Dr. Michael Dwyer

Associated Senior Research Scientist

Phone
(+1) 510 499 6834
E-Mail
dwyerdwyer@gmail.com
Office
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Geography Departement at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Postal Address
Dr. Michael Dwyer
823 61st Street
Oakland CA 94608
USA

Areas of professional focus at CDE

  • Transnational investment, enclosure and development cooperation
  • Historical explanations of contemporary development geographies
  • Land titling and property formalization
  • Forest management and regulatory politics
  • Rural infrastructure and industrialization

Field experience

Laos, Cambodia, Mekong Region

Languages

English, Lao

2016

Michael Dwyer, Micah Ingalls and Ian Baird (2016) The security exception: Development and militarization in Laos’s protected areas. Geoforum 69: 207–217.

Michael Dwyer (2016) Upland geopolitics: Finding Zomia in northern Laos c. 1875. The Journal of Lao Studies, Special Issue 3: 37-57.

Micah Ingalls and Michael Dwyer (2016) Missing the forest for the trees? Navigating the trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation under REDD. Climatic Change 136(2): 353-366.

2015

Michael Dwyer (2015) The formalization fix? Land titling, land concessions, and the politics of spatial transparency in Cambodia. The Journal of Peasant Studies 42(5): 903–928.

Michael Dwyer, Emily Polack and Sokbunthoeun So (2015) ‘Better-practice’ concessions: Some lessons from Cambodia’s Leopard Skin landscape. International Development Policy | Revue inter-nationale de politique de développement 6.1.

Michael Dwyer (2015) Redirecting regulation? Land titling and Cambodia’s post-neoliberal conjuncture. In Governing Access to Essential Resources, edited by Katharina Pistor and Olivier de Schutter. Columbia University Press.

Michael Dwyer and Micah Ingalls (2015) REDD+ at the crossroads: Choices and tradeoffs for 2015–2020 in Laos. CIFOR Working Paper 179. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor Indonesia.

Michael Dwyer (2015) Trying to follow the money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia’s rush for ‘available’ land. CIFOR Working Paper 177. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor Indonesia.

2014

Michael Dwyer (2014) Micro-geopolitics: Capitalising security in Laos’s Golden Quadrangle. Geopolitics 19: 377–405.

Peter Messerli, Markus Giger, Michael Dwyer, Thomas Breu and Sandra Eckert (2014) The geography of large-scale land acquisitions: Analyzing socio-ecological patterns of target contexts in the global south. Applied Geography 53: 449–459.

M. B. Dwyer and I. G. Baird (2014) Principled engagement: political ecologists and their interactions outside the academy. Introduction to a set of short interventions. ACME 13(4): 473–477.

Michael Dwyer (2014) Territorial entanglements: Ambiguities of giving back in northwestern Laos [Research Note]. Journal of Research Practice 10(2), Article N9

2013

Michael Dwyer (2013) Building the politics machine: Tools for ‘resolving’ the global land grab. Development and Change 44(2): 309–333.

Older

Sithong Thongmanivong, Kaisone Phengsopha, Houngphet Chantavong, Michael Dwyer and Robert Oberndorf (2009) Concession or cooperation? Impacts of recent rubber investment on land tenure and livelihoods: A case study from Oudomxai Province, Lao PDR. Unpublished, online.

Michael Dwyer (2007) Turning land into capital: A review of recent research on land concessions for investment in Lao PDR. The Land Issues Working Group of the Lao INGO Network, Vientiane. Part 1: Literature review (also in Lao language) | Part 2: Gaps and Future Research.