All Stories

  1. Hidden Smoke: Air Pollution, Agrarian Change, and Governance Gaps in Luang Prabang, Laos

    Article • Critical Asian Studies, April 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  2. Diaspora

    Article • February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  3. The Red Necks and the importance of magic during the post-1975 insurgency in Laos

    Article • South East Asia Research, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  4. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Transnational Ethnic Khmu Anti-Lao PDR Insurgents during the Late Cold War

    Article • TRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, July 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  5. Communal Land Titling and New Geographies of Development in Northern Thailand

    Article • Land, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  6. Hmong Transnational Marriages: Nuancing Stereotypes

    Article • TRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, February 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  7. The urban political ecology of worsening flooding in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Neopatrimonialism, displacement, and uneven harm

    Article • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, February 2025, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  8. Nationalism First: Late Cold War Politics and the ‘Really Secret War’ in Laos

    Article • Asian Studies Review, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  9. Unlikely Allies: Lao Insurgent Perspectives of Armed Group Transnational Collaboration in the Emerald Triangle Region during the Third Indochina War

    Article • TRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, November 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  10. The Belt and Road Initiative and spirit mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and sacred space in northeastern Cambodia

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, September 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  11. The Communist Party of Thailand's education for young children in Northern Laos and Southern China

    Article • South East Asia Research, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  12. Where Do the Ravenous Spirits (<i>Phi Pop</i>) Go? Nakasang Village in Southern Laos as a Place of Cultural Healing

    Article • Southeast Asian Studies, April 2024, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

    Ian G Baird

  13. Financialization and rural development: comparing credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia

    Article • South East Asia Research, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  14. “Organic” rice: different implications from process and product environmental verification approaches in Laos and Thailand

    Article • Agriculture and Human Values, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird

  15. Going organic: Challenges for government-supported organic rice promotion and certification nationalism in Thailand

    Article • World Development, January 2024, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  16. What if

    Article • December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  17. The downstream impacts of dams on the seasonally flooded riverine forests of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia

    Article • South East Asia Research, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  18. Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos

    Article • July 2023, De Gruyter

    Ian G Baird

  19. After the Rubber Boom

    Article • June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  20. Hydropower Dam Development and Fish Biodiversity in the Mekong River Basin: A Review

    Article • Water, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  21. The value of wild fish: diet and livelihoods in two rural villages in the Mun River Basin, northeastern Thailand

    Article • South East Asia Research, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  22. The problem of the urban-rural binary in geography and political ecology

    Article • Dialogues in Human Geography, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Ian G Baird

  23. Hmong women's rights and the Communist Party of Thailand

    Article • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, April 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  24. Political violence, migration, lack of citizenship, and agrobiodiversity loss in the borderlands of Thailand and Laos

    Article • Geoforum, January 2022, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  25. Labour, mechanization, market integration, and government policy: Agrarian change and lowland rice cultivation in northeastern Thailand and southern Laos

    Article • Journal of Agrarian Change, October 2021, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  26. Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos

    Article • European Journal of East Asian Studies, April 2021, Brill

    Ian G Baird

  27. Priority knowledge needs for management of migratory fish species in Cambodia

    Article • Fisheries Management and Ecology, April 2021, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  28. Correction to: The Downstream Impacts of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous and Local Knowledge: Examples from the Peace–Athabasca, Mekong, and Amazon

    Article • Environmental Management, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird

  29. The Impacts of Hydropower Dams in the Mekong River Basin: A Review

    Article • Water, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  30. The complex relationship between indigeneity and class in South East Asia

    Article • South East Asia Research, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  31. The Downstream Impacts of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous and Local Knowledge: Examples from the Peace–Athabasca, Mekong, and Amazon

    Article • Environmental Management, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird

  32. Elite family politics in Laos before 1975

    Article • Critical Asian Studies, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  33. Obtaining the Nha Heun “Culture” from the King: Considering a Sacred Script and Oral History in Southern Laos

    Article • Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, January 2021, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

    Ian G Baird

  34. The contentious politics of hydropower dam impact assessments in the Mekong River basin

    Article • Political Geography, November 2020, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  35. Catastrophic and slow violence: thinking about the impacts of the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam in southern Laos

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  36. The Hmong and the Communist Party of Thailand: A Transnational, Transcultural and Gender-Relations-Transforming Experience

    Article • TRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, October 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  37. Thinking about Indigeneity with Respect to Time and Space: Reflections from Southeast Asia

    Article • Espace populations sociétés, June 2020, OpenEdition

    Ian G Baird

  38. Problems for the plantations: Challenges for large‐scale land concessions in Laos and Cambodia

    Article • Journal of Agrarian Change, December 2019, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  39. The Clean Development Mechanism and large dam development: contradictions associated with climate financing in Cambodia

    Article • Climatic Change, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird

  40. Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower. JeromeWhitington. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2018, pp. xvi + 266. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3091‐7 (pbk) and 978‐1‐5017‐3090‐0 (hbk).

