Interview: Currents of Despair: The political ecology of migration and trafficking in the Mekong region

David Feingold; Denise Brennan

doi:10.14197/atr.2012252513

Interview: Currents of Despair: The political ecology of migration and trafficking in the Mekong region

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David A. Feingold
Denise Brennan

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https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.2012252513

Abstract

One of the special issue guest editors, Denise Brennan, conducted this interview with David Feingold to learn more about his experience of witnessing the impact of climate change and ecological changes on people’s lives and livelihoods in Southeast Asia.

Author Biographies

David A. Feingold

David A. Feingold is the director of the Ophidian Research Institute and Ophidian Films Ltd.

Denise Brennan

Denise Brennan is a 2025–26 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow where she is writing a new book Work on A Heated Planet. She is the author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University, the United States.

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30-10-2025

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Feingold, D., & Brennan, D. (2025). Interview: Currents of Despair: The political ecology of migration and trafficking in the Mekong region. Anti-Trafficking Review, (25), 175–183. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.2012252513

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No. 25 (2025): Special Issue - Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet

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