Prof Duncan McDuie-Ra

Duncan McDuie-Ra is Professor and Head of School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University Malaysia. Duncan’s main research interests are urban migration, urban culture, urban play, urban technology, urban bioethics, surveillance—including health surveillance, and the borderlands of Northeast India. Duncan is the author of 8 books including Borderland City in New India: frontier to gateway (Amsterdam Univ Press, 2016); Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, refuge and retail (Amsterdam Univ Press, 2012), Debating Race in Contemporary India (Springer, 2015), and the co-authored Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism and Urbanism in Dimapur (with D. Kikon, Oxford Univ Press, 2021). Duncan has also written over 70 journal articles and essays including in the journals Political Geography, Development & Change, Memory Studies, Geographical Journal, Modern Asian Studies, Social & Cultural Geography, Mobilities, and Health, Policy & Planning. Duncan is a current member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts, 2023-26. Duncan is currently an investigator on the European Research Council project Climate and Contemporary Transformations of Vernacular Architecture - Interaction, Effects and Perspectives (CLIMATE-Arch), led by the Austrian Academy of Social Sciences.