Aranya Siriphon
Biographic Data
| ID | 222609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aranya Siriphon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aranya |
| FAMILY NAME | Siriphon |
| SIGNATURE | SIRIPHON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chiang Mai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2189-3189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking host-guest dynamics: Reflexivity in Chinese outbound tourism behavior in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Purpose This study aims to examine behavioral changes among Chinese outbound tourists through the lens of reflexivity, with particular attention to consumer performativity and host–guest interactions. It explores how reflexive processes shape tourists’ decision-making, cultural adaptability and collective identity in response to sociocultural and media influences. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research design was adopted, combining pa…
Co-Creating a Web-Based GIS for Local Government Innovation: The LGIA Experience in Wiang Yong, Thailand
Inderscience is a global company, a dynamic leading independent journal publisher disseminates the latest research across the broad fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services, and related areas
Educational Nomadic Families: Transnational Social Reproduction Mobility of Chinese Middle-Income Families in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This study examines the phenomenon of Chinese families bringing their children to attend international schools in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, over the past 5 years. Positioned as a subgroup within the broader context of Chinese global education migration toward Southeast Asia, this research utilizes semi-structured interviews with 38 sampled families whose children are enrolled in 23 international schools in Chiang Mai. The findings reveal tha…
Prevalence of ARI, fever, and diarrhea among under-five children and the influencing factors in southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh
The study suggests introducing targeted nutrition education programs for both mothers and infants through community outreach. Besides, generating sustainable income opportunities to reduce coastal households' vulnerabilities. Additionally, infrastructural development is essential to ensure access to quality healthcare services in geospatially disadvantaged regions, especially in southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu'er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
A number of Tai Lue women in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China, engage in the tea business as entrepreneurs, despite facing dual marginalisation resulting from long-standing ethnic and gender stereotypes. The representations of Pu’er tea authenticity, along with women’s charm and beauty as part of tea aesthetics in Chinese tea culture, transform into ethnic and gendered capital for Tai Lue women in the tea business. Through fieldwork and qualitative…
Agroecology, tourism, and community adaptability under Unesco biosphere reserve: A case study of smallholders in northern Thailand
This study investigates the intersection of agroecology and sustainable tourism, shedding light on the adaptive resilience within rural communities. Focused on the delicate balance between tourism‐driven economic gains, social‐ecological enhancements, and environmental conservation, the research centers on a case study involving four communities within the Mueang Khong subdistrict of Chiang Dao, Northern Thailand. Methodologically, the fieldwork …
In Pursuit of Children’s Education Abroad: China’s Middle-Class Families and Parental Flexibility in Transient Migration to Thailand
This article explores education-led migration among Chinese families who pursue international education for their children in Thailand. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, with data collected from 220 Chinese respondents to a survey and by means of 12 semi-structured interviews. The Chinese families emigrating from China to Chiang Mai in Thailand are representatives of the largely urbanized, well-educated middle-class families that today practi…
Reproduction mobility' and motherhood construction: Chinese education migrants in Chiang Mai
Reproduction mobility' adopted in this article indicates a rising trend of social reproduction mobility serving the purpose of maintaining an alternative life that many middle-class Chinese parents, mostly mothers, are taking their children out of the hyper-competitive domestic education arena in mainland China to attend international schools in Chiang Mai. This escape implies macro-level changes in the global education market on two fronts: Chin…
Consumption, ongoingness and everyday-life embeddedness: Lifestyle experiences of Chinese transient migrants in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article examines recent Chinese migrants to Thailand, with a specific focus on those who migrate for education and remain in Thailand after graduation. It aims to drive the analytical theory from a methodological nationalism to a transient migration approach, and to capture the sense of “transience” of the new wave of Chinese migration in a broader Asia-Pacific context. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, with data collected from Chinese m…
Chinese dream, emerging statecraft, and Chinese influence in the Mekong region
It has become known that the Confucius Institute (CI) and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (Qiaoban) are operated as tools of state-led mechanism, or Chinese statecraft with the ultimate goal of expanding China's cultural soft power. Following the direction, Xi Jinping has been pushing the notion of the “Chinese dream,” focusing on the realm of Chinese traditional culture and launching a new state-led mechanism. This article examines an emergi…
