Guest Editor for Journal Special Issues and Special Sections

• Allen, M. and K. Barney (2019). “Recent Developments in the Extractive Industries in the Asia-Pacific.” The Extractive Industries and Society. July, 2019.
• Creak, S. and K. Barney (2018). “Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos.” Journal of Contemporary Asia. 48(5)

Journal articles

• Ling, S., K. Phonetip, K. Sitthivong, S. Chaisy and K. Barney (2024). “From Fields to Factory: Women and Plantation Wood Processing in Laos.” Australian Forestry. https://doi-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1080/00049158.2023.2293593
• Barney, K. (2024). “Commercial Timber Plantations and Community Livelihoods: Insights from Comparative Case Studies in Southern Laos.” Forest Policy and Economics. https://doi-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103099
• Mahanty, S., S. Milne, K. Barney, W. Dressler, P. Hirsch and P. To (2023). “Clarifying Rupture: An Author’s Reply.” Dialogues in Human Geography. 13(2): 216-220.
• Mahanty, S., S. Milne, K. Barney, W. Dressler, P. Hirsch and P. To (2023). “Rupture: Towards a Critical, Emplaced and Experiential View of Nature-Society Crisis.” Dialogues in Human Geography. 13(2): 177-196.
• Creak, S. and K. Barney (2022). “The Role of ‘Resources’ in Regime Durability in Laos: The Political Economy of Statist Market Socialism”. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 55(4): 35-58.
• Blake, D. J. H. and K. Barney (2021). “Impounded Rivers, Compounded Injustice: Contesting the Social Impacts of Hydraulic Development in Laos.” International Journal of Water Resources Development. 38(1): 130-151.
• Barney, K. and K. Souksakoun (2021). “Credit Crunch: Chinese Infrastructure Lending and Lao Sovereign Debt.” Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. 8: 94-113.
• Sunam, R. K. Barney and J.F. McCarthy (2021). “Transnational Labour Migration and Livelihoods in Rural Asia: Tracing Patterns of Agrarian and Forest Change.” Geoforum. 118: 1-13.
• Griffin, C. and K. Barney (2020). “Local Disaster Knowledge: Towards a Plural Understanding of Volcanic Disasters in Central Java’s Highlands, Indonesia.” Geographical Journal. 187(1): 2-15.
• Van Der Meer Simo, A., P. Kanowski and K. Barney (2020). “The Role of Agroforestry in Swidden Transitions: A Case Study in the Context of Customary Land Tenure in Central Lao PDR.” Agroforestry Systems. 94: 1929–1944.
• Van Der Meer Simo, A., P. Kanowski and K. Barney (2020). “Economic Returns to Households Participating in Models of Commercial Tree Plantations in Lao PDR.” International Forestry Review. 22(1): 132-152.
• Allen, M. and K. Barney (2019). “Resource-making, Materiality and the Disruptive Geographies of the Extractive Industries in the Asia-Pacific.” The Extractive Industries and Society. 6(3): 733-736.
• Van Der Meer Simo, A., P. Kanowski and K. Barney (2018). “Revealing Environmental Income in Rural Livelihoods: Evidence from Four Villages in Lao PDR.” Forests, Trees and Livelihoods. 28(1): 16-33.
• Creak, S. and K. Barney (2018). “Conceptualising Party-State Governance and Rule in Laos.” Journal of Contemporary Asia. 48(5): 693-716.
• Blake, D. J. H. and K. Barney (2018). “Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a ‘Best Practice’ Dam in Lao PDR.” Journal of Contemporary Asia. 48(5): 808-834.
• Barney, K. and R. Sunam (2018). “Beyond Rural Routes: Gendered Migration, Agrarian Production and Forest Change in Java.” Commentary on N. Peluso and A. Purwanto’s ‘The Remittance Forest’. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 39: 37-40.
• Baird, I. G. and K. Barney (2017). “The Political Ecology of Cumulative Impacts: Modern Landscapes, Large Hydropower Dams and Industrial Tree Plantations in Laos and Cambodia.” Journal of Peasant Studies. 44(4): 769-795. Also published as chapter in P. Vandergeest and L. Shoenberger (ed.’s) (2018). De-Centering Land Grabbing: Southeast Asia Perspectives on Agrarian-Environmental Transformations. London: Routledge.
• Barney, K. (2016). “Sparking Development or Consuming the Countryside? Lao Charcoal Commodity Networks in the Mekong Region.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 57(2): 194-206.
• Barney, K (2014). “Ecological Knowledge and the Making of Plantation Concession Territories in Southern Lao PDR.” Conservation and Society. 12 (4): 352-363.
• Barney, K. (2012). “Land, Livelihoods and Remittances: A Political Ecology of Youth Outmigration Across the Lao-Thai Mekong Border.” Critical Asian Studies. 44(1): 57-83. Also published as a chapter in P. F. Kelly (ed.) (2013). Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.
• Baird, I.G., K. Barney, P. Vandergeest and B. Shoemaker (2009). “Reading Too Much into Aspirations: More Explorations of the Space between Coerced and Voluntary Resettlement in Laos.” Critical Asian Studies. 41(4): 605-614.
• Barney, K. (2009) “Laos and the Making of a ‘Relational’ Resource Frontier.” Geographical Journal. 175 (2): 146-159.
• Barney, K. (2004). “Re-encountering Resistance: Plantations Activism and Smallholder Production in Thailand and Sarawak, Malaysia” Asia-Pacific Viewpoint. 45(3): 325-339.
• Katsigris, E., G. Bull, A. White, C. Barr, K. Barney, Y. Bun, F. Kahrl, T. King, A.  Lankin, A. Lebedev, P. Shearman, A. Sheingauz, S. Yufang, H. Weyerhauser (2004). “The China Forest Products Trade: Overview of Asia-Pacific Supplying Countries, Impacts and Implications.” International Forestry Review. 6 (3-4): 237-253.

