Colum Graham
@clmgrhm.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Agrarian studies, politics, history.
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◤Upcoming Colloquium◢
The Future of Rice Farming in Southeast Asia
by Jefferson Fox (Senior Fellow, East-West Center)
Co-host: Society for Nature and Agriculture in Southeast Asia
🗓️Nov 7 (Fri), 12:00–13:30 JST
📍Seminar Room (213), Inamori Center / Zoom
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The Future of Rice Farming in Southeast Asia
by Jefferson Fox (Senior Fellow, East-West Center)
Co-host: Society for Nature and Agriculture in Southeast Asia
🗓️Nov 7 (Fri), 12:00–13:30 JST
📍Seminar Room (213), Inamori Center / Zoom
kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/202...
CSEAS Colloquium by Jefferson Fox: “The Future of Rice Farming in Southeast Asia” | Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University
Title The Future of Rice Farming in Southeast Asia Speaker Jefferson Fox (Senior Fellow, East-West Center)&nbs […]
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October 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
◤Upcoming Colloquium◢
The Future of Rice Farming in Southeast Asia
by Jefferson Fox (Senior Fellow, East-West Center)
Co-host: Society for Nature and Agriculture in Southeast Asia
🗓️Nov 7 (Fri), 12:00–13:30 JST
📍Seminar Room (213), Inamori Center / Zoom
kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/202...
The Future of Rice Farming in Southeast Asia
by Jefferson Fox (Senior Fellow, East-West Center)
Co-host: Society for Nature and Agriculture in Southeast Asia
🗓️Nov 7 (Fri), 12:00–13:30 JST
📍Seminar Room (213), Inamori Center / Zoom
kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/202...
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Hi All! The new issue of Journal of Agrarian Change (25:4) is out now with an entirely open access special section on Land and Labour in Indonesia (among other goodies)... please do check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14710366...
Journal of Agrarian Change: Vol 25, No 4
The Journal of Agrarian Change (JOAC) is an agricultural and rural development journal leading the field of agrarian political economy.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hi All! The new issue of Journal of Agrarian Change (25:4) is out now with an entirely open access special section on Land and Labour in Indonesia (among other goodies)... please do check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14710366...
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Cropland area nearly doubled in South America between 2000 and 2019 - the largest relative increase in the world. Soybean production replaced rainforests, grasslands & savannas. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/14962... As China refuses U.S. soybeans, this puts more pressure on natural ecosystems.
The Spread of Soy in South America
Grasslands, savannas, and dry forests have become popular places to grow soy.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Cropland area nearly doubled in South America between 2000 and 2019 - the largest relative increase in the world. Soybean production replaced rainforests, grasslands & savannas. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/14962... As China refuses U.S. soybeans, this puts more pressure on natural ecosystems.
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Without peasants, the global economy could not function, and our natural systems would collapse. Life still depends on the peasantry, and we are all affected by the fact that it is today in an acute crisis
The planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers | Aeon Essays
Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised
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September 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Without peasants, the global economy could not function, and our natural systems would collapse. Life still depends on the peasantry, and we are all affected by the fact that it is today in an acute crisis
Enjoyed this post by Masayuki Yanagisawa and agree with his point about asking big questions. I also like the comparative photo arrangements! newsletter.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/nl-83/yan... @cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Rural Village Study in Vietnam: Finding the Balance between Researching Specific Issues and Asking Big Questions
Masayuki Yanagisawa (Environmental History in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese Studies)
In the 1990s, when
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September 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Enjoyed this post by Masayuki Yanagisawa and agree with his point about asking big questions. I also like the comparative photo arrangements! newsletter.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/nl-83/yan... @cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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My first-ever, single-authored article is out in the Journal of Peasant Studies! Comparing sugar and infrastructure frontiers, it explores how technologies of dispossession shape frontier-making and state power in Indonesia across scale and time.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia
This article examines land dispossession in Indonesia through a conjunctural comparison of two frontier regimes: a long-standing commodity frontier in South Sulawesi and a rapidly assembled infrast...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
My first-ever, single-authored article is out in the Journal of Peasant Studies! Comparing sugar and infrastructure frontiers, it explores how technologies of dispossession shape frontier-making and state power in Indonesia across scale and time.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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It’s August, which means a new issue of Mekong Review 🥳
In this issue: young K-pop stans in Myanmar join resistance efforts, the contestation of Indonesia’s history, an interview with Saigon Soul Revival… and more!
