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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Socializing Land - Plantations\, Disposession\, and Resistance in Laos
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to attend a book talk on Thursday\, 9 April from 1-3 pm\nat the Subaltern Room\, RCSD\, Faculty of Social Science\, Chiang Mai University. \nIn “Socializing Land: Plantations\, Dispossession\, and Resistance in Laos\,” author Miles Kenney-Lazar provides a sophisticated ethnographic critique of the global land rush\, focusing on the proliferation of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations in southern Laos. Moving beyond a view of land as a mere commodity or “thing\,” Kenney-Lazar argues that land is fundamentally a set of social relationships. By examining the experiences of the ethnic minority Brou people in Savannakhet\, the book reveals how the coercive expropriation of territory by state-investor partnerships is met with persistent friction and contestation. \nThe author highlights the contradictory role of the Lao state\, which simultaneously pursues investment-driven growth while pledging to protect limited peasant land rights. Crucially\, the research demonstrates that despite the disastrous effects of dispossession\, these struggles can ironically strengthen peasant social ties to the land through organized resistance\, perhaps ultimately limiting attempts at alienation. \nThis upcoming talk offers a deeper look and chance to engage with the author on the political relationships between government officials\, plantation managers\, and village authorities that shape the contemporary agrarian landscape in Southeast Asia. All interested students\, faculty\, and members of the public are welcome to attend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto: Nicholas Bosoni www.nicholasbosoni.com
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/book-talk-socializing-land-plantations-disposession-and-resistance-in-laos/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260223T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260223T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
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SUMMARY:Online Seminar: Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:This seminar series explores displacement issues in Southeast Asia\, investigating various forms of displacement\, enhancing understanding of the legal frameworks that govern displacement\, and examining community responses to displacement. This seminar series is hosted by the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD)\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\, with support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)\, under the Research Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia program. \nRegister online here \nSeminar speakers and agenda: \n10:30-10:45 \nWelcome Remark: Dr. Sirada Khemanitthathai\nResearch Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia; Lecturer\, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration\, Chiang Mai University \n10:45-12:00 \nPanel on ‘Researching Forced Displacement Issues in Southeast Asia’ \nYee Mon Oo Kyaw\, Chiang Mai University\nTitle: Leaving to Resist: How Myanmar’s Students Reclaimed Agency Through Displacement \nSyifa Salsabila Nasution\, Asian Institute of Technology\nTitle: The ‘New Bali’ Disputing: The Politics of Displacement\, Resistance\, and Intersectional Inequality in Mandalika’s\, Lombok Tourism Infrastructure \nAndi Subhan Husain\, Chulalongkorn University\nTitle: A Multidimensional Approach to Refugee Protection in Indonesia: Integrating Siyar\, Humanitarian Ethics\, and Policy Innovation \nModerated by Dr. Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw\, Research Associate\, Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia\, the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development\, Chiang Mai University
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/online-seminar-forced-development-in-southeast-asia/
LOCATION:Chiang Mai
CATEGORIES:Mobility and Border,Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260212T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20260203T032700Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Climate Change and Conflict in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:How do violent conflict and climate change shape each other on the ground? This seminar presents new research on the politics and lived experiences of climate change in Myanmar’s post-coup rupture. It offers rare insights into how conflict-affected communities experience and interpret extreme weather and environmental disruption. The seminar also explores how climate and environmental issues are deeply entangled in struggles over power\, territory\, and legitimacy\, involving the military\, resistance movements\, and civil society activists. The seminar is part of the MyCClimate project and draws on contributions to a new special issue of the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/seminar-climate-change-and-conflict-in-myanmar/
