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Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson is a professor at 間眅埶AV. His involvement within the community has truely been an asset to 間眅埶AV.
Awards Received: Environmental Communicator Prize Type: Civic Award
Organization: City of Burnaby, BC
Robert Anderson's Service to the 間眅埶AV Community
Departmental Committees
- 2005-2006: Governance Task Force, School of Communication
- September 2003: August 2004 Member, Search Committee, School of Communication
- 2003, 2004, 2006: Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee (TPC), School of Communication
- 1996 1997: Honours Coordinator, School of Communication
- 1992 1995: Director, School of Communication , 間眅埶AV
- 1988 1992: Director, Community Economic Development Centre, 間眅埶AV
- 1979 1983: Chairman, Graduate Studies, Department of Communication
- 1981 1981: Co-ordinated Graduate Deans of Canadian universities to re-establish IDRC fellowship.
University Committees
- 2003- 2010: Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Burnaby Mountain College
- 2002-2008: Co-Chair, Development Studies Steering Committee, 間眅埶AV
- 2001 2004: Chair, Steering Committee, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
- 2001 Current Chair, Steering Committee, Graduate Development Studies Program
- 2000 Current Member, 間眅埶AV-Burnaby Liaison Committee
- 1999 Current Committee member, In 1999 I was elected by all faculty to the Board of the Mountain Community Corporation, which I attend regularly (and teach a course about).
- 2000 2010: Current Elected Board Member, 間眅埶AV Community Trust
- 2002 2003: Acting Director, Community Economic Development Centre
- 1999 2001: Member, Academic Advisory Committee, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
- 2000 2000: Chair, Senate Review Committee of the Eastern Indonesia University Development Project
- 1999 1999: In 1999 I was active in the development of the Centre for Dialogue, Centre for Dialogue
- 1995 1995: Member, External Review of Womens Studies Department
- 1985 1988: Member, 間眅埶AV Presidents Advisory Committee on International Co-operation
- 1987 1987: Appeared before Winegard Committee regarding more effective links between CIDA and universities.
- 1979 1983: Member, Senate Graduate Studies Committee, 間眅埶AV
- Other 間眅埶AV Faculty Association
- 1985 1987: Member, Executive
- 1988 1992: Member, University Affairs Committee
Active Service to the Academic Community
- 1998 Current In terms of academic community service, I support the journal Pacific Affairs and Canadian Journal of Communication as much as possible, reviewing articles and books.
University Related Activities
- 2008 2010: Director, Development & Sustainability Program, Faculty of Environment, 間眅埶AV
- 2001 2004: Director, Dialogue Institute, 間眅埶AV
- 2003 2003: Reviewer, Grant applications for US National Science Foundation
- 2003 2003: Reviewer, Grant applications for SSHRC Individual Grants
- 1994 1994: Member, Advisory Committee to Fraser Basin Management Program
- 1990 1990: Member, B.C. Council on Conflict Resolution
- 1977 1980: To study American universities relation with international development (via USAID, foundations, etc.), U.S. National Science Foundation grant
- 1973 1977: UBC professor involved in trying to create an Institute of Development Studies .
- 1974 1975: Consultant, on finding Canadian university resources for research in Bangladesh , IDRC
- 1970 1971: Fellow, studying university based transfer of technology projects in South Asia, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University
Book and Manuscript Reviews
- 2005: Columbia University Press
- 1997: Princeton University Press
- 1997: Cambridge University Press
- 1997: University of Toronto Press
- 1976 2006: Pacific Affairs
- 1995: Canadian Public Policy
- 1993: Journal of Developing Areas
- 1993: Culture
- 1988 1994: Canadian J. of Communication
- 1986: Journal of Asian Studies
- 1979: International Journal
- 1978: Canadian Literature
- 1972: Journal of European Studies
- 1971: Journal of African and Asian Studies
Service to the Community At Large
- 1999 2004: Municipal Government Representative, I have been re-appointed by the Mayor and Council for a further three year term as Citizen Representative on the Environment and Waste of the City of Burnaby , and attend those meetings regularly.
- 1999 Current Director, In late 1999 I started, on a voluntary basis, the very successful Sea to Sky Radio Society to bring english and french radio signals in to Whistler Valley . This brings me in contact with one of my original interests, the role of communication in cultural and socio-economic development
academic experience
- 1990-present: Professor of Communication, SimonFraserUniversity, Burnaby, B.C.