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, August 2019, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  41. Hmollywood Movies: 1.5-Generation Hmong Americans and Transnational Film Production in Thailand

    Article • Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, July 2019, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

    Ian G Baird

  42. Migrating fish and mobile knowledge in the lower Mekong River Basin in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia

    Article • Mobilities, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  43. What about the tributaries of the tributaries? Fish migrations, fisheries, dams and fishers’ knowledge in North-Eastern Thailand

    Article • International Journal of Water Resources Development, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  44. From Hill tribes to Indigenous Peoples: The localisation of a global movement in Thailand

    Article • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, February 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  45. Introduction: Indigeneity in ‘Southeast Asia’: Challenging identities and geographies

    Article • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, February 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  46. Developing an Anti-Racism Methodology: Considering Japanese and White Canadian Fishing Family Relations in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Article • Canadian Ethnic Studies, January 2019, Project Muse

    Ian G Baird

  47. Land grabs and labour: Vietnamese workers on rubber plantations in southern Laos

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, September 2018, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  48. Community Heritage Linking Place and Mobility: A Case Study of “Bangbei” in Ethnic Bai Villages of Yunnan Province, China

    Article • Sustainability, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  49. Large-Scale Land Concessions, Migration, and Land Use: The Paradox of Industrial Estates in the Red River Delta of Vietnam and Rubber Plantations of Northeast Cambodia

    Article • Land, June 2018, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  50. The Role of Remote Sensing for Understanding Large-Scale Rubber Concession Expansion in Southern Laos

    Article • Land, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  51. Party, State and the Control of Information in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Secrecy, Falsification and Denial

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Asia, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  52. Communal land titling dilemmas in northern Thailand: From community forestry to beneficial yet risky and uncertain options

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2018, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  53. An anti-racism methodology: The Native Sons and Daughters and racism against Asians in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

    Article • Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, January 2018, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  54. Differences in Mercury Exposure among Wisconsin Anglers Arising from Fish Consumption Preferences and Advisory Awareness

    Article • Fisheries, January 2018, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  55. Champassak royal sacred Buddha images, power and political geography

    Article • South East Asia Research, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Ian G Baird

  56. Variegated borderlands governance in Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture along the China-Myanmar border

    Article • Geoforum, October 2017, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  57. Biography and Borderlands: Chao Sone Bouttarobol, a Champassak Royal, and Thailand, Laos and Cambodia

    Article • TRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, July 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  58. From soldiers to farmers: The political geography of Chinese Kuomintang territorialization in northern Thailand

    Article • Political Geography, May 2017, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  59. The political ecology of cross-sectoral cumulative impacts: modern landscapes, large hydropower dams and industrial tree plantations in Laos and Cambodia

    Article • The Journal of Peasant Studies, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  60. Resistance and Contingent Contestations to Large-Scale Land Concessions in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia

    Article • Land, February 2017, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  61. The World Bank, Hydropower-based Poverty Alleviation and Indigenous Peoples: On-the-Ground Realities in the Xe Bang Fai River Basin of Laos

    Article • Forum for Development Studies, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  62. Review

    Article • Journal of Historical Geography, January 2017, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  63. Who should be considered ‘Indigenous’? A survey of ethnic groups in northern Thailand

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  64. Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom: The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960. By Mai Na M. Lee. New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Pp. 430. ISBN 10: 0299298841; ISBN 13: 978-0299298845.

    Article • International Journal of Asian Studies, July 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  65. Indigeneity in Asia: an emerging but contested concept

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  66. Capitalizing on Compensation: Hydropower Resettlement and the Commodification and Decommodification of Nature–Society Relations in Southern Laos

    Article • Annals of the American Association of Geographers, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  67. Non-government Organizations, Villagers, Political Culture and the Lower Sesan 2 Dam in Northeastern Cambodia

    Article • Critical Asian Studies, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  68. Should ethnic Lao people be considered indigenous to Cambodia? Ethnicity, classification and the politics of indigeneity

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  69. The security exception: Development and militarization in Laos’s protected areas

    Article • Geoforum, February 2016, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  70. Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

    Article • Science, January 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Ian G Baird

  71. Irredentism

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  72. 1975: Rescaling Our Understanding of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

    Article • Geopolitics, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  73. Fisheries of the rivers of Southeast Asia

    Article • September 2015, Wiley

    Professor David Dudgeon, Mustafa Md Golam, Ian G Baird

  74. The People and their River, the World Bank and its Dam: Revisiting the Xe Bang Fai River in Laos

    Article • Development and Change, September 2015, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  75. Rescaling and Reordering Nature–Society Relations: The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Dam and Laos–Thailand Electricity Networks

