New Mandala

Regular readers will recall that back in mid-March, Andrew and I made a post titled “A Thai Studies Boycott?“.  It asked some questions of the 2008 Thai Studies conference to be held at Thammasat University in Bangkok.  That post was prompted by a New Mandala reader who proposed a boycott of the conference.�
Shortly afterwards we followed that initial post with [...]

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Back in November I posted a photograph of a sign near Thapae Gate in central Chiang Mai.  It was a Thaksin-era billboard and, back then, a reader informed me that the sign had been removed since the coup.
Recently it has been replaced by a public announcement from the Chiang Mai city fathers asking locals to [...]

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Thanks for the comments on my previous post about forests and water. Forest hydrology is a complex issue and I hope that the paper I refer to in that post captures some of the complexity, variation and local specificity. There has been a lot of research done on some of these issues and I urge [...]

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