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LUTZ Paul-David
Post-doctorant
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Adresse visiteur Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains Adresse courrier Université libre de Bruxelles |
Bio
Paul-David Lutz is a rural development advisor turned ethnographer with a longstanding focus on the uplands of northern Laos. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Sydney and has taught medical anthropology, ethnographic fieldwork methods, Southeast Asian politics and the anthropology of food at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University.
Paul-David joined LAMC in 2023, as a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded project SeedsValues: Value Creation and Relatedness in Agrobiodiversity Hotspots. Currently, Paul-David is based at LAMC as a postdoctoral researcher (Chargé de recherches) of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS). His research project focuses on the interplay of animist cosmology, secularization and agrarian transition among ethnic Khmu in market-Leninist Laos.
Publications :
- 2026 Being Present: Emerging Ethnographic Perspectives and the Study of Laos, co-edited with R. Stolz, National University of Singapore Press. https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/being-present
- 2026 "Media in Laos" in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Laos(1st ed.) edited by Creak, S., High, H., & Tappe, O., Routledge. 399-411.
- 2025 "Revolutions of Rice – Agrarian Acceleration and Modernist Metanarratives among ‘Indigenous’ Peasants in Laos" Anthropological Forum, 35:1, 24-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2025.2496676
- 2024 "‘The Rat Sh*t Chilli’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos" Asian Studies Review 48:4. 769–788. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2023.2294801
- 2022 "‘We Used to Have Lice… ’: Interethnic Imagery in post-War Upland Laos" Critical Asian Studies 54:2, 171–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2031239