Carl Grundy-Warr
Biographic Data
| ID | 755649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Grundy-Warr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Grundy-Warr |
| SIGNATURE | GRUNDY-WARR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3763-2653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 412 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The social flood pulse and socio‐ecological transformation of the Tonle Sap
The flood pulse is a hydrological concept of the river‐lake‐floodplain system, demonstrating the varying hydrological regimes between wet and dry seasons, which drive productivity and interaction of living and non‐living organisms in river‐lake‐floodplain systems (RLFS). This paper posits that the flood pulse is a ‘social,’ physical, and hydrological driver of change in the Mekong Basin, particularly for the ‘pulsing heart’ of Tonle Sap Lake (TSL…
Gaza
A Politics of Mobility and B/ordering in a Changing Riverscape in Cambodia
Hydropower development taking place on the Mekong River's mainstream and tributaries across the river basin, including Cambodia, is threatening livelihoods and food security by altering critical mobilities associated with the unique ecosystems of the Mekong River. In this paper, we seek to understand how a politics of mobility around hydropower development links both human and nonhuman entities along the Mekong River in Cambodia. We examine how d…
Hydrosocial rupture
Miller, M. A., Alfajri, R. Astuti, C. Grundy-Warr, C. Middleton, Z. D. Tan, and D. M. Taylor. 2021. Hydrosocial rupture: causes and consequences for transboundary governance. Ecology and Society 26(3):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12545-260321
Navigating Sino-Thai ‘rocky’ bilateral ties
The revived plan to dynamite rapids and rocky islets in Chiang Rai province of Thailand as part of an Upper Mekong navigation improvement scheme allowing bigger tonnage Chinese cargo ships to pass more smoothly all the way to Luang Prabang in Laos has been folded into the wider visions of BRI. These rework and invert a geopolitical imaginary that has imperial origins in the Lower Mekong, when the French sought to navigate upstream from Indochina …
The unseen transboundary commons that matter for Cambodia's inland fisheries
This paper focuses on the ‘the unseen transboundary commons’ of residues, nutrients and mobile matter associated with the annual flood pulse that support Cambodia's inland fisheries. We develop the idea of biophysical geopolitics concentrating on political‐socio‐natures rather than the purely biophysical. In the context of multiple mega‐projects in the Basin, we argue the flood pulse has become increasingly compromised, which is an urgent socio‐e…
Covid-19 geopolitics
10.1080/15387216.2020.1780928
Crucible For Survival
In this collection, Timothy Doyle and Melissa Risely bring together an international group of environmentalists, political scientists, and international relations scholars to address key issues vital to determining the human and environmental security of the Indian Ocean Region. Addressing topics that include agrifood production systems, the geopolitics of water resources along the Mekong River basin, oil production, transportation, waste disposa…
Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters
Providing a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to a series of major disasters in Asia over the past two decades, including massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, this book explores complex and changing understandings and practices of relief, recovery, and reconstruction. These critical investigations raise questions about the position and responsibilities of a growing range of stakeholders, and provi…
Untangling the Complexity of Liver Fluke Infection and Cholangiocarcinoma in NE Thailand Through Transdisciplinary Learning
B/ordering nature and biophysical geopolitics
Dam Influences on Liver Fluke Transmission
Infectious diseases associated with dams in many parts of the world suggest a strong possibility of similar occurrence in Southeast Asia, but little is known about the influences of dams on disease occurrences in Southeast Asia, where a wide range of water-related diseases are present. An important public health issue in Southeast Asia is opisthorchiasis, the infection from liver fluke spread by ingesting raw or undercooked freshwater fish. This …
Volumes, fluidity and flows
Comprehensive research in geography
10.1111/area.12021
Asean and interconnecting regional spheres
ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: lessons for the Indian Ocean Region In an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN’s resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles mean that it may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkages w…
Tangled Nets of Discourse and Turbines of Development
Hydropower development on the mainstream of the Mekong River in the Lower Mekong Basin (lmb) has become one of the most pressing issues on the development agenda, being touted as the way forward in solving energy, development and sustainability needs in the region. Despite dominant and compelling arguments in favour of such development, a growing anti-dam lobby has taken to arguing that hydropower development will threaten the economic, social, e…
One Bridge, Two Towns and Three Countries
