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LYE, Tuck-po
Visiting Research Fellow
Area Studies I
environmental anthropology (including political ecology and historical ecology); anthropology of landscapes and knowledge; hunting and gathering societies; tropical forest dwellers; Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia; Batek.

Research Interests

Over the past ten years, I have moved from an interest in the landscape perception and environmental politics of the Batek (Orang Asli), hunter-gatherers and forest-dwellers in Peninsular Malaysia, to a broader interest in environmental paradigms, and currently am probing the possibilities of a historical ecology framework for understanding landscape manipulation in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. Along with this shift, I am also looking more closely at the foraging-farming continuum, and considering the social and environmental effects of different ways of modifying the land. I continue to maintain my long-term interests in the tropical forests, and the situations and conditions of forest-dwellers everywhere. However, I can now add rivers and water management systems to this list of interests.

Academic Career

1997-1998
  Project Sociologist, Sabah Biodiversity Conservation Project,
  World Wide Fund for Nature and the Government of Sabah, Malaysia

1998-2000
  JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow attached to the COE project,
  Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

2001
  Visiting Fellow, Resource-Management in Asia-Pacific programme, RSPAS,
  Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (short-term)

2002-2003
  Outreach Coordinator, Malaysian Climate Change Group,
  Centre for Environment, Technology, and Development, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2003-2004
  Quillian Visiting International Professor,
  Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia, USA

2005-2006
  conducted fieldwork in Cambodia as an Asia Fellow,
  Asian Scholarship Foundation, while simultaneously a research associate with HeritageWatch,
  Phnom Penh, and the Naga Research Group.

Publications

2006 (co-edited with Wil de Jong and Abe Ken-ichi) The social ecology of tropical forests : migration, populations and frontiers. Kyoto University Press and TransPacific Press.

2004. Changing pathways: Forest degradation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia. LexingtonBooks.

2003 (co-edited with Wil de Jong and Abe Ken-ichi). The political ecology +of tropical forests in Southeast Asia : historical perspectives. Kyoto University Press and TransPacific Press.

2001. Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia : a comprehensive and annotated bibliography. CSEAS Research Report series no. 88. Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.

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