My book with University of California Press was published April 2024.
It’s called Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A social movement ethnography.
You can find my current publications list over at my google scholar page.
Some publications I am especially proud of include:
Dark Degrowth: On insurgence, resurgence, and going dark. D.E. Gilbert. e-flux. 2026. Part of a larger project of the RED Collective.
Domination and Sabotage: Oil, Indigenous anarchism, and eco-territorial defense in Amazonia. D.E. Gilbert. Human Geography
Third-path struggles: Movements of and for social reproduction. D.E. Gilbert and Afrizal. Globalizations. 2025. Part of a special issue edited by Nancy Peluso and Rachel Silvey.
Shutting down the machines of destruction: Possibilities for agrarian life on the protest blockade. D.E. Gilbert. Antipode: Journal of Radical Geography. 2023. Part of a special issue edited by Charmain Chua and Kai Bosworth.
Firescapes, smoke, and woe. D.E. Gilbert. Fieldsites, Society for Cultural Anthropology. 2021.
I use methods of ethnography, archival research, and critical analysis of mapping and satellite photography.
I am the recipient of more than fifteen grants. Major support includes:
European Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, National Geographic, Henry Luce Foundation, and Fulbright Foundation.
Part of my work includes photo-ethnography, short writings, and interviews in a range of outlets:
Al Jazeera English. Why are environmental activists under attack? (Interview) August 7, 2019
Earth Island Journal. Palm Oil Companies are Destroying the Forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Some Communities Are Fighting Back. Winter 2013.
Mongabay.com. Economic headwinds buffet once-resilient Sumatran forests. (Interview) October 2017
Human Rights Watch. Indonesia: Forestry failures jeopardize green growth. (Photography) July 2013