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Schoenberger's research centers on political ecology and political geography, with particular emphasis on resource conflicts, territory and territorialization, land rights, sand extraction, and dynamics in Southeast Asia. She contributes to the Politics-State-Space research cluster at Durham University. Her influential publications appear in premier journals such as the Journal of Peasant Studies, Urban Studies, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Development and Change, and Critical Asian Studies. Key works include “What happened when the land grab came to Southeast Asia?” (Journal of Peasant Studies, 2017), “Street vendor livelihoods and everyday politics in Hanoi, Vietnam: the seeds of a diverse economy?” (Urban Studies, 2012), “They Turn Us into Criminals: Embodiments of Fear in Cambodian Land Grabbing” (Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2018), “Negotiating remote borderland access: Small-scale trade on the Vietnam–China Border” (Development and Change, 2008), and “Gendered eviction, protest and recovery: a feminist political ecology engagement with land grabbing in rural Cambodia” (2019). She co-edited the volume De-centring Land Grabbing: Southeast Asia Perspectives on Agrarian-Environmental Transformations (Routledge, 2018, with Peter Vandergeest), advancing scholarship on agrarian transformations, environmental justice, and authoritarian politics in Cambodia.