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Wongchachom, Chumnong. "An investigation into a community information database system in the northeast of Thailand community empowerment through community learning centres /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2006.0018.html.

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Hirai, Kyonosuke. "Women, family and factory work in Northern Thailand : an anthropological study of a Japanese factory and its workers villages." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265810.

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This thesis discusses how rural young women cope with the modern capitalist system and how their industrial experiences affect their family life, based on participant observation both in a Japanese-owned assembly factory and in its workers' villages, in Lamphun, Northern Thailand. The thesis is divided into three parts: the first deals with the traditional notions of work and femininity, the second with factory interactions, and the third with the influence of factory employment on family life. The first part examines the connotations and interactions of iigai:, meaning work and rites, and the gender and family ideology that control young women's labour and sexuality. The second part of the thesis looks at the experience of young women in the factory, and we see how each of the village women, utilising both her ready-made values and new values relating to factory employment, is struggling for power and honour in factory interactions. The analysis of the hierarchical relations in the factory pays particular attention to how Thai workers' practices, which Japanese managers neglect as personal affairs, structure, reshape and control labour relations and the production process. Moreover, in analysing cultural practices not directly relating to work, romantic stories, spirit mcdiumship and catalogue consumption, we sec how desires for modernity and autonomous self-images are produced in factory interactions. Moving back to the village again, the final part shows how factory women's selfimage and ideal life, constructed in factory interactions, affect their family relationships, courtship, housesvork and home consumption. In the conclusion I argue that the factory provides the women with an opportunity for enjoying cultural imagining relating to female sexuality and gender, which on the one hand largely affect the operation of the factory system, and on the other arc linked with their cultural transformation at home.

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Rigg, Jonathan. "The problems of agricultural intensification in a marginal rainfed environment : a study of farmers' practices and government policies in two villages in northeastern Thailand." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1985. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29192/.

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In short, the study proposes that farming in a marginal rain-fed environment such as that of the Northeast Region of Thailand presents special problems for the intensification of production, and that government policies should take account of these problems. The thesis is based on fieldwork conducted in two villages in the province of Mahasarakham, Northeastern Thailand, during the period September 1982 to June 1983. The villages were both farming communities in which households grew rain-fed wet-rice to meet their subsistence requirements/ and upland cash crops (principally cassava) to supplement their income. A detailed questionnaire was conducted among approximately a fifth of the population. The work involves an analysis of farmers' practices vis a vis rice and upland cropping and contrasts them with the government recommendations. There were significant disparities between the two and these have been explained from the perspective of the farmer, rather than that of the extension office. The outcome is that many government initiatives are shown to be less than relevant to the position in which the farmer finds himself. This fact - that the government recommendations are often irrelevant to the inhabitants - is then expanded upon to reveal some of the problems of intensifying agricultural production in a marginal environment where the risks are great. The strategy that the farmers adopted appeared to consist of two contrasting, although not contradictory, elements: firstly, a great specificity of response to varying edaphic and topographic conditions; and secondly, an emphasis on flexibility of response to the variable climate. Both elements combine to stabilise production or minimise risk. The resulting limited opportunities for investment in agriculture forced farmers to look for a large proportion of their cash income outside rice and upland crop cultivation. This was accentuated by the ever-increasing pressure on farmers to have a greater disposable income, and emphasises the importance of diversifying the farm economy and presenting farmers with opportunities outside agriculture.

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Binet, Isabelle. "« Tissus et vêtements Karen (Pwa Ka Nyaw) » : du tissage aux usages, continuités et transformations dans deux villages du nord de la Thaïlande." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019STRAG029/document.

