Chris Lyttleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 150758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Lyttleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyttleton |
| SIGNATURE | LYTTLETON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8104-6953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Western and Traditional Medicine in India, Myanmar and Thailand: Engagement and Contestation
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Borderline well-being: Mental health in a development zone
Vigilance and Sentinels in Global Health Security
Global health security is increasingly reliant on vigilance to provide early warning of transnational health threats. In theory, this approach requires that sentinels, based in communities most affected by new or reemerging infectious diseases, deliver timely alerts of incipient risk. Medicalizing global safety also implies there are particular forms of insecurity that must be remedied to preempt disease spread. I examine vigilance in the context…
Deviance and resistance: Malaria elimination in the greater Mekong subregion
Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia
"Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are fundamental elements of the ways in which donor-driven development intervenes in the lives of people in poor countries. Alongside structural and material interventions, emotional engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia elaborates th…
Linked spaces of vulnerability: HIV risk amongst migrant Dai women and their left-behind husbands in Southwest China
In one county of Southwest China bordering Myanmar, large numbers of minority Dai women leave to work in southern Thailand. Many are married and they leave behind husbands and children, sending remittances and returning home intermittently. These women commonly establish relations with Chinese/Malaysian men in their worksites--massage parlours in the tourist sites near the Malaysian border. These men become second husbands just as the Dai women b…
Trade circles: Aspirations and ethnicity in commercial sex in Laos
The contours of commercial sex in Lao PDR are significantly shaped by forces facilitating the entry of women from one ethnic group, the Khmu, into this service industry niche. Agricultural transitions, development policies, changing gender roles, ethnic hierarchies, snowballing recruitment networks and growing capitalist sensibilities collectively prompt poor Khmu women to aspire to material gain via selling beer and sex. Their predominance in lo…
Promiscuous capitalism meets ‘exotic’ ethnicity: Intimate aspirations amongst cross‐border Chinese Dai
Many ethnic Dai women from one remote county in Southwest China seek work in Thailand. This exodus builds on a combination of regional Tai cultural affinity and interpersonal skills with Chinese/Malaysian men. Cross‐border labour migration foregrounds growing neoliberal subjectivities as prior modes of trafficking evolve into trajectories of voluntary entrepreneurialism. Transnational work in Thai massage parlours blends intimate relations and mo…
Cultural Reproduction and “Minority” Sexuality: Intimate Changes among Ethnic Akha in the Upper Mekong
This article explores sexuality and its role in cultural reproduction amongst Akha, a minority group living in the mountainous reaches of southwest China, northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Burma. For many minority peoples in the region sexuality has been a marker of cultural difference within trajectories of nationalist assimilation. In northwest Laos, Akha sexuality is currently a focusof intense interest as infrastructure development, increa…
Expanding community through ARV provision in Thailand
Anti-retrovirals (ARVs) have altered the complexion of HIV/AIDS management in Thailand. In 2005, ARVs were included within a subsidised health scheme making provision widespread. Increased access has been brought about through the legal and political advocacy of the Thai Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) who now play a central role in expanded ARV provision. HIV-infected volunteers help the state deliver comprehensive services and as…
Relative Pleasures: Drugs, Development and Modern Dependencies in Asia's Golden Triangle
As opium cultivation is increasingly controlled in the Golden Triangle, producers and traffickers have created new markets for methamphetamines (ATS) amongst highland and lowland populations. At the same time, evolving forms of drug abuse also reflect a larger order of social change that directly shapes the consumer market. This article explores how demand for methamphetamines in mainland Southeast Asia emerges in sync with changing value systems…
Fleeing the Fire: Transformation and Gendered Belonging in Thai HIV/Aids Support Groups
By the turn of the millennium, HIV had infected nearly one million people in Thailand. A large number of support groups now exist throughout the country. These groups have emerged as the primary forum through which having HIV is negotiated and normalized in Thai society. This is done by allowing members to publicly refashion their sense of self and its appropriate place in the world. However, the moral and social space created by support groups i…
Opium‐Reduction Programmes, Discourses of Addiction and Gender in Northwest Laos
In Muang Sing district of northwest Laos, a community- based detoxification programme was recently launched among the highland Akha. The Akha grow almost all the poppy in the district and have high rates of opium addiction. Whereas the attitude of the Akha to opium is generally one of ambivalence, the detoxification programme portrays opium in unambiguously negative terms, with the consequent inculcation of an addict identity and a strong sense o…
Sister cities and easy passage: HIV, mobility and economies of desire in a Thai/Lao border zone
Any Port in A Storm: Coming to Terms with HIV in Lao PDR
This paper examines the aspects of sexual interaction in certain settings specifically in Laos to explore further the social background relevant to HIV epidemiology. In nightclubs and drink shops in Laotian towns, social regulations established an atmosphere wherein casual sexual interactions were primarily built through negotiation. Unequal power relations between men and women notwithstanding, because neither identities nor outcomes are always …
Framing Thai Sexuality in the Age of Aids - Introduction
Four of the papers presented at a panel on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the 1994 conference of the Australian Anthropological Society focused on Thailand, which is widely regarded as the epicenter of the epidemic in Southeast Asia. In his introduction to these papers, Lyttleton notes that the discourse on AIDS in Thailand has been characterized by a medical, hierarchical approach. Unlike the situation in countries such as the US, …
Storm Warnings: Responding to Messages of Danger in Isan
To understand the influence of HIV/AIDS education campaigns we must consider cultural models that shape shared meaning and at the same time acknowledge that public warning messages are not uniformly internalised. Using data from Northeast Thailand I examine two key pulses from which meaning proliferates in village society, a sense of emotion and a sense of morality. I suggest that the affective and directive aspects of HIV/AIDS discourses shape t…
Knowledge and meaning: The Aids education campaign in rural Northeast Thailand
The Good People of Isan: Commercial Sex in Northeast Thailand
Recent academic literature focusing on prostitution in Thailand has mostly represented it as a singular phenomenon understood by monocausal analyses which rely on varieties of economic or cultural determinism. By contrast, in this paper I seek to tease out how various factors, economic, cultural and personal, operate to provide very different outcomes in individual lives. There are two specific issues that I focus on. Firstly, while most reports …
Messages of distinction: The HIV/Aids media campaign in Thailand
In predominantly rural Thailand, television is a primary source of HIV/AIDS knowledge. Since 1990, HIV/AIDS warning messages have been aired regularly and repeatedly on television as part of the national strategy to minimize transmission of HIV. The education and prevention messages chosen do more than suggest measures to avoid infection. Within a logic of risk, these messages also define characteristics of people who are signified as threatening…
Knowledge and meaning: The Aids education campaign in rural Northeast Thailand
Sister cities and easy passage: HIV, mobility and economies of desire in a Thai/Lao border zone
Relative Pleasures: Drugs, Development and Modern Dependencies in Asia's Golden Triangle
As opium cultivation is increasingly controlled in the Golden Triangle, producers and traffickers have created new markets for methamphetamines (ATS) amongst highland and lowland populations. At the same time, evolving forms of drug abuse also reflect a larger order of social change that directly shapes the consumer market. This article explores how demand for methamphetamines in mainland Southeast Asia emerges in sync with changing value systems…
Fleeing the Fire: Transformation and Gendered Belonging in Thai HIV/Aids Support Groups
By the turn of the millennium, HIV had infected nearly one million people in Thailand. A large number of support groups now exist throughout the country. These groups have emerged as the primary forum through which having HIV is negotiated and normalized in Thai society. This is done by allowing members to publicly refashion their sense of self and its appropriate place in the world. However, the moral and social space created by support groups i…
The Good People of Isan: Commercial Sex in Northeast Thailand
Recent academic literature focusing on prostitution in Thailand has mostly represented it as a singular phenomenon understood by monocausal analyses which rely on varieties of economic or cultural determinism. By contrast, in this paper I seek to tease out how various factors, economic, cultural and personal, operate to provide very different outcomes in individual lives. There are two specific issues that I focus on. Firstly, while most reports …
Promiscuous capitalism meets ‘exotic’ ethnicity: Intimate aspirations amongst cross‐border Chinese Dai
Many ethnic Dai women from one remote county in Southwest China seek work in Thailand. This exodus builds on a combination of regional Tai cultural affinity and interpersonal skills with Chinese/Malaysian men. Cross‐border labour migration foregrounds growing neoliberal subjectivities as prior modes of trafficking evolve into trajectories of voluntary entrepreneurialism. Transnational work in Thai massage parlours blends intimate relations and mo…
Opium‐Reduction Programmes, Discourses of Addiction and Gender in Northwest Laos
In Muang Sing district of northwest Laos, a community- based detoxification programme was recently launched among the highland Akha. The Akha grow almost all the poppy in the district and have high rates of opium addiction. Whereas the attitude of the Akha to opium is generally one of ambivalence, the detoxification programme portrays opium in unambiguously negative terms, with the consequent inculcation of an addict identity and a strong sense o…
Messages of distinction: The HIV/Aids media campaign in Thailand
In predominantly rural Thailand, television is a primary source of HIV/AIDS knowledge. Since 1990, HIV/AIDS warning messages have been aired regularly and repeatedly on television as part of the national strategy to minimize transmission of HIV. The education and prevention messages chosen do more than suggest measures to avoid infection. Within a logic of risk, these messages also define characteristics of people who are signified as threatening…
Vigilance and Sentinels in Global Health Security
Global health security is increasingly reliant on vigilance to provide early warning of transnational health threats. In theory, this approach requires that sentinels, based in communities most affected by new or reemerging infectious diseases, deliver timely alerts of incipient risk. Medicalizing global safety also implies there are particular forms of insecurity that must be remedied to preempt disease spread. I examine vigilance in the context…
Deviance and resistance: Malaria elimination in the greater Mekong subregion
Western and Traditional Medicine in India, Myanmar and Thailand: Engagement and Contestation
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Borderline well-being: Mental health in a development zone
Cultural Reproduction and “Minority” Sexuality: Intimate Changes among Ethnic Akha in the Upper Mekong
This article explores sexuality and its role in cultural reproduction amongst Akha, a minority group living in the mountainous reaches of southwest China, northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Burma. For many minority peoples in the region sexuality has been a marker of cultural difference within trajectories of nationalist assimilation. In northwest Laos, Akha sexuality is currently a focusof intense interest as infrastructure development, increa…
Storm Warnings: Responding to Messages of Danger in Isan
To understand the influence of HIV/AIDS education campaigns we must consider cultural models that shape shared meaning and at the same time acknowledge that public warning messages are not uniformly internalised. Using data from Northeast Thailand I examine two key pulses from which meaning proliferates in village society, a sense of emotion and a sense of morality. I suggest that the affective and directive aspects of HIV/AIDS discourses shape t…
Knowledge and meaning: The Aids education campaign in rural Northeast Thailand
The Good People of Isan: Commercial Sex in Northeast Thailand
Recent academic literature focusing on prostitution in Thailand has mostly represented it as a singular phenomenon understood by monocausal analyses which rely on varieties of economic or cultural determinism. By contrast, in this paper I seek to tease out how various factors, economic, cultural and personal, operate to provide very different outcomes in individual lives. There are two specific issues that I focus on. Firstly, while most reports …
Messages of distinction: The HIV/Aids media campaign in Thailand
In predominantly rural Thailand, television is a primary source of HIV/AIDS knowledge. Since 1990, HIV/AIDS warning messages have been aired regularly and repeatedly on television as part of the national strategy to minimize transmission of HIV. The education and prevention messages chosen do more than suggest measures to avoid infection. Within a logic of risk, these messages also define characteristics of people who are signified as threatening…
Framing Thai Sexuality in the Age of Aids - Introduction
Four of the papers presented at a panel on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the 1994 conference of the Australian Anthropological Society focused on Thailand, which is widely regarded as the epicenter of the epidemic in Southeast Asia. In his introduction to these papers, Lyttleton notes that the discourse on AIDS in Thailand has been characterized by a medical, hierarchical approach. Unlike the situation in countries such as the US, …
Storm Warnings: Responding to Messages of Danger in Isan
To understand the influence of HIV/AIDS education campaigns we must consider cultural models that shape shared meaning and at the same time acknowledge that public warning messages are not uniformly internalised. Using data from Northeast Thailand I examine two key pulses from which meaning proliferates in village society, a sense of emotion and a sense of morality. I suggest that the affective and directive aspects of HIV/AIDS discourses shape t…
Any Port in A Storm: Coming to Terms with HIV in Lao PDR
This paper examines the aspects of sexual interaction in certain settings specifically in Laos to explore further the social background relevant to HIV epidemiology. In nightclubs and drink shops in Laotian towns, social regulations established an atmosphere wherein casual sexual interactions were primarily built through negotiation. Unequal power relations between men and women notwithstanding, because neither identities nor outcomes are always …
Opium‐Reduction Programmes, Discourses of Addiction and Gender in Northwest Laos
In Muang Sing district of northwest Laos, a community- based detoxification programme was recently launched among the highland Akha. The Akha grow almost all the poppy in the district and have high rates of opium addiction. Whereas the attitude of the Akha to opium is generally one of ambivalence, the detoxification programme portrays opium in unambiguously negative terms, with the consequent inculcation of an addict identity and a strong sense o…
Sister cities and easy passage: HIV, mobility and economies of desire in a Thai/Lao border zone
Relative Pleasures: Drugs, Development and Modern Dependencies in Asia's Golden Triangle
As opium cultivation is increasingly controlled in the Golden Triangle, producers and traffickers have created new markets for methamphetamines (ATS) amongst highland and lowland populations. At the same time, evolving forms of drug abuse also reflect a larger order of social change that directly shapes the consumer market. This article explores how demand for methamphetamines in mainland Southeast Asia emerges in sync with changing value systems…
Fleeing the Fire: Transformation and Gendered Belonging in Thai HIV/Aids Support Groups
By the turn of the millennium, HIV had infected nearly one million people in Thailand. A large number of support groups now exist throughout the country. These groups have emerged as the primary forum through which having HIV is negotiated and normalized in Thai society. This is done by allowing members to publicly refashion their sense of self and its appropriate place in the world. However, the moral and social space created by support groups i…
Expanding community through ARV provision in Thailand
Anti-retrovirals (ARVs) have altered the complexion of HIV/AIDS management in Thailand. In 2005, ARVs were included within a subsidised health scheme making provision widespread. Increased access has been brought about through the legal and political advocacy of the Thai Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) who now play a central role in expanded ARV provision. HIV-infected volunteers help the state deliver comprehensive services and as…
Trade circles: Aspirations and ethnicity in commercial sex in Laos
The contours of commercial sex in Lao PDR are significantly shaped by forces facilitating the entry of women from one ethnic group, the Khmu, into this service industry niche. Agricultural transitions, development policies, changing gender roles, ethnic hierarchies, snowballing recruitment networks and growing capitalist sensibilities collectively prompt poor Khmu women to aspire to material gain via selling beer and sex. Their predominance in lo…
Promiscuous capitalism meets ‘exotic’ ethnicity: Intimate aspirations amongst cross‐border Chinese Dai
Many ethnic Dai women from one remote county in Southwest China seek work in Thailand. This exodus builds on a combination of regional Tai cultural affinity and interpersonal skills with Chinese/Malaysian men. Cross‐border labour migration foregrounds growing neoliberal subjectivities as prior modes of trafficking evolve into trajectories of voluntary entrepreneurialism. Transnational work in Thai massage parlours blends intimate relations and mo…
Cultural Reproduction and “Minority” Sexuality: Intimate Changes among Ethnic Akha in the Upper Mekong
This article explores sexuality and its role in cultural reproduction amongst Akha, a minority group living in the mountainous reaches of southwest China, northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Burma. For many minority peoples in the region sexuality has been a marker of cultural difference within trajectories of nationalist assimilation. In northwest Laos, Akha sexuality is currently a focusof intense interest as infrastructure development, increa…
Linked spaces of vulnerability: HIV risk amongst migrant Dai women and their left-behind husbands in Southwest China
In one county of Southwest China bordering Myanmar, large numbers of minority Dai women leave to work in southern Thailand. Many are married and they leave behind husbands and children, sending remittances and returning home intermittently. These women commonly establish relations with Chinese/Malaysian men in their worksites--massage parlours in the tourist sites near the Malaysian border. These men become second husbands just as the Dai women b…
Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia
"Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are fundamental elements of the ways in which donor-driven development intervenes in the lives of people in poor countries. Alongside structural and material interventions, emotional engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia elaborates th…
Deviance and resistance: Malaria elimination in the greater Mekong subregion
Vigilance and Sentinels in Global Health Security
Global health security is increasingly reliant on vigilance to provide early warning of transnational health threats. In theory, this approach requires that sentinels, based in communities most affected by new or reemerging infectious diseases, deliver timely alerts of incipient risk. Medicalizing global safety also implies there are particular forms of insecurity that must be remedied to preempt disease spread. I examine vigilance in the context…
Borderline well-being: Mental health in a development zone
Western and Traditional Medicine in India, Myanmar and Thailand: Engagement and Contestation
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Sociology (18 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 works) · Sex work and related issues (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works)