LOCATION:4th floor meeting room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260202T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20260202T153000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20260126T141809Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20250131T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20250131T163000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
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SUMMARY:Rare Earth Mining in Mai Ja Yang\, Myanmar: Public Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Academic researchers\, media outlets\, and international non-governmental organizations have investigated the issue of rare earth mining in Myanmar’s Kachin State\, which borders China’s Yunnan Province. According to their findings\, rare earth mining has caused irreversible environmental and social impacts. These investigations have also examined the role of the New Democratic Army–Kachin (NDA-K) in rare earth mining activities in the Pangwa area of Chipwi Township. o expand on the knowledge of rare earth mining in Myanmar\, we explore how the Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/A) has governed rare earth mining in Mai Ja Yang\, the second-largest town in KIO-controlled territory. We argue that the KIO/A has integrated rare earth mining governance into its broader narrative and efforts of nation-building. This governance has yielded mixed results. Economically\, some villages have supported mining activities\, while others have rejected them due to concerns about environmental impacts. Neither stance\, however\, has prioritized the aspirations of Kachin nation-building. Against this backdrop\, we suggest that the KIO’s governance of rare earth mining should be transparent and inclusive of the diverse needs of local stakeholders. Additionally\, international organizations should acknowledge and support the KIO’s role in governing natural resources responsibly. \nSpeakers\nSeng Li (Shanan Foundation)\nTa-Wei Chu (Department of Social Science and Development\, Chiang Mai University)
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/rare-earth-mining-in-mai-ja-yang-myanmar-public-seminar/
LOCATION:Room 3201\, Department of Social Science and Development\, Room 3201\, Department of Social Science and Development\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\, A. Muang\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20240708T133000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20240708T150000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
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SUMMARY:Mekong River changes during the dry season: from Chiang Rai to Northeastern Cambodia
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites all to join a graduate seminar: “Mekong River changes during the dry season\, from Chiang Rai to Northeastern Cambodia” with Ian Baird\, Professor\, Department of Geography\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\, presenting his preliminary research findings. Join us from 1:30 to 3 pm on Monday\, 8 July 2024 at the Subaltern room\, RCSD\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/mekong-river-changes-during-the-dry-season-from-chiang-rai-to-northeastern-cambodia/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Regional Integration,Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20231122T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20231122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20231116T065004Z
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SUMMARY:The Social Life of Teak: book launch\, exhibition\, and workshop
DESCRIPTION:RCSD invites the public to join the launch of the book “The Social Life of Teak\,” authored by Tim Webster & Virginia Henderson at the EFEO Chiang Mai on Wednesday\, 22 November starting at 5:30 pm.  Also on Thursday\, 23 November starting at 1:30 pm (the next day) all are invited to join us for a half-day workshop and roundtable discussion with the book authors\, historians\, academics and researchers for a fuller look at the political\, economic\, cultural and social context surrounding teak. \nIn their book\, Tim and Virginia have traced human interactions with the world’s most famous tropical timber species and have mapped worlds revolving around teak forests\, trees and wood. In this illustrated anthology of oral histories\, people connected personally or professionally to teak speak of survival\, change and learning\, creativity and destruction\, growth and demise. Woven together\, these experiences bring to light the ways that teak has been sought\, crafted\, cultivated\, traded and valued over time. Exploring teak’s significance highlights processes of consumption and commodification\, inviting questions about our relationships with nature and the politics of value. Charting the domestication of wilderness and exposing the era of extinction of a feted natural resource\, this book seeks to stimulate conversations about our role as nature’s most troublesome offspring. \nThe book launch at EFEO will feature short a video presentation and small exhibition from Inson Wongsam\, a Thai national artist renowned for his work using teak\, as well as a collection of Tim Webster’s images from the book. Beverages and refreshments will be served; please register online here for either or both events on the 22nd or 23rd!
