My book with University of California Press was published April 2024.
It’s called Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A social movement ethnography.
Other recent publications include:
Firescapes, smoke, and woe. D.E. Gilbert. Fieldsites, Society for Cultural Anthropology. 2021.
I use methods of anthropology and environmental studies including long-term ethnography, archival work, and critical analysis of mapping and satellite photography.
I am the recipient of more than fifteen grants. Major support includes:
Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, National Geographic, Henry Luce Foundation, and Fulbright Foundation.
Part of my work includes photo-ethnography, short writings, and interviews in a range of outlets:
Why are environmental activists under attack? (Interview) Al Jazeera English. August 7, 2019
Palm Oil Companies are Destroying the Forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Some Communities Are Fighting Back. DE Gilbert. Earth Island Journal Winter 2013.
Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forests. (Interview) Mongabay.com October 2017
Indonesia: Forestry failures jeopardize green growth (Photography) Human Rights Watch. July 2013