- 2004 2005: Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
- 1997 1998: Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College , University of Cambridge
- 1996 1996: Visiting Professor, Communication, UQAM, Montreal
- 1977 1990: Associate Professor, Communication, 間眅埶AV
- 1977 1979: Research Professor, International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
- 1973 1977: Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia
- 1975 1976: Lecturer, Applied Science, University of British Columbia
- 1970 1971: Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, McGill University
- 1970 1971: Research Associate, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University
Currently Teaching
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.
publications
Book Chapters and Monographs
- Anderson, R.S. (2010) Nucleus and Nation: scientists, international networks, and power in India. University of Chicago Press, pp.683
- Anderson, R.S. (2007) The Biographical Origins of Political Systems of Highland Burma in Francois Robinne and Mandy Sadan [eds] Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia.Leiden, Brill Publishers, pp 3-21.
- R.S. Anderson, Richard Grove, Karis Hiebert (eds.). Islands Forests and Gardens in the Caribbean : conservation and conflict in environmental history. London : Macmillan, 2006.
- Anderson, R.S. Civilizations and their Discontents, Again. In M. Intriligator et al. [eds.] Eurasia : a new peace agenda. London , IB Tauris, 2005.
- Anderson, R.S. Thinking Strategically About New Conflicts: Patrick Blackett as military and scientific advisor in India , 1947-1972. In P. Hore (ed.) Patrick Blackett: Lord, Professor and Lieutenant, London , Cass, 2003.
- Anderson, R.S. Qui a peur de d矇veloppement aujourdhui? In G. Brunel & C.-Y. Charron [Eds.] La Communication Internationale: mondialization, acteurs, et territoires socio-culturels. Montreal, Editions Gaetan Morin, 2001.
- Anderson, R.S. (Ed.) Planning a University Village on Burnaby Mountain , and Introduction, 2000, 間眅埶AV. Anderson , R.S. Report of the Senate Committee to Review the Eastern Indonesia Universities Development Project, 間眅埶AV , 2001 [book length evaluation].
- 1998. Opening Up But Keeping Control, in R. Mansell et al (eds.) Knowledge Societies: Information Technologies for Sustainable Development, United National Press and Oxford University Press.
- Anderson, R.S. et al., (Eds.) (1998). Innovation Systems in a Global Context: the North American experience. Montreal , McGill-Queens.
- Anderson, R.S., Gruneau, R. & Heyer, P. (Eds.) (1996). TvTv the television revolution, the debate. Canadian Journal of Communication.
- Anderson, R.S. & Charron, C.-Y. Lint矇gration des communications mondiales et locales pour un d矇veloppement international durable, enjeux, contraintes et perspectives de d矇veloppement. In Communication and International Development, T. Paquet-Sevigny (Ed.), Presses de lUniversit矇 du Qu矇bec, 1996.
- Anderson , R.S., Trevin, J., and N.J. Weekes, Implications for forestry action of a socio-economic study in a watershed of Saint Vincent , in Towards Sustainable Forest Management in the Caribbean, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, 1994.
- 1991. Anderson , Levy and Morrison, Rice Science and Development Politics: Research Strategies and IRRIs Technologies Confront Asian Diversity, 1950-1980. Oxford University Press.
- Anderson, R.S. History of Science and Technology, in Cambridge Encyclopedia of South Asia . Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- 1988. (with Walter Huber), The Hour of the Fox: Tropical Forests , the World Bank, and Indigenous People in Central India . Seattle : Univ. of Washington Press.
- 1988. Expo 86 Vancouver Canada (with Eleanor Wachtel) in Dictionary of Worlds Fairs and Expositions. Greenwood Press.
- 1986. (with Eleanor Wachtel), eds., The Expo Story. Madeira Park , B.C.: Harbour Publishing.
- 1984. Cultivating Science as a Cultural Policy, in Lloyd Rudolph (ed.), Cultural Policy in India . New Delhi : Chanakya Publications (reprinted from 1983 journal).
