Tomas Cole

Tomas Cole is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, where he works within the Ecography Lab. His research combines environmental anthropology with political ecology, focusing on human-environment relations in Southeast Asia.

• Current Research: 'Making Peace with Pests' project (Swedish Research Council-funded) comparing human-mosquito interactions in Myanmar and Singapore
• Past Work: PhD research on indigenous conservation and spectral sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar

His work integrates ethnographic fieldwork with theoretical contributions to multispecies anthropology. Key themes include:

• Entanglement of care and power dynamics
• Alternative political ontologies
• Post-conflict environmental governance
• Decolonial conservation practices

Recent publications analyze:

• 2021: Coup dynamics in Myanmar
• 2020: Affective politics in refugee communities