Faculty Affiliate Dr. Jason Cons
Dr. Jason Cons is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UT Austin. He works on borders in South Asia, on climate change, and on agrarian change and rural development. He has conducted extensive qualitative research in Bangladesh on a range of issues including: disputed territory along the India-Bangladesh border, the impacts of shrimp aquaculture in coastal areas, and recipient experiences with microcredit. In 2014, he initiated a new project on climate change and climate security in Bangladesh. He is the author of Sensitive Space: Anxious Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border(2016, University of Washington Press). His work has been published in a range of locations including: Political Geography, Modern Asian Studies, Ethnography, Antipode, and The Journal of Peasant Studies. He is also an Associate editor of the journal South Asia.
Cons has served as the Director of Research and Project Design at the Goldin Institute in Chicago. He was previously an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University. Cons’s work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, Oxfam America, the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University, the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, and the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies. He completed his degree in Development Sociology at Cornell University in 2011.
Selected Recent Publications:
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Recent Syllabi
PA388K/ANT391 (MA Seminar): Climate Change, Migration, and DevelopmentANT324L (Undergrad): Political Ecology
ANT324L(Undergrad): Human Securities/Insecurities
Cons has served as the Director of Research and Project Design at the Goldin Institute in Chicago. He was previously an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University. Cons’s work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, Oxfam America, the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University, the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, and the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies. He completed his degree in Development Sociology at Cornell University in 2011.
Selected Recent Publications:
- Cons, J. 2016. Sensitive Space: Anxious Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press. (http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/CONSEN.html)
- Cons, J. 2015. “Conclusion: The Placial Imagination.” For a Symposium on “Key terms in the Study of Place” in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
- Cons, J. “Impasse and Opportunity: Reframing Postcolonial Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border.” SAMAJ. 10.
- Cons, J. 2014. “Field Dependencies: Mediation, Addiction, and Anxious Fieldwork at the India-Bangladesh Border.” Ethnography. 15(3). 375-393.
- Middleton, T. and J. Cons. 2014. “Coming to Terms: Reinserting Research Assistants into Ethnography’s Past and Present.”Ethnography. 15(3). 279-290.
- Paprocki, K. and J. Cons. 2014. “Life in a Shrimp Zone: Aqua- and Other Cultures in Bangladesh’s Coastal Landscape.” Journal of Peasant Studies. 41(6).
- Dunn, E. and J. Cons. 2014. “Aleatory Sovereignty and the Rule of Sensitive Space.” Antipode, 46(1). 92-109.
- Cons, J. 2013. “Narrating Boundaries: Framing and Contesting Suffering, Community, and Belonging Along the India-Bangladesh Border.” Political Geography. 35. 37-46.
- Cons, J. and R. Sanyal. 2013. “Introduction: Geographies at the Margins: Borders in South Asia.” Political Geography. 35. 5-13.
- Cons, J. 2012. “Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India-Bangladesh Border.”Modern Asian Studies. 46(3). 527-558.
See Dr. Con's website and CV
Recent Syllabi
PA388K/ANT391 (MA Seminar): Climate Change, Migration, and DevelopmentANT324L (Undergrad): Political Ecology
ANT324L(Undergrad): Human Securities/Insecurities