David Giles

David Giles is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University's School of Humanities and Social Sciences, where he researches urban anthropology, homelessness, and food systems. With expertise in ethnographic methods and social justice, his work critically examines how global crises reshape urban spaces and marginalized communities.

Research interests center on:

• Urban precarity and housing justice
• Food security and waste economies
• Critical development studies
• Anthropology of crisis
• Digital colonialism in agribusiness

Recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on humanitarian responses to intersecting crises (homelessness, pandemic, food insecurity). Key thematic clusters include: urban vulnerability during emergencies, critiques of technological solutionism in agriculture, and ethnographic analyses of mutual aid networks.

Supervises doctoral researchers working on:

• Menstruation in schools
• Coral reef ecology
• Housing commons
• Anarchist mutual aid
• Food redistribution in India

Collaborative projects include 'Home Truths: Local Insights into Homelessness' ($35,000 grant) examining interim housing solutions, and 'The Everyday Life of Fascism' exploring far-right sociocultural dynamics.