Micah F Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 154036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micah F Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micah F |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8016-6956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonizing as restoring relations: A view from Indigenous Studies
In this paper, I draw on Indigenous Studies scholarship, as largely centered on the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand, to identify additional pathways towards decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies. I further draw on my work with Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia who are increasingly identifying in solidarity with other Indigenous Peoples the world over despite a general consensus that Southeast Asia is a post-colonial space where the glo…
Enchanted Modernities: Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong
From blood to fruit: Transcosmogenerational modernities in Akha Worlds of the Upper Mekong
In this article, I introduce the concept of "transcosmogenerationality" to emphasize the sustained and dynamic significance of Ancestral relationalities to particular Indigenous modernities. I draw on the case of certain Akha communities in Southeast Asia and southwest China who are channeling wealth from booms in cash crops, such as coffee, rubber, and tea, into the "ritual economy" bridging the parallel and mutually dependent worlds of Ancestor…
The buffalo skin written word’: The cultural politics of orality and writing in mainland South East Asia
Throughout mainland South East Asia, there are numerous indigenous histories of the loss and return of the written word. These histories are often linked to narratives of Christian conversion, and the desire for literacy and modernity. In this article, I revisit questions about the cultural politics of orality and the written word from the perspectives of certain Akha communities in the Thai–Myanmar borderlands that are relative newcomers to both…
Stoking the Flames of Ethnic Politics? The Double Bind of Indigeneity in Post/Neo-colonial Myanmar
Multiculturalism from Below: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Recognition in Thailand
This article highlights the political work Indigenous activists in Thailand carried out in recent years in claiming Indigenous status and pressing for legal and political recognition by the Thai state. I frame this work as a form of “multiculturalism from below” geared more toward inclusion and accommodation than sovereignty and decolonization. This makes the movement distinct from many other parts of the Indigenous world. I further frame the act…
From Hill tribes to Indigenous Peoples: The localisation of a global movement in Thailand
This article presents a chronology of the growth of the concept of Indigeneity in Thailand, analysing the particular ways in which the global Indigenous movement has taken root in the country. In Thailand, transnational support networks and the opening of political associational space played key roles in facilitating the growth of, first, a regional, and later a national Indigenous movement during the 1980s and early 2000s, respectively. Indigeno…
The Rising Politics of Indigeneity in Southeast Asia
Amidst rising trends of "nativism" and "xenophobia" throughout Southeast Asia, a related yet distinct movement framed around altogether different notions of "Indigeneity" is occurring among various long-oppressed ethnic minorities. These groups and their distinct claims of Indigeneity and linkages with the regional and global Indigenous movements are all arising in response to the heightened incorporation of their communities and territories into…
Reframing the Boundaries of Indigeneity: State-Based Ontologies and Assertions of Distinction and Compatibility in Thailand
In this article, I discuss the concept of Indigeneity as it is being localized in post-2000s Thailand by a coalition of ethnic minorities. Their claim of Indigeneity is unique in purporting a state-based ontology that identifies the rise of the modern Thai state with that of their Indigeneity, reflecting the problematic nature in Thailand of claims to first peoples' status. The Thai state has long perceived of these yet-to-be-recognized Indigenou…
Decolonizing methods: Akha articulations of indigeneity in the Upper Mekong Region
The concept of indigeneity is highly problematic in Asia, where a heightened degree of spatial mobility and ethnic fluidity challenge conventional understandings of Indigenous peoples (IPs) as rooted, stable, and unchanging from time immemorial. As some scholars have argued, however, this conception of indigeneity ignores the fact that many IPs have had multiple experiences of displacement due to their colonization by outsiders. Here, the authors…
Talk to the People on the Streets, NOT the People in the Suites: "Reflections on Collaborations with "Mr. Black
Talk to the People on the Streets, NOT the People in the Suites":Reflections on Collaborations with "Mr. Black" Micah F. Morton (bio) and E. L. Thomas-Smith (A.K.A. Mr. Black) (bio) Talk to the people on the streets, NOT thepeople in the suites.The people in the suites have forgotten that they are human too.Also, that they are people too.For they seem to think that they are more special than the rest of the human race,or the rest of the world.It …
From Hill tribes to Indigenous Peoples: The localisation of a global movement in Thailand
This article presents a chronology of the growth of the concept of Indigeneity in Thailand, analysing the particular ways in which the global Indigenous movement has taken root in the country. In Thailand, transnational support networks and the opening of political associational space played key roles in facilitating the growth of, first, a regional, and later a national Indigenous movement during the 1980s and early 2000s, respectively. Indigeno…
Reframing the Boundaries of Indigeneity: State-Based Ontologies and Assertions of Distinction and Compatibility in Thailand
In this article, I discuss the concept of Indigeneity as it is being localized in post-2000s Thailand by a coalition of ethnic minorities. Their claim of Indigeneity is unique in purporting a state-based ontology that identifies the rise of the modern Thai state with that of their Indigeneity, reflecting the problematic nature in Thailand of claims to first peoples' status. The Thai state has long perceived of these yet-to-be-recognized Indigenou…
Decolonizing methods: Akha articulations of indigeneity in the Upper Mekong Region
The concept of indigeneity is highly problematic in Asia, where a heightened degree of spatial mobility and ethnic fluidity challenge conventional understandings of Indigenous peoples (IPs) as rooted, stable, and unchanging from time immemorial. As some scholars have argued, however, this conception of indigeneity ignores the fact that many IPs have had multiple experiences of displacement due to their colonization by outsiders. Here, the authors…
