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Dr Rebecca Elmhirst

Principal Lecturer

contact:
Environment and Technology
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642387

Email: R.J.Elmhirst@brighton.ac.uk

Teaching

  • Political ecology
  • Geographies of development
  • Environmental conservation and management
  • Geographies of globalisation and uneven development
  • Field methods in Human Geography

Research

  • Geographies of migration and multi-local livelihoods
  • Gender, resource access and natural resource management
  • New feminist political ecologies
  • Rural change in Southeast Asia
  • Gender, ethnicity and the politics of place in Southeast Asia
  • Field-based participatory curriculum development on sustainable development in Asia

Biography

  • Course leader for BA (Hons) Geography
  • Academic secretary of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies Committee
  • Research focuses on environment, development and migration in Southeast Asia
  • Currently involved in a three year project on Revisiting Gender in Development: Complex Inequalities in a Changing Asia, funded by the Research Council of Norway and with partners from Norway, Denmark, Malaysia, Thailand and China.
  • Joined the University of Brighton in 1996 after completing a PhD at Wye College, University of London

Research Publications

Number of items: 18.

ELMHIRST, REBECCA (2012) Methodological dilemmas in migration research in Asia: research design, omissions and strategic erasures Area, 44 (3). ISSN 0004-0894

ELMHIRST, REBECCA (2012) Displacement, resettlement, and multi-local livelihoods: positioning migrant legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia Critical Asian Studies, 44 (1). ISSN 1467-2715

Ge, Jinghua, Resurreccion, B. and Elmhirst, R. (2011) Return migration and the reiteration of gender norms in water management politics: insights from a Chinese village Geoforum, 42 (2). pp. 133-142. ISSN 0016-7185

Elmhirst, R. (2011) Introducing new feminist political ecologies Geoforum, 42 (2). pp. 129-132. ISSN 0016-7185

Elmhirst, R. (2011) Migrant pathways to resource access in Lampung's political forest: gender, citizenship and creative conjugality Geoforum, 42 (2). pp. 173-183. ISSN 0016-7185

Brown, G., Browne, K., Elmhirst, R. and Hutta, S. (2010) Sexualities in/of the Global South Geography Compass, 4 (10). pp. 1567-1579. ISSN 1749-8198

Resurreccion, B.P. and Elmhirst, R., eds. (2008) Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions Earthscan, London. ISBN 9781844075805

Elmhirst, R. and Resurreccion, B. (2008) Gender, environment and natural resource management: new directions, new debates In: Resurreccion, B.P. and Elmhirst, R., eds. Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions. Earthscan, London, pp. 3-22. ISBN 9781844075805

Elmhirst, R. (2008) Multi-local livelihoods, natural resource management and gender in upland Indonesia In: Resurreccion, B.P. and Elmhirst, R., eds. Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions. Earthscan, London, pp. 67-86. ISBN 9781844075805

Elmhirst, R. (2007) Tigers and gangsters: masculinities and feminized migration in Indonesia Population, Space and Place, 13 (3). pp. 225-238. ISSN 1544-8452

Elmhirst, R. and Resurreccion, B. (2006) Introduction (guest editorial to themed issue on gender and environmental governance) Gender Technology and Development, 10 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0971-8524

Elmhirst, R. and Saptari, R. (2004) Labour in Southeast Asia: local processes in a globalized world Changing labour relations in Asia . RoutledgeCurzon, London/New York. ISBN 0700714200

Elmhirst, R. (2004) Labour politics in migrant communities: ethnicity and women's activism in Tangerang, Indonesia In: Elmhirst, Rebecca and Saptari, Ratna, eds. Labour in Southeast Asia. Local Processes in a Globalised World. RoutledgeCurzon, London/New York, pp. 387-406. ISBN 0700714200

Elmhirst, R. and Saptari, R. (2004) Studying labour in Southeast Asia: reflections on structures and processes In: Elmhirst, Rebecca and Saptari, Ratna, eds. Labour in Southeast Asia. Local Processes in a Globalised World. RoutledgeCurzon, London/New York, pp. 15-46. ISBN 0700714200

Silvey, Rachel and Elmhirst, R. (2003) Engendering social capital: women workers and rural–urban networks in Indonesia’s crisis World Development, 31 (5). pp. 865-879. ISSN 0305-750X

Elmhirst, R. (2002) Negotiating land and livelihood: agency and identities in Indonesia's transmigration programme In: Yeoh, Brenda S.A., Teo, Peggy and Huang, Shirlena, eds. Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 79-98. ISBN 041520660X

Elmhirst, R. (2002) Daughters and displacement: migration dynamics in an Indonesian transmigration area The Journal of Development Studies, 38 (5). pp. 143-166. ISSN 0022-0388

Elmhirst, R. (2001) Resource struggles and the politics of place in North Lampung, Indonesia Singapore Journal Of Tropical Geography, 22 (3). pp. 284-306. ISSN 0129-7619

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