Transnationalizing Intrapreneurs and Entrepreneurial Values: Case Studies of Chinese Companies in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article explores recent waves of Chinese mobility demonstrated by new Chinese emigrants working for private Chinese companies conducting transnational business in Thailand in general and Chiang Mai Province in particular. We use two case studies of international education centres and real estate for senior care businesses in Chiang Mai to discuss the flexibility of Chinese capitalism and argue that deploying intrapreneurs and cultivating ent…
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective
This article examines the mindsets of independent Chinese tourists in the context of the emerging dynamic mobility perspective. It investigates Chinese tourists’ travel impulses, cross-border flows, quality-of-life perceptions, and the meaning of living a mobile lifestyle. Through face-to-face interviews and drawing on narrative descriptions in social media and newsletters, the article draws findings relating to travel motivations, the reconstruc…
Chinese outbound tourism: An alternative modernity perspective
Chinese outbound tourism has become of great interest to tourism scholars. This paper provides a brief review of the current theoretical discussion about modernity and alternative modernity and their connection to Chinese outbound tourism developments. The paper traces the progress of Chinese outbound tourism via the binary structure-agent approach. Its study integrates the institutional development of the Chinese tourism governing body over four…
The Qiaoban, the PRC Influence and Nationalist Chinese in the Northern Thai Borderland
From 1989 onwards, the People's Republic of China's use of the Qiaoban, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau, has burgeoned notably in regard to attracting investment and loyalty from overseas Chinese outside mainland China. This article analyses the impact of the Qiaoban and the PRC influence upon “diasporic Chinese” living along the northern Thai border, particularly ethnic Chinese (e.g. Teochiu, Hakka, Hainanese) and Nationalist Chinese ( Kuomi…
Dress and Cultural Strategy: Tai Peddlers in Transnational Trade along the Burma – Yunnan Frontier
This paper explores transnational trade carried out by the Tai, an ethnic nationality spread across the border area between Shan State in Myanmar and Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan province in China. The Tai who live in this border region belong to a linguistic group that has long shared cultural and linguistic traits with the Thai in Thailand and other Tai-speaking groups in Vietnam, Laos and other parts of Southeast Asia. This paper focuses on the…
Local Knowledge, Dynamism and the Politics of Struggle: A Case Study of the Hmong in Northern Thailand
The Hmong are not passive actors who wait for help from development workers and other authorities. Instead, they actively engage themselves within a process of social negotiation between unequal socio-economic and political groups, a ‘dynamic knowledge system’. Three case studies from a Hmong Thantam community are used to better understand the process of social negotiation with multiple actors within complex power relations. More importantly, the…
Reproduction mobility' and motherhood construction: Chinese education migrants in Chiang Mai
Reproduction mobility' adopted in this article indicates a rising trend of social reproduction mobility serving the purpose of maintaining an alternative life that many middle-class Chinese parents, mostly mothers, are taking their children out of the hyper-competitive domestic education arena in mainland China to attend international schools in Chiang Mai. This escape implies macro-level changes in the global education market on two fronts: Chin…
Chinese outbound tourism: An alternative modernity perspective
Chinese outbound tourism has become of great interest to tourism scholars. This paper provides a brief review of the current theoretical discussion about modernity and alternative modernity and their connection to Chinese outbound tourism developments. The paper traces the progress of Chinese outbound tourism via the binary structure-agent approach. Its study integrates the institutional development of the Chinese tourism governing body over four…
Agroecology, tourism, and community adaptability under Unesco biosphere reserve: A case study of smallholders in northern Thailand
This study investigates the intersection of agroecology and sustainable tourism, shedding light on the adaptive resilience within rural communities. Focused on the delicate balance between tourism‐driven economic gains, social‐ecological enhancements, and environmental conservation, the research centers on a case study involving four communities within the Mueang Khong subdistrict of Chiang Dao, Northern Thailand. Methodologically, the fieldwork …
In Pursuit of Children’s Education Abroad: China’s Middle-Class Families and Parental Flexibility in Transient Migration to Thailand
This article explores education-led migration among Chinese families who pursue international education for their children in Thailand. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, with data collected from 220 Chinese respondents to a survey and by means of 12 semi-structured interviews. The Chinese families emigrating from China to Chiang Mai in Thailand are representatives of the largely urbanized, well-educated middle-class families that today practi…
Consumption, ongoingness and everyday-life embeddedness: Lifestyle experiences of Chinese transient migrants in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article examines recent Chinese migrants to Thailand, with a specific focus on those who migrate for education and remain in Thailand after graduation. It aims to drive the analytical theory from a methodological nationalism to a transient migration approach, and to capture the sense of “transience” of the new wave of Chinese migration in a broader Asia-Pacific context. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, with data collected from Chinese m…
Dress and Cultural Strategy: Tai Peddlers in Transnational Trade along the Burma – Yunnan Frontier
This paper explores transnational trade carried out by the Tai, an ethnic nationality spread across the border area between Shan State in Myanmar and Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan province in China. The Tai who live in this border region belong to a linguistic group that has long shared cultural and linguistic traits with the Thai in Thailand and other Tai-speaking groups in Vietnam, Laos and other parts of Southeast Asia. This paper focuses on the…
Transnationalizing Intrapreneurs and Entrepreneurial Values: Case Studies of Chinese Companies in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article explores recent waves of Chinese mobility demonstrated by new Chinese emigrants working for private Chinese companies conducting transnational business in Thailand in general and Chiang Mai Province in particular. We use two case studies of international education centres and real estate for senior care businesses in Chiang Mai to discuss the flexibility of Chinese capitalism and argue that deploying intrapreneurs and cultivating ent…
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective
This article examines the mindsets of independent Chinese tourists in the context of the emerging dynamic mobility perspective. It investigates Chinese tourists’ travel impulses, cross-border flows, quality-of-life perceptions, and the meaning of living a mobile lifestyle. Through face-to-face interviews and drawing on narrative descriptions in social media and newsletters, the article draws findings relating to travel motivations, the reconstruc…
Local Knowledge, Dynamism and the Politics of Struggle: A Case Study of the Hmong in Northern Thailand
The Hmong are not passive actors who wait for help from development workers and other authorities. Instead, they actively engage themselves within a process of social negotiation between unequal socio-economic and political groups, a ‘dynamic knowledge system’. Three case studies from a Hmong Thantam community are used to better understand the process of social negotiation with multiple actors within complex power relations. More importantly, the…
Local Knowledge, Dynamism and the Politics of Struggle: A Case Study of the Hmong in Northern Thailand
The Hmong are not passive actors who wait for help from development workers and other authorities. Instead, they actively engage themselves within a process of social negotiation between unequal socio-economic and political groups, a ‘dynamic knowledge system’. Three case studies from a Hmong Thantam community are used to better understand the process of social negotiation with multiple actors within complex power relations. More importantly, the…
Dress and Cultural Strategy: Tai Peddlers in Transnational Trade along the Burma – Yunnan Frontier
This paper explores transnational trade carried out by the Tai, an ethnic nationality spread across the border area between Shan State in Myanmar and Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan province in China. The Tai who live in this border region belong to a linguistic group that has long shared cultural and linguistic traits with the Thai in Thailand and other Tai-speaking groups in Vietnam, Laos and other parts of Southeast Asia. This paper focuses on the…
The Qiaoban, the PRC Influence and Nationalist Chinese in the Northern Thai Borderland
From 1989 onwards, the People's Republic of China's use of the Qiaoban, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau, has burgeoned notably in regard to attracting investment and loyalty from overseas Chinese outside mainland China. This article analyses the impact of the Qiaoban and the PRC influence upon “diasporic Chinese” living along the northern Thai border, particularly ethnic Chinese (e.g. Teochiu, Hakka, Hainanese) and Nationalist Chinese ( Kuomi…
Chinese dream, emerging statecraft, and Chinese influence in the Mekong region
It has become known that the Confucius Institute (CI) and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (Qiaoban) are operated as tools of state-led mechanism, or Chinese statecraft with the ultimate goal of expanding China's cultural soft power. Following the direction, Xi Jinping has been pushing the notion of the “Chinese dream,” focusing on the realm of Chinese traditional culture and launching a new state-led mechanism. This article examines an emergi…
Transnationalizing Intrapreneurs and Entrepreneurial Values: Case Studies of Chinese Companies in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article explores recent waves of Chinese mobility demonstrated by new Chinese emigrants working for private Chinese companies conducting transnational business in Thailand in general and Chiang Mai Province in particular. We use two case studies of international education centres and real estate for senior care businesses in Chiang Mai to discuss the flexibility of Chinese capitalism and argue that deploying intrapreneurs and cultivating ent…
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective
This article examines the mindsets of independent Chinese tourists in the context of the emerging dynamic mobility perspective. It investigates Chinese tourists’ travel impulses, cross-border flows, quality-of-life perceptions, and the meaning of living a mobile lifestyle. Through face-to-face interviews and drawing on narrative descriptions in social media and newsletters, the article draws findings relating to travel motivations, the reconstruc…
Chinese outbound tourism: An alternative modernity perspective
Chinese outbound tourism has become of great interest to tourism scholars. This paper provides a brief review of the current theoretical discussion about modernity and alternative modernity and their connection to Chinese outbound tourism developments. The paper traces the progress of Chinese outbound tourism via the binary structure-agent approach. Its study integrates the institutional development of the Chinese tourism governing body over four…
Consumption, ongoingness and everyday-life embeddedness: Lifestyle experiences of Chinese transient migrants in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article examines recent Chinese migrants to Thailand, with a specific focus on those who migrate for education and remain in Thailand after graduation. It aims to drive the analytical theory from a methodological nationalism to a transient migration approach, and to capture the sense of “transience” of the new wave of Chinese migration in a broader Asia-Pacific context. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, with data collected from Chinese m…
In Pursuit of Children’s Education Abroad: China’s Middle-Class Families and Parental Flexibility in Transient Migration to Thailand
This article explores education-led migration among Chinese families who pursue international education for their children in Thailand. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, with data collected from 220 Chinese respondents to a survey and by means of 12 semi-structured interviews. The Chinese families emigrating from China to Chiang Mai in Thailand are representatives of the largely urbanized, well-educated middle-class families that today practi…
Reproduction mobility' and motherhood construction: Chinese education migrants in Chiang Mai
Reproduction mobility' adopted in this article indicates a rising trend of social reproduction mobility serving the purpose of maintaining an alternative life that many middle-class Chinese parents, mostly mothers, are taking their children out of the hyper-competitive domestic education arena in mainland China to attend international schools in Chiang Mai. This escape implies macro-level changes in the global education market on two fronts: Chin…
Agroecology, tourism, and community adaptability under Unesco biosphere reserve: A case study of smallholders in northern Thailand
This study investigates the intersection of agroecology and sustainable tourism, shedding light on the adaptive resilience within rural communities. Focused on the delicate balance between tourism‐driven economic gains, social‐ecological enhancements, and environmental conservation, the research centers on a case study involving four communities within the Mueang Khong subdistrict of Chiang Dao, Northern Thailand. Methodologically, the fieldwork …
Educational Nomadic Families: Transnational Social Reproduction Mobility of Chinese Middle-Income Families in Chiang Mai, Thailand
This study examines the phenomenon of Chinese families bringing their children to attend international schools in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, over the past 5 years. Positioned as a subgroup within the broader context of Chinese global education migration toward Southeast Asia, this research utilizes semi-structured interviews with 38 sampled families whose children are enrolled in 23 international schools in Chiang Mai. The findings reveal tha…
Prevalence of ARI, fever, and diarrhea among under-five children and the influencing factors in southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh
The study suggests introducing targeted nutrition education programs for both mothers and infants through community outreach. Besides, generating sustainable income opportunities to reduce coastal households' vulnerabilities. Additionally, infrastructural development is essential to ensure access to quality healthcare services in geospatially disadvantaged regions, especially in southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu'er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
A number of Tai Lue women in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China, engage in the tea business as entrepreneurs, despite facing dual marginalisation resulting from long-standing ethnic and gender stereotypes. The representations of Pu’er tea authenticity, along with women’s charm and beauty as part of tea aesthetics in Chinese tea culture, transform into ethnic and gendered capital for Tai Lue women in the tea business. Through fieldwork and qualitative…
Rethinking host-guest dynamics: Reflexivity in Chinese outbound tourism behavior in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Purpose This study aims to examine behavioral changes among Chinese outbound tourists through the lens of reflexivity, with particular attention to consumer performativity and host–guest interactions. It explores how reflexive processes shape tourists’ decision-making, cultural adaptability and collective identity in response to sociocultural and media influences. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research design was adopted, combining pa…
Co-Creating a Web-Based GIS for Local Government Innovation: The LGIA Experience in Wiang Yong, Thailand
Inderscience is a global company, a dynamic leading independent journal publisher disseminates the latest research across the broad fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services, and related areas
Sociology (13 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works)