- 1982. Anderson (senior editor), Brass Levy and Morrison (eds.), Science, Politics and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia . Boulder , CO : Westview Press, for the American Association for the Advancement of Science: proceedings of the AAAS Symposium (510 pp.) contributions by Anderson are Introduction, and Chapter 11, Removing the Limitations on Science: On the Responsibilities of Rice Research in Bangladesh .
- 1981. The Necessity of Field Methods in the Study of Scientific Research, in E. Mendelsohn and Y. Elkana (eds.), Sciences and Cultures, Sociology of Sciences, Volume V. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing, pp. 213-244.
- 1975. Building Scientific Institutions in India : Saha and Bhabbha, McGill University , Centre for Developing Area Studies, Occasional Paper #11, 121 pp.
Refereed Articles
- Anderson, R.S. Empires Setting Sun?: Patrick Blackett and the Military and Scientific Development of India. Economic & Political Weekly, 29 September 2001.
- Anderson, R.S. Patrick Blackett: Military Consultant and Scientific Intervenor in India , Notes and Records of the Royal Society, London , 53 (2), 253-273 and (3), 345-359.
- Anderson, R.S. Why Lord Buddha Smiled. Review of: The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb, Times Literary Supplement, 8 January 1999.
- Two Unintended Faces of Television, in TVTV: a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication.
- Anderson, R.S. The Perils of Pine: Planned Failure in International Forestry, Journal of Business Administration, Spring 1992.
- Anderson, R.S. The Origins of the International Rice Research Institute, Minerva, Autumn 1991.
- Anderson, R.S. Guest editor (and Introduction), Special issue on communication and martial law, Canadian Journal of Communication, Fall 1988.
- Anderson, R.S. Stop Everything in Bangladesh : Communication, Martial Law and National Strikes, Canadian Journal of Communication, December 1988.
- 1984. Completely in Between: Jamaica s Development and Canadian Interests, International Perspectives, November.
- 1983. Cultivating Science as Cultural Policy: A Contrast of Agricultural and Nuclear Science in India , Pacific Affairs (special issue of journal for cultural policy).
- 1977. The Government of Scientific Institutions in India : Case Studies of Two Research Laboratories in the Late 1960s, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 137-168.
- 1976. Impressions of Bangladesh : The Rule of Arms and the Politics of Exhortation, Pacific Affairs, Autumn, pp. 443-475.
- 1974. Power from Power A new Scenario Emerges for India s Scientists, Science Forum ( University of Toronto Press ), December.
- 1971. Are Conferences on Science in Poor Nations a Useless Extravagence? Science Forum ( University of Toronto Press), December.
- 1971. Comment on The Social Organization of a University Laboratory, by Gerald Swatez Minerva.
- 1967. Lord of the Flies on Coral Island, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 54-68.
- 1966. This Thing Could Go That Way, Philosophy East and West, University of Hawaii Press, Vol. XVI, Nos. 1 and 2; pp. 49-58
Technical Reports and Testimony
- Anderson, R.S. (2001). Report of the Senate Committee to Review the Eastern Indonesia Universities Development Project,SimonFraserUniversity[book length evaluation].
- 1995. brief to CBC Mandate Review Committee on International Broadcasting.
- 1994. brief to Special Joint Committee on Foreign Policy, Ottawa .
- 1992. Improving Research Effectiveness in IDRC a proposal for a new program, for Corporate Affairs and Initiatives Division, IDRC, Ottawa .
- 1991. Socio-Economic Study of Colonarie Watershed , St. Vincent and the Grenadines (for CIDA).
- 1991. Assessing the Socio-Economic Consequences of the Longjiang-Nujiang Project in Yunnan , China .
- 1990. Immigration and Social Conflict in Richmond , B.C. (for Economic Council of Canada ).
- 1989. Evaluation of the Local Development Assistance Program , Thailand (for CIDA).
- 1989. Study of the Role of Television in China s Development (for Embassy of Canada , Beijing ).
- 1988. International Evaluation of Columbia s Development Projects (for CIDA).
- 1986. Credit Can Lead to Rural Development, The Mid-Term Operational Review of the Rural Poor Program , Bangladesh (for CIDA).
- 1986. (with Looyd Baron) Jamaica s Decline: A Socio-Economic Study (for CIDA).
- 1986. (with Lloyd Baron) Expectations and Experience of Tourism: The Windward and Leeward Island States of the Eastern Caribbean , presented to CIDA and Laventhol and Howarth Management Consultants.
