Name：PELUSO, Nancy Lee 
Period：January 6 2025 - March 4 2025 
Affiliation：Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy at University of California Berkeley, USA, 2009-2019.
Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley, in Society & Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Geography; and Anthropology.
RIHN Invited Scholar (6 January-4 March 2025)
Research Topic：Racializing Frontiers and Territories of West Kalimantan, Indonesia (project one), Labor Migration and the Plantation-Migration Nexus (project two)

Dr. Peluso’s research has encompassed a broad range of topics in critical political ecology. Her research on the politics of land and forests focuses largely on Southeast Asia, and specifically in Indonesia.Her approach to research on the politics of agrarian and environmental transformations is ethnographic, qualitative, and historical.She has conducted research on the history of political forests in Southeast Asia, linking global geopolitics, professional forestry institutions, and natural resource law to the production of state territories and shifting experiences for forest dwellers.Her most recent project examines the micro-politics of small-scale gold mining in West Kalimantan to understand how mining practices and access regimes produce territory.

While Nancy is visiting RIHN, she will be working on two book projects.  One, based in a northwest corner of West Kalimantan, focuses on racialized resource landscapes as territories haunted by past residents and users embedded in the landscape. The other is a study of what she and her colleagues call "The Plantation-Migration Nexus," as this manifests in a montane forest in East Java.  She is looking forward to exchanging ideas and activities with her new colleagues at RIHN.