Dr. Dennis Arnold

Assistant Professor

Dennis Arnold is a geographer trained in political economy and development studies. Dennis currently publishes and teaches on three interrelated areas: labor, migration and citizenship; global production network analysis; and borderlands of continental Southeast Asia. His work has appeared in Antipode, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Geography Compass, American Behavioral Scientist, Routledge edited books, and a monograph published by the Human Rights in Asia Book Series (2007, Mahidol University). 

Dennis completed his PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010). Past positions include an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship on 'Precarious Work in Asia' at UNC-Chapel Hill (2011); a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2008-2009); International Coordinator for the Thai Labour Campaign (2003-2006); and Researcher with the Asian TNC Monitoring Network (2003-2006). He has also completed research reports for international NGOs in 2006, 2008 and 2010. 

From 2013-2015 Dennis is coordinating a project titled Social Protections and Precarious Work in Continental Southeast Asian Borderlands. It is supported by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, Veni programme. Drawing on fieldwork in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, it researches context specific and globally extended networks comprised of garment factory workers, households and communities, employers and states. An objective of the project is to better understand workers and their communities role in shaping development processes.

Keywords

Economic geography, political economy and development, global labor, migration, borders, states and cross-border regionalism, global production networks, globalization and trade, human rights, social movements, critical social theory, multilateral organizations and development, Mekong Southeast Asia