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ID66952
NAMEA Beban
GIVEN NAMESA
FAMILY NAMEBeban
SIGNATUREBEBAN A
AFFILIATIONSMassey University
ORCID0000-0001-9618-9669
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS124
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • Hope and its Applications: A Scoping Review

    Open Access•Elaine Khoo, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of University Teaching…•2026

    Despite a growing recognition and empirical base on hope and its value in educational contexts, there has been limited research into hope and hope-related strategies for transforming higher education (HE) teaching and learning practices. We report on a scoping review to uncover current perspectives of hope as contemplated and applied in contemporary HE teaching-learning contexts. Our study draws from six databases (A+ Education, ERIC, Education S…

  • The Roles of Academics in Environmental Struggles Along the Mekong: Engaged Scholarship Under Political Restriction

    Open Access•A Beban, Apisom Intralawan et al.•ARTICLE•Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies•2026

    Academics in the Mekong region play a crucial role in producing research that supports environmental movements, challenges dominant models of development, and informs policy discussions. However, our ability to conduct research on environmental issues is constrained by government restrictions, institutional barriers, and shifting political climates. This article synthesises discussions from a recent collaborative workshop that examined the roles …

  • Gendered Barriers and Dressing Rituals: The Role of the Uniform in Becoming Women Prison Officers in Men's Prisons

    Open Access•Claudia Walker, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2026

    Men's prisons can be particularly challenging workplaces for women, who often experience barriers to belonging. While uniforms are recognised as important for professional identity in military and policing contexts, how they shape women's identity practices in prison work has not been widely examined. To address this gap, we completed a reflexive thematic analysis of data produced through a cooperative inquiry project with 16 women working in Aus…

  • Structural violence of platform capitalism: A case study of online sex workers’ experiences

    Open Access•Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociology•2025•References: 6

    With the rise of Web 2.0 and online sex work platforms, it's important to understand the structural violence faced by online sex workers. Utilising data from an online forum, AmberCutie, and drawing on structural violence as a theoretical framework, we argue that platform capitalism enacts violence against online sex workers structurally, through algorithmic systems and precarious financial payment options embedded within platform interfaces. Pla…

  • How (In)Visibility Shapes Women's Experience of Inequity in Prison Work: A Cooperative Inquiry With Women Working in Australian Men's Prisons

    Open Access•Claudia Walker, Riley et al.•ARTICLE•Gender Work and Organization•2025•References: 10

    Research shows that women working in men's prisons face both scrutiny and exclusion within a high‐risk, masculinized occupational culture. Addressing a gap in theorizing the processes involved, this article explores the interplay of gender, visibility, and power through a poststructuralist‐informed thematic analysis of data from 16 women participating in four cooperative inquiry groups in Australian men's prisons. Theorized through Lewis and Simp…

  • Older women’s constructions of equality over the lifecourse

    Open Access•A Beban, Vicky M Walters et al.•ARTICLE•Ageing and Society•2025•References: 44

    Gender and age are central organising principles of social relations, with socially constructed gendered and age-based norms influencing patterns of social behaviour, power and inequality. Despite recent literature highlighting the importance of subjective measures of equality, including as a significant predictor of wellbeing, there is a gap in studies focused on subjective equality in research on ageing. Drawing on an equality ranking exercise …

  • Prefigurative politics in the platform economy: Online Sex Workers Restaging Collective Mobilisation Through Informal Communities of Care

    Open Access•Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Power•2025•References: 12

  • Getting to 'Yes: Reflections on "Shimmer" by Deborah Bird Rose

    Open Access•Deidre Mcdonald, Clare M Mouat et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Research•2025•References: 10

    Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study

  • Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Asia•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 52

  • Grasping onto land: The emotional political ecology of land on the Tonle Sap Lake Wetlands