- 1984. Hunger and Malnutrition in Jamaica : Three Directions for Canadian Food Aid. (for CIDA).
- 1984. Agricultural Institutions in Jamaica : The Role of Donors. (for CIDA).
- 1984. Jamaica 1990: A Socio-Economic Analysis. (for CIDA).
- 1977. International Proliferation Implications of the Extraction and Marketing of Saskatchewan Uranium, testimony before the Bayda Inquiry, Regina , September.
- 1976. The Canada-India Nuclear Exchange 1947-1976, Statement on the Proposed Export of Nuclear Material to India submitted to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hearings, 20 July 1976: see Washington Post, 19 July 1976.
Conference Presentations
- 2011 竄 Myanmar and China relationships on the frontier 罈 Georgetown University, Washington DC (November 2011)
- 2011 竄 Roads to Rajasthan ; how did India begin to become a high-tech and nuclear power ? 罈 Graduate Institute, University of Geneva (October 2011).
- 2011 竄 Ripples from Rajasthan : how did the 1974 nuclear test alter the way outsiders thought about South Asia ? 罈 University of London (November 2011)
- 2007 竄 Guerres chaudes et froides la haute fronti癡re entre la Chine et la Birmanie 罈 Universite de Quebec a Montreal, October 2007
- 2007 竄 Conflicts on the Yunnan-Burma frontier 1939-1950 罈 Institut de Recherche pour Sud-est Asie, Universite de Provence, Marseille, May 2007
- 2007 School of Oriental and African Studies,UniversityofLondonHighland Frontiers of Burma from hot war to cold war, April 2007
- 2005 Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecturer,UniversityofNew Brunswick,Fredericton, The Rashomon-effect and Us, April 2005
- 2004 The origins of Edmund Leachs Political Systems of Highland Burma, European Conference on South-east Asian Studies, Paris-1 Sorbonne, France, September 2004
- 2004 Conference on Foundations of Globalization,ManchesterUniversity, American Foundations and the Green Revolution. Keynote address, November 2004.
- 2003 Conference on Science Studies inIndia. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Secret, private and professional faces in influential Indian scientific networks. Keynote address, 24 November 2003.
- 2001 Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development. Chair, Roundtable on Indonesia .
- 2001 Society for the Study of Science and Society, Boston , November 2001. Alternate histories of science in India
- 2001 Conference on Peace and Security in Eurasia, Centre for Political and International Studies, Moscow , Russia , June 2001. Civilizations and their discontents, again
- 2000 Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development. Chair, Roundtable on Burma and Narcotics.
- 1998 University of Oxford , UK , November 1998. The operation of nuclear networks and the development of atomic power in India
- 1997 Canadian Centre for the Development of Foreign Policy. Chair, Canadian Roundtable on Burma
- 1994 IDRC Conference on Communication for Development, Montreal , Quebec . The Future of Communication and Development Studies.
- 1992 International Conference on Ethnic Peace, Matsunaga Institute, University of Hawaii . Ethnic Conflict and Plate Tectonics.
- 1992 Deutsche Messe AG, Expo 2000 Planning Seminar Symposium, Hannover , Germany , February 1992. The Planning and Consequences of Expo 86 Learning the Lessons for Expo 2000 at Hannover
- 1991 Quatriemes Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier, Lyon, France, November 1991. Communication About Risk Among International NGOs
- 1990 First Nations Economic Summit , Vancouver , B.C., November 1990. The Meaning of Community Economic Development
- 1990 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and UNESCO, Paris, July 1990. Sciences et Empires
- 1987 International Communication Association, Montreal , Quebec . Looking Upward: Contrasting Canadian and American Representations in the Caribbean .
- 1985 Smithsonian Institution Conference on India , Washington , D.C. Forest, Field and Heaven: Three Perspectives on the Sciences in Modern India .
- 1984 Institute of Advanced Study, West Berlin . Communication and Culture in Scientific Institutions.
- 1981 Canadian Communication Association, Halifax , Nova Scotia . Three Windows for Policy-Oriented Research on Communication and International Development in Canada .
- 1980 Canadian Communication Association, Montreal , Quebec . Developing Problems: On the Communciation of Definitions by International Development Institutions.
