Prash Naidu
Assistant Professor
Biography
- Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2019
Sociocultural Anthropology
PhDUniversity of Chicago
2011
- Research Interests
- Environmental Anthropology; Medical Anthropology, Health, and the Environment; Air Pollution and Extractive Industries; Environmental Justice; Political Ecology; Sensory Studies & Semiotics; Geospatial mapping; Regional focus: Southeast Asia & Pacific Rim; American Northeast
- Home Country
- Singapore
Publications
Book (in preparation)
n.d. Sea Change: Mambai Sensory Practices and Environmental Relations in Timor-Leste.
Articles
Articles
2018. “Sensing Change, Changing Place: Sensory Politics Along the Tasi Mane, Timor-Leste” in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology,19(5): 467-483. DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2018.1513552
2018. “Making Sensory Ethnography and Sensorial Formats in Re-View” in Entanglements Journal: Experiments in Multimodal Ethnography, w/ M. Pena, C. Lin, N. Levin, M. Garcia, R. Aras, S. Hussain, C. Huitzil, J. Phillips.
2009. Kandiyohi County Local Food System Assessment Report. The Center for Small Towns, University of Minnesota Press, w/ Dr. D. Chollett.
In preparation or under review
2022. “They Come at Night: Chronic Bronchitis from Sand Mining in Timor-Leste” in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
2022. “Sea of Resilience: Off-shore Oil, Oceanic Regulation, and their Impacts on a Timor-Leste Fishing Hamlet” in the Journal of Political Ecology.
2022. “Relations Between Sensory Practices and Climate Change in Timor-Leste” for submission to the Journal of Cultural Anthropology.
2022. “No Pigs for the Ancestors: Socioecological and Nutritional Impacts from Fracking and Land Cover Change,” for submission to Globalization and Health.
2022. “When Death Stinks: The Afterlife of Unclaimed Bodies in Southwest Timor-Leste,” for submission to Social Science & Medicine.
Research Summary
Prash Naidu (PhD, 2019, University of Michigan) is environmental anthropologist with a research agenda on health, pollution, and climate change in the Pacific Rim and North America. Broadly, Naidu studies landscape transformations and atmospheric pollution caused by resource extraction and development and traces their impacts on people and ecosystems. His research uses community-driven, participatory methods to map pollution and intervene in the global endeavor to document evanescent forms of industrial pollution and inform future pollution regulation policies. Current Research Includes: 1). Mining for Sand and Capital in Pacific Asia: Examines human health and socio-environmental impacts of sand mining in nation-states in the Pacific Rim. 2). Bad Air: Studies the impacts of environmental racism in the context of air pollution and chronic respiratory diseases faced by communities of color in North America.
