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Professor Sango Mahanty
Contacts
I am a human geographer and study the politics of social and environmental change. My recent ARC Future Fellowship explored these related themes in a region of rapid social and environmental change along the Cambodia-Vietnam border. My current work in this region examines how communities and civil society are responding to dramatic processes of nature-society transformation or “rupture”. I have collaborated with civil society and government in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, and currently lead the Resources, Environment and Development Program at ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy. I also teach postgraduate courses on social impact assessment and pollution/waste.
Research interests
Areas of expertise
Human Geography
Studies Of Asian Society
Natural Resource Management
Environment Policy
Research Interests
Political ecology
Agrarian change
Development studies
Mainland Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia)
Groups
- Researcher, Indigenous peoples, cultures and knowledges
- Researcher, Adaptation, livelihoods and development in Asia and the Pacific
- Researcher, Risk, vulnerability and resilience
Student projects
Primary Supervision Role:
Ratchada Arpornsilp, Grassroots environmental movements in an authoritarian state: resource conflicts in Thailand’s Special Economic Zones Sarou Long, Indigenous Communal Land Title in Cambodia
Teaching
Social Impact Assessment: theory and practice (ANTH8028)
Toxic: Managing Pollution and Waste (EMDV8017)