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/the-social-life-of-teak-book-launch-exhibition-and-workshop/
LOCATION:École française d’Extrême-Orient\, 131 Charoen Prathet Road\, A. Muang\, Chiang Mai\, 50100\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20231024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20231024T173000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
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SUMMARY:Infrastructure and Circulations in Southeast Asia (and Beyond)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in person or online for presentations and discussion on an ongoing research project: \nInfrastructure and Circulations in Southeast Asia (and Beyond)\n24 October 2023\, 4:00pm – 5:30pm\nSubaltern Room\, RCSD\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\nParticipants can join online via this Zoom link: \nThis collective presentation aims to share and discuss some of the ongoing research carried out as part of the project “Environing Infrastructure: Communities\, Ecologies\, and China’s “Green” Development in Contemporary Southeast Asia”\, based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Munich\, Germany). The four members of the project will each introduce their work\, and open up a few questions for broader conversation. The goal is to stimulate discussion and exchange\, spur connections and possible collaborations. Alessandro will start off with a brief description of the overall aims of the Environing Infrastructure project (for more info\, see www.environing.asia)\, and how it shifted from an initial focus on infrastructure to one centred on heterogeneous connections. \nAlessandro will then introduce his current project on amber\, with a particular focus on the China – Myanmar borderlands. Huiying will share her doctoral research on agroecology in Thailand\, addressing the material and social infrastructures that have enabled a range of practices\, including community – based organic agriculture\, highland coffee agroforestry\, and governmental research and extension work on soil improvement\, and how these local and internal dynamics interact with interests within the Mekong – Lancang countries\, and global commercialisation of forests and soil. Roger will follow with a general framing overview of his ongoing project on the experiences of privilege and precarity among highly skilled Global South – South migrants. He will then focus on one of the core case studies of the project: Sihanoukville\, Cambodia. Jessica’s talk\, based on her ongoing work in Flores\, Indonesia\, will discuss what has been happening to rural families and young people amidst Indonesia’s widespread development growth and COVID’s more recent economic downturn. Her research asks what are the consequences of being contemporarily remote from household and individual perspectives? \nPresenters \nAlessandro Rippa \nAlessandro is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology\, University of Oslo; and Project Director at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society\, LMU Munic h. He is the author of “Borderland Infrastructures: Trade\, Development and Control in Western China” (Amsterdam University Press\, 2020). \nHuiying Ng\nHuiying’s doctoral research project at the Rachel Carson Center focuses on agroecological futures in Thaila\nnd and the learning assemblages that form to support them\, with a long-term view towards supporting the growth of regional food systems through participatory action research. \nRoger Norum\nRoger is a researcher at the Rachel Carson Center and the University of Oulu (Finland). His research concerns connections between mobility\, media and the environment\, particularly among transient communities in South and Southeast Asia\, and the Arctic. \nJessica Clendenning\nJessica is a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center\, LMU Munich. Her research interests include agrarian change and young people\, social reproduction and (non)migration\, and aspirations and the future\, in Indonesia and wider Asia
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/infrastructure-and-circulations-in-southeast-asia-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230724T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230724T110000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
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SUMMARY:Infrastructure aid and the making of “real” countries: Upland geopolitics in Laos’s land and energy sectors
DESCRIPTION:RCSD welcomes all to attend a public lecture & book talk\, “Infrastructure aid and the making of ‘real’ countries: Upland geopolitics in Laos’s land and energy sectors\,” with Dr. Michael B. Dwyer\, Department of Geography\, Indiana University\, Bloomington. The talk will be held Monday\, July 24 at the Subaltern Room\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University.\n\nModerator: Dr. Chusak Wittayapak\, Department of Social Science and Development\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\n \nAbout the talk:\nThis talk will introduce two related but distinct research projects on agrarian change in upland Laos. In the first part\, Dr. Dwyer will present his new book\, “Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush (U. Washington Press\, 2022)\, which examines the way that legacies of cold war conflict\, together with newly built road infrastructure and the uneven geography of land titling have created an uneven geography of land grabbing in Laos’s northwestern uplands.\n\nThe second part of the talk will pivot to presenting Dr. Dwyer’s new and current research on rural electrification in upland Laos\, examining electrification’s impacts on forest change (via agrarian livelihoods) using\, in part\, a historical comparison with Thailand. Together\, the two parts of the talk bridge a shared history of international collaboration\, as well as related questions of social\, environmental and economic justice as they manifest at moments of grave political and environmental uncertainty.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/infrastructure-aid-and-the-making-of-real-countries-upland-geopolitics-in-laoss-land-and-energy-sectors/
