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Dr Greg BankoffBA (Ports), PhD (Murd) Social and environmental historian of Southeast Asia. In particular, environmental-society interactions with respect to disasters, natural hazards, development, resources and more recently community-based disaster management. In his work, he adopts an inter-disciplinary approach that tries to combine the social with the natural sciences, theoretical insights with historical perspectives. It is at the intersection of these enquiries that he feels the most exciting research is often forthcoming. He has written extensively on the Philippines and more generally on Southeast Asia for academic journals including the Journal of Asian Studies and Foreign Affairs and is the author of Crime, Society and the State in the 19th Century Philippines (Ateneo de Manila University Press 1996), Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines: Celebrating the Centennial of Independence (Ashgate/Gower 2002) co-authored with Kathleen Weekley and Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines (RoutledgeCurzon 2003). His most recent work is an edited volume together with Georg Frerks and Thea Hilhorst entitled Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People (Earthscan forthcoming 2003). He is Associate Professor in the School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland. School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92109, Auckland, New Zealand. Tel: (64-9) 373 7599, Email: g.bankoff@auckland.ac.nz |
