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Yesterday I received an exciting package in the mail. It was a copy of the just released book that Tim Forsyth (of the London School of Economics) and I have authored on environmental politics in Thailand (Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker. 2008. Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand. University [...]

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The following information may be of interest to New Mandala readers or people they know.
Fellowships Deadline March 5
The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at [...]

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All of a sudden, Samak has become the most captivating political figure. He may be void of ideology and a mere opportunist, but, against a backdrop of ideological and political complexities, he’s charging ahead nonchalantly. A heated debate has erupted on the Prachathai Website after a writer suggested that his rise to power was the [...]

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Serhat Ünaldi, a student from the Southeast Asian Studies program at Humboldt University in Berlin, has put together a neat website that includes a collection of papers about Thailand and Cambodia.
Papers include:

The Crown, Caricatures and Critics – Problems and Power of the Media Under a Constitutional Monarchy
Reconstructing Angkor – Images of the Past and Their Impact on Thai-Cambodian [...]

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