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  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Nancy Lee Peluso is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Their research is situated in the social sciences, with specific contributions in sociology and political science, general agricultural and biological sciences, anthropology, global and planetary change, and political science and international relations. The subfields reflect a multidisciplinary approach to studying social and environmental issues.

Their work covers a range of topics including anthropological studies and insights, agriculture, land use, rural development, Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, political economy and Marxism, rural development and sustainability, and qualitative research methods and ethics.

Among recent publications are:

  • Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to aJPSForum, 2021, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Postscript: A Theory of Access Revisited, 2020, Society & Natural Resources
  • Writing Political Forests, 2020, Antipode
  • A Forest Runs Through It: Gendered Work and Forest Transformations in Mountain Java, 2025, Journal of Agrarian Change
  • Une théorie de l'accès, 2023, Revue Française de Socio-Économie

They have published a book titled The Social Lives of Land in 2024 with Cornell University Press eBooks.

Frequent collaborators include Wendy Wolford, Michael Goldman, Jesse Ribot, Debbie Prabawati, and Saturnino M. Borras. Their work often appears in journals such as The Journal of Peasant Studies, Society & Natural Resources, Antipode, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Revue Française de Socio-Économie.

Nancy Lee Peluso was awarded the Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • A Theory of Access.

    Jesse C. Ribot;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java

    Nancy Lee Peluso

  • New frontiers of land control: Introduction

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Christian Lund

  • WHOSE WOODS ARE THESE? COUNTER‐MAPPING FOREST TERRITORIES IN KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA

    Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Territorialization and state power in Thailand

    Peter Vandergeest;Peter Vandergeest;Nancy Lee Peluso;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Coercing conservation?: The politics of state resource control

    Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Peter Vandergeest

  • Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia

    R. A. Cramb;Carol J. Pierce Colfer;Wolfram Dressler;Pinkaew Laungaramsri

  • Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia

    Jefferson Fox;Yayoi Fujita;Dimbab Ngidang;Nancy Peluso

  • Political Ecologies of War and Forests: Counterinsurgencies and the Making of National Natures

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Peter Vandergeest

  • Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest: Ethics of Access, Property Zones, and Environmental Change in Indonesia

    Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Suraya Abdulwahab Afiff;Noer Fauzi Rachman

  • Taking Southeast Asia to market : commodities, nature, and people in the neoliberal age

    Joseph Nevins;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Empires of Forestry: Professional Forestry and State Power in Southeast Asia, Part 1

    Peter Vandergeest;York Lanes;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • The rock, the beach, and the tidal pool: People and poverty in natural resource‐dependent areas

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Craig R. Humphrey;Louise P. Fortmann

  • Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and Their Formalization

    Alice B. Kelly;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • New frontiers of land control

    Nancy Lee Peluso;Christian Lund

  • Entangled Territories in Small-Scale Gold Mining Frontiers: Labor Practices, Property, and Secrets in Indonesian Gold Country

    Nancy Lee Peluso

  • What's nature got to do with it? A situated historical perspective on socio-natural commodities.

    Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Borneo in transition: people, forests, conservation, and development.

    Christine Padoch;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java

    Carolyn Trist;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History

    Nancy Peluso;Robert W. Hefner

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tor A. Benjaminsen
Tor A. Benjaminsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Marco A. Janssen
Marco A. Janssen Arizona State University
William D. Sunderlin
William D. Sunderlin Center for International Forestry Research
Jefferson Fox
Jefferson Fox East-West Center
Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones University of Sussex
Jesse C. Ribot
Jesse C. Ribot American University

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