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L’histoire de la Thaïlande, et sa politique d’intégration des «Montagnards», expliquent la spécificité de la situation des Karen sur le territoire national. Ces derniers ne forment pas un groupe homogène, comme le montre mon ethnographie. A partir, et par la comparaison de deux villages sgaw karen, j’appréhende le vêtement karen et la structure des garde-robes comme révélateurs de «l’identité» de ces populations qui se revendiquent à la fois Karen et Thaïlandaises. Ce qui fait le vêtement karen, les règles internes à la culture karen et les influences extérieures, se dégagent de l’analyse technologique et de la typologie qui en découle. Le processus de constitution des garde-robes, au quotidien et en contexte cérémoniel, mettent en exergue la place centrale de la femme. Le prisme du vêtement nous révèle une société attachée à la continuité des générations et intégrée dans la société thaïlandaise dont elle adopte, en partie, les codes
The history of Thailand and its integration policy for the «people of the Mountains» account for the specific situation of the Karen on the national territory. As my ethnologic study shows, these people do not constitute a homogeneous group. Taking as a starting point the comparison between two sgaw villages, I consider the Karen garment and the structure of the wardrobes as revealing the identity of these people who claim to be both Karen and Thai. The technological analysis and the ensuing typology outline what characterizes the Karen garment, the internal rules within the Karen culture and the external influences. The process of the development of the wardrobes, in daily use and in ceremonies, highlights the central position of women. Through the prism of the garment, is revealed a society attached to the succession of generations and integrated into the Thai society whose codes it partly adopts

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Ruppert-Mann, Gesine. "Villagers in northeast Thailand and AIDS /." Title page, table of contents and summary only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MPM/09mpmr946.pdf.

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Promthep, Adisorn. "Prediction of success in village fish farming in northeast Thailand." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21383.pdf.

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Chanrungmaneekul, Unaloam. "The globalised village : grounded experience, media and response in Eastern Thailand." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/13392.

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Drawing on the fieldwork in a village community in Eastern Thailand, Ban Noen PutsaPluak Ked, this thesis explores the complex relationships between processes of globaIisation, representations in the mainstream media and activist media; and villagers' responses to change. The research, summarised here has three interrelated objectives: First, to examine how globalisation and industrialisation are represented in the mainstream and activist media. Second, to investigate the role played by the activist media in promoting counter visions of possible futures. Thirdly, to investigate the practices and ideas that local people have developed to resist or accept globalisation. The research employs a multi-method approach combining ethnographic methods, a questionnaire survey; textual analysis; and focus groups. The findings point to a complex relationship between mediated representations and visions of modernity. They also demonstrate that villagers' responses are strongly stratified by age, length of residence, and relation to the pivot of the new industriaIisation- a major chemical plant and that they remain strongly influenced by the crucial nexus of traditional Thai society, the patron client system. Additionally, content analysis and critical discourse analysis suggest that Thai news television programmes reproduced both the ideology of globalism and the celebration of consumerism. Moreover, the voices of marginalized groups and local people are also absent from the activist media.

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Forsyth, Timothy Julian. "Environmental degradation and tourism in a Yao village of northern Thailand." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285700.

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Kobori, Eiko. "Prevalence and correlates of sexual behaviors among Karen villagers in northern Thailand." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/137052.

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Harris, Jalisa. "Public Perceptions of Drinking Water in Rural Thailand: Surveying Households in Ban Thakhonyang, Ban Don Man and Ban Nong Khon, in Kae Dam District in Mahasarakham Province." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491307517949412.

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Gödecke, Theda [Verfasser]. "Research on vulnerability to poverty : a village case study from Thailand / Theda Gödecke." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek und Universitätsbibliothek Hannover (TIB), 2012. http://d-nb.info/1031269789/34.

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Thaweesit, Suchada. "From village to factory "girl" : shifting narratives on gender and sexuality in Thailand /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6461.

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Sahito, Hadi Bakhsh Wirat Kamsrichan. "Participation of village health volunteers in PHC in Phuttamonthon Distric, Nakhonpathom Province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2005. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2548/cd375/4737960.pdf.

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Yess, Tanner. "A Small Sea: Evaluating the Implementation of Village-scale Ecotourism in Thale Noi, Thailand and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427900552.

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Tungchawal, Kitsada. "Sustainable ecotourism in the village of Khiriwong and the Khao Luang National Park, Thailand." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001tungchawalk.pdf.

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Yenn, Roumany Nate Hongkrailert. "Participation of village health volunteers in nutritional activities program, Muang district , Sakeo province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd387/4837992.pdf.

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Sermsri, Daovilay Banchongphanithpha hpani Santhat. "Utilization of health center service among the villagers in rural areas of Khonkaen Province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2005. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2548/cd375/4737954.pdf.

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Tungchawal, Kitsada. "Local participation in tourism : a study of two village-based tourism destinations in Northeastern Thailand." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520552.

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Preeyanon, Antika. "The Village Fund Project and changes in the dynamics of local power in rural Thailand." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21100/.

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This thesis examines one of the flagship 'populist' programmes of the 2001~06 Thaksin Shinawatra government in Thailand. The Village Fund Project (VFP) channeled funds of one- .million baht to every village and urban community in Thailand, -was intended as a form -of micro-credit to stimulate local economic activity. Drawing upon extensive participant observation research in two villages - one in Lopburi, another in Krabi ~ the thesis examines the impact of the programme on local dynamics of political power. The thesis demonstrates that the VFP largely failed in its own terms: the project had rather disappointing results as a means of promoting local economic development. Most of the benefits from the projects were monopolized by a small group of elite villagers. Some of these villagers served as the phuak, vote canvassers or vote base for local, provincial and national politicians, who gained additional benefits from the scheme. The work of the village-level committees set up to administer the projects was usually problematic and lacking in transparency. Nevertheless, in certain respects the VFP - especially when seen in conjunction with an earlier scheme, The Saving for Producing Project (SPP) :- could be considered somewhat successfuL One of the probably unintended consequences of the VFP was the extent to which it increased local scrutiny of village elites, forcing them to broaden their alliances and engage in forms of cooptation and consultation. Community leaders who performed well as members of VFP committees were then well-placed to stand for other kinds of electoral office, while those whose performance was widely questioned had more difficulty securing subsequent election. Leaders were therefore forced to become more responsive to the needs of villagers. The thesis demonstrates that evaluating the success of initiatives made by the Thaksin government is fraught with difficulties, and illustrates the value of using 'ethnographic' style case studies to examine micro-level political change.

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Kittitornkool, Jawanit. "Elephants standing on their hind legs : women in the changing village context of southern Thailand." Thesis, University of Bath, 2000. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323602.

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Bayliab, Ketsophaphone Kitti Shiyalab. "Performances of village health volunteers on people sector health system in Namphong District Khonkaen Province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2005. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2548/cd375/4737953.pdf.

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Nawarat, Nongyao. "Mapping households' coping mechanisms in the era of recession : peri-urban village case studies in northern Thailand." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402540.

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Stone, Anasee Pengsaa, and n/a. "An Investigation of Isan Textiles at the Village Level in North-Eastern Thailand with Particular Reference to Design and Manufacturing Strategies." University of Canberra. Design, 2009. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20091216.095908.

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This research is set in the context of a collaborative agreement between the Industrial Design Department, University of Canberra and the Faculty of Applied Art and Design at Ubon Rajathanee University in the northeast or Isan region of Thailand. In this thesis the textile production of the region was studied with an objective of evaluating the potential for product design process to positively influence production outcomes. Traditional textile production techniques could be lost because these processes are complex and slow, and the current environment, both physical and operational, is changing rapidly. Product design and the design process are relevant to the industrial development of Thailand and village textile production could benefit from structured design and manufacturing strategies that have a consumer focus and improved production outcomes. From a critical review of the relevant literature, it was found that village weavers valued the traditions of their craft and traditional patterns and colours were important in terms of cultural identity and village social organization. Product design process or more specifically, the Generic Design Process (GDP) was reviewed and a model developed that adapted the GDP to the prevailing research environment. The findings led to a program of field research including village interviews where the major issue of the devaluation of traditional natural material dyeing techniques was identified. Field experiments tested alternative dyeing techniques which were evaluated in a survey by village weavers. During the field research care was taken to adapt to the way in which village weavers lived and worked as the two activities were closely interrelated. The degree of skill and knowledge residing in the aging women, who constitute the majority of village weavers, in extensive and profound, and is often described as an example of local wisdom. The theoretical and experimental work has been related, with appropriate results and conclusions, to the potential for maintaining traditional natural dyeing processes albeit with different preservation techniques. The findings from this research suggests that product design processes are appropriate for village production and that the tradition of natural material colour dyes will survive, new colours were created and the potential for new trade in preserved colour dye products. Substantial databases of useful relevant information have been compiled and recommendations are made for future research.

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Sakondhavat, Arnunchanog. "Understanding poverty dynamics using a mixed-method study : evidence from the rural village in the northeast and central regions of Thailand." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/46488/.

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This study is one of the first attempts to understand the long-term mechanisms of poverty dynamics at the household level in rural villages in Thailand. It does so by identifying dynamic patterns of poverty and by examining the factors and processes that underlie poverty dynamics in two major rice production regions of Thailand, namely, Khon Kaen province in the Northeast, Thailand's poorest region, and Suphanburi province in the Central plain, one of the richest regions of the country. The study is based on a survey of a panel of 240 households that were originally interviewed in 1988, and followed and interviewed again in 2009 for the purpose of this longitudinal study. The contrast between the survey areas is deliberate and has been useful for comparing economic and social structural changes of rural households across two decades, as well as examining disparities in the opportunities and resources between the two regions. In order to capture the complex and multidimensional nature of poverty, the study combines quantitative and qualitative methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics in Thailand. A quantitative survey analysis was merged with qualitative assessments by using the same sampling frame and then sequentially integrating life history interviews. The results show that both quantitative and qualitative approaches provide similar patterns of poverty transition. Notably, the study has found that the proportions of households moving into and out of poverty were higher than those remaining in chronic poverty, similarly to most experiences of poverty mobility in other developing countries. In addition, the study demonstrates the benefits of using a mixed-method approach for examining the factors underlying poverty dynamics. The study argues that combining these two approaches provides a richer insight of how rural households' economic, social and demographic characteristics have been associated with poverty dynamics. A number of similar factors that influence households' poverty dynamics were identified in both quantitative and qualitative approaches. These include asset factors, demographic factors and employment factors. However, the qualitative approach has provided further insight into additional contextual factors and processes not easily identified by the quantitative approach, notably the impact of ill-health shocks and behavioural factors. Understanding the distinction between the patterns of poverty dynamics and the mechanisms explaining them is of crucial importance for policy interventions. The implications derived from this study of poverty dynamics seek to strengthen poverty reduction efforts in Thailand, as well as to derive useful lessons to other developing countries.

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Sooraphonh, Kongsap Boonyong Keiwkarnka. "Performances of village health volunteers on Denaue Haemorrhagic fever prevention and control in Thali district, Loei province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd387/4837994.pdf.

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Kharel, Ramesh Kumar Boonyong Keiwkarnka. "Participation of village health volunteers on HIV/AIDS prevention and control programme in Wattana-Nakhorn district, Sakaeo province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd387/4837995.pdf.

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Mee-Udon, Farung. "The contribution of universal health insurance coverage scheme to villagers' wellbeing in northeast Thaila." Thesis, University of Bath, 2009. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512326.

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Shrestha, Jagat Man Sommai Wansorn. "Factors influencing the knowledge and attitudes of the village health communicators toward primary health care promotion : a case study of Ang Thong Province, Thailand /." Abstract, 1988. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2531/31E-Jagat-M-S.pdf.

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Suwa, Keiko Pantyp Ramasoota. "Approaches to mobilize community participation in nutrition promotion o of children under five among village health volunteers, Wang Nam Yen district, Sakeo province, Thailand /." Abstract, 2004. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2547/cd364/4637896.pdf.

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Moore, Jeffrey M. "The Thai way of counterinsurgency." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3142.

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The goal of this study is to ascertain how Thailand wages counterinsurgency (COIN). Thailand has waged two successful COINs in the past and is currently waging a third on its southern border. The lessons learned from Thailand’s COIN campaigns could result in modern irregular warfare techniques valuable not only to Thailand and neighboring countries with similar security problems, but also to countries like the United States and the United Kingdom that are currently reshaping their irregular warfare doctrines in response to the situations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The first set of COIN lessons comes from Thailand’s successful 1965-85 communist COIN. The second set comes from Bangkok’s understudied 1980s-90s COIN against southern separatists. The third set comes from Thailand’s current war against ethnic Malay separatists and radical Islamic insurgents attempting to secede and form a separate state called “Patani Raya,” among other names. Counterinsurgency is a difficult type of warfare for four reasons: (1) it can take years to succeed; (2) the battle space is poorly defined; (3) insurgents are not easily identifiable; and (4) war typically takes place among a civilian population that the guerrillas depend on for auxiliary support. Successful COINs include not only precise force application operations based on quality intelligence, but also lasting social and economic programs, political empowerment of the disenfranchised, and government acceptance of previously ignored cultural realities. Background: In 1965, communist insurgents, backed by the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), began waging an insurgency against Thailand in order to overthrow its government and install a Marxist regime. The Thai government struggled, both politically and militarily, to contain the movement for years, but eventually, it prevailed. Its success was based on a combination of effective strategy and coordination, plus well-designed and run security, political, and economic programs, the latter nowadays called the “three pillars of COIN,” a phrase developed by David Kilcullen, a modern COIN theorist and practitioner. One of Bangkok’s most successful initiatives was the CPM program (civil-military-police), which used a linked chain of local forces, police, and the military to not only provide security for villages, but also economic aid and administrative training to rural peoples. State political programs that undercut communist political programs backed by masterful diplomacy and a constant barrage of rural works helped erode the communist position. The 1980s-90s COIN against southern separatists followed similar lines. The far South’s four border provinces, comprised of 80 percent ethnic Malay Muslims, had been in revolt on and off for decades since Bangkok annexed the area in 1902. Bangkok had waged haphazard COIN campaigns against rebel groups there for decades with mixed results. But after the successful communist COIN was up and running in 1980, Bangkok decided to apply similar ways and means to tackle the southern issue. The government divided its COIN operations into two components: a security component run by a task force called CPM-43, and a political-economic component run by the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center, or SB-PAC. SB-PAC also had a Special Branch investigative capacity. Combined, the 80s-90s southern COIN strategy relied on extensive military intelligence networks to curb violence, civilian administrators to execute local political reforms, and local politicians to apply traditional Malay and Muslim problem solving techniques to keep the peace. These programs worked well against the multitude of southern insurgent groups that conducted sporadic attacks against government and civilian targets while also running organized criminal syndicates. By the end of the 1990s, with a dose of Thailand’s famed diplomacy and help from Malaysia’s Special Branch, Bangkok defeated the southern separatists. In January 2004, however, a new separatist movement in southern Thailand emerged – one based on ethnic Malay separatism and radical Islam. It is a well-coordinated movement with effective operational expertise that attacks at a higher tempo than past southern rebel groups. It moreover strikes civilian targets on a regular basis, thereby making it a terrorist group. Overall, it dwarfs past southern movements regarding motivation and scale of violence. Thai officials think the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Coordinate, or BRN-C, leads the current rebellion, but there are several other groups that claim to also lead the fight. Members of the insurgency are nearly exclusively ethnic Malays and Muslims. The movement demonstrates radical Islamic tendencies thought its propaganda, indoctrination, recruitment, and deeds. It is a takfiri group that kills other Muslims who do not share its religious beliefs, so it wrote in its spiritual rebel guidebook, Fight for the Liberation of Patani. BRN-C seeks to separate the four southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, and Songkhla from Thailand in order to establish an Islamic republic. The separatists base their revolt on perceived military, economic, cultural, and religious subjugation going back to the early 1900s. And they have a point. The central government has, at different times in the past, indeed treated southerners with tremendous disdain and sometimes violence – especially those considered insurgents. But Bangkok has also instituted scores of economic and social aid programs in the south – mosque building, college scholarships, and medical aid, for example – so it has not been a continual anti-Muslim “blood fest” as government detractors have painted it. Still the maltreatment, certainly many times less than yesteryear, has provided today’s insurgents with ideological fodder for a steady stream of recruits and supporters. Combined with radical Islam, it has bonded the insurgents to a significant degree. Statistically, in the 2005-07-time frame, insurgents assassinated 1.09 people a day, detonated 18.8 bombs a month, and staged 12.8 arson attacks a month. In 2005, they conducted 43 raids and 45 ambushes. The militants target security forces, government civilians, and the local population. They have killed fellow Muslims and beheaded numerous Buddhist villagers. The insurgents’ actions have crippled the South’s education system, justice system, and commerce, and also have maligned Buddhist-Muslim relations. Overall, the separatists pose a direct threat to Thailand’s south and an indirect threat to the rest of the country. Moreover, their radical Islamic overtones have potential regional and global terrorist implications. The Thai Government spent much of 2004 attempting to ascertain whether the high level of violence was, in fact, an insurgency. To begin with, the government, led by PM Thaksin Shinawatra, was puzzled by the fact that the separatists had not published a manifesto or approached Bangkok with a list of demands. By mid-2004, however, the insurgents had staged a failed, region-wide revolt, and their prolific leaflet and Internet propaganda campaign clearly demonstrated that a rebel movement was afoot. By fall 2005, the separatists had made political demands via the press, all of which centered on secession. By 2006, a coup against PM Thaksin succeeded and the military government that replaced him instituted a new COIN strategy for the south that by 2008 had reduced violence by about 40 percent. Some of the tenets of this new strategy were based on Thailand’s past successful COIN strategies. Whether or not the government has concocted a winning strategy for the future, however, remains to be seen. This paper analyses these COIN campaigns through the COIN Pantheon, a conceptual model the author developed as an analytical tool. It is based on David Kilcullen’s three pillars of COIN.

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Teamvan, Boontawee. "Struggling against the sea in Ban Khun Samut Chin : environmental knowledge, community identity and livelihood strategies in a village fighting severe coastal erosion on the Gulf of Thailand." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/18953/.

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This research project investigates how a coastal community in the Upper Gulf of Thailand has been dealing with a local ecological crisis, the rapid erosion of their coastline and potential loss of the entire territory of their village. The case study examines the community’s interactions with development agents and their engagement with broader political and economic forces. Empirically, the thesis is based primarily on participant observation of the community, Ban Khun Samut Chin, supported by extensive documentary research. Applying theoretical frameworks from the fields of political ecology, environmental sociology, and sociology of the self and everyday life, the thesis demonstrates some interesting findings. Firstly, rather than passive victims of national economic development and ecological change, many members of the Ban Khun Samut Chin community have proven to be sophisticated strategic actors. Through interactions with researchers and other external stakeholders, Ban Khun Samut Chin villagers have encountered multiple framings of their situation. This has provided them alternatives for self-understanding and self-representation, and allowed for sophisticated adaptation in the face of a challenging ecological and political environment. Articulating their identity as a self-sufficient, close-knit community, they have taken advantage of the romanticized ideas many of their potential supporters have about them, in order to secure resources for adaptation. The community has even found ways to leverage their ecological crisis in order to generate alternative sources of income, for example through “disaster tourism”. The research explores how individual members of the community have negotiated their own somewhat inconsistent beliefs and hopes, and plans for the future. The research finds that despite their sophisticated understandings of different environmental narratives and possible scenarios for the village, most of the villagers continue to rely on their customary social networks and livelihood skills, as they struggle to adapt.

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Bangwan, Sureewan Bangwan. "The Effects of Catastrophic Risk on the Performance of the Thailand National Village and Urban Community Fund Program and Prospects for Managing it Through the Use of Weather Index Insurance." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534508998871764.

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Vichchurungsi, Theerapon [Verfasser]. "The construction of social and cultural unity and the interaction between the Shan people and the Thai state : a case study of Piang Luang village, Wiang Haeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand / Theerapon Vichchurungsi." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), 2014. http://d-nb.info/1130811247/34.

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[Verfasser], Theerapon Vichchurungsi. "The construction of social and cultural unity and the interaction between the Shan people and the Thai state : a case study of Piang Luang village, Wiang Haeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand / Theerapon Vichchurungsi." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:089-7911325447.

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Huang, Yang. "Essais sur les oubliés de la société dans les pays émergents." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0084.

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Cette thèse se compose de trois chapitres indépendants sur les enfants de migrants restés au village en Chine, ainsi que sur les personnes âgées vivant seules en Thaïlande et au Vietnam. Le premier chapitre traite de la manière dont les frais de scolarité dans les zones urbaines affectent la migration des enfants en Chine. Nos résultats suggèrent que des frais plus élevés empêchent les travailleurs migrants d’amener leurs enfants avec eux dans les zones urbaines. Nous trouvons également que les travailleurs migrants dans la situation la plus précaire sont les plus touchés par une augmentation des frais de scolarité. Le deuxième chapitre étudie les répercussions de la migration interne des enfants adultes et de leurs envois de fonds sur l'offre de main-d'œuvre de leurs parents restés en zone rurale au Vietnam. Les résultats montrent que les mères ont tendance à travailler plus si elles ont des enfants migrants, mais à travailler moins lorsqu'elles reçoivent des fonds de leur part. À l'inverse, les pères sont moins touchés par la migration de leurs enfants et par leurs envois de fonds. Le troisième article examine l’impact de la retraite universelle introduite en Thaïlande en 2009 sur le bien-être et l'offre de main-d'œuvre de ses bénéficiaires et de leurs conjoints. Les résultats empiriques montrent que ce régime de retraite ne génère pas d'impact significatif sur la pauvreté ou les dépenses des ménages, mais recevoir une retraite a un impact négatif important sur la participation des bénéficiaires au marché du travail. De plus, les hommes comme les femmes réagissent à la perception d’une retraite par leur conjoint en quittant leur emploi et en restant inactifs
This dissertation consists of three independent papers on the left-behind children in China and the left-behind elderly in Thailand and Vietnam. The first paper addresses how school fees in urban areas affect child migration in China. Our findings suggest that higher fees deter migrant workers from bringing their children to urban areas, and more vulnerable migrant workers are most affected by an increase in school fees. The second paper investigates the impacts of adult children’s internal migration and remittances on the labor supply responses of the rural left-behind parents in Vietnam. The results show that mothers tend to work more if they have migrant children, and they tend to work less when they receive remittances from their migrant children. Conversely, fathers tend to be less affected by child migration and their remittances. The third paper examines the impacts of the universal social pension introduced in Thailand in 2009 on the well-being and the labor supply responses of the recipients and their spouses. The empirical results show that the social pension scheme does not generate significant impacts on household poverty status or expenditures, but receiving social pensions has a significant negative impact on beneficiaries' own labor market participation. Further, both men and women are found to respond to their spouses' pensions by leaving their jobs and staying inactive

