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Published Work
Dubai’s Labour Trap
Published in Political Insight, September 2011.
Dubai’s ‘economic miracle’ was built on the indentured labour of millions of Asian workers. While the oil-rich emirate’s economy is fast recovering from the global financial crisis, the plight of its migrant workers has scarcely improved.
Ethiopia’s Endangered Democracy
Published in New Internationalist, April 2010.
Ethiopia is courted by the west as an outpost of strength and democracy in a chronically unstable region. But Meles Zenawi’s government stands accused of crushing dissent, imprisoning its opponents and stifling the free press.
In the Lap of the Gods
Published in The Guardian Travel, November 2009.
A journey to the cave of a melting god: Amarnath's sacred Shiva-lingam.
Melting Mountains
Published in World Conservation, October 2009.
What does climate change mean for a region already ravaged by conflict?
A Failure of Vision
Published in Natur Cymru, July 2009.
The real meaning of the Ffos-y-Fran Land Reclamation Scheme.
Sámi Struggle and the Global Extinction Crisis
Published in Search, May 2009. Also appeared in the June issue.
How language loss in Europe's icy northern fringe reflects the biocultural extinction crisis taking place across the world.
A New Notion of the Sacred
Published in Search, March 2009.
How the tradition of sacred groves of India dovetails with very modern concepts of conservation.
Language Loss in Lapland
Published in Resurgence, July 2009.
How two Sámi communities are trying to stem the tide of language death.
Water Stress in Kashmir
Published in Resurgence, May 2009.
A natural paradise long riven by war, the Kashmir Valley now faces a threat even greater than human conflict.
Last Sight of a Melting Glacier
Published in The Contemporary Review, November 2008.
An expedition to the Kolahoi glacier in the Himalayan mountains of Indian Kashmir.
How Green Was My Valley?
Published in The Economist, October 2008.
Climate change will only intensify problems in Kashmir.
Melting Gods
Published in Resurgence, July 2008.
From the earliest times, people have equated gods with mountains. The high-snow-covered places of the world represented an idea of the immortal and eternal. But if we continue to allow the ‘abode of the gods’ to be exploited, we will do ourselves irreparable damage as a species.
Drink to the Dead
Published in Pology.
The drunken horse races of Todos Santos Cuchamatan, Guatemala.
A Visit to Maximon
Published in EntreMundos, June 2005.
An encounter with a Guatemalan folk-god on the shores of Lake Atitlan.