PhD Indigenous Studies welcomes new Visiting Professor
- Indigenous Studies 398 for the 1st Semester of AY 2022-2023 will be handled by Visiting Professor Alberto Gomes of La Trobe UniversityHis research has been on the impact of state-sponsored development, capitalism and modernity on Indigenous communities, particularly the Orang Asli (Malaysian Aborigines).
Publication projects have focused on what we can learn from Indigenous peoples and their epistemologies rather than merely learning about them. Current projects include (1) the nexus between equality (or egalitarianism), sustainability and peace and (2) Indigenous forms of conflict transformation, dialogue and empathetic engagement.
Here are some of his publications:
• ‘Lessons from the margin: Indigenous peace ecology’. Organicom 15 (28): 149-166.
- ‘Semai ecological epistemologies: Lessons for a sustainable future’. In Malaysia’s“Original People”: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli (edited by Kirk Endicott). Singapore University Press.
- ‘Marginalisation of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia’. In Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia (edited by Meredith Weiss). Routledge.
- ‘The Impact of Environmental Changes on Forest Peoples of Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century’. In Histories of Health in Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Long Twentieth. (edited by Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith), Indiana University Press.
- ‘Alter-native Development: Indigenous Forms of Social Ecology’, Third World Quarterly 33(6): 1059-1073.
- ‘Ethnicization of the Orang Asli: A Case-study on the Semai’, In Multiethnic Malaysia: Perspectives on Past, Present and Future. (edited by Lim Teck Ghee, Alberto Gomes, Azly Rahman). Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur: Strategic Information and Research
Development Centre and USCI University.
- Modernity and Malaysia: Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
- Looking for Money: Capitalism and Modernity in an Orang Asli Village. Kuala Lumpur: COAC and Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
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