Daniel Tubb
Professor
Anthropology
University of New Brunswick
Canada
Biography
Professor Tubb teaches and conducts research on economic and environmental anthropology, agrarian studies, extractivsm and extractive industries, artisanal and small-scale gold mining, critical development studies, and political economy. He is particularly interested in rural change caused by oil palm plantations for biofuels in post-conflict Colombia and on rural livelihoods and resource extraction projects in New Brunswick and the Canadian Maritimes. He joined the University of New Brunswick Fredericton in 2016. Before this, he was a fellow at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University from 2014 to 2016, where he worked on a project on the social life of oil palm and rural capitalism in Colombia. He earned a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from Carleton University in 2014, where he conducted eighteen months of fieldwork on gold mining and the political economy of natural resource extraction with Afro-descendant communities in northwest Colombia.
Research Interest
Anthropology
Publications
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2017, “The para-state: An ethnography of Colombia’s death squads by Aldo Civico.†Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des eÌtudes latino-ameÌricaines et caraïbes, 42:1, 121-123
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2017, “The everyday Black social economy in the Chocó, Colombia.†In Caroline Shenaz Hossein (Ed.) The Black Social Economy: Diverse Community Economies in the United States, Canada, England and Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Palgrave. (in press).
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2017, “Unearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru by Fabiana Li.†PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. (In-press).