The proposed bridge between Chiang Khong and Houay Xay will form the remaining crucial link of the Asian Highway 3, connecting Bangkok to Kunming, a project highly anticipated in the Greater Mekong Subregion's (GMS) development. With China funding half the cost of the bridge, it signifies a strong player in the economic borderland. The article seeks to uncover the locals' thoughts and feelings of the bridge to raise awareness of ‘voices’ from the…
Pacific geographies and the politics of Buddhist peace activism
Borderscapes
Introduction / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr -- Knowledge, power, surveillance -- Detention of foreigners, states of exception, and the social practices of control of the banopticon / Didier Bigo -- Struggling with (il)legality: the indeterminate functioning of Malaysia's borders for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons / Alice M. Nah -- The foreigner in the security continuum: judicial resistance in the United Kingdom / Elsp…
Grounding a natural disaster
Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of ‘tsunami …
Re-mapping the politics of aid
The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused massive human and economic destruction. In this paper we argue that the international response to the tsunami exemplifies a shift in the way humanitarian aid is sourced and delivered, and tease out a framework for understanding the continuities and discontinuities that led to differential distribution across a range of sites in southern Thailand. On the one hand we examine the degree to which we ca…
Introduction
10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00317.x
Political geographies of silence and erasure
The Asian Tsunami, Academics and Academic Research
10.1111/j.0129-7619.2005.00216.x
Asian sovereigntyscapes
The Irregular Migrant as Homo Sacer
This paper looks at aspects of the detention of irregular migrants in Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The principle intention of the paper is to study detention of irregular migrants as a means of understanding politics and how notions of political participation and of sovereignty are affected by the detention of certain sorts of individual. What does the identification of certain "forms of life" to be detained say about the political norms of…
Triangulating the borderless world
This paper argues that the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle makes manifest the complex geographies of power that subvert efforts to read cross‐border regionalization as a straightforward geographical corollary of ‘globalization’. As such, the region needs to be examined not simply as a complementary transborder assemblage of land, labour and capital, but rather as a palimpsest in which the imagined geographies of cross‐border developm…
Geographies of Displacement
First, central to our analysis is the argument that human movement within and across borders fundamentally challenges the view of geopolitics based upon fixed territorial states, inter‐state relations, national identities and citizenship; indeed the whole idea of “national geographic”. Using the examples of the Karen and Shan peoples, we explore the processes and patterns of forced relocation, displacement and migration in the border regions of M…
Borderscapes
Introduction / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr -- Knowledge, power, surveillance -- Detention of foreigners, states of exception, and the social practices of control of the banopticon / Didier Bigo -- Struggling with (il)legality: the indeterminate functioning of Malaysia's borders for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons / Alice M. Nah -- The foreigner in the security continuum: judicial resistance in the United Kingdom / Elsp…
Volumes, fluidity and flows
The Indian Ocean tsunami
On the morning of 26 December 2004 large \nareas of coastal southern Thailand were \ntransformed when a tsunami, generated by \na powerful submarine earthquake in the Indian \nOcean, swept ashore. Officially, there were 5395 \nconfirmed deaths in Thailand with another 2932 \npeople listed as missing. \nIn February 2005 a team led by Dr Ben Horton \nof the University of Pennsylvania was awarded an \nSGER grant by the National Science Foundation to…
Fragmented Integration in the Singapore-Indonesian Border Zone
Singapore-Indonesian investment cooperation in the Riau islands forms the key part of an initiative in cross-border cooperation including Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Four flagship projects - Batamindo Industrial Park, Bintan Industrial Estate, Bintan Beach International Resort, and the Karimun marine and industrial complex - are a key test of the effectiveness of a development strategy that seeks to 'fast track' development by creating enc…
Political geographies of silence and erasure
Translating political geographies
B/ordering nature and biophysical geopolitics
Covid-19 geopolitics
10.1080/15387216.2020.1780928
Grounding a natural disaster
Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of ‘tsunami …
Cross-border Regionalism through a 'South-east Asian' Looking-glass
The unseen transboundary commons that matter for Cambodia's inland fisheries
This paper focuses on the ‘the unseen transboundary commons’ of residues, nutrients and mobile matter associated with the annual flood pulse that support Cambodia's inland fisheries. We develop the idea of biophysical geopolitics concentrating on political‐socio‐natures rather than the purely biophysical. In the context of multiple mega‐projects in the Basin, we argue the flood pulse has become increasingly compromised, which is an urgent socio‐e…
