Paul-David Lutz
Researcher
Paul-David Lutz is an anthropologist and (former) rural development advisor with a longstanding focus on northern Laos. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Sydney, Australia and an MA in Intercultural Education from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Paul-David has published peer-reviewed work on the intergenerational aspects of agrarian change, socio-cosmological aspects of resource-riven development, as well as on interethnic dynamics and oral history in upland Laos. He joins the SeedsValues project as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on wet-rice cultivation in Luang Prabang Province, Laos.
Publications
- Lutz, P.-D. (2021). "Controlled experiments: On the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos" Social Anthropology, 29(3), 651–668
- Lutz, P.-D. (2022a). "‘We used to have lice...’: Interethnic imagery in post-war upland Laos" Critical Asian Studies, 54(2), 171–197.
- Lutz, P.-D. (2022b). "The party-state has come: Ritual rupture and cosmological continuity on a ridgetop in Laos" In H. High (Ed.), Stone masters: Power encounters in mainland Southeast Asia. NUS Press, 105-131
- Lutz, P-D. (2024). "‘The Rat Sh*t Chili’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos" Asian Studies Review, 48(2) (forthcoming)