Order online: ko-fi.com/s/a3e8a4c60d
In this issue: young K-pop stans in Myanmar join resistance efforts, the contestation of Indonesia’s history, an interview with Saigon Soul Revival… and more!
Order online: ko-fi.com/s/a3e8a4c60d
August 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
It’s August, which means a new issue of Mekong Review 🥳
In this issue: young K-pop stans in Myanmar join resistance efforts, the contestation of Indonesia’s history, an interview with Saigon Soul Revival… and more!
Order online: ko-fi.com/s/a3e8a4c60d
In this issue: young K-pop stans in Myanmar join resistance efforts, the contestation of Indonesia’s history, an interview with Saigon Soul Revival… and more!
Order online: ko-fi.com/s/a3e8a4c60d
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Good piece by Nick Cheesman from my old department at ANU @ouranu.bsky.social
Good piece by Nick Cheesman from my old department at ANU @ouranu.bsky.social
Has meritocracy gotten the better of our universities? Why events at ANU are grounds for hope - ABC Religion & Ethics
It’s not every day that the students and staff of a university succeed in forcing a vice-chancellor from office — that’s what happened last week at ANU, but why did change take so long when it was cle...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Good piece by Nick Cheesman from my old department at ANU @ouranu.bsky.social
Good piece by Nick Cheesman from my old department at ANU @ouranu.bsky.social
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My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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Honoured to have won this award. Thanks to @edwardaspinall.bsky.social for supervising me, my committee members Ben Kerkvliet and Jim Fox for their continuous support over the years, and the ASAA award panel @asiancurrents.bsky.social
🌟 Dr Colum Graham has been awarded the 2024 John Legge Prize for his doctoral thesis about agrarian transitions in Indonesia 🌟
Please join us in congratulating Dr Graham, and Dr Minglei Wang who was recognised with the award of runner-up 👏
Read the press release: asaa.asn.au/news/thesis-...
Please join us in congratulating Dr Graham, and Dr Minglei Wang who was recognised with the award of runner-up 👏
Read the press release: asaa.asn.au/news/thesis-...
Thesis about Agrarian Transitions in Indonesia wins the John Legge Prize for 2024 - Asian Studies Association of Australia
The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is pleased to announce that Dr Colum Graham, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, has won…
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August 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Honoured to have won this award. Thanks to @edwardaspinall.bsky.social for supervising me, my committee members Ben Kerkvliet and Jim Fox for their continuous support over the years, and the ASAA award panel @asiancurrents.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/one... Good episode on seed banks and the emergence of seeds as intellectual property. Very much agree on public funding, @adamtooze.bsky.social
The Doomsday Seed Vault
Plus: The economics of Alaska.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/one... Good episode on seed banks and the emergence of seeds as intellectual property. Very much agree on public funding, @adamtooze.bsky.social
Could the origins of macan cisewu's style be from this kind of promotion found in a 1918 edition of Oetoesan Hindia? Or perhaps there are earlier ones? Am I mistaken in seeing the resemblance?
August 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Could the origins of macan cisewu's style be from this kind of promotion found in a 1918 edition of Oetoesan Hindia? Or perhaps there are earlier ones? Am I mistaken in seeing the resemblance?
In a day interrupted with meetings it is great to briefly escape to microfilm. Wonder if the Gothic typeface for Oetoesan Hindia's masthead points to organicist influences?
August 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
In a day interrupted with meetings it is great to briefly escape to microfilm. Wonder if the Gothic typeface for Oetoesan Hindia's masthead points to organicist influences?
Interesting post on @newmandala.bsky.social www.newmandala.org/instagrammin...
Instagramming colonialism in Surabaya - New Mandala
On what’s lost when the Dutch East Indies is recalled as a time of picturesque sophistication
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August 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Interesting post on @newmandala.bsky.social www.newmandala.org/instagrammin...
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Join our ANU Indonesia Institute for the 2025 Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture. 🇮🇩
This annual lecture honours the legacies of Tony and Yohanni Johns, who pioneered Indonesian language learning in Australia.
Find out more and register via this link: quicklink.anu.edu.au/708x
This annual lecture honours the legacies of Tony and Yohanni Johns, who pioneered Indonesian language learning in Australia.