Towards a political geography of United Nations peacekeeping
Comprehensive research in geography
10.1111/area.12021
Navigating Sino-Thai ‘rocky’ bilateral ties
The revived plan to dynamite rapids and rocky islets in Chiang Rai province of Thailand as part of an Upper Mekong navigation improvement scheme allowing bigger tonnage Chinese cargo ships to pass more smoothly all the way to Luang Prabang in Laos has been folded into the wider visions of BRI. These rework and invert a geopolitical imaginary that has imperial origins in the Lower Mekong, when the French sought to navigate upstream from Indochina …
Dam Influences on Liver Fluke Transmission
Infectious diseases associated with dams in many parts of the world suggest a strong possibility of similar occurrence in Southeast Asia, but little is known about the influences of dams on disease occurrences in Southeast Asia, where a wide range of water-related diseases are present. An important public health issue in Southeast Asia is opisthorchiasis, the infection from liver fluke spread by ingesting raw or undercooked freshwater fish. This …
Asean and interconnecting regional spheres
ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: lessons for the Indian Ocean Region In an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN’s resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles mean that it may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkages w…
Tangled Nets of Discourse and Turbines of Development
Hydropower development on the mainstream of the Mekong River in the Lower Mekong Basin (lmb) has become one of the most pressing issues on the development agenda, being touted as the way forward in solving energy, development and sustainability needs in the region. Despite dominant and compelling arguments in favour of such development, a growing anti-dam lobby has taken to arguing that hydropower development will threaten the economic, social, e…
One Bridge, Two Towns and Three Countries
The proposed bridge between Chiang Khong and Houay Xay will form the remaining crucial link of the Asian Highway 3, connecting Bangkok to Kunming, a project highly anticipated in the Greater Mekong Subregion's (GMS) development. With China funding half the cost of the bridge, it signifies a strong player in the economic borderland. The article seeks to uncover the locals' thoughts and feelings of the bridge to raise awareness of ‘voices’ from the…
Pacific geographies and the politics of Buddhist peace activism
Reflections on the Relevance of Classic Approaches and Contemporary Priorities in Boundary Studies
(2005). Reflections on the Relevance of Classic Approaches and Contemporary Priorities in Boundary Studies. Geopolitics: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 650-662
Lost in Sovereign Space
In the context of the troubled Burma-Thailand borderland relationship, the “place” of the migrant is greatly influenced by the highly contingent nature of cross-border politics and inter-state relationships. I argue that we cannot divorce the analysis of large-scale human displacement without examining the historical context and political geography context. To understand forced displacement in Burma, it is necessary to link it with the Burmese mi…
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes
This study argues that Structuration Theory (ST), developed by sociologist Anthony Giddens, has promise for improving our understanding of the dynamics of international territorial disputes. To tease out its analytical value, ST's basic assumptions are compared to those of two state-centric approaches within the international relations literature, dependency theory, and strategic coalition theory, and then applied to the case of a well-known terr…
Coexistent Borderlands and Intra‐state Conflicts in Mainland Southeast Asia
Towards a political geography of United Nations peacekeeping
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes
This study argues that Structuration Theory (ST), developed by sociologist Anthony Giddens, has promise for improving our understanding of the dynamics of international territorial disputes. To tease out its analytical value, ST's basic assumptions are compared to those of two state-centric approaches within the international relations literature, dependency theory, and strategic coalition theory, and then applied to the case of a well-known terr…
Fragmented Integration in the Singapore-Indonesian Border Zone
Singapore-Indonesian investment cooperation in the Riau islands forms the key part of an initiative in cross-border cooperation including Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Four flagship projects - Batamindo Industrial Park, Bintan Industrial Estate, Bintan Beach International Resort, and the Karimun marine and industrial complex - are a key test of the effectiveness of a development strategy that seeks to 'fast track' development by creating enc…
Cross-border Regionalism through a 'South-east Asian' Looking-glass
Lost in Sovereign Space
In the context of the troubled Burma-Thailand borderland relationship, the “place” of the migrant is greatly influenced by the highly contingent nature of cross-border politics and inter-state relationships. I argue that we cannot divorce the analysis of large-scale human displacement without examining the historical context and political geography context. To understand forced displacement in Burma, it is necessary to link it with the Burmese mi…