From blood to fruit: Transcosmogenerational modernities in Akha Worlds of the Upper Mekong
In this article, I introduce the concept of "transcosmogenerationality" to emphasize the sustained and dynamic significance of Ancestral relationalities to particular Indigenous modernities. I draw on the case of certain Akha communities in Southeast Asia and southwest China who are channeling wealth from booms in cash crops, such as coffee, rubber, and tea, into the "ritual economy" bridging the parallel and mutually dependent worlds of Ancestor…
The buffalo skin written word’: The cultural politics of orality and writing in mainland South East Asia
Throughout mainland South East Asia, there are numerous indigenous histories of the loss and return of the written word. These histories are often linked to narratives of Christian conversion, and the desire for literacy and modernity. In this article, I revisit questions about the cultural politics of orality and the written word from the perspectives of certain Akha communities in the Thai–Myanmar borderlands that are relative newcomers to both…
Stoking the Flames of Ethnic Politics? The Double Bind of Indigeneity in Post/Neo-colonial Myanmar
Multiculturalism from Below: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Recognition in Thailand
This article highlights the political work Indigenous activists in Thailand carried out in recent years in claiming Indigenous status and pressing for legal and political recognition by the Thai state. I frame this work as a form of “multiculturalism from below” geared more toward inclusion and accommodation than sovereignty and decolonization. This makes the movement distinct from many other parts of the Indigenous world. I further frame the act…
Talk to the People on the Streets, NOT the People in the Suites: "Reflections on Collaborations with "Mr. Black
Talk to the People on the Streets, NOT the People in the Suites":Reflections on Collaborations with "Mr. Black" Micah F. Morton (bio) and E. L. Thomas-Smith (A.K.A. Mr. Black) (bio) Talk to the people on the streets, NOT thepeople in the suites.The people in the suites have forgotten that they are human too.Also, that they are people too.For they seem to think that they are more special than the rest of the human race,or the rest of the world.It …
Decolonizing methods: Akha articulations of indigeneity in the Upper Mekong Region
The concept of indigeneity is highly problematic in Asia, where a heightened degree of spatial mobility and ethnic fluidity challenge conventional understandings of Indigenous peoples (IPs) as rooted, stable, and unchanging from time immemorial. As some scholars have argued, however, this conception of indigeneity ignores the fact that many IPs have had multiple experiences of displacement due to their colonization by outsiders. Here, the authors…
The Rising Politics of Indigeneity in Southeast Asia
Amidst rising trends of "nativism" and "xenophobia" throughout Southeast Asia, a related yet distinct movement framed around altogether different notions of "Indigeneity" is occurring among various long-oppressed ethnic minorities. These groups and their distinct claims of Indigeneity and linkages with the regional and global Indigenous movements are all arising in response to the heightened incorporation of their communities and territories into…
Reframing the Boundaries of Indigeneity: State-Based Ontologies and Assertions of Distinction and Compatibility in Thailand
In this article, I discuss the concept of Indigeneity as it is being localized in post-2000s Thailand by a coalition of ethnic minorities. Their claim of Indigeneity is unique in purporting a state-based ontology that identifies the rise of the modern Thai state with that of their Indigeneity, reflecting the problematic nature in Thailand of claims to first peoples' status. The Thai state has long perceived of these yet-to-be-recognized Indigenou…
From Hill tribes to Indigenous Peoples: The localisation of a global movement in Thailand
This article presents a chronology of the growth of the concept of Indigeneity in Thailand, analysing the particular ways in which the global Indigenous movement has taken root in the country. In Thailand, transnational support networks and the opening of political associational space played key roles in facilitating the growth of, first, a regional, and later a national Indigenous movement during the 1980s and early 2000s, respectively. Indigeno…
The buffalo skin written word’: The cultural politics of orality and writing in mainland South East Asia
Throughout mainland South East Asia, there are numerous indigenous histories of the loss and return of the written word. These histories are often linked to narratives of Christian conversion, and the desire for literacy and modernity. In this article, I revisit questions about the cultural politics of orality and the written word from the perspectives of certain Akha communities in the Thai–Myanmar borderlands that are relative newcomers to both…
Stoking the Flames of Ethnic Politics? The Double Bind of Indigeneity in Post/Neo-colonial Myanmar
Multiculturalism from Below: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Recognition in Thailand
This article highlights the political work Indigenous activists in Thailand carried out in recent years in claiming Indigenous status and pressing for legal and political recognition by the Thai state. I frame this work as a form of “multiculturalism from below” geared more toward inclusion and accommodation than sovereignty and decolonization. This makes the movement distinct from many other parts of the Indigenous world. I further frame the act…
Enchanted Modernities: Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong
From blood to fruit: Transcosmogenerational modernities in Akha Worlds of the Upper Mekong
In this article, I introduce the concept of "transcosmogenerationality" to emphasize the sustained and dynamic significance of Ancestral relationalities to particular Indigenous modernities. I draw on the case of certain Akha communities in Southeast Asia and southwest China who are channeling wealth from booms in cash crops, such as coffee, rubber, and tea, into the "ritual economy" bridging the parallel and mutually dependent worlds of Ancestor…
Decolonizing as restoring relations: A view from Indigenous Studies
In this paper, I draw on Indigenous Studies scholarship, as largely centered on the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand, to identify additional pathways towards decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies. I further draw on my work with Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia who are increasingly identifying in solidarity with other Indigenous Peoples the world over despite a general consensus that Southeast Asia is a post-colonial space where the glo…
Indigenous (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Law (5 works)