Find out more and register via this link: quicklink.anu.edu.au/708x
Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture 2025
Get tickets on Humanitix - Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture 2025 hosted by ANU Indonesia Institute. Lecture Theatre 1 (HB1), Hedley Bull Building, 130 Garran Rd, Acton ACT 2601, Australia. Tuesday 12th ...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Join our ANU Indonesia Institute for the 2025 Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture. 🇮🇩
This annual lecture honours the legacies of Tony and Yohanni Johns, who pioneered Indonesian language learning in Australia.
Find out more and register via this link: quicklink.anu.edu.au/708x
This annual lecture honours the legacies of Tony and Yohanni Johns, who pioneered Indonesian language learning in Australia.
Find out more and register via this link: quicklink.anu.edu.au/708x
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New working paper from me & some colleagues on East Africa's maize markets from c. 1900 to today, based on a major data collection effort to fill in the long-run history of food prices in one of the world's poorest regions: www.aehnetwork.org/working-pape...
The Political Economy of Maize in East Africa, 1900-2020: How cheap food turned expensive – African Economic History Network
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August 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New working paper from me & some colleagues on East Africa's maize markets from c. 1900 to today, based on a major data collection effort to fill in the long-run history of food prices in one of the world's poorest regions: www.aehnetwork.org/working-pape...
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Happy to share this new piece in Food Policy documenting the wide policy uptake of the 6 dimensions of food security framework (incl. agency and sustainability).
co-authored with colleagues @williamgmoseley.bsky.social, Paola Termine, & Barbara Burlingame
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co-authored with colleagues @williamgmoseley.bsky.social, Paola Termine, & Barbara Burlingame
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August 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Happy to share this new piece in Food Policy documenting the wide policy uptake of the 6 dimensions of food security framework (incl. agency and sustainability).
co-authored with colleagues @williamgmoseley.bsky.social, Paola Termine, & Barbara Burlingame
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
co-authored with colleagues @williamgmoseley.bsky.social, Paola Termine, & Barbara Burlingame
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@mklaz.bsky.social Miles Kenney-Lazar's book is out!! 👏🏼
I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos
Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital investment into land, especially for the establ…
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August 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
@mklaz.bsky.social Miles Kenney-Lazar's book is out!! 👏🏼
I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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In Praise of Floods by James C. Scott was featured in a new review essay from @bostonreview.bsky.social.
What Does It Take to Topple a Dam? - Boston Review
A new politics of rivers is emerging.
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July 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In Praise of Floods by James C. Scott was featured in a new review essay from @bostonreview.bsky.social.
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New article, with Ibrahim Suffian and Ted Lee: "Malaysia’s Democratic Deficit: Why Youth May Not Be the Answer." (Abbreviated abstract: not all youth are politically "progressive.") This piece was looong in coming – so all the happier to see it finally in print!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Malaysia’s democratic deficit: why youth may not be the answer: Democratization: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
Browse all journals
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July 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New article, with Ibrahim Suffian and Ted Lee: "Malaysia’s Democratic Deficit: Why Youth May Not Be the Answer." (Abbreviated abstract: not all youth are politically "progressive.") This piece was looong in coming – so all the happier to see it finally in print!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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This week we have members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective ( @adamcalo.bsky.social , Maywa Montenegro de Wit , @beniuliano.bsky.social , @alastairiles.bsky.social ) taking on the productivist roots of the "feed-the-world" approach to food security.
spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This week we have members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective ( @adamcalo.bsky.social , Maywa Montenegro de Wit , @beniuliano.bsky.social , @alastairiles.bsky.social ) taking on the productivist roots of the "feed-the-world" approach to food security.
spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
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Three years and a movement: how farmers defeated the land grab by India’s Karnataka state peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/19/t...
July 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Three years and a movement: how farmers defeated the land grab by India’s Karnataka state peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/19/t...
An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Distributive Politics and Class Dynamics in Rural Java
Based on fieldwork in a village I call Lone Teak in East Java, Indonesia, this paper examines emerging patterns of class differentiation and distributive politics. The history of Lone Teak's landhold....
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July 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An open access paper I wrote on differentiated Suharto nostalgia in rural Java for a Journal of Agrarian Change special issue on land and labour in Indonesia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Cornell UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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June 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
Great to talk with @dresslerwolfram.bsky.social about "For the Sake of Forests and Gods" on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !