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Position
lecturer / assistant professor

Background

M.A. (Econ) University of Manchester; D.Phil. Social Anthropology, University of Sussex. Social/Economic Anthropologist with a special interest in livelihood strategies with particular reference to the management of natural and human resources.

Languages: English (fluent)
Telephone: +31 (0)317 482099
E-mail: Sarah.Southwold@wur.nl

Keywords
rural development sociology, management of natural resources, fisheries management, agro-pastoralists, credit relations, WFP, methodology of field research, livelihoods; Andhra Pradesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Member of the editorial Board of MAST
Member of the Management Team of CERES, Working Programme 1

Research
Current research on non-state and state management of resources affecting fisheries in East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Previous research in: Malakand Division, NWFP, Pakistan on agro-pastoralists with particular regard to management of forests, pastures, and water, gender relations, division of labour, migration, agricultural production and animal husbandry; and in Sri Lanka on credit as a trading and livelihood strategy.

Selected Publications
2006
Devolution of Forest Management: A Cautinary Case of Pukhtun Jirgas in Dispute Settlements. Human Ecology. Vol. 34 no. 5 (October 2006)
Cooperation in the context of crisis: Public-private management of marine fisheries in East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India. New Delhi: IDPAD.
2005
Forest management in a Pukhtun community: the Constructions of Identities. In G Cederlof & K Sivaramakrishnan (Eds.), Ecological nationalisms: Nature, livelihoods and identities in South Asia (pp. 274-296). New Delhi: Permanent Black/Orient Longman. ISBN 81-7824-124-2
2004
Public versus private domains: A case study of a Sri Lankan ROSCA. In H. Lont & O. Hospes (Eds.), Livelihoods and microfinance: Anthropological and sociological perspectives on savings and debt (pp. 173-194). Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers.
2001
Rural entrepreneurs in Context. In Resonances and Dissonances in Development: actors, networks and cultural repertoires. / Hebinck, P. & G. Verschoor (pp. 153-170). Assen: Van Gorcum.


Publications for Wageningen University

Projects
INREF: Proposal submited. Environmentally sustainable development of pig production in Indo-Chinese countries. 
Applicants: Prof.dr.ir. Martin Verstegen (WIAS), Dr.ir. André Aarnink (Agrotechnology and Food Innovations), Prof.dr Alfons Oude Lansink (SSG), Dr. Sarah Southwold (SSG), Dr Hoang Manh Quan (Rector, Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry), Dr. Bui Cach Tuyen (Rector Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City).
Seed money granted by WUR

IDPAD - Andhra Pradesh, India study for project: Co-operation in the Context of Crisis: Public-Private Management of Marine Fisheries in South Asia.

Courses