LOCATION:Subaltern Meeting Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Regional Integration,Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230407T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230409T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20230405T084334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T084403Z
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SUMMARY:แนวคิดเกษตรเชิงนิเวศและแนวทางการเกษตรที่ยั่งยืนในภาคเหนือและภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือของประเทศไทย
DESCRIPTION:ประชุมเชิงปฏิบัติการนิเวศเชิงเกษตรของเกษตรกร: แนวคิดเกษตรเชิงนิเวศและแนวทางการเกษตรที่ยั่งยืนในภาคเหนือและภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือของประเทศไทย\n\n\n\nสรุปบทเรียนการขับเคลื่อนของภาคประชาชนด้านการจัดการที่ดินและทรัพยากรกรธรรมชาติ แนวคิดการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน ภายใต้หลักคิด “สิทธิชุมชน” และการสร้างมั่นคงหรืออธิปไตยทางอาหาร รวมทั้งยกระดับข้อเสนอด้านเกษตรนิเวศเพื่อขับเคลื่อนรณรงค์สาธารณะต่อไป\n\n\n\n7-9 เมษายน 2566 ณ ห้องประชุม ชั้น 4 คณะสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่ โดยจะมีการถ่ายทอดสดผ่าน Facebook Live บนเพจ RCSD ด้วย
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/%e0%b9%81%e0%b8%99%e0%b8%a7%e0%b8%84%e0%b8%b4%e0%b8%94%e0%b9%80%e0%b8%81%e0%b8%a9%e0%b8%95%e0%b8%a3%e0%b9%80%e0%b8%8a%e0%b8%b4%e0%b8%87%e0%b8%99%e0%b8%b4%e0%b9%80%e0%b8%a7%e0%b8%a8%e0%b9%81%e0%b8%a5/
LOCATION:4th floor meeting room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230407T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230407T150000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
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SUMMARY:Peasant Agroecology to Address the Multiple Crises Facing Humanity
DESCRIPTION:Join Peter Rosset from ECOSUR Advanced Studies Institute\, Mexico for a full-day presentation on Peasant Agroecology starting at 9 am at the 4th Floor meeting room of the Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University as part of the 3-day workshop (held in Thai) on “Agroecology Concepts and Sustainable Practices in the Northern and Northeastern Regions of Thailand” held 7-9 April at RCSD. The entire workshop\, including Peter Rosset’s presentation will also be available on a live broadcast on the RCSD Facebook page  (with live Thai language interpretation) \n 
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/peasant-agroecology-to-address-the-multiple-crises-facing-humanity/
LOCATION:4th floor meeting room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230127T133000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20230127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20230123T084107Z
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SUMMARY:"My life is linked with the river:" The Yuam River water diversion project
DESCRIPTION:On 27 Jan 2023 at 13.30 pm join RCSD for “‘My life is linked with the river’: The Yuam River water diversion project as contested hydrosocial territory” a presentation of research conducted by Antonia Mohr on the impacts and situation of an indigenous community in Mae Hong Son as it faces the approach of a large-scale government infrastructure project.\n\nJoin on-site at the Subaltern Meeting Room\, basement floor of the Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Science\, or join online through zoom here:\n\nhttps://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/95242210751\nMeeting ID: 952 4221 0751
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/my-life-is-linked-with-the-river-the-yuam-river-water-diversion-project/
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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20221107T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20221107T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20221103T150602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T150602Z
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SUMMARY:Thesis proposal examination for Minitta Taosouvanh
DESCRIPTION:The Regional Center for Social Sciences and Sustainable Development (RCSD)\, Faculty of Social Science\, Chiang Mai University is pleased to invite you to participate in a thesis proposal examination: \n“Community-Based Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihood Practices in Neoliberal Development Conditions\, Si Phan Don\, the Lower Mekong River Basin\, Lao PDR” \nPresenter: \nMinitta Taosouvanh\, (Master of Arts in Social Science\, Specialization in Development Studies) \non Monday\, 7 November\, 10:00 am \nExamining committee \nAsst. Prof. Dr. Chusak Wittayapak: Chair\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Arratee Ayuttacorn: Committee\nLect. Dr. Siya Uthai: Committee \nVenue \nOnsite: Meeting room 1\, 1st floor\, Department of Social Science and Development\, Faculty of Social Sciences \nOnline: https://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/95157943845\nMeeting ID: 951 5794 3845 \nYour attendance is highly appreciated!
