The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) and Center for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, in partnership with The National […]
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) and Center for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, in partnership with The National […]
What happens when the state becomes actively hostile or collapses entirely? In large swathes of post-coup Myanmar, conflict has transformed many previously peaceful areas into war zones where everyday life […]
Three new research-based publications are now available from RCSD, focused on a range of issues: from local governance in post-coup Myanmar; the lives of CDM students in exile both internal […]
Join us on Tuesday, 4 August 2026 for a book talk with author Mellisa Crouch for her new work “The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar.” The […]
This new edited volume is the result of the Sino-Thai Summer School that has been taking place between Yunnan University’s School of Ethnology together with RCSD and the Center for […]
This publication presents a collection of collaborative research papers from social science students at Yunnan University and Chiang Mai University examining how ethnic communities of northern Thailand are navigating the […]
On 19 June 2026, to commemorate World Refugee Day, RCSD hosted “Changing Global Order, Aid Retrenchment, and Refugee Protection: Reframing the Right to Work for Myanmar Refugees in Thailand” with […]
From 16-20 June 2026 ten participants from a variety of countries in Southeast Asia came together in Chiang Mai to join the research capacity building workshop “Revisiting agrarian transition & […]
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, in collaboration with Tembusu College, National University of Singapore (NUS), jointly organized the […]
World Refugee Day 2026 Seminar Changing Global Order, Aid Retrenchment, and Refugee Protection: Reframing the Right to Work for Myanmar Refugees in Thailand 13:00–16:00, 19 June 2026 Venue: 4F Meeting […]