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SUMMARY:Seminar: Contesting Knowledge Hegemonies\, Extractivism\, and Environmental Dispossession: Cases from Thailand\, Myanmar\, Indonesia\, South Africa and Norway
DESCRIPTION:Unequal power relations shape whose knowledge is produced\, circulated\, and recognised as legitimate. These hierarchies influence research agendas\, standards of evidence\, funding\, and policy priorities\, often marginalising alternative epistemologies and undermining communities’ authority over their knowledge and practices. Research can consequently treat communities as objects of inquiry rather than knowledge producers\, while policymaking overlooks their lived experiences\, situated knowledge\, and aspirations. \n\n\n\nAbout the Seminar  \n\n\n\nThe Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD)\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\, convenes this seminar to connect academics\, students\, research fellows\, policymakers\, community leaders\, and practitioners across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and beyond. This event examines how knowledge hierarchies are reproduced and contested\, and how research can advance epistemic justice and support communities’ struggle by recognising them as knowledge producers with the authority to shape research and its uses. \n\n\n\nThe panel brings diverse perspectives into dialogue\, exploring the suppression of Indigenous fire practices in Thailand\, territorial conflicts surrounding rare earth mining in Myanmar\, struggles for Indigenous land rights in West Papua\, Indonesia\, and environmental atmospheres and moods across South Africa\, Norway\, and Myanmar. \n\n\n\nThe event is organised by SPACE project under RCSD in partnership with Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA); CRB\, an American/Southeast Asian organisation working on LGBTQ rights; the Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH); and the Centre for Sexualities\, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G)\, University of Pretoria. \n\n\n\nEvent Details \n\n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, 3 November 2026\n\n\n\nTime: 09:00–12:30\n\n\n\nVenue: Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\n\n\n\n\nPlease confirm your attendance by registering through this form. \n\n\n\nDraft Agenda \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime\nSession\nFocus\nSpeakers/Panalists\n\n\n09:00–09:30\nOpening and Introductions\nWelcome\, participant introductions\, and dialogue objectives\nDr. Chayan Vaddhanaphuti; Dr. Kyaw\n\n\n09:30–10:30\nPanel Discussion\nRegional experiences of knowledge hierarchies\, exclusion\, and community resistance. How do power relations shape knowledge production\, and what enables or constrains community agency?\nMs. Rattanasiri Kittikongnapang\, PhD Candidate\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University;  “Extinguishing Indigenous Fire?: Governing Smoke\, the Clean Air Act\, and Thailand’s Pyrocene”Mr. Seng Li\, Kachin Researcher and Research fellow\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University; “Rare Earth Mining: Conflict\, Territorial Control\, and Its Impacts\,”Mr. Sam W\, Human rights defender\, Papua Solidarity Network\, Indonesia “West Papua Is Not an Empty Land\,” challenging narratives that erase Indigenous presence and highlighting struggles over land and Indigenous rights. Ms. Zinzile Nontokozo Sibanda\, Environmental Law Researcher\, University of Pretoria A comparative exploration of the environmental atmosphere and moods across South Africa\, Norway and Myanmar”\n\n\n10:30–10:45\nCoffee Break\n\n\n10:45–11:45\nInteractive Dialogue: Advancing Epistemic Justice\nExamine approaches to challenging knowledge hierarchies and strengthening community authority in research.\nDiscussants\, panellists\, and participants\n\n\n11:45–12:30\nFrom Dialogue to Action\nSynthesise key insights\, identify priorities and potential collaborations\, and agree on feasible next steps.\nOpen circle with all participants\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet our panellists:  \n\n\n\nMs. Rattanasiri Kittikongnapang\, PhD candidate at Chiang Mai University\, presents “Extinguishing Indigenous Fire?: Governing Smoke\, the Clean Air Act\, and Thailand’s Pyrocene” examines how top-down policymaking and environmental governance\, which exclude the co-creation of knowledge with Indigenous communities\, marginalise and suppress Indigenous fire practices in Thailand. \n\n\n\nMr. Seng Li\, Kachin researcher\, research fellow and doctoral student at Chiang Mai University\, presents “Rare Earth Mining: Conflict\, Territorial Control\, and Its Impacts\,” examining resource extraction\, territorial struggles\, and their consequences for local communities. \n\n\n\nMr. Sam W of Papua Solidarity Network presents “West Papua Is Not an Empty Land\,” challenging narratives that erase Indigenous presence and highlighting struggles over land and Indigenous rights. \n\n\n\nMs. Zinzile Nontokozo Sibanda of the University of Pretoria presents “A comparative exploration of the environmental atmosphere and moods across South Africa\, Norway and Myanmar”\, examining how it manifests in the communities as well as community perceptions and responses\, mobilisation efforts\, resilience mechanisms\, and also the idea of “sacrifice zones”.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/seminar-contesting-knowledge-hegemonies-extractivism-and-environmental-dispossession-cases-from-thailand-myanmar-indonesia-africa-and-norway/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
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