Carl Warr

Engineering linkages with the coal chain

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COVID-19 geopolitics: silence and erasure in Cambodia and Myanmar in times of pandemic

Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2020

COVID-19 has become a global public health pandemic which requires scientific, technical, public ... more COVID-19 has become a global public health pandemic which requires scientific, technical, public policy and health system responses at multi-scales. COVID-19 is also a pandemic that is impacting socioeconomic and political systems in profound ways. This paper briefly outlines why and how pandemics may expose uneven socioeconomic geographies of vulnerability and risk, and also be thought of in relation to environmental and non-human challenges to our geopolitical map of territorial nation-states and sovereignties. In relation to Southeast Asia we argue that preexisting and ongoing political-economy linkages are shaping key responses to COVID-19. In particular, we consider the geopolitical and geoeconomic reasoning of Cambodia and Myanmar, and their relations with China. We reflect on the factors that shape their national responses in response to the pandemic, characterized by certain silences and erasures to their local geographies.

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Geographies of Power in the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle

International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, 2011

This paper argues that the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle makes manifest the comple... more 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 development and the economic geographies of their uneven spatial fixing on the ground are mediated by complex cultural and political geographies. We seek to unpack these by triangulating how the geographies of capital (including its uneven development and its links to the geo-economics of intra-regional competition), land (including post-colonial relations across the region, the geopolitics of land reclamation and the enclaved landscapes of tourism) and labour (including the divergent itineraries of migrant workers) overlay and complicate one another in the region. By charting these complex triangulations of space and place, we seek to problematize narratives of the Growth Triangle as an exemplary embodiment of the 'borderless world'.

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Geographies of Displacement: The Karenni and The Shan Across The Myanmar-Thailand Border

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2002

First, central to our analysis is the argument that human movement within and across borders fund... more

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Book review: Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge. Edited by Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr. Minneapolis, MN and London: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. vii + 376 pp. $25.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780816649266

Cultural Geographies, 2010

Editorial: In the tracks of disaster

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2008

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Fighting Liverflukes with Food Safety Education

Science, 2011

More than 45 million people in Asia are infected with liverflukes (trematodes), which cause disea... more

Cross-border Regionalism through a 'South-east Asian' Looking-glass

Space and Polity, 2002

Fragmented Integration in the Singapore-Indonesian Border Zone: Southeast Asia's 'Growth Triangle' Against the Global Economy

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1999

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THE ASIAN TSUNAMI, ACADEMICS AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2005

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The Irregular Migrant as Homo Sacer: Migration and Detention in Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand

International Migration, 2004

AbstractThis paper looks at aspects of the detention of irregular migrants in Australia, Malaysia... more

Triangulating the borderless world: geographies of power in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle

Transactions of The Institute of British Geographers, 2004

This paper argues that the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle makes manifest the comple... more 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 development and the economic geographies of their uneven spatial fixing on the ground are mediated by complex cultural and political geographies. We seek to unpack these by triangulating how the geographies of capital (including its uneven development and its links to the geo-economics of intra-regional competition), land (including post-colonial relations across the region, the geopolitics of land reclamation and the enclaved landscapes of tourism) and labour (including the divergent itineraries of migrant workers) overlay and complicate one another in the region. By charting these complex triangulations of space and place, we seek to problematize narratives of the Growth Triangle as an exemplary embodiment of the 'borderless world'. key words Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle borders geoeconomics globalization uneven development

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Book Review: Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr (eds), Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge

Millennium-journal of International Studies, 2009

INTERVENTION THE ASIAN TSUNAMI, ACADEMICS AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Tangled Nets of Discourse and Turbines of Development: Lower Mekong mainstream dam debates

Third World Quarterly, 2012

Hydropower development on the mainstream of the Mekong River in the Lower Mekong Basin (lmb) has ... more 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, environmental and food security of some 62 million people living in the lmb. The anti-dam lobby comprises a heterogeneous assemblage of actors, agencies and networks, working to provide critical and alternative geographical (re)imaginations of the lmb. This paper explores these multiple perspectives afforded by the anti-dam lobby through the lens of knowledge production. The anti-dam lobby, it will be seen, engages in a politics of legitimacy and re-scaling with the pro-hydropower lobby, played out through varying strategies, while highlighting urgent and critical knowledge gaps which need to be taken seriously for future development in the lmb.

Raw attitudes, wetland cultures, life-cycles: Sociocultural dynamics relating to Opisthorchis viverrini in the Mekong Basin

Parasitology International

Opisthorchis viverrini is one of the most common and medically important food-borne parasites in ... more Opisthorchis viverrini is one of the most common and medically important food-borne parasites in the Lower Mekong area of Southeast Asia. As we learn more about its ecology, pathology and epidemiology we see the need to consider more deeply the socio-cultural dynamics with which food-borne species complexes are associated. This paper argues that the Mekong region is characterized by strong livelihoods and life-style associations within wetland ecosystems, which are inseparable from human eating habits ("raw attitudes"). Within the fish-rice economies of the region there are many long-cherished food cultures based on eating raw, semi-cooked and fermented fish dishes, which are known to lead to opisthorchiasis, and potentially cholangiocarcinoma. This paper examines evidence from northeast Thailand showing that dedicated health outreach campaigns do help to reduce prevalence of opisthorchiasis over time. For disease prevention and health education approaches to be most effective, they must be sensitive to culture, livelihood economics, gender, and age. Further integrative, inter-disciplinary and international research must incorporate the complex dynamics of parasite ecology, human behavior, socio-economics, and public health awareness.

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Sediments deposited by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami along the Malaysia–Thailand Peninsula

Marine Geology, 2007

Stratigraphy, grain size distribution and foraminiferal assemblages of pre-tsunami and tsunami se... more Stratigraphy, grain size distribution and foraminiferal assemblages of pre-tsunami and tsunami sediment from the Indian Ocean Tsunami at five sites along the Malaysia-Thailand Peninsula were analyzed to gain information on tsunami sediment source and deposition style. Between three and five stratigraphic units were identified at each site and contained between one and three fining upward sequences reflecting waning flow or pre-backwash deposition. Coarser sand layers reflecting uprush high-energy flow separated the fining upward sequences, with the exception of one site (Sungai Burong), which contained a coarsening upward sequence. All contacts between the pre-tsunami and tsunami sediment were sharp or erosional. Medium and coarse sand dominated all of the tsunami sediment deposits and often contained shell fragments. Foraminiferal assemblages were able to differentiate pretsunami sediment from tsunami sediment where no lithological or grain size distribution change was evident. Between two and four foraminiferal zones were identified at each of the five sites and provided estimates of sediment source and wave characteristics.

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Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2008

Abstract: Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illumina... more Abstract: 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 footprints’ and drawing on qualitative interviews, the paper proposes that impacts need to be seen in the context of the spatially dispersed networks of association that characterise the Thai space economy and Thai society. Drawing on work on poverty dynamics, the paper also explores three explanatory disjunctures in recovery transitions: the disjuncture between the pre-tsunami context and the post-tsunami situation; the disjuncture between structure and agency; and the disjuncture between the appearance of progressive and gradual change in societies and the lived reality of turbulence.

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Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle

Asian sovereigntyscapes

Political Geography, 2005

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