    Sopheak Chann, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 50

  • Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis

    Open Access•Vicky M Walters, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This paper puts forward a model of feminist research practice, termed 'TROVE'. This model emerged through methodological reflections on research ethics for a project exploring women's experiences of gender inequality over the life course. The paper discusses five relations of care that became core to the research: relations within the team; between researchers and participants; in participants' connection with their past, present, and future selv…

  • Currying Favour with the Algorithm: Online Sex Workers’ Efforts To Satisfy Patriarchal Expectations

    Open Access•Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Sexuality & Culture•2024•References: 17

    The rise of the online sex work industry is reshaping how people conceptualise and negotiate sexual encounters across digital and offline spaces. This article analyses content from an online sex work forum (AmberCutie Forum (ACF)) to examine how online sex workers establish boundaries between their online and offline lives to manage competing expectations from their partners and viewers. Our analysis reveals a misogynistic double standard whereby…

  • Postfeminism in prison: A discourse analysis of women correctional officers’ accounts of gendered appearance at work

    Open Access•Claudia Walker, Riley et al.•ARTICLE•Feminism & Psychology•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    This article explores sense-making among female prison workers as they negotiate their appearance at work. Appearance is a vehicle through which gender is performed; yet research into how women account for their appearance in this male-dominated profession remains limited. We address this gap through an analysis of 16 women's accounts of their appearance work produced from an in-depth cooperative inquiry with women working in Australian men's pri…

  • Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake

    Open Access•Sopheak Chann, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Antipode•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 54

    In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once‐fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with‐on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio‐ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue tha…

  • Challenges to Empowerment of Women through Value Chains: The Need to Move from Individual to Relational Empowerment

    Open Access•Phuong Nguyen, R Scheyvens et al.•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This article examines the prevailing assumption by donors that connecting smallholder women to value chains will close the gender gap and empower women. Based on a case study of a programme that seeks to empower women through their integration into value chains in Vietnam, the article assesses women's empowerment across four dimensions: economic, psychological, social and political. The authors argue that women's engagement in value chains does n…

  • The lucky and unlucky daughter: Gender, land inheritance and agrarian change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban, Joanna Bourke Martignoni•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 39

    In many agrarian societies, women come to own land, and people secure care in old age through land inheritance. The social norms guiding inheritance shape gendered, generational and class-based relations of power in rural areas, and intra-family land rights can be lost when inheritance norms shift. In Cambodia's northeastern Ratanakiri province, rapid agrarian change over the past decade-including the expansion of land grabs, cash cropping and Kh…

  • Institutions, governance and extractives: Where politics and ecologies collide

    Open Access•A Beban, Glenn Banks•ARTICLE•The Extractive Industries and…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Provides an introduction to the Special Issue: Politics and Ecologies. We review recent literature on the political ecology of extraction, and on relational approaches within the field. The introduction then provides a brief precise of each paper and their contribution, as well as the contribution of the collection to the field

  • On Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands by Sango Mahanty

    Courtney Work, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues in…•2023

  • Policing freedom campers: The place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Shannon Aston, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Geographies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    The concept of ‘overtourism’ has boomed in the past five years as the latest term to refer to anti-tourist sentiment in tourist hotspots. News media’s widespread use of the term suffers from conceptual slippage and a tendency to incite moral panic. However, a deeper theorization of overtourism as embodied, place-based social conflicts shows that this phenomenon is not about absolute visitor numbers or particular tourist activities, but rather abo…

  • The Spatial Awareness Project: A Co-Created Interdisciplinary Educational Film and Podcast

    Cadey Korson, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•GeoHumanities•2022•References: 3

    Place-based digital storytelling can transform conversations about environmental challenges. Yet, co-creating digital stories also has the power to transform those involved in producing them. This is the critical reflection of an interdisciplinary team of lecturers and students who produced their own contextually situated resources to spark conversations about, and public awareness of, land use classifications environmental issues in Aotearoa New…

  • The myth of medical multiculturalism: How social closure marginalises traditional Chinese medicine in New Zealand

    Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Health Sociology Review•2022•References: 38