- 1979 Canadian Ethnological Society, Banff , Alberta . Political and Economic Ingredients of Agrarian Transformation: The Case of the Southern American Rice Industry, 1700 1945.
- June 1975 Canadian Forum. (with Kathy Mezei) Welcome to the Party Aid to Bangladesh ?
- March 1975 Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco. Strong Traditions and Powerful Forces: the Poverty of Social Policy for Rural Bangladesh .
- October 1974 Technical Panel of Ad Hoc Group on Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Meeting, Geneva . People and Water in Rural Bangladesh Or Does Political Power Come out of the Barrel of a Pump?
- June 1974 Canadian Association of Asian Studies at University of Toronto . Patterns of Relief at the Local Level Bangladesh 1972-1973.
Keynote Address
- April 2005 Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecturer, University of New Brunswick , Fredericton , The Rashomon-effect and Us
- November 2003 Conference on Foundations of Globalization. American Foundations and the Green Revolution. Keynote address, 5 November 2003.
- November 2003 Conference on Science Studies in India . Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Secret, private and professional forces in influential Indian scientific networks. Keynote address, 24 November 2003.
- 1991 International Conference on Environmental Institutions, Kingstown . Caribbean , June 1991. Keynote Address, St. Vincent and the Grenadines .
- 1990 International Conference, Consensus and Control: Communication in Conflict and Intervention, Vancouver , B.C., June 1990. Opening Address.
Special Presentations
- Nov. 2003 Seminar, University of Cambridge , 13 November 2003. Edmund Leach , Burma , and the Open System Concept.
- 1999 In 1999 I was asked to speak at the University of Washington on the history of the Indian nuclear bombs.
- 1998 In 1998 I spoke on aboriginal conflict and negotiation at University of Cambridge , and University of Edinburgh .
- 1998 CNRS, Paris, University of Jerusalem , University of London , and University of Oxford ; seminars on the history of secret nuclear networks.
- 1997 Expert Witness for Canadian Jewish Congress, before B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, on responsibility and freedom in community press.
- 1996 State Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal , India .
- 1995 National Museum of Man, Bhopal , India
- 1995 International Forum on Burma , Amsterdam .
- 1994 Vancouver Institute Lecturer. Intervenors in Trouble
- 1994 Conference on Development Communication, Montreal (sponsored by AMARC and IDRC). Invited Speaker
- 1994 International Committee on Industrial Cooperatives in China , Beijing .
- 1994 Canada Council, Commission for UNESCO
- July 1994 Special Joint Committee on Foreign Policy, Senate and House of Commons, Ottawa
- 1993 Conference on Japanese and Canadian ODA Policies and Practices, UQAM, Montreal .
- 1993 Technical Experts Meeting, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna . Chair.
- 1991 UNESCO ( Summit Meeting), General Conference, Paris.
- 1991 Summer Institute and International Conference, Vancouver . Consensus and Control: Communication in Conflict and Intervention.
- 1991 First Nations Economic Summit Meeting, Vancouver.
- 1991 International Conference on Environmental Institutions, St. Vincent and the Grenadines , West Indies .
- 1990 UNESCO, with CNRS, France , India . Sciences et Empires
- 1990 Communciation Division, IDRC, Ottawa.
- 1990 Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi .
- 1989 Roundtable on Communication and Development, IDRC, Ottawa .
- 1989 University of Technology , Shanghai , China .
- 1989 Beijing Broadcasting Institute, China .
- 1989 Beijing University , China .
- 1989 The Development Research Centre, Beijing , China .
- 1987 International Communication Association, Montreal .
- 1986 House of Commons, Standing Committee on External Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa .
- 1986 Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Jamaica .
- 1986 Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria.
- 1985 School of Nursing , University of British Columbia .
- 1985 Smithsonian Institution, Washington , D.C.
- 1984 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , West Berlin .
- 1984 South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle .
- 1983 Canadian Communication Association, Vancouver. Panel of experts: New Communication Technologies for Development: Montreal-Vancouver teleconference sponsored by Department of Communciations , Canada .
- 1983 International Round Table on Theory of Representations, Universite de Quebec a Montreal .
- 1982 Department of Foreign Languages, University of Inner Mongolia . Three lectures on communication and development.
- 1982 The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh .
- 1981 Association for Asian Studies, Toronto .
