Research Catalog

Title

Scholarship and engagement in mainland Southeast Asia : a festschrift in honor of Achan Chayan Vaddhanaphuti / edited by Oscar Salemink in collaboration with Patcharin Lapanun, Benjaporn Deekhuntod, Malee Sitthikriengkrai.

Publication

Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
• Salemink, Oscar
• Phatcharin Lāphānan
• Benjaporn Deekhuntod
• Mālī Sitthikrīangkrai

Description

vii, 256 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"This book contains nine contributions at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and sociocultural politics in mainland Southeast Asia, inspired by the remarkable career of Achan Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, an academic who has worked tirelessly in Thailand and beyond to foster critical social-science scholarship that engages with marginalized communities. The research in this volume is both highly personal and academically rigorous, born out of the authors0́9 experiences studying and working with communities and individuals who are too easily pushed to the margins of mainstream politics and culture. This willingness to support such underprivileged groups through meticulous scholarship is a hallmark of the engaged scholarly activism Achan Chayan has spent a lifetime encouraging. The volume also contains a biographical sketch of Chayan as scholar and activist, and an afterword by Michael Herzfeld."--Back cover

Subject

• Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
• Southeast Asia > Social conditions
• Southeast Asia > Politics and government
• Southeast Asia > Study and teaching
• Southeast Asia > Research

Genre/Form

Festschriften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, exemplary scholar-activist / Charles Keyes -- Highlanders' mobility and colonial anxieties, a political history of the Khmu laborers in Siam / Olivier Evrard -- A mat-weaving cooperative and a military coup, the challenges of fieldwork in the 1970s in Thailand / Katherine Bowie -- Revisiting ethnic and religious factors in Thailand's southern discomfort / Christopher J. Moll -- Resistance through meditation, hermits of King's Mountain in Northern Thailand / Shigeharu Tanabe -- Learning across boundaries, grantmaking activism in the Greater Mekong Subregion / Rosalia Sciortino -- Scholarship, expertise, and the regional politics of heritage / Oscar Salemink -- The rise and fall of UNODC's alternative development program / Ronald D. Renard -- Meeting educational needs in marginal areas of the state, reflections on research in Myanmar / Mandy Sadan -- Modest reflections on extraordinary virtue, Chayan Vaddhanaphuti and the ethics of engaged scholarship / Michael Herzfeld.

ISBN

• 9786162151187
• 6162151182

LCCN

^^2015317436

OCLC

• 944120239
• SCSB-12791411

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library