    This article uses neo-Weberian social closure theory and Bourdieu's theory of symbolic violence to examine the epistemic tension between biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), a country that aspires to a multicultural model of healthcare. Drawing on interviews with TCM practitioners and analysis of TCM practitioners' attempt to become a regulated profession, we argue that a multicultural health model rema…

  • From a Distance: The 'New Normal' for Researchers and Research Assistants Engaged in Remote Fieldwork

    Open Access•Phuong Nguyen, R Scheyvens et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 46

    Doing remote fieldwork is a 'new normal' in the COVID-19 pandemic era. It is challenging, but not impossible. With planning and preparation, comprehensive training and ongoing support for Research Assistants (RAs), researchers can overcome the challenges of remote fieldwork. In this article, we reflect on the experience of employing local RAs to support doctoral research involving in-depth household interviews and focus group discussions with eth…

  • Exploring men's involvement in family planning in Lao PDR

    Vanly Lorkuangming, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    This study explores men’s involvement in family planning programmes in a rural area of Lao PDR. Data from interviews with ethnic minority Mangkong couples and women suggest that while there are some positive outcomes from men’s involvement in family planning, such as increased spousal communication and shared responsibility for housework and childcaring, the current family planning model still places the burden on women as the main contraceptive …

  • Rupturing violent land imaginaries: Finding hope through a land titling campaign in Cambodia

    Open Access•Laura Schoenberger, A Beban•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 17

  • Pockets of liberal media in authoritarian regimes: What the crackdown on emancipatory spaces means for rural social movements in Cambodia

    A Beban, Laura Schoenberger et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2019•Cited by: 9•References: 12

    2020). Pockets of liberal media in authoritarian regimes: what the crackdown on emancipatory spaces means for rural social movements in Cambodia. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 95-115

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  • From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the Cambodia-Vietnam border

    A Beban, Timothy Gorman•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2017•Cited by: 24•References: 30

    In recent years, thousands of Vietnamese migrant farmers have crossed the border into Cambodia and leased land for export-oriented rice and shrimp production. Based on case studies in two Cambodian border provinces, we argue that these land transfers represent an intersection of broader processes of agrarian change that is re-shaping the Cambodian borderlands into a hybrid socio-ecological zone. Cambodian landlords and intermediaries use unequal …

  • From Force to Legitimation: Rethinking Land Grabs in Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban, Sokbunthoeun So et al.•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2017•Cited by: 21•References: 24

    This article moves beyond a focus on the brute force involved in high-profile land grabs to examine the way legitimation, regulation and coercion intersect in Cambodia's property regime. It builds on the 'powers of exclusion' framework developed by Hall, Hirsch and Li to argue that increased connections within civil society in Cambodia and engagement with Western commodity markets have motivated state and private concessionaires to use different …

  • They Turn Us into Criminals: Embodiments of Fear in Cambodian Land Grabbing

    Laura Schoenberger, A Beban•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 37

    Our efforts to research the land grab in Cambodia were thwarted on multiple fronts. This article emerges from our collective experiences of fear and intimidation to reconsider land grabs as a project that produces fear and is reliant on fear. Recent literature on resource conflict focuses on acts of physical violence, but for people who live near spaces of land grabs, the everyday is marked by a different kind of violence, an incoherence and perv…

  • The Spirits are Crying: Dispossessing Land and Possessing Bodies in Rural Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban, Courtney Work•ARTICLE•Antipode•2014•Cited by: 12•References: 35

    In 2009, a land spirit disrupted plantation development within a contested Economic Land Concession in Cambodia. The spirit, along with efforts of a monk and NGO, ultimately persuaded state officials to return 5 ha of land to the local temple. In this paper, we bring together literature on the anthropology of religion, political economy of land possession, and critical development studies; we demonstrate that land spirits continue as members of p…