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/thesis-proposal-examination-for-minitta-taosouvanh/
LOCATION:Meeting room\, Department of Social Science and Development\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\, A. Muang\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20221007T133000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20221007T153000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20221005T042734Z
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SUMMARY:A Pocketful of Seeds: circulation of plants as a tool of resilience
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a public seminar: “A Pocketful of Seeds: The Circulation of Plants as a Tool of Resilience among the Hmong Global Diaspora” presented by Alex Greene\, PhD Student\, French Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)\, University of French Guiana  on Friday\, October 7th\, 2022 from 1.30 – 3.30 pm at the Subaltern Meeting Room\, Ground Floor\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University. \nAlex Greene is a PhD student with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)\, based at the University of French Guiana. His interdisciplinary approach uses ethnobotany as a lens to examine an array of issues around human-environmental relations\, such as spiritual environmental beliefs and practices\, multispecies relations\, and food systems. His background is in environmental education\, field ornithology and botany\, and he has completed research projects on sacred and community forests in Nepal\, human-elephant relations among the Karen in Thailand\, and plant knowledge among the Raglai of Vietnam. His ongoing PhD project looks at how the circulation of plants has helped Hmong communities adapt to life in the global diaspora.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/a-pocketful-of-seeds-circulation-of-plants-as-a-tool-of-resilience/
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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220929T133000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220929T153000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20220928T162611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230206T072555Z
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SUMMARY:Thesis Proposal Examination for Bintar Mupiza
DESCRIPTION:Regional Center for Social Sciences and Sustainable Development (RCSD)\, Faculty of Social Science\, Chiang Mai University is pleased to invite you to participate in a thesis proposal examination: \n“Nexus of Social Differentiations and Conflicts in Oil Palm Plantation Zones\, South Sumatera Province\, Indonesia” \nPresenter: \nBintar Mupiza\, (Master of Arts in Social Science\, Specialization in Development Studies) \non Thursday\, 29 September\, 1:30 pm \nExamining committee \nAsst. Prof. Dr. Chusak Wittayapak: Chair\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Ta-Wei Chu: Committee\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Prasit Leeprecha: Committee \nVenue\nZoom link: https://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/97789177387\nOnsite: 1st Floor Meeting Room\, Department of Social Science and Development\, Faculty of Social Sciences.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/thesis-proposal-examination-for-bintar-mupiza/
LOCATION:Meeting room\, Department of Social Science and Development\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University\, A. Muang\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220915T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220919T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20220727T081113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T042223Z
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SUMMARY:Indigenous & More-Than-Human Ecological Justice Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This site-specific five-day workshop will introduce emerging scholars in the Global South to transformative and transdisciplinary concepts and research methods in environmental humanities and social science research. Struggles for justice under Anthropocene conditions in the Global South will be contextualized in relation to the “feral effects” of dams and water diversion megaprojects on indigenous\, marginalized and more-than-human communities\, and their entangled socio-ecological lives and livelihoods\, along rivers\, and areas subject to development-driven deforestation and human disturbance. \nApply before August 5; read more details on how to apply here \n 
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/indigenous-more-than-human-ecological-justice-workshop/
LOCATION:Chiang Mai
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220724
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20220321T171324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T165729Z
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SUMMARY:7th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD) at CMU