    Article • Annals of the Association of American Geographers, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  76. How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia

    Article • Land, May 2015, MDPI AG

    Ian G Baird

  77. Translocal assemblages and the circulation of the concept of “indigenous peoples” in Laos

    Article • Political Geography, May 2015, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  78. The Ties that Bind: The Role of Hmong Social Networks in Developing Small-scale Rubber Cultivation in Laos

    Article • Mobilities, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  79. Degraded forest, degraded land and the development of industrial tree plantations in Laos

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, October 2014, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  80. Wastelands, degraded lands and forests, and the class(ification) struggle: Three critical perspectives from mainland Southeast Asia

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, October 2014, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  81. The Global Land Grab Meta-Narrative, Asian Money Laundering and Elite Capture: Reconsidering the Cambodian Context

    Article • Geopolitics, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  82. Political memories of conflict, economic land concessions, and political landscapes in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

    Article • Geoforum, March 2014, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  83. The cult of Phaya Narin Songkhram: Spirit mediums and shifting sociocultural boundaries in northeastern Thailand

    Article • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  84. ‘Indigenous Peoples’ and land: Comparing communal land titling and its implications in Cambodia and Laos

    Article • Asia Pacific Viewpoint, November 2013, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  85. Contracting illness: reassessing international donor-initiated health service experiments in Cambodia's indigenous periphery

    Article • South East Asia Research, September 2013, SAGE Publications

    Ian G Baird

  86. Dams and Disease Triggers on the Lower Mekong River

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, June 2013, PLOS

    Professor Paiboon Sithithaworn, Ian G Baird

  87. Millenarian Movements in Southern Laos and North Eastern Siam (Thailand) at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

    Article • South East Asia Research, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  88. Lao Buddhist Monks' Involvement in Political and Military Resistance to the Lao People's Democratic Republic Government since 1975

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, August 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  89. Landscapes of political memories: War legacies and land negotiations in Laos

    Article • Political Geography, June 2012, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  90. Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region

    Article • May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  91. Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. By Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. vii, 257 pp.

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  92. THE DON SAHONG DAM

    Article • Critical Asian Studies, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  93. Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia

    Article • The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  94. Dolphin-Safe Tuna from California to Thailand: Localisms in Environmental Certification of Global Commodity Networks

    Article • Annals of the Association of American Geographers, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  95. Private, Small Groups, or Communal:DipterocarpusWood Resin Tree Tenure and Management in Teun Commune, Kon Mum District, Ratanakiri Province, Northeastern Cambodia

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  96. Different views of history: Shades of irredentism along the Laos–Cambodia border

    Article • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, May 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  97. Making spaces: The ethnic Brao people and the international border between Laos and Cambodia

    Article • Geoforum, March 2010, Elsevier

    Ian G Baird

  98. Open to All?: Reassessing Capture Fisheries Tenure Systems in Southern Laos

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird

  99. INTERNAL RESETTLEMENT IN LAOS

    Article • Critical Asian Studies, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  100. Spatial (re)organization and places of the Brao in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, November 2009, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  101. Identities and Space. The Geographies of Religious Change amongst the Brao in Northeastern Cambodia

    Article • Anthropos, January 2009, Nomos Verlag

    Ian G Baird

  102. Threatened fishes of the world: Probarbus jullieni Sauvage, 1880 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, October 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird

  103. Unsettling Experiences: Internal Resettlement and International Aid Agencies in Laos

    Article • Development and Change, September 2007, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  104. Long distance migration and marine habitation in the tropical Asian catfish, Pangasius krempfi

    Article • Journal of Fish Biology, September 2007, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  105. Transboundary Impact Assessment in the Sesan River Basin: The Case of the Yali Falls Dam

    Article • International Journal of Water Resources Development, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Ian G Baird

  106. Strength in diversity: fish sanctuaries and deep-water pools in Lao PDR

    Article • Fisheries Management and Ecology, February 2006, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  107. Erratum

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, January 2006, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  108. Probarbus jullieni andProbarbus labeamajor: the management and conservation of two of the largest fish species in the Mekong River in southern Laos

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, January 2006, Wiley

    Ian G Baird

  109. Mekong River Fish Conservation Zones in Southern Laos: Assessing Effectiveness Using Local Ecological Knowledge

    Article • Environmental Management, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird

  110. Irrawaddy dolphin Orcaella brevirostris in the Cambodian Mekong River: an initial survey

    Article • Oryx, July 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Ian G Baird

  111. The Imperiled Giants of the Mekong

    Article • American Scientist, January 2004, Sigma Xi

    Ian G Baird

  112. The Imperiled Giants of the Mekong

    Article • American Scientist, January 2004, Sigma Xi

    Ian G Baird

  113. Biodiversity Conservation and Resource Tenure Regimes: A Case Study from Northeast Cambodia

    Article • Environmental Management, November 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ian G Baird