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Knudsen, Magne

Magne Knudsen is an assistant professor in sociology and anthropology ant the Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Over the last ten years, his research has broadly focused on change and continuity in livelihood, family and community relations in coastal and upland regions of Southeast Asia, and the challenge of ensuring more socially inclusive forms of environmental regulations. In 2010, he was awarded a PhD-degree in anthropology at the Australian National University. The focus of the PhD-project was on dynamics of community relations among coastal dwellers just north of Dumaguete City in the Philippines, in particular on how fishing families succeeded or failed to establish rights to land and livelihood in this urbanising context. Before taking up the position as Assistant Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam in 2015, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Previously, he studied economics and was particularly interested in the history of economic ideas, political economy and development challenges in the Global South. Outside of academia, he has worked as consultant on environmental issues and been a livelihood and land tenure expert for a humanitarian crisis response team.