DESCRIPTION:The 7th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD):\n“Disruption\, Challenges and Resilience in Contemporary Southeast Asia” will be held virtual and onsite 22-23 July 2022 in Chiang Mai\, Thailand\n\nThe 7th International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD 7) invites scholars\, researchers\, graduate students across disciplines to submit the papers and being engaged in dialogues on the social and political dimensions of the unprecedented crisis\, changes\, challenges and opportunities faced by Southeast Asian societies in recent years\, with a particularly emphasis on several key themes\, including the Covid 19 pandemic; resource governance and conflict; climate change and environmental degradation; social and political conflict and crisis; and geopolitics and security in Southeast Asia and the wider Indo Pacific region.\n\n\nConference Themes\n\n\n* COVID-19\, Gender & Resilience\n* Climate Change\, Conflicts & Livelihood Security\n* Human Rights\, Conflict Transformation and Peace\n* Migration\, Forced Displacement & Refugees\n* Agrarian Transformation\, Resource Governance & Food Security\n* Human Security & Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\n* Media\, Digital Rights & Governance\n* Gender and Sexual Representation\n* Urban Space & Urban Livelihood\n* Transnationalism\, Transboundary Investment (BRI)\, SEZs
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/7th-international-conference-on-international-relations-and-development-icird-at-cmu/
LOCATION:Chiang Mai
CATEGORIES:Mobility and Border,Regional Integration,Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220407T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20220406T030507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T030557Z
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SUMMARY:Thesis Proposal Defense for Aung Nyi Lwin & Thesis Examination for Hanna Nur Afifah Yogar
DESCRIPTION:RCSD is pleased to invite you to participate in a thesis examination: \nObjectifying the More-Than-Human: Bornean Orangutans and Indonesian Oil Palm Plantations in the Ecocidal Capitalism \nThursday 7 April 2022 at 9.00 A.M. \nPresenter: Hanna Nur Afifah Yogar\,  (MA in Social Science\, specializing in Development Studies) \nExamining committee\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Carl Middleton\, (Chulalongkorn University)\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Mukdawan Sakboon\, (Faculty of Social Science\, Chiang Mai University)\nLect. Dr. Chaya Vaddhanaphuti\, (Faculty of Social Science\, Chiang Mai University) \nOnsite: RCSD study room 02-001\, 2Fl\, Operational building\, Faculty of Social Science \nOnline: https://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/93125569053 \nAbstract:\nFor Indonesia\, Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and the economic development project of oil palm plantations in Kalimantan Island are two sides of the same coin. The one that is valued as a “free gift\,” and another serves as an economic good as manifested through ecocidal capitalism respectively. It signifies the distinct way in conceiving and treating more-than-human\, or the process of embracing the other beings other than human’s existence. Therefore\, it leads to the process of objectification of degrading Bornean Orangutans’ values—while this ape plays a great role in maintaining the balanced ecosystem. This study calls attention to the process of how causal chains of intersection between Bornean Orangutans\, capitalism\, and oil palm plantations alter the socio-ecological condition in Kalimantan island; and scrutinizes how eco-governance in the context of Bornean Orangutans and Indonesian oil palm plantation be managed to achieve ecology-economy sustainability and knowledge integration. Three theories underpin this study: the Actor-Network Theory (ANT)\, eco-governmentality and knowledge integration\, as well as social (ecological) embeddedness through theory of doughnut economics. This study employs a qualitative approach by\nconducting online interviews and case study in Kalimantan. In addition to that\, secondary data is obtained through extensive literature review to support the primary information. The key findings show that each actor conceives more-than-human according to their interest and knowledge-based abilities that navigate to the given priority treatment. The Indonesian government tends to comprehend the oil palm agro-industry as a source of material gain—while protecting Bornean Orangutans on the basis of its icon or flagship species for the country\, and its critically endangered (CR) status linked to the ecological niche. In a different sense\, Kalimantan Dayak ethnic see the oil palm plantations as the battlefield in defending their lives and customary rights—including their cognizance of Bornean Orangutans as a sentient being that co-existing based on their indigenous ethics. For the conservation organization and environmental organization\, they appear as actors that bridge the government’s scientific rationale and Kalimantan Dayak’s indigenous worldview and produce the so-called situated knowledge. Importantly\, the findings testify that the constant expansion of the oil palm mega-agro industry brings ecocidal capitalism as an activity to multiply capital—and therefore yield unintended and detrimental effects\, e.g.