Kanokwan Manorom
Biographic Data
| ID | 137096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kanokwan Manorom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kanokwan |
| FAMILY NAME | Manorom |
| SIGNATURE | MANOROM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ubon Ratchathani University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8554-5664 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From slow violence to slow resistance
Dam-associated violence has shaped villagers' lives since the launch of Thailand's Pak Mun Dam project 35 years ago. This slow violence—manifesting through ecological degradation, livelihood loss, and cultural disruption—has prompted equally enduring forms of resistance. Affected communities have challenged state power through subtle and overt resistance, sustained over decades. This article uses a Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) approach to exp…
Flow, food, and flood
River Commoning and the State
Grassroots initiatives that aim to defend, protect, or restore rivers and riverine environments have proliferated around the world in the last three decades. Some of the most emblematic initiatives are anti-dam and anti-mining movements that have been framed, by and large, as civil society versus the state movements. In this article, we aim to bring nuance to such framings by analyzing broader and diverse river-commoning initiatives and the state…
Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand
This paper contributes to new understandings of agrarian transition for smallholder rice farming in Southeast Asia through quantitative data analysis from Thailand’s two main rice growing regions. Despite economic modernization models predicting a farm-size transition of smallholder agriculture to large-scale commercial farms with the onset of industrialization and urban employment opportunities, we find rice farmers continue to persist and defy …
Labour, mechanization, market integration, and government policy
Over the last two decades, significant changes in lowland rice cultivation practices have occurred in mainland Southeast Asia. Here, we compare lowland rice farming in six provinces in northeastern Thailand and four districts in Savannakhet Province in southern Laos and consider the ways that agrarian change, including the deepening of capitalist relations, is occurring. Some of the most important changes taking place relate to increasing mechani…
The value of wild fish
Over the last few decades, much has been written about the negative impacts of hydropower dams on wild-capture fisheries in the Mekong River Basin. Furthermore, some studies associated with the water–energy–food nexus have appropriately linked the impacts of hydropower dams to fisheries and human nutrition. Although some research related to food security and nutrition considered changes in human dietary preferences over time, studies about the im…
Institutional bricolage (re)shaping the different manifestations of state-citizens relations in Mekong hydropower planning
Migrating fish and mobile knowledge
Various terms are used to characterize fishers’ knowledge. Here we use situated fishers’ knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao fishers living in the Mekong River Basin in northeastern Thailand, southern Laos, and northeastern Cambodia. We consider the mobility of knowledge, humans, and fish, and adopt a theoretical framework based on Actor Network Theory (ANT) and political ecology. Based on fisher…
The World Bank, Hydropower-based Poverty Alleviation and Indigenous Peoples
The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos has – despite being considered a model project by its main international supporter, the World Bank – had major social and environmental impacts on downstream areas in the Xe Bang Fai (XBF) River Basin. In this article we argue that NT2 has been especially damaging to ethnic Brou Indigenous Peoples, and particularly Brou women, who although they have not been passive victims and have demonstrated a …
The People and their River, the World Bank and its Dam
Sustained criticism in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in a decline of World Bank funding for large hydropower dams. The Bank subsequently participated in the World Commission on Dams process, which set higher global standards for hydropower dams. In 2005, the World Bank agreed to support the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos, and in 2010 NT2 began diverting water from the Theun River into the Xe Bang Fai River. The World Bank has promote…
The People and their River, the World Bank and its Dam
Sustained criticism in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in a decline of World Bank funding for large hydropower dams. The Bank subsequently participated in the World Commission on Dams process, which set higher global standards for hydropower dams. In 2005, the World Bank agreed to support the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos, and in 2010 NT2 began diverting water from the Theun River into the Xe Bang Fai River. The World Bank has promote…
The World Bank, Hydropower-based Poverty Alleviation and Indigenous Peoples
The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos has – despite being considered a model project by its main international supporter, the World Bank – had major social and environmental impacts on downstream areas in the Xe Bang Fai (XBF) River Basin. In this article we argue that NT2 has been especially damaging to ethnic Brou Indigenous Peoples, and particularly Brou women, who although they have not been passive victims and have demonstrated a …
Institutional bricolage (re)shaping the different manifestations of state-citizens relations in Mekong hydropower planning
River Commoning and the State
Grassroots initiatives that aim to defend, protect, or restore rivers and riverine environments have proliferated around the world in the last three decades. Some of the most emblematic initiatives are anti-dam and anti-mining movements that have been framed, by and large, as civil society versus the state movements. In this article, we aim to bring nuance to such framings by analyzing broader and diverse river-commoning initiatives and the state…
Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand
This paper contributes to new understandings of agrarian transition for smallholder rice farming in Southeast Asia through quantitative data analysis from Thailand’s two main rice growing regions. Despite economic modernization models predicting a farm-size transition of smallholder agriculture to large-scale commercial farms with the onset of industrialization and urban employment opportunities, we find rice farmers continue to persist and defy …
Flow, food, and flood
Migrating fish and mobile knowledge
Various terms are used to characterize fishers’ knowledge. Here we use situated fishers’ knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao fishers living in the Mekong River Basin in northeastern Thailand, southern Laos, and northeastern Cambodia. We consider the mobility of knowledge, humans, and fish, and adopt a theoretical framework based on Actor Network Theory (ANT) and political ecology. Based on fisher…
The People and their River, the World Bank and its Dam
Sustained criticism in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in a decline of World Bank funding for large hydropower dams. The Bank subsequently participated in the World Commission on Dams process, which set higher global standards for hydropower dams. In 2005, the World Bank agreed to support the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos, and in 2010 NT2 began diverting water from the Theun River into the Xe Bang Fai River. The World Bank has promote…
The World Bank, Hydropower-based Poverty Alleviation and Indigenous Peoples
The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos has – despite being considered a model project by its main international supporter, the World Bank – had major social and environmental impacts on downstream areas in the Xe Bang Fai (XBF) River Basin. In this article we argue that NT2 has been especially damaging to ethnic Brou Indigenous Peoples, and particularly Brou women, who although they have not been passive victims and have demonstrated a …
Migrating fish and mobile knowledge
Various terms are used to characterize fishers’ knowledge. Here we use situated fishers’ knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao fishers living in the Mekong River Basin in northeastern Thailand, southern Laos, and northeastern Cambodia. We consider the mobility of knowledge, humans, and fish, and adopt a theoretical framework based on Actor Network Theory (ANT) and political ecology. Based on fisher…
Labour, mechanization, market integration, and government policy
Over the last two decades, significant changes in lowland rice cultivation practices have occurred in mainland Southeast Asia. Here, we compare lowland rice farming in six provinces in northeastern Thailand and four districts in Savannakhet Province in southern Laos and consider the ways that agrarian change, including the deepening of capitalist relations, is occurring. Some of the most important changes taking place relate to increasing mechani…
The value of wild fish
Over the last few decades, much has been written about the negative impacts of hydropower dams on wild-capture fisheries in the Mekong River Basin. Furthermore, some studies associated with the water–energy–food nexus have appropriately linked the impacts of hydropower dams to fisheries and human nutrition. Although some research related to food security and nutrition considered changes in human dietary preferences over time, studies about the im…
Institutional bricolage (re)shaping the different manifestations of state-citizens relations in Mekong hydropower planning
River Commoning and the State
Grassroots initiatives that aim to defend, protect, or restore rivers and riverine environments have proliferated around the world in the last three decades. Some of the most emblematic initiatives are anti-dam and anti-mining movements that have been framed, by and large, as civil society versus the state movements. In this article, we aim to bring nuance to such framings by analyzing broader and diverse river-commoning initiatives and the state…
Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand
This paper contributes to new understandings of agrarian transition for smallholder rice farming in Southeast Asia through quantitative data analysis from Thailand’s two main rice growing regions. Despite economic modernization models predicting a farm-size transition of smallholder agriculture to large-scale commercial farms with the onset of industrialization and urban employment opportunities, we find rice farmers continue to persist and defy …
Flow, food, and flood
From slow violence to slow resistance
Dam-associated violence has shaped villagers' lives since the launch of Thailand's Pak Mun Dam project 35 years ago. This slow violence—manifesting through ecological degradation, livelihood loss, and cultural disruption—has prompted equally enduring forms of resistance. Affected communities have challenged state power through subtle and overt resistance, sustained over decades. This article uses a Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) approach to exp…
Geography (8 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Cambodian History and Society (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)