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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Jonathan Rigg is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, and international relations.

The main fields of study for Jonathan Rigg include:

  • Social Sciences

The subfields covered in their work are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Urban Studies

The topics of research focus on Southeast Asia and encompass areas such as sociopolitical studies, history, governance, agriculture, migration, and development, including:

  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Cambodian History and Society
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Socioeconomic Development in Asia

Jonathan Rigg's publication record includes contributions to various academic journals and a book. Recent notable papers include:

  • "A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century," 2022, World Development
  • "Geographies of ruralization," 2022, Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia," 2020, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "On more than Rural: Textures of Thailand's Agrarian Transformation," 2020, Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
  • "(Re)constructing state power and livelihoods through the Laos-China Railway project," 2021, Geoforum

Jonathan Rigg has published work in various venues, with multiple recurring publication locations including:

  • Geoforum
  • Political Geography
  • Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

In addition to articles, they have authored a book titled Rural Development in Southeast Asia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Throughout their career, Jonathan Rigg has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Diana Suhardiman
  • Michelle Ann Miller
  • David Taylor
  • Jamie Gillen
  • Colin McFarlane

Jonathan Rigg has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South

    Jonathan Rigg

  • Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development

    Jonathan Rigg

  • An everyday geography of the global south

    Jonathan Rigg

  • A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century

    Unknown

  • The puzzle of East and Southeast Asia's persistent smallholder

    Jonathan Rigg;Albert Salamanca;Eric C. Thompson

  • Living with transition in Laos : market integration in Southeast Asia.

    Jonathan Rigg

  • Rural–urban interactions, agriculture and wealth: a southeast Asian perspective

    Jonathan Rigg

  • ‘Post-productivist’ agricultural regimes and the South: discordant concepts?:

    Geoff A. Wiilson;Jonathan Rigg

  • Moving lives: migration and livelihoods in the Lao PDR

    Jonathan Rigg

  • More than the soil: rural change in Southeast Asia.

    Jonathan Rigg

  • Embracing the Global in Thailand: Activism and Pragmatism in an Era of Deagrarianization

    Jonathan Rigg;Sakunee Nattapoolwat

  • Sediments deposited by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami along the Malaysia–Thailand Peninsula

    Andrea D. Hawkes;Michael Bird;Susan Cowie;Carl Grundy-Warr

  • Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand

    Jonathan Rigg;Albert Salamanca;Michael Parnwell

  • Building sustainable livelihoods in Laos: untangling farm from non-farm, progress from distress

    Bounthong Bouahom;Linkham Douangsavanh;Jonathan Rigg

  • Grass-roots development in rural Thailand: A lost cause?

    Jonathan Rigg

  • Trading Sand, Undermining Lives: Omitted Livelihoods in the Global Trade in Sand

    Vanessa Lamb;Melissa Marschke;Jonathan Rigg

  • More farmers, less farming? Understanding the truncated agrarian transition in Thailand

    Jonathan Rigg;Albert Salamanca;Monchai Phongsiri;Mattara Sripun

  • The World Development Report 2009 ?reshapes economic geography?: geographical reflections

    Jonathan Rigg;Anthony Bebbington;Katherine V Gough;Deborah F Bryceson

  • Poverty and livelihoods after full‐time farming: A South‐East Asian view

    Jonathan Rigg

  • Who will tend the farm? Interrogating the ageing Asian farmer

    Jonathan Rigg;Monchai Phongsiri;Buapun Promphakping;Albert Salamanca

  • Forests, marketization, livelihoods and the poor in the Lao PDR

    J. D. Rigg

  • Challenging Southeast Asian Development: The shadows of success

    Jonathan Rigg

  • South-East Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development

    Jill Eyre;Jonathan Rigg

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Tim Davies
Tim Davies University of Canterbury
Nick Rosser
Nick Rosser Durham University
Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Deborah Fahy Bryceson University of Edinburgh
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
Jonathan Nott
Jonathan Nott James Cook University
Alexander L. Densmore
Alexander L. Densmore Durham University
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Brenda S. A. Yeoh National University of Singapore
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University

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