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Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. His research examines borderlands, mobility, and human-environment interactions across Asia with a focus on trans-Himalayan spaces.
Key research areas include comparative borderland dynamics, non-human labor histories, colonial knowledge systems, and interspecies relationships. His work employs spatial anthropology to analyze how borders shape identities and resource flows.
Recent publications investigate multispecies entanglements in Eastern Himalayan ecosystems, indigo cultivation in colonial economies, and gender dimensions of borderland identities. He develops methodologies for studying more-than-human histories and borderland epistemologies.
He has extensively documented how local communities navigate state borders and ecological constraints through ethnographic and historical analysis. Fieldwork spans Bangladesh, India, Burma, and trans-Himalayan regions.
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