Jonathan RiggJonathan Rigg is a development geographer at Durham University. He has been conducting fieldwork in South-East Asia, mainly in rural areas of the Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam, since the early 1980s. His interests include agrarian change, rural-urbanrelations, political ecology, and migration and mobility. He is also the author of An Everyday Geography of the Global South (2007), Living with Transition in Laos (2005), Southeast Asia: The human landscape of modernisation and development (2003) and, most recently, edited with Peter Vandergeest, Revisiting Rural Places: Pathways to poverty and prosperity in Southeast Asia (2012). Read More Read Less