Book chapters

• Barney, K. and A. Van der Meer Simo (2021). “Forest-Land Commons in Laos in the Twenty-First Century: Agrarian Capitalism and the ‘Non-Commodified Subsistence Guarantee.’” p. 121-126. In P. Chachavalpongpun (ed.) At the Crossroads: Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Kyoto: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies.
  Also published as “Forest-Land Commons in Laos in the Twenty-First Century: Agrarian Capitalism and the ‘Non-Commodified Subsistence Guarantee.’” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Issue 25, 2019. (translated into Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tagalog)
• Barney, K. (2018).”Re-Assembling Informal Gold Mining for Development and Sustainability? Opportunities and Limits to Formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos.” p. 335-369, In K. Lahiri-Dutt (ed.) Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal Mining in the Contemporary World. Social Science Series, Canberra: ANU Press.
• Barney, K. (2017). “Environmental Neoliberalism in Southeast Asia.” p. 99-114. In P. Hirsch (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia. Oxon and New York: Routledge.
• Barr, C., K. Barney and S. Laird (2014). “Governance Failures and the Fragmentation of Tropical Forests.” pp. 201-236. In C. Kettle and Lian P. K. (ed.’s) Global Forest Fragmentation. CABI Publishing.
• Barney, K. (2008). ‘China and the Production of Forestlands in Laos: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure’ pp. 91-107 In J. Nevins and N. L. Peluso (ed.’s). Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press.
• Barney, K. (2008). “Local Vulnerability, Project Risk, and Intractable Debt: The Politics of Smallholder Eucalyptus Promotion in Salavane Province, Southern Laos.” pp. 263-86. In D. Snelder and R. Lasco (ed.’s). Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental Services: Lessons from South and Southeast Asia. Springer Publishers.
• Barney, K. (2006). ‘Tree Plantations and Development–Induced Displacement in Sarawak, Malaysia and Eastern Thailand.’ pp. 70-91. in P. Vandergeest, P. Idahosa and P. Bose (ed.’s) Development’s Displacements: Ecologies, Economies and Cultures at Risk. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Book reviews

• Barney, K. (2022). Review of Jerome Whitington “Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower.” Pacific Affairs. 95(1): 170-172.
• Barney, K. (2019). Review of Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud (ed.’s) “Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank’s Model Hydropower Project in Laos.” Southeast Asian Studies. 8(1): 153-157.
• Barney, K. (2016). Review of Tomas Larsson “Land and Loyalty: Security and the Development of Property Rights in Thailand.” Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Journal of Asian Studies. 75: 270-273.
• Barney, K. (2014). Review of Sarah Turner (ed.) “Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia.”. Vancouver: UBC Press. New Mandala: New Perspectives on Southeast Asia. December 2014.
• Barney, K. (2012). ‘Meuang Metaphysics’. Review of Sarinda Singh (2012) “Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos.” Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Southeast Asian Studies. 1(3): 513-516.
• Barney, K. (2012). ‘Entitled to Your Entitlements.’ Review of Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Li (2011) “Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia.” Singapore and Manoa: NUS Press and University of Hawaii Press. New Mandala: New Perspectives on Southeast Asia.
• Barney, K. (2011). ‘The Ties that Bind.’ Review of Jim Glassman (2010) “Bounding the Mekong: The Asian Development Bank, Thailand, and China.” Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 52(2): 228-229.
• Dwyer, M. and K. Barney (2009). ‘Apprentice Nationalists.’ Review of Soren Ivarsson (2008) “Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945.” Copenhagen: Nias Press. Asia-Pacific Viewpoint. 50 (2): 247-49.

