Hatib Kadir is an environmental humanities scholar and anthropologist whose research examines amphibious worlds, hydro social, settler colonialism, and resource frontiers in Southeast Asia, Eastern Indonesia, and West Papua. He combines ethnography, archival research, and multispecies approaches to study how landscapes are reshaped by extraction, human activities, and state-led development.
He is currently conducting research on wetland modification in Southeast Asia, including wetland drainage for canalization in Kalimantan and Papua, shrimp aquaculture across Malay Peninsula, sand mining across the Indonesian archipelago, and the food estate program and plantation in Papua. His work also examines how these interventions are linked to large-scale Chinese development initiatives, settler colonialism, and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples.