Tania Murray Li is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy and Culture of Asia. Her publications include Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch, NUS Press, 2011), The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press, 2007) and Transforming the Indonesian Uplands: Marginality, Power and Production (Routledge 1999), and many articles on land struggles, development, community, class, and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. Under her current research project “Producing Wealth and Poverty in Indonesia’s New Rural Economies” she is writing an ethnography about agrarian class formation in upland Sulawesi 1990-2010, and carrying out new field research on oil palm in West Kalimantan in collaboration with Dr Pujo Semedi of Gadjah Mada University and students. For links see: http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/faculty-1/faculty-profiles/tania-li