Michael Dwyer has worked in Southeast Asia since 2004, focusing on land governance and development issues in Laos and, more recently, Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia. He uses spatial, ethnographic and archival methods to study the intersections of agrarian change, state and transnational regulatory efforts, and international relations. Mike’s current work focuses on the issue of spatial transparency and associated choices and trade-offs related to development and conservation. He has examined this in Laos’s REDD+ project landscape, in Laos’s and Cambodia’s policy debates related to land titling, and across Southeast Asia in the arena of land concession inventory systems. Mike received his PhD from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group in 2011.