  • Mapping the Srok: The Mimeses of Land Titling in Cambodia

    Courtney Work, A Beban•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues in…•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    In June 2012, Cambodia’s prime minister issued an order on land titling that deployed student volunteers to survey and map the country’s territory. Examination of this initiative at the theoretical intersections of mapping, mimicry and governmentality demonstrates the violent exclusions inherent in cadastral projects that restrict measuring and titling to only “productive” properties. In a field of speculation and local power the initiative drama…

  • From a Distance: The 'New Normal' for Researchers and Research Assistants Engaged in Remote Fieldwork

    Open Access•Phuong Nguyen, R Scheyvens et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 46

    Doing remote fieldwork is a 'new normal' in the COVID-19 pandemic era. It is challenging, but not impossible. With planning and preparation, comprehensive training and ongoing support for Research Assistants (RAs), researchers can overcome the challenges of remote fieldwork. In this article, we reflect on the experience of employing local RAs to support doctoral research involving in-depth household interviews and focus group discussions with eth…

  • Pockets of liberal media in authoritarian regimes: What the crackdown on emancipatory spaces means for rural social movements in Cambodia

    A Beban, Laura Schoenberger et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2019•Cited by: 9•References: 12

    2020). Pockets of liberal media in authoritarian regimes: what the crackdown on emancipatory spaces means for rural social movements in Cambodia. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 95-115

  • Of migrants and middlemen: Cultivating access and challenging exclusion along the Vietnam–Cambodia border

    Open Access•Timothy Gorman, A Beban•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 10

    In a possible sign of a new trend in Southeast Asia, economic pressures are driving smallholder shrimp farmers from Vietnam's Mekong Delta across the Cambodian border in search of new land. Building from ethnographic research with Vietnamese shrimp farmers in Kampot province, Cambodia, this paper explores the structures, mechanisms and relations that facilitate and impede the ability of Vietnamese migrants to gain and maintain access to land in C…

  • Rupturing violent land imaginaries: Finding hope through a land titling campaign in Cambodia

    Open Access•Laura Schoenberger, A Beban•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 17

  • Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake

    Open Access•Sopheak Chann, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Antipode•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 54

    In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once‐fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with‐on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio‐ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue tha…

  • Policing freedom campers: The place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Shannon Aston, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Geographies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    The concept of ‘overtourism’ has boomed in the past five years as the latest term to refer to anti-tourist sentiment in tourist hotspots. News media’s widespread use of the term suffers from conceptual slippage and a tendency to incite moral panic. However, a deeper theorization of overtourism as embodied, place-based social conflicts shows that this phenomenon is not about absolute visitor numbers or particular tourist activities, but rather abo…

  • Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Asia•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 52

  • Grasping onto land: The emotional political ecology of land on the Tonle Sap Lake Wetlands

    Sopheak Chann, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 50

  • Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis

    Open Access•Vicky M Walters, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This paper puts forward a model of feminist research practice, termed 'TROVE'. This model emerged through methodological reflections on research ethics for a project exploring women's experiences of gender inequality over the life course. The paper discusses five relations of care that became core to the research: relations within the team; between researchers and participants; in participants' connection with their past, present, and future selv…

  • Postfeminism in prison: A discourse analysis of women correctional officers’ accounts of gendered appearance at work

    Open Access•Claudia Walker, Riley et al.•ARTICLE•Feminism & Psychology•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    This article explores sense-making among female prison workers as they negotiate their appearance at work. Appearance is a vehicle through which gender is performed; yet research into how women account for their appearance in this male-dominated profession remains limited. We address this gap through an analysis of 16 women's accounts of their appearance work produced from an in-depth cooperative inquiry with women working in Australian men's pri…

  • Challenges to Empowerment of Women through Value Chains: The Need to Move from Individual to Relational Empowerment

    Open Access•Phuong Nguyen, R Scheyvens et al.•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This article examines the prevailing assumption by donors that connecting smallholder women to value chains will close the gender gap and empower women. Based on a case study of a programme that seeks to empower women through their integration into value chains in Vietnam, the article assesses women's empowerment across four dimensions: economic, psychological, social and political. The authors argue that women's engagement in value chains does n…