- 1981 Canadian Communication Association, Halifax.
- 1981 Universite de Montreal; lInstitute dHistoire et Sociopolitique des Sciences.
- 1981 Universite de Quebec: Department de Communication.
- 1981 McGill University : Centre for Developing Area Studies.
- 1981 McGill University : Joint Colloquium on Communication and Anthropology.
- 1980 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- 1980 San Francisco Organizer of Special Conference on Science, Values, and the Politics of Agrarian Systems.
- 1980 Canadian Communication Association, Montreal .
- 1979 Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles .
- 1979 Canadian Ethnological Society, Banff .
- 1979 Canadian Council on Southeast Asia , UBC.
- 1978 Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka .
- 1978 Raman Research Institute, Bangkok .
- 1978 Resource Systems Institute, East-West Centre, Honolulu .
- 1976 Cholera Research Laboratory , Bangladesh .
- 1976 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston .
- 1976 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston .
- 1976 University of Guelph , conference on Bangladesh .
- 1976 Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University .
- 1975 Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco.
- 1974 MIT (Technology Studies), Cambridge .
- 1974 Canadian Association for Asian Studies, Toronto .
- 1973 University Services Centre, Hongkong.
- 1973 University of Ottawa (Department of Theatre).
- 1972 University of Edinburgh (Science Studies).
- 1972 University of Sussex (History of Science and Technology).
- 1971 American Physical Society, New York .
- 1971 Canadian Association for Anthropology and Sociology, St. Johns .
- 1970 Harvard University (History of Science).
- 1970 MIT (International Studies), Cambridge .
- 1970 York University (Social Science and Humanities)
Work in Progress
- Negotiating Nuclear Power: how the great powers bargained with reactors and the bomb in India. (Manuscript in preparation for University of Chicago Press; research supported by a SSHRC history standard grant 2010-2013. This work is based on interviews and recently declassified nuclear files in the IAEA Vienna, and the USA, Canadian, and UK Archives, from 1940 up to 1980: it is the mirror image of my recent book (2010, see below) because it provides perspectives from the great nuclear powers points of view, rather than Indian points of view.
- Highland Burma, Edmund Leach, and Anthropology in Guerilla Warfare, Manuscript in preparation, relying on permission of Leachs literary executors to use Leach Papers at Kings College Cambridge; also includes materials in the Myanmar National Archives, Imperial War Museum, and the British Library London. Leachs Political Systems of Highland Burma (1954) was one of the most influential texts in 20th century anthropology, and my book will establish the previously unknown biographical and contextual circumstances of Leachs early work in anthropology, as part of a re-thinking of Leach as a historic figure in the social sciences. (An introductory chapter to this book is already published, see below 2007).
research
Current Research Interests
Negotiating Nuclear Power: how the great powers bargained with reactors and the bomb in India. (Manuscript in preparation for University of Chicago Press; research supported by a SSHRC history grant. This work is based on interviews and recently declassified nuclear files in the IAEA Vienna, and the USA, Canadian, and UK Archives, from 1940 up to 1980: it is the mirror image of my recent book (Nucleus and Nation 2010) because it provides perspectives from the great nuclear powers points of view, rather than mostly Indian points of view.
Highland Burma, Edmund Leach, and Anthropology in Guerilla Warfare, Manuscript in preparation, relying on permission of Leachs literary executors to use The Leach Papers at Kings College Cambridge; also includes materials in the Myanmar National Archives, Imperial War Museum, and the British Library London. Leachs Political Systems of Highland Burma (1954) was one of the most influential texts in 20th century anthropology, and my book will establish the previously unknown biographical and contextual circumstances of Leachs early work in anthropology, as part of a re-thinking of Leach as a historic figure in the social sciences; my book includes his role in the dissemination of the ideas of systems. (An introductory chapter to this book is already published in 2007).
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon, and their Legacies a manuscript in progress on the production, reception, and effects of Kurosawas most famous work, both inside and outside Japan.
Building a network of young environmentalists in Myanmar; since 1998 I have been helping young environmentalists from many disciplines to strengthen their capacity to do research and to influence the development of environmental policy and law in the country. This requires a real-time study of environmental affairs in a fast-changing situation. This phase of the project, to the end of 2014, is supported by the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa.