Though there is significant research related to the khaen, a free-reed bamboo mouth organ from Laos and Northeast Thailand, in relation to mawlam, a vocal repartee singing tradition, there is minimal investigation of the oral tradition of khaen pedagogy, particularly as it relat…
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Rubber’s Reach is a grounded, transnational study of China’s global economic integration through a focus on rubber expansion in the Sino-Lao borderlands. I examine how, as rubber reaches from China over the Lao border, the political, economic, and social processes engaged in the…
Pluralities of people s crossings of the Mekong Thai-Lao border occur as locals subvert, reject, ignore, and embrace the logic of the national border. From a state-centric point of view, the everyday movements of these people, who rely mainly on a subsistence economy and have th…
This dissertation explores border relationships, conflicts and cooperation between Thailand and its four contiguous neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar) from 1973 to 2011. The dissertation probes the following questions: What causes border conflict? Why do some of th…
“Of all the social processes, conflict is perhaps the most universal and potentially the most dangerous. A feature of every society and every form of relationship, conflict can be found at all levels of human interaction, from sibling rivalry to genocidal warfare (Bercovitch and…
Sino-Lao relations from 1954 through 1995, in the context of world politics, and with particular emphasis on the theory and practice of the five principles of peaceful coexistence, is the subject of this work. In chapter one the historical setting for Sino-Lao relations is prese…
Associations among soil microstructural type and behaviour, soil erodibility, and soil erosion were investigated at seven research sites of the International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM) Asialand Sloping Lands Network in Southeast Asia (Chiang Mai and Chiang R…