About Colum Graham

Southeast Asia, Agrarian Studies, Politics & Society

Colum Graham is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Colum:

Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

October 25, 2025

Fortress Farming

Associate Professor Jeff Neilson
Hosted by Colum Graham

Over the last several decades, sources of income derived away from farms have come to play a much bigger role in rural Indonesian households. How do r…

Wolfram H. Dressler, "For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands" (Cornell UP, 2025)

June 26, 2025

For the Sake of Forests and Gods

Wolfram Heinz Dressler
Hosted by Colum Graham

For the Sake of Forests and Gods: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands (Cornell University Press, 2025) examines the impacts of rel…

Joshua Barker, "State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" (Duke UP, 2024)

February 16, 2025

State of Fear

Joshua Barker
Hosted by Colum Graham

The relationship between fear people experience in their lives and the government often informs key questions about the rule of law and justice. In na…

Lin Hongxuan, "Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic" (Oxford UP, 2023)

December 25, 2024

Ummah Yet Proletariat

Lin Hongxuan
Hosted by Colum Graham

In contemporary Indonesia the idea that Islam and Marxism are inherently incompatible has become deeply entrenched. However, as Lin Hongxuan's work Um…

Mattias Fibiger, "Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

December 17, 2024

Suharto's Cold War

Mattias Fibiger
Hosted by Colum Graham

Conventional accounts of the Cold War focus on competition between the United States and Soviet Union as key to shaping world events. In focusing on t…

Faizah Zakaria, "The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia" (U Washington Press, 2023)

September 4, 2024

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Faizah Zakaria
Hosted by Colum Graham

Recurring tropes about fragmented communities living on frontier forestlands living in Southeast Asia are that they are either guardians of flora and …