  • The lucky and unlucky daughter: Gender, land inheritance and agrarian change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban, Joanna Bourke Martignoni•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 39

    In many agrarian societies, women come to own land, and people secure care in old age through land inheritance. The social norms guiding inheritance shape gendered, generational and class-based relations of power in rural areas, and intra-family land rights can be lost when inheritance norms shift. In Cambodia's northeastern Ratanakiri province, rapid agrarian change over the past decade-including the expansion of land grabs, cash cropping and Kh…

  • Institutions, governance and extractives: Where politics and ecologies collide

    Open Access•A Beban, Glenn Banks•ARTICLE•The Extractive Industries and…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Provides an introduction to the Special Issue: Politics and Ecologies. We review recent literature on the political ecology of extraction, and on relational approaches within the field. The introduction then provides a brief precise of each paper and their contribution, as well as the contribution of the collection to the field

  • Exploring men's involvement in family planning in Lao PDR

    Vanly Lorkuangming, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    This study explores men’s involvement in family planning programmes in a rural area of Lao PDR. Data from interviews with ethnic minority Mangkong couples and women suggest that while there are some positive outcomes from men’s involvement in family planning, such as increased spousal communication and shared responsibility for housework and childcaring, the current family planning model still places the burden on women as the main contraceptive …

  • The Spirits are Crying: Dispossessing Land and Possessing Bodies in Rural Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban, Courtney Work•ARTICLE•Antipode•2014•Cited by: 12•References: 35

    In 2009, a land spirit disrupted plantation development within a contested Economic Land Concession in Cambodia. The spirit, along with efforts of a monk and NGO, ultimately persuaded state officials to return 5 ha of land to the local temple. In this paper, we bring together literature on the anthropology of religion, political economy of land possession, and critical development studies; we demonstrate that land spirits continue as members of p…

  • Of migrants and middlemen: Cultivating access and challenging exclusion along the Vietnam–Cambodia border

    Open Access•Timothy Gorman, A Beban•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Viewpoint•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 10

    In a possible sign of a new trend in Southeast Asia, economic pressures are driving smallholder shrimp farmers from Vietnam's Mekong Delta across the Cambodian border in search of new land. Building from ethnographic research with Vietnamese shrimp farmers in Kampot province, Cambodia, this paper explores the structures, mechanisms and relations that facilitate and impede the ability of Vietnamese migrants to gain and maintain access to land in C…

  • Mapping the Srok: The Mimeses of Land Titling in Cambodiak

    Courtney Work, A Beban•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues in…•2016

  • Mapping the Srok: The Mimeses of Land Titling in Cambodia

    Courtney Work, A Beban•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues in…•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    In June 2012, Cambodia’s prime minister issued an order on land titling that deployed student volunteers to survey and map the country’s territory. Examination of this initiative at the theoretical intersections of mapping, mimicry and governmentality demonstrates the violent exclusions inherent in cadastral projects that restrict measuring and titling to only “productive” properties. In a field of speculation and local power the initiative drama…

  • From Force to Legitimation: Rethinking Land Grabs in Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban, Sokbunthoeun So et al.•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2017•Cited by: 21•References: 24

    This article moves beyond a focus on the brute force involved in high-profile land grabs to examine the way legitimation, regulation and coercion intersect in Cambodia's property regime. It builds on the 'powers of exclusion' framework developed by Hall, Hirsch and Li to argue that increased connections within civil society in Cambodia and engagement with Western commodity markets have motivated state and private concessionaires to use different …

  • From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the Cambodia-Vietnam border

    A Beban, Timothy Gorman•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2017•Cited by: 24•References: 30

    In recent years, thousands of Vietnamese migrant farmers have crossed the border into Cambodia and leased land for export-oriented rice and shrimp production. Based on case studies in two Cambodian border provinces, we argue that these land transfers represent an intersection of broader processes of agrarian change that is re-shaping the Cambodian borderlands into a hybrid socio-ecological zone. Cambodian landlords and intermediaries use unequal …

