Sarah Mahoney

Ho Chi Minh City

Sarah is a cultural anthropologist with her graduate work completed from the University of Oslo. She carried out fieldwork funded by National Geographic Society in depopulated mountain villages in Japan to examine rural revitalization. Her research interests include lifestyle migration, post-growth imaginaries, and degrowth in rural Japan. Currently, she resides in Ho Chi Minh to carry out fieldwork on Japanese infrastructure in Southeast Asia for the University of California Irvine, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy.