Prasert Rangkla
Biographic Data
| ID | 118998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prasert Rangkla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prasert |
| FAMILY NAME | Rangkla |
| SIGNATURE | RANGKLA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thammasat University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Karen ethno-nationalism and the wrist-tying ceremony along the Thai–Burmese border
This article presents an ethnographic investigation of displaced Karen in a border area of northern Thailand, and in particular, the reasons for their enthusiasm for the wrist-tying ceremony. It examines the way in which Karen ethno-nationalists have both influenced this cultural practice and appropriated it. This study argues that Karen nationalist intellectuals invented and reinvented the tradition of wrist-tying by borrowing structure and cont…
Refuge and Emplacement through Buddhism: Karen Refugees and Religious Practices in a Northwestern Border Town of Thailand
Recent discussions in refugee studies question the stereotypical representation of refugees as absolute victims and reveal the dual aspects of refugees: displacement and emplacement. Yet the academic field pays little attention to how refugees reconstitute a sense of belonging in situations of forced mobility through religious and ritual practices. In studying a group of Buddhist Karen refugees in Mae Sot valley on the Thailand-Myanmar border are…
Karen ethno-nationalism and the wrist-tying ceremony along the Thai–Burmese border
This article presents an ethnographic investigation of displaced Karen in a border area of northern Thailand, and in particular, the reasons for their enthusiasm for the wrist-tying ceremony. It examines the way in which Karen ethno-nationalists have both influenced this cultural practice and appropriated it. This study argues that Karen nationalist intellectuals invented and reinvented the tradition of wrist-tying by borrowing structure and cont…
Refuge and Emplacement through Buddhism: Karen Refugees and Religious Practices in a Northwestern Border Town of Thailand
Recent discussions in refugee studies question the stereotypical representation of refugees as absolute victims and reveal the dual aspects of refugees: displacement and emplacement. Yet the academic field pays little attention to how refugees reconstitute a sense of belonging in situations of forced mobility through religious and ritual practices. In studying a group of Buddhist Karen refugees in Mae Sot valley on the Thailand-Myanmar border are…
Refuge and Emplacement through Buddhism: Karen Refugees and Religious Practices in a Northwestern Border Town of Thailand
Recent discussions in refugee studies question the stereotypical representation of refugees as absolute victims and reveal the dual aspects of refugees: displacement and emplacement. Yet the academic field pays little attention to how refugees reconstitute a sense of belonging in situations of forced mobility through religious and ritual practices. In studying a group of Buddhist Karen refugees in Mae Sot valley on the Thailand-Myanmar border are…
Karen ethno-nationalism and the wrist-tying ceremony along the Thai–Burmese border
This article presents an ethnographic investigation of displaced Karen in a border area of northern Thailand, and in particular, the reasons for their enthusiasm for the wrist-tying ceremony. It examines the way in which Karen ethno-nationalists have both influenced this cultural practice and appropriated it. This study argues that Karen nationalist intellectuals invented and reinvented the tradition of wrist-tying by borrowing structure and cont…
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)