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Book Talk: A Sense of Place and Belonging – the Chiang Tung Borderland of Northern Southeast Asia

Subaltern Meeting Room Operations Building, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai

Join us on Wednesday, April 30 as Klemens Karlsson of Uppsala University and affiliated researcher at RCSD presents his book "A Sense of Place and Belonging – The Chiang Tung Borderland of Northern Southeast Asia," published by Northern Illinois University/Cornell University Press. This book is an interdisciplinary study of Chiang Tung (Keng Tung), a marginalized […]

One Northern Thai Village in Chiang Mai: Public Lecture

Subaltern Meeting Room Operations Building, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai

RCSD invites all to join a public lecture "One Northern Thai Village in Chiang Mai: a 40-year Rural Transition and Responses of Rural People to Opportunities" by Tetsuro Fujikura, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor of Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University on Thursday, 20 February 2025 at the Subaltern meeting room, Faculty of Social […]

Rare Earth Mining in Mai Ja Yang, Myanmar: Public Seminar

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

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 […]