Political Prisoners in Thailand has a neat little story about a new district in Chiang Mai province that will be named in honour of Princess Galyani Vadhana. The ever-reliable Tambon has more details, as does this Thai-language report.
I am fascinated by this administrative change, and not least because I know the area (in the far [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Northern Thailand'
Ampoe Galyani Vadhana
October 14th, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
Tags: History · Northern Thailand
A hollow rural economy?
October 13th, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 2 Comments
I recently wrote a post about the diversification of livelihoods that has taken place in rural Thailand. From the informed comments received there appears to be general agreement that the move away from agriculture is strong throughout rural Thailand, though the extent and timing of this shift has varied from place to place.
In this post [...]
Tags: Northern Thailand · Thailand
Thailand’s new rural economy
October 3rd, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 8 Comments
In Thailand’s modern rural economy, rural livelihoods are no longer predominantly agricultural livelihoods. A new type of “rural” has emerged characterised by a process of “de-agrarianisation” whereby on-farm pursuits are an increasingly modest part of the household economy. According to Thailand’s national agriculture survey, the number of farming households who derived all of their income [...]
Tags: Northern Thailand · Sufficiency Economy · Thailand
Hmong studies professor for University of Wisconsin – Madison
October 2nd, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
We rarely post job advertisements on New Mandala but given the very specific nature of this position, and our niche in mainland Southeast Asian Studies, I thought it best to make an exception. I expect that for the right candidate this would be an amazing opportunity.
The advertisement sets out all of the details:
The University of [...]
Tags: Asian Studies · China · Laos · Northern Thailand · The Mekong · Trans-Border Issues
Reviews of Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers
September 11th, 2009 by Andrew Walker · Add a Comment
There have been a few recent reviews of Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand, which I wrote with Tim Forsyth of the London School of Economics. Here are some of the critical highlights …
… from Phil Hirsch’s review:
There is much that is exciting and refreshing in this book. Any [...]
Tags: Book Reviews · Environment · Northern Thailand · Thailand
Review of Jonsson’s Mien Relations
August 24th, 2009 by Douglas Miles, Guest Contributor · 6 Comments
[This post is an introductory comment to Doug Miles' detailed review of Hjorleifur Jonsson's Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand. The full review is available here.]
“Now where did I leave my jolly pith helmet?”
I commend this book for initiating a shift of paradigm in research concerning the Yao of southern China and the [...]
Tags: Book Reviews · China · Laos · Northern Thailand · Thailand · Trans-Border Issues
What it means to be Wa: Identity creation in the Southeast Asian borderlands
August 19th, 2009 by Huw Slater, Guest Contributor · 3 Comments
Wei Yu Hua sits on the floor of his bamboo hut in the hilly Chiang Rai province of northern Thailand. The hut looks back over the steep fields he worked in after fleeing from nearby Myanmar, the culmination of a journey that began at the age of 13. At a time when awareness of the [...]
Tags: Burma · Militaries · Northern Thailand · Shan State · Trans-Border Issues
More on the garlic roller coaster
July 23rd, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment
Last week I wrote about the relatively long-term fluctuations in the price of garlic. In response to a couple of the comments I have re-calculated the graph using prices adjusted for CPI (with 1984 prices as the base). I am not sure if I have used the best CPI figures available – I used a set [...]
Tags: China · Northern Thailand · Thailand · Trans-Border Issues
The garlic roller coaster
July 14th, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 7 Comments
I’ve been doing some more work on garlic production and marketing in Thailand. Yesterday I compiled price data for dried garlic from 1984 to the present (the data is available from the Office of Agricultural Economics). I have plotted the price in this graph (click for a larger version). I have also included a long-term [...]
Tags: China · Northern Thailand · Thailand
Yao agriculture and military confiscations
May 22nd, 2009 by Douglas Miles, Guest Contributor · 1 Comment
From the agricultural cycle of the Pulangka Yao to military “confiscations” by the KMT
Douglas Miles ( CIU, Ascona; James Cook University, ex Tribal Research Centre, Chiang Mai)
Aiontay has made the briefest comment (comment 7, May 14, 2009) to date relating to my initial New Mandala post (May 5, 2009) and to subsequent exchanges with others who have [...]
Tags: Environment · Northern Thailand · Thailand









