Panel Session 6


Asst. Prof. Dr. Carl Middleton

Director, Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Biography:

Dr. Carl Middleton is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director on the Graduate Studies in International Development Studies (MAIDS-GRID) Program, and Director of the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) in the Faculty of Political Science of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.  Dr. Middleton’s research interests orientate around the politics and policy of the environment in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on nature-society relations, the political ecology of water and energy, transboundary water governance, environmental change and mobility, and environmental justice.

Much of his research addresses the Mekong-Lancang River, and more recently the Salween River. His most recent book, co-authored with Jeremy Allouche and Dipak Gyawali, is titled The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice (Earthscan-Routledge, 2019). Recent co-edited books are: Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia: A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change (Earthscan, 2018; with Rebecca Elmhirst and Supang Chantavanich) and Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River (Springer, 2019; with Vanessa Lamb).

Asst. Prof. Dr. Carl Middleton

Director, Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Biography:

Dr. Carl Middleton is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director on the Graduate Studies in International Development Studies (MAIDS-GRID) Program, and Director of the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) in the Faculty of Political Science of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.  Dr. Middleton’s research interests orientate around the politics and policy of the environment in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on nature-society relations, the political ecology of water and energy, transboundary water governance, environmental change and mobility, and environmental justice.

Much of his research addresses the Mekong-Lancang River, and more recently the Salween River. His most recent book, co-authored with Jeremy Allouche and Dipak Gyawali, is titled The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice (Earthscan-Routledge, 2019). Recent co-edited books are: Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia: A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change (Earthscan, 2018; with Rebecca Elmhirst and Supang Chantavanich) and Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River (Springer, 2019; with Vanessa Lamb).