• Myanmar Interactive Dialogue #7: Enhancing Protection for Myanmar Communities in Thailand: Understanding the Thai Context

    4th floor meeting room Operations Building, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Myanmar Interactive Dialogues: Dialogue # 7: Enhancing Protection for Myanmar Communities in Thailand: Understanding the Thai Context The Myanmar Interactive Dialogue (MID) sessions, initiated by the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), aim to create a platform for academics, students, research fellows, and practitioners to engage in open dialogue about Myanmar's political […]

  • Seminar: Contesting Knowledge Hegemonies, Extractivism, and Environmental Dispossession: Cases from Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, South Africa and Norway

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

    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 […]