. London: Routledge, pp 337-370.
Situating Resource Struggles: Concepts for Empirical Analysis.
2003. Economic and Political Weekly 38(48):5120-5128.
Ethnic Cleansing, Recursive Knowledge, and the Dilemmas of Sedentarism.
2002. International Journal of Social Science 173: 361-371.
Local Histories, Global Markets: Cocoa and Class in Upland Sulawesi.
2002. Development and Change 33(3): 415-437.
Engaging Simplifications: Community Based Resource Management, Market Processes and State Agendas in Upland Southeast Asia.
2002. World Development 30(2):265-283.
Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone.
2001. Modern Asian Studies 35(3): 645-676.
Relational Histories and the Production of Difference on Sulawesi’s Upland Frontier.
2001. Journal of Asian Studies 60(1): 41-66.
Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot.
2000. Comparative Studies in Society and History 42(1): 149-179.
Constituting Capitalist Culture: The Singapore Malay Problem and Entrepreneurship Reconsidered.
1999. Robert Hefner (Ed.) Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Westview Press. Pp. 147-172.
Working Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property and Power in Conjugal Relations.
1998. American Ethnologist 25(4): 675-694.
Images of Community: Discourse and Strategy in Property Relations.
1996. Development and Change 27(3): 501-527.