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Dr. Thomas White is a Lecturer in China and Sustainable Development at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2016) and has contributed extensively to environmental anthropology, focusing on Inner Asia’s pastoralist communities and their interactions with state policies.
- Education: PhD, University of Cambridge (2016)
- Current Role: Lecturer in China and Sustainable Development, King’s College London
- Former Role: Research Associate at Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU), University of Cambridge (2022-2023)
Research Interests span environmental anthropology, human-animal relations, spatial politics, postsocialist transformations, and China’s ecological governance. His work critically examines the Belt and Road Initiative, grassland conservation policies, and the role of nonhumans in state territorial imaginaries.
Publications address topics like camel-based connectivity in Inner Mongolia, cosmopolitical ecologies, and the domestication of infrastructure. Key articles analyze how the Chinese state mobilizes narratives of terrain friction and animal labor to construct territorial legitimacy.
Projects include the ESRC-funded Trading Mongolia’s Sovereign Meat, which investigates Mongolia-China livestock trade dynamics, and contributions to special issues on spatial transformations in China’s borderlands and multispecies pastoralism in Inner Asia.