  • They Turn Us into Criminals: Embodiments of Fear in Cambodian Land Grabbing

    Laura Schoenberger, A Beban•ARTICLE•Annals of the American…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 37

    Our efforts to research the land grab in Cambodia were thwarted on multiple fronts. This article emerges from our collective experiences of fear and intimidation to reconsider land grabs as a project that produces fear and is reliant on fear. Recent literature on resource conflict focuses on acts of physical violence, but for people who live near spaces of land grabs, the everyday is marked by a different kind of violence, an incoherence and perv…

  • Pockets of liberal media in authoritarian regimes: What the crackdown on emancipatory spaces means for rural social movements in Cambodia

    A Beban, Laura Schoenberger et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2019•Cited by: 9•References: 12

    2020). Pockets of liberal media in authoritarian regimes: what the crackdown on emancipatory spaces means for rural social movements in Cambodia. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 95-115

  • Rupturing violent land imaginaries: Finding hope through a land titling campaign in Cambodia

    Open Access•Laura Schoenberger, A Beban•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 17

  • Exploring men's involvement in family planning in Lao PDR

    Vanly Lorkuangming, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    This study explores men’s involvement in family planning programmes in a rural area of Lao PDR. Data from interviews with ethnic minority Mangkong couples and women suggest that while there are some positive outcomes from men’s involvement in family planning, such as increased spousal communication and shared responsibility for housework and childcaring, the current family planning model still places the burden on women as the main contraceptive …

  • The Spatial Awareness Project: A Co-Created Interdisciplinary Educational Film and Podcast

    Cadey Korson, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•GeoHumanities•2022•References: 3

    Place-based digital storytelling can transform conversations about environmental challenges. Yet, co-creating digital stories also has the power to transform those involved in producing them. This is the critical reflection of an interdisciplinary team of lecturers and students who produced their own contextually situated resources to spark conversations about, and public awareness of, land use classifications environmental issues in Aotearoa New…

  • The myth of medical multiculturalism: How social closure marginalises traditional Chinese medicine in New Zealand

    Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Health Sociology Review•2022•References: 38

    This article uses neo-Weberian social closure theory and Bourdieu's theory of symbolic violence to examine the epistemic tension between biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), a country that aspires to a multicultural model of healthcare. Drawing on interviews with TCM practitioners and analysis of TCM practitioners' attempt to become a regulated profession, we argue that a multicultural health model rema…

  • From a Distance: The 'New Normal' for Researchers and Research Assistants Engaged in Remote Fieldwork

    Open Access•Phuong Nguyen, R Scheyvens et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 46

    Doing remote fieldwork is a 'new normal' in the COVID-19 pandemic era. It is challenging, but not impossible. With planning and preparation, comprehensive training and ongoing support for Research Assistants (RAs), researchers can overcome the challenges of remote fieldwork. In this article, we reflect on the experience of employing local RAs to support doctoral research involving in-depth household interviews and focus group discussions with eth…

  • Institutions, governance and extractives: Where politics and ecologies collide

    Open Access•A Beban, Glenn Banks•ARTICLE•The Extractive Industries and…•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Provides an introduction to the Special Issue: Politics and Ecologies. We review recent literature on the political ecology of extraction, and on relational approaches within the field. The introduction then provides a brief precise of each paper and their contribution, as well as the contribution of the collection to the field

  • On Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands by Sango Mahanty

    Courtney Work, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues in…•2023

  • Policing freedom campers: The place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Shannon Aston, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Tourism Geographies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    The concept of ‘overtourism’ has boomed in the past five years as the latest term to refer to anti-tourist sentiment in tourist hotspots. News media’s widespread use of the term suffers from conceptual slippage and a tendency to incite moral panic. However, a deeper theorization of overtourism as embodied, place-based social conflicts shows that this phenomenon is not about absolute visitor numbers or particular tourist activities, but rather abo…