Geographies of Displacement
First, central to our analysis is the argument that human movement within and across borders fundamentally challenges the view of geopolitics based upon fixed territorial states, inter‐state relations, national identities and citizenship; indeed the whole idea of “national geographic”. Using the examples of the Karen and Shan peoples, we explore the processes and patterns of forced relocation, displacement and migration in the border regions of M…
Tropical Geography
Triangulating the borderless world
This paper argues that the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle makes manifest the complex geographies of power that subvert efforts to read cross‐border regionalization as a straightforward geographical corollary of ‘globalization’. As such, the region needs to be examined not simply as a complementary transborder assemblage of land, labour and capital, but rather as a palimpsest in which the imagined geographies of cross‐border developm…
Translating political geographies
The Irregular Migrant as Homo Sacer
This paper looks at aspects of the detention of irregular migrants in Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The principle intention of the paper is to study detention of irregular migrants as a means of understanding politics and how notions of political participation and of sovereignty are affected by the detention of certain sorts of individual. What does the identification of certain "forms of life" to be detained say about the political norms of…
The Asian Tsunami, Academics and Academic Research
10.1111/j.0129-7619.2005.00216.x
Asian sovereigntyscapes
The Indian Ocean tsunami
On the morning of 26 December 2004 large \nareas of coastal southern Thailand were \ntransformed when a tsunami, generated by \na powerful submarine earthquake in the Indian \nOcean, swept ashore. Officially, there were 5395 \nconfirmed deaths in Thailand with another 2932 \npeople listed as missing. \nIn February 2005 a team led by Dr Ben Horton \nof the University of Pennsylvania was awarded an \nSGER grant by the National Science Foundation to…
Reflections on the Relevance of Classic Approaches and Contemporary Priorities in Boundary Studies
(2005). Reflections on the Relevance of Classic Approaches and Contemporary Priorities in Boundary Studies. Geopolitics: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 650-662
Introduction
10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00317.x
Political geographies of silence and erasure
Re-mapping the politics of aid
The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused massive human and economic destruction. In this paper we argue that the international response to the tsunami exemplifies a shift in the way humanitarian aid is sourced and delivered, and tease out a framework for understanding the continuities and discontinuities that led to differential distribution across a range of sites in southern Thailand. On the one hand we examine the degree to which we ca…
Grounding a natural disaster
Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of ‘tsunami …
Pacific geographies and the politics of Buddhist peace activism
Borderscapes
Introduction / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr -- Knowledge, power, surveillance -- Detention of foreigners, states of exception, and the social practices of control of the banopticon / Didier Bigo -- Struggling with (il)legality: the indeterminate functioning of Malaysia's borders for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons / Alice M. Nah -- The foreigner in the security continuum: judicial resistance in the United Kingdom / Elsp…
Asean and interconnecting regional spheres
ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: lessons for the Indian Ocean Region In an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN’s resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles mean that it may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkages w…
Tangled Nets of Discourse and Turbines of Development
Hydropower development on the mainstream of the Mekong River in the Lower Mekong Basin (lmb) has become one of the most pressing issues on the development agenda, being touted as the way forward in solving energy, development and sustainability needs in the region. Despite dominant and compelling arguments in favour of such development, a growing anti-dam lobby has taken to arguing that hydropower development will threaten the economic, social, e…
One Bridge, Two Towns and Three Countries
The proposed bridge between Chiang Khong and Houay Xay will form the remaining crucial link of the Asian Highway 3, connecting Bangkok to Kunming, a project highly anticipated in the Greater Mekong Subregion's (GMS) development. With China funding half the cost of the bridge, it signifies a strong player in the economic borderland. The article seeks to uncover the locals' thoughts and feelings of the bridge to raise awareness of ‘voices’ from the…
Political science (27 works) · Geography (24 works) · Politics (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Geopolitics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (9 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (7 works)