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SUMMARY:Seminar: Fishing for Knowledges: Karen Riverine Livelihoods in Northern Thailand
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to join a public seminar\, “Fishing for Knowledges: Insights for Environmental Governance from Karen Communities’ Riverine Livelihoods in Northern Thailand” presented by Peter Duker\, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Guelph\, Canada on Monday\, 2 February from 2 to 3:30 pm at the Subaltern Room\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University. \nThe uplands of Northern Thailand have long been the subject of environmental governance conflicts. Competing discourses of upland communities\, including the Karen\, tend to focus on agricultural and forest-based livelihoods\, often with attention to the impacts on water that in turn effect communities further along the watershed. And yet\, why has there been comparatively so little attention on how communities like the Karen manage the rivers that run through their communities? And rivers are not simply channels for water—why is there also comparatively so little attention on the aquatic life that call these rivers home? Addressing this gap\, doctoral researcher Peter Duker will present preliminary findings after more than a year of studying riverine practices and knowledges with four Karen communities across Northern Thailand. He will demonstrate the role of these practices and knowledges for community wellbeing and how they enable engagement with traditional knowledges that are otherwise diminishing. He will then discuss how these insights help inform an environmental governance that is more open to multiple ways of being and knowing and subsequently better positioned to lead to improved social and environmental outcomes.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/seminar-fishing-for-knowledges-karen-riverine-livelihoods-in-northern-thailand/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics,Resource Governance
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Discussion: Young Tigers - Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to join a book launch of “Young Tigers: Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar\,” along with discussion with author Bertil Lintner\, on 24 February from 1:30 to 3:30 pm at the Subaltern meeting room\, RCSD\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University. \nYoung Tigers traces Myanmar’s turbulent post-independence history through the life of Chao Tzang Yawnghwe\, son of the country’s first president and last Saohpa of Yawnghwe. Born into aristocratic privilege\, he was thrust into political upheaval after the 1962 military coup\, which led to his father’s disappearance and his brother’s death. Forced into exile and armed struggle\, he joined the Shan resistance\, navigating the complex world of ethnic insurgency\, shifting alliances\, and the political economy of the opium trade. \nDrawing on extensive research\, the book examines the collapse of the federal promise envisioned in the 1947 Panglong Agreement\, the consolidation of military rule\, and the enduring struggles of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities. At its core\, it presents a contest between authoritarian centralism and the vision of a genuinely federal political order. \nThe book is written by Bertil Lintner and Hseng Noung Lintner. Bertil is a veteran journalist and the author of twenty books on Asian politics and history\, including several published by Silkworm Books. His notable works include Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy; Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948\, Bloodbrothers: Crime\, Business and Politics in Asia\, Great Leader\, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim Clan\, Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle\, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy\, and The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest for Global Dominance. He resides in Chiang Mai\, Thailand. For more information about his work\, please visit his website.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/book-launch-and-discussion-young-tigers-chao-tzang-yawnghwe-and-the-shan-rebellion-in-myanmar/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics
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