  • Currying Favour with the Algorithm: Online Sex Workers’ Efforts To Satisfy Patriarchal Expectations

    Open Access•Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Sexuality & Culture•2024•References: 17

    The rise of the online sex work industry is reshaping how people conceptualise and negotiate sexual encounters across digital and offline spaces. This article analyses content from an online sex work forum (AmberCutie Forum (ACF)) to examine how online sex workers establish boundaries between their online and offline lives to manage competing expectations from their partners and viewers. Our analysis reveals a misogynistic double standard whereby…

  • Postfeminism in prison: A discourse analysis of women correctional officers’ accounts of gendered appearance at work

    Open Access•Claudia Walker, Riley et al.•ARTICLE•Feminism & Psychology•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    This article explores sense-making among female prison workers as they negotiate their appearance at work. Appearance is a vehicle through which gender is performed; yet research into how women account for their appearance in this male-dominated profession remains limited. We address this gap through an analysis of 16 women's accounts of their appearance work produced from an in-depth cooperative inquiry with women working in Australian men's pri…

  • Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake

    Open Access•Sopheak Chann, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Antipode•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 54

    In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once‐fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with‐on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio‐ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue tha…

  • Challenges to Empowerment of Women through Value Chains: The Need to Move from Individual to Relational Empowerment

    Open Access•Phuong Nguyen, R Scheyvens et al.•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 52

    This article examines the prevailing assumption by donors that connecting smallholder women to value chains will close the gender gap and empower women. Based on a case study of a programme that seeks to empower women through their integration into value chains in Vietnam, the article assesses women's empowerment across four dimensions: economic, psychological, social and political. The authors argue that women's engagement in value chains does n…

  • The lucky and unlucky daughter: Gender, land inheritance and agrarian change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia

    Open Access•A Beban, Joanna Bourke Martignoni•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 39

    In many agrarian societies, women come to own land, and people secure care in old age through land inheritance. The social norms guiding inheritance shape gendered, generational and class-based relations of power in rural areas, and intra-family land rights can be lost when inheritance norms shift. In Cambodia's northeastern Ratanakiri province, rapid agrarian change over the past decade-including the expansion of land grabs, cash cropping and Kh…

  • Structural violence of platform capitalism: A case study of online sex workers’ experiences

    Open Access•Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociology•2025•References: 6

    With the rise of Web 2.0 and online sex work platforms, it's important to understand the structural violence faced by online sex workers. Utilising data from an online forum, AmberCutie, and drawing on structural violence as a theoretical framework, we argue that platform capitalism enacts violence against online sex workers structurally, through algorithmic systems and precarious financial payment options embedded within platform interfaces. Pla…

  • How (In)Visibility Shapes Women's Experience of Inequity in Prison Work: A Cooperative Inquiry With Women Working in Australian Men's Prisons

    Open Access•Claudia Walker, Riley et al.•ARTICLE•Gender Work and Organization•2025•References: 10

    Research shows that women working in men's prisons face both scrutiny and exclusion within a high‐risk, masculinized occupational culture. Addressing a gap in theorizing the processes involved, this article explores the interplay of gender, visibility, and power through a poststructuralist‐informed thematic analysis of data from 16 women participating in four cooperative inquiry groups in Australian men's prisons. Theorized through Lewis and Simp…

  • Older women’s constructions of equality over the lifecourse

    Open Access•A Beban, Vicky M Walters et al.•ARTICLE•Ageing and Society•2025•References: 44

    Gender and age are central organising principles of social relations, with socially constructed gendered and age-based norms influencing patterns of social behaviour, power and inequality. Despite recent literature highlighting the importance of subjective measures of equality, including as a significant predictor of wellbeing, there is a gap in studies focused on subjective equality in research on ageing. Drawing on an equality ranking exercise …

  • Prefigurative politics in the platform economy: Online Sex Workers Restaging Collective Mobilisation Through Informal Communities of Care

    Open Access•Brittany Palatchie, A Beban et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Power•2025•References: 12

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