Most of his research is ethnographically grounded and he has ongoing research interests in a number of areas that seek to understand the role of transnational processes in the reproduction of cultural formations. Some of this work includes: a) the role of transnationalism and transnational ideologies in the production of cultural identity; b) the production and configuration of transnational cultural economies; c) the postcolonial politics of development; d) the cultural politics of biodiversity conservation; and e) the ethnographic study of transnational institutions of environmental governance, primarily the Convention on Biological Diversity. This latter work has involved (with colleagues) the development of a new methodological approach that called Collaborative Event Ethnography.