Catherine Allerton is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She is a specialist in island Southeast Asia, particularly eastern Indonesia and Malaysian Borneo. Her work explores the materialities and mobilities of everyday life, and she has a particular interest in Southeast Asian architecture and weaving. Central research themes include place and landscape, houses, kinship, childhood, migration and statelessness. She is the author of Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia (Hawai’i 2013) and Children: Ethnographic Encounters (Bloomsbury 2016). She is currently finishing a book on children of refugees and migrants in Sabah, East Malaysia.
