Research | Tamar Law

I am broadly interested in how climate governance reconfigures land, labor, and livelihood across rural and agrarian landscapes. With attention to rural communities in both Southeast Asia and previously in the United States, my work draws on multi-sited ethnography to examine how climate change transforms socio-ecological relations with landscapes.

ENVIRONMENTAL REPAIR

I see environmental repair as political. I examine how climate change restructures relations of repair and maintenance, in turn transforming who bears the burden of adaptation and who stands to benefit from the promise of restoration.

AMPHIBIOUS RELATIONS

Land and water are never just a material substrate; they are a terrain of power, memory, and livelihood. My work examines how climate change and its governance reshape access, tenure, and property in rural and coastal landscapes in Indonesia and the United States.

AGRARIAN CHANGE

I am interested in how global processes like climate governance, green capitalism, and market-based conservation produce transformations in rural and agrarian worlds. My work attends to the political economies that reshape labor, land, and livelihood for farming and fishing communities navigating rapid environmental and economic change.

CLIMATE GOVERNANCE

My work engages critically with the proliferation of nature-based climate solutions, such as carbon farming or Blue Carbon credits, and restoration economies as modes of climate governance. I examine how these initiatives are designed, implemented, and contested, and what they mean for the communities and landscapes enrolled in them.