Pujo Semedi (2025)

  • Visiting Scholar
  • CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES
Pujo Semedi

Institutional Affiliation:

Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Education

2001 Doctor in Anthropology, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam

Selected Publications:

2025                North Coast Javanese Fisher Migration, 1900s -2010s. In S. Eraliev (Ed.), Migration Governance Beyond the West: Historical Legacies, Contemporary Trends, and Future Trajectories (pp. 37-48). Lund: Media-Tryck, Lund University.

2024                Out of Agriculture: The 1850s - 2010s Java and Southern Germany Compared. Inspirational Speech in Euroseas Conference 2024. Lembaran Antropologi Budaya. 3 (1), 87-98.

2024                Getting Rich in Kalimantan’s Oil Palm Zone In C. Dale, C. Imhof, R. Jud, M. Kobi, & C. Schwaller (Eds.), Tausch. Beziehungen Sozialanthropologische Perspectiven. Exchange: (Re)producing and transforming social relationships. (pp. 232). Vienna: Lit Verlag.

2024                Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security. in Plants, People, Planet. with Dannenberg, P., Braun, B., Greiner, C., Follmann, A., Haug, M., Semedi, P., Kopriva, S. doi:10.1002/ppp3.10492

2023                Two Centuries of Agrarian, Economic, and Ecological Shifts in the North Coast of Java (1812–2012). with Mizuno, Kosuke & Nooteboom, Gerben. (Eds.). (2023). Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada Press.

Research interest

Historical ethnography, rural agriculture, and political economy. Over the last 30 years, Pujo Semedi has participated in various collaborative research projects concerning fishing communities along the North Coast of Java, agriculture and plantation in upland Java, and palm oil in Kalimantan. Since 2017, Pujo Semedi has been researching agriculture and forest management in rural Ober Rhein, Southern Germany.

Writing project:   

- Forest, Social Worries and Ruhewald in Southern Germany.

- A millennium of interspecies affairs. Javanese farmers and the Arenga sugar palm, the  900s - 2010s.

- Landscape of wealth. Railway and plantation roads in Java, 1870 - 2010

 

Term at CU

August - December 2025