Other Publications

• Barney, K. (2024). “Laos’ Economic Reckoning.”. East Asia Forum. 24 Jan., 2024.
• Barney, K. (2023). “Laos- the Latest on Land in 2023.” Mekong Land Research Forum, Annual Country Reviews 2022-2023. RCSD, Chiang Mai University.
• Milne, S., S. Mahanty, V. Lamb, K. Barney, P. To, J. Ironside, A. Wells-Dang, T. Thuon, P. Hirsch & S. Chann (2022). ‘Civil Society in the Mekong: What Can We Learn from Environmental Struggles?’. New Mandala: New Perspectives on Mainland Southeast Asia.
• Barney, K. and K. Souksakoun (2022). ‘Going Under? Belt and Road Megaprojects and Sovereign Debt in Laos’ New Mandala: New Perspectives on Mainland Southeast Asia. 6 Jan. 2022. Republished on 9DashLine: Navigating Fault Lines from Asia to the Indo-Pacific. 21 Jan. 2022.
• Nofyanza, S., K. Barney, S. Peteru, R. Paembonan and R. Kristanti (2021). ‘The Politics of the Green Economy in Provincial Indonesia: Insights from Coal and Oil Palm Sector Reforms in East Kalimantan. Bogor: Centre for International Forestry Research.
• Barney, K. (2014).‘High Speed Rail Could Bankrupt Laos, But It’ll Keep China Happy.’ The Conversation. 7 April, 2014.
• Barney, K. (2012). ‘Locating Green Neoliberalism and Other Forms of Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia.’ Kyoto University Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Newsletter. 66/Autumn 2012: 25-28.
• Creak, S. and K. Barney (2012). “Distressing Developments in Laos.” New Mandala: New Perspectives on Mainland Southeast Asia.
• Barney, K. (2011). “China and the Mekong Region: Beyond the Territorial Trap.” New Mandala: New Perspectives on Mainland Southeast Asia. Part of a three-part series entitled Crossing Borders: Chinese Agricultural Investment in Southeast Asia.
• Barney, K. (2008). ‘The Trouble with Tenure Security in Laos.’ Watershed: People’s Forum on Ecology. 12 (2): 57-64.
• Barney, K. (2007). Power, Progress and Impoverishment: Plantations, Hydropower, Ecological Change and Rural Transformation in Hinboun District, Lao PDR. Toronto: York University Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Working Paper No. 1. June, 2007. 140 p.

Policy and Technical Reports

• Smith, K., S. Ling, K. Barney, and P. Kanowski (2020). ‘Value Chain Assessment: Interim Summary Report - Teak plantations in Northern Laos.’ ACIAR. Oct. 2018. 52 pages.
• Barney, K. and H. Smith (2019). ‘Laos-Vietnam Plantation Policy Project Policy Brief 2: Land Tenure for Plantations in Lao PDR.’ Policy Brief 2. ACIAR Project FST/2014/047. December, 2019.
• Barney, K. and A. Van der Meer Simo (2019). ‘Forest Plantations and Smallholder Livelihoods: Evidence from Community Case Studies in Lao PDR.’ Working Paper 5. ACIAR Project FST/2014/047. April 2019.
• Barney, K., A. Van der Meer Simo, T. Huynh, P. Kanowski (2018). ‘Social Outcomes from Tree Plantations Development in Central and Southern Lao PDR: Evidence from 6 Villages.’ Policy Forum Brief, June 2018.
• Van Der Meer Simo, A., K. Barney, T. Huynh (2017). ‘Lao PDR Forest Plantation Policy Background Paper.’ ACIAR Project FST/2014/047. June 2017.
• Smith, H., K. Barney, N. Byron, A. Van der Meer Simo, S. Phimmavong, R. Keenan and V. Vongkhamsao (2017). Tree Plantations in Lao PDR: Policy Framework and Review’ ACIAR Project FST/2014/047 Working Paper 1. March, 2017.
• Smith, H., K. Barney, N. Byron, D. Tran, R. Keenan, V. Phuong and T. Huynh (2017). ‘Tree Plantations in Viet Nam: A Policy Framework.’ ACIAR Project FST/2014/047 Working Paper 2. August, 2017.
• Barney, K., K. Canby and R. Oberndorf (2012). Baseline Study 3, Cambodia. Overview of Forest Governance, Markets and Trade. Washington DC: Forest Trends, for the EU FLEG-T Asia Regional Program. 64 pages.
• Woods, K., K. Barney and K. Canby (2012). Baseline Study 4, Thailand. Overview of Forest Governance, Markets and Trade. Washington DC: Forest Trends, for the EU FLEG-T Asia Regional Program. 70 pages.
• Barney, K. and K. Canby (2011). Baseline Study 2, Lao PDR. Overview of Forest Governance, Markets and Trade. Washington DC: Forest Trends, for the EU FLEG-T Asia Regional Program. 63 pages. [also translated into Lao language]
• Molnar, A., K. Barney, M. DeVito, A. Karsenty, D. Elson, M. Benavides, P. Tipula, C. Soria, P. Shearman and M. France (2011). Large Acquisition of Rights on Forest Lands for Tropical Timber Concessions and Commercial Wood Plantations. Washington DC: Rights and Resources Initiative.
• Barney, K. (2005). At the Supply Edge: Thailand’s Forest Policies, Plantation Sector and Commodity Export Links with China. China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Forests and Livelihoods. Washington, DC: Forest Trends. 85 pages.
• Barney, K. (2005). Customs, Concessionaires and Conflict: Tracking Cambodia’s Forest Commodity Chains and Export Links with China. China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Forests and Livelihoods. Washington, DC: Forest Trends. 38 pages.
• Barney, K. (2005). Central Plans and Global Exports: Tracking Vietnam’s Forestry Commodity Chains and Export Links with China. China and Forest Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Forests and Livelihoods. Washington, DC: Forest Trends. 77 pages.