Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
- Agricultural policy, food security, agrarian change and land tenure
- Social capital, participation and environmental management
- Forest management, biodiversity conservation and climate change
- Natural resource conflict
- Politics, policy and natural resource governance in a developing context
Current student projects
Researcher's projects
- "Oil Palm and Agrarian Transition on the Indonesian and Malaysian Frontiers".
(ARC discovery project) - Household vulnerability, food security and the politics of social protection in Indonesia (ARC discovery project)
Qualifications
B.Sc (University of Melbourne), B.A. Hons (Monash University), PhD (Murdoch University)
Expertise Areas
- Agricultural Land Management
- Forestry Management and Environment
- Anthropology of Development
- Environment Policy
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- OTHER STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY
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Projects
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Improving community fire management and peatland restoration in Indonesia
Tacconi, L., Applegate, G., Baldock, J., Cary, G., Darbas, T., Greenhill, M., Grover, S., Kanowski, P., Macdonald, L. M., McCarthy, J., Mendham, D., Robins, L., Silvester, E., Sloan, S., Sullivan, A., Tang, C., Van Kerkhoff, L. & Williams, L.
Commonwealth Dept of Foreign Affairs&Trade, Australian Cnt for International Agricultural Res(ACIAR)
1/11/17 → 30/11/21
Project: Research
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Indonesia Project Phase IV
Lewis, B., Aspinall, E., Dong, X. (., Fealy, G., Jotzo, F., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Patunru, A., Shrestha, R., Utomo, A. & van der Eng, P.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
17/10/16 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Understanding the Impacts of COVID19 on Indo-Pacific Food Security
Crimp, S., Bourke, M., Daniell, K., Edwards, R., Forsyth, M., McCarthy, J., Robins, L. & Warr, P.
Commonwealth Dept of Foreign Affairs&Trade, Australian Cnt for International Agricultural Res(ACIAR)
18/05/20 → 30/08/20
Project: Research
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Household Vulnerability and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia: Towards an Integrated Approach
McCarthy, J., McWilliam, A. & Warren, C.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
30/09/14 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Indonesia Project Phase III
Lewis, B., Aspinall, E., Fealy, G., Hill, H., Hill, H., Jotzo, F., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Sparrow, R., Suryadarma, D. & Suryadarma, D.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID
2/07/12 → 30/06/17
Project: Research
Research output
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A rapid assessment framework for food system shocks: Lessons learned from COVID-19 in the Indo-Pacific region
Butler, J., Davila, F., Alders, R., Bourke, M., Crimp, S., McCarthy, J., McWilliam, A., Palo, A. S. M., Robins, L., Webb, M., van Wensveen, M., Sanderson, T. & Walker, D., 2021, In: Environmental Science and Policy. 117, p. 34-45Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The paradox of progressing sideways: food poverty and livelihood change in the rice lands of outer island Indonesia
McCarthy, J., 2020, In: The Journal of Peasant Studies. 47, 5, p. 1077-1097Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Indigenous Rights and Agrarian Justice Framings in Forest Land Conflicts in Indonesia
Dhiaulhaq, A. & McCarthy, J., 2019, In: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 21, 1, p. 34-54Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Addressing Adverse Formalisation: The Land Question in Outer Island Indonesia
McCarthy, J., Robinson, K. & Dhiaulhaq, A., 2018, Real Legal Certainty and its Relevance: Essays in honour of Jan Michiel Otto. Adriaan Bedner and Barbara Oomen (ed.). 1st edition ed. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, p. 25-42Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Distributional politics and social protection in Indonesia: Dilemma of layering, nesting and social fit in Jokowi's poverty policy
McCarthy, J. & Sumarto, M., 2018, In: Journal of Southeast Asian Economies. 35, 2, p. 223-236ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article