\, climate crisis\, transboundary conflict\, socio-economic inequality\, and other demerits. Ecocidal capitalism is exacerbated by the oil palm global demand that forces global land rush within the globalization epoch. These findings provide alternatives in dealing with this particular problem of addressing the economic-ecology to not merely rely on technocentric methods such as technical and technological-based conservation—but also the approach from indigenous and situated knowledge as alternatives in addressing and solving the problem to balance the system of\neconomy and ecology. These all can be embodied in written codified regulations as a formal guideline\, and an uncodified practice that involves multi actors in different levels\, rationale\, and implementation in dealing with a similar issue—the objectification of Bornean Orangutans within the oil palm plantations’ context. \n  \nThesis proposal examination\nThursday\, 7 April\, 1:30 P.M. \n“The Role of Chinese Investment in Banana Plantation\, Lamyang village\, Kachin State” \nPresenter: Mr. Aung Nyi Lwin\, (Master of Arts in Social Science\, Specialization in Development Studies) \nVenue\nOnline: https://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/92281648546\nOnsite: RCSD study room 02-001\, 2 Fl\, Operational Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences. \nExamining committee\nLect. Dr. Ta-Wei Chu (David): Chair\nLect. Dr. Siya Uthai: Committee\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Mukdawan Sakboon: Committee
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/thesis-proposal-defense-thesis-examination/
LOCATION:RCSD Study Room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220331T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220331T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20220329T103231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220422T074449Z
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SUMMARY:Thesis Proposal Defense for Nazmul Islam and Nan Mya Oo
DESCRIPTION:RCSD\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University is pleased to invite you to participate in two thesis proposal examinations on Tuesday\, 31 March \nat 11:00 \n“Women’s Representation in Higher Education of Engineering Studies in Bangladesh” \nPresenter: Nazmul Islam (Master of Arts in Social Science\, Specialization in Development Studies) \nZoom link: https://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/93625163127 \nThesis proposal examining committee \nAssoc. Prof. Dr. Amporn Jirattikorn: Chair\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Prasit Leepreecha: Committee\nAssoc. Prof. Dr. James Taylor: Committee \n>>Your attendance is highly appreciated<< \n  \nat 14:30 \n“Tai migrants’ access to land and their livelihood security in Loi Khur Village\, Chiang Mai\, Thailand” \nPresenter: Nan Mya Oo (Master of Arts in Social Science\, Specialization in Development Studies) \nZoom link: https://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/97616841828 \nThesis proposal examining committee \nAsst. Prof. Dr. Mukdawan Sakboon: Chair\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Prasit Leepreecha: Committee\nAsst. Prof. Dr. Arratee Ayuttacorn: Committee
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/thesis-proposal-defense-for-nazmul-islam-and-nan-mya-oo/
LOCATION:Chiang Mai
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20210519T133000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20210519T143000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20260420T092300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T092300Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Migration and Women’s Land Tenure Security in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
DESCRIPTION:The new book Migration and Women’s Land Tenure Security in the Greater Mekong Sub-region draws on country-level and ethnographic research\, based on a collaboration between FAO and Chiang Mai University. The book explores how migration affects women’s land tenure security\, and in turn the ways in which women’s control over land shapes patterns of migration\, through case studies in a Hmong community in northern Lao PDR\, a Karenni community in eastern Myanmar and a village in north-eastern Thailand. \nThe online book launch takes places on Wednesday 19th May from 13.30-14.30 (Thai time). Please join us by Zoom (https://cmu-th.zoom.us/j/95564482931) or live-stream on Facebook
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/book-launch-migration-and-womens-land-tenure-security-in-the-greater-mekong-sub-region/
LOCATION:Chiang Mai
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20210305T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20210307T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20231106T072330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T072330Z
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SUMMARY:ICBMS3