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Sittitrai, Werasit. "Rural transformation in northern Thailand." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/10113.

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Cadchumsang, Jaggapan. "People at the Rim: A Study of Tai Ethnicity and Nationalism in a Thai Border Village." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31703.

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Based on ethnographic research in Ruam Chai, a large and remote village in northern Thailand, this dissertation seeks to examine the emergence of ethnic identity and nationalistic consciousness of the Tai people within the context of Thai nation-building, state development, and the history of the area in the 20th century. The Tai—generally known as the Shan—are the predominant residents of this multi-ethnic frontier community, once occupied by the notorious opium warlord, Khun Sa, prior to absolute control and administration by the Thai state in 1982. These people migrated from various areas of Myanmar’s Shan State over different periods of time, for a variety of reasons. Due to their illegal immigration, the Thai state classifies them into different non-citizenship statuses according to their migration background as well as survey and registration periods. As a result of recent revisions of the Thai Nationality Act, the documented Thailand-born offspring of these displaced Tai, whose parents’ statuses fall into certain non-Thai categories, meet the nominal requirements for becoming naturalised. Within the theoretical framework of constructivist approach and the notion of ethnic dynamism and nationalistic sentiments as a cultural practice in borderlands, this dissertation suggests the investigation of the Tai ethno-nationalism through three interconnected levels of analysis: village or community, national, and transborder. On the village level, while the Tai acknowledge their ethnic diversity and have a logical, conventional system of identification among themselves; they maintain ethnic boundaries amid interactions with village members of other ethnic origins, and (re)construct identities in response to both internal and external forces. On the national level, a nation-building process has induced a stronger sense of “being Thai” to both Thailand-born Tai children and pre-existing generations of Tai. This process emphasises ethnic homogeneity—through the employment of the Thainess concept—and exclusion of the Non-Thai from the Thai, where categorically ineligible Tai are driven to embrace outlawed conduct to secure Thai citizenship. On the transborder level, movements back and forth as well as relationships across various international borders have played a vital role in constructing Tai identity and imagining the nation of the Tai people, both in Ruam Chai and beyond.

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Suriya, Komsan. "An economic analysis of community-based tourism in Thailand." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B6AE-0.

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Sirichaisopon, Rungnapa, and 徐友蓮. "The Choices of Chinese School among Chinese Students from Vavee Village, Northern Thailand - A Case Study of Guangfu High School." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46495302119185134720.

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國立暨南國際大學
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Chinese language education experienced numerous policy reforms under the Thailand government. This study is about a case study of Guangfu High School in Vavee Village of northern Thailand. In 1984, Thailand government implemented “Thai assimilation” policy at refugee camps in northern Thailand. Yet, this policy has forced all the Chinese schools at refugee camps which were adopted since 1960 to shut down, with the intention to assimilate the Chinese. In this paper, through existing literature and interviews, I will explain the history and changes Guangfu High School has gone through and how it has maintained its existence. Also, the uniqueness of Chinese schools in refugee camps and the difficulties in their developmental history will be examined. Each of its developmental stage of Chinese language education is also analyzed via Guangfu High School’s history. There are two main focuses in this study. First, it is the reason why residents of refugee camps would have chosen Chinese language education. Second, what are the significant meanings of Chinese schools have for them. It will be discussed from two aspects—instrumental rationalism and ethno-cultural emotion.

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