Derek Hall is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research interests include international political economy, the political economy of East and Southeast Asia, the political economy of food, land and agriculture, and the history of capitalism. His current writing projects include work on the global land grab, the political economy of fisheries and aquaculture certification, and the relationship between commodification and the expansion of capitalism. He has also done long-term research on the political ecology of Japan-Southeast Asia relations.
Dr. Hall is the author of Land (Polity, 2013) and of Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (NUS Press and University of Hawai’i Press, 2011, co-authored with Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li). His work has appeared in journals including Antipode, Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and Science. In 2009-10 he was an S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California Berkeley.