DESCRIPTION:The 3rd International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies will be co-organized from 5-7 March 2021 at Chiang Mai University. It aims to be a platform for regional/international scholars and practitioners interested in Burma/Myanmar society as it undergoes economic\, political and social transformation to exchange ideas and research experiences on critical issues\, as well as strengthen and expand their networks. The ICBMS3 committee invites individual abstracts as well as panel proposals from interested academics\, researchers\, graduate students\, and professionals\, as well as practitioners engaged in the field of Burma/Myanmar studies. \nConference themes \n\nEconomic Development in Myanmar\nResource Management (Forest\, Land\, Water\, Fishes) & Governance\nAgrarian Transformation & Environmental/Climate Change\nUrban Space & Urban Livelihood\nMigration\, Migrants\, Refugees and the Displaced\nTransnationalism\, Transboundary Investment (BRI)\, SEZs\nPeace Process & Governance\nEthnic Inclusion/Exclusion\nHistory and Social Memory\nLanguage\, Mother-tongue Language Education\nChanging Media Landscape (Hate Speech)\nPopular Religion\, Religion and Harmony\nHealth Equality/Inequality\nEducation and Development\, Non-state Education\nGender & Development\nMyanmar and East Asian Powers\nArt and Society\nFood Security and Food Sovereignty\nSocial and Environmental Movements\n\nObjectives \n\nTo deepen our understanding of the social and political transformations occurring in Burma/Myanmar and their impact on the environment\, as well as on the economic and social lives of local/ethnic communities;\nTo examine Burma/Myanmar’s nexus and connectivity within the regional and global context\, as well as the internal interplay taking place among state actors\, society and culture;\nTo provide a platform for the exchange of academic ideas and dialogue among Burma/Myanmar scholars from around the world.\n\n 
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/icbms3/
LOCATION:Uniserv\, 239 Nimmanahaeminda Road\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Ethnic Politics,Mobility and Border,Regional Integration,Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20190828T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20190828T163000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20260420T091702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T091702Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch & Seminar: State of Land in the Mekong Region
DESCRIPTION:“State of Land in the Mekong Region” book launch + seminar on 28 August 2019\, organized by RCSD The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development\, starting 10 am at the 4th floor meeting room\, operations building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai University. (there are morning and afternoon sessions). \nThe State of Land in the Mekong Region brings together data and information on current status and trajectories of change with regard to land resources\, their social distribution\, and the conditions of their governance that shape them. The book results from a long process of research and consultation involving more than 100 land experts in the region and across the world. It has been coordinated by the CDE – Centre for Development and Environment\, University of Bern and the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG)\, funded by Swiss Cooperation Mekong\, LuxDev – Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency\, implemented by Land Equity International and Gret\, with support from GIZ Laos. \nThis book event aims to raise awareness and discuss key issues documented in the book such as dramatic transformation of agricultural and land tenure systems\, the acceleration of land-based investments and trade of land-intensive commodities\, and the growing inequality between smallholder farmers and other agricultural producers. The morning session will present both the regional overview from the book\, and details from the chapter concerning Thailand. The afternoon session involves a seminar on the topic of ‘land and inequality in Thailand’ with presentations and a panel of government\, academic\, NGO and CSO stakeholders. Participants are welcome to attend either or both of these sessions.
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/book-launch-seminar-state-of-land-in-the-mekong-region/
LOCATION:4th floor meeting room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20170208T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Bangkok:20170208T163000
DTSTAMP:20260420T215522
CREATED:20260420T092552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T092552Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Diversity in Communal Land Titling: Thailand Myanmar Laos and Cambodia
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Mekong Land Research Forum and RCSD from 13.00-16.30 on Wednesday 8 February 2017 at the 4th Floor Meeting room\, Operational Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, for “Diversity in Communal Land Titling: Thailand Myanmar Laos and Cambodia” \nIn recent years\, considerable interest has been shown amongst communities\, non-government organizations and government agencies in what is commonly known as “Communal Land Titling”. The development of legal frameworks have taken on various forms in different countries due to a wide range of socio-cultural\, legal and political factors. This seminar offers an overview of Communal Land Titling in Thailand\, Myanmar\, Laos and Cambodia. Different approaches will be compared and contrasted to assist practitioners and academics thinking about different ways to support Communal Land Titling in mainland Southeast Asia. See less
URL:https://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/event/seminar-diversity-in-communal-land-titling-thailand-myanmar-laos-and-cambodia/
LOCATION:4th floor meeting room\, Operations Building\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Chiang Mai\, Chiang Mai\, 50200\, Thailand
CATEGORIES:Resource Governance
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