Tyrell Haberkorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 279088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyrell Haberkorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyrell |
| FAMILY NAME | Haberkorn |
| SIGNATURE | HABERKORN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Jailed for criticising the royal family
In the Name of the King
A decade on from the country’s last coup, aggressive use of a law shielding the monarchy from criticism has blocked a real return to democracy
Generative Constitutional Bricolage
Under and beyond the Law
Since the end of the absolute monarchy in Thailand on June 24, 1932, the rulers and the ruled have been locked into struggle, often violent, over what form the polity and the people's participation in it should take. This essay examines this struggle, the imagination of justice, and the inability to consolidate democracy, or even a stable government, through the lens of the monarchy, which has remained beyond accountability. Violence committed to…
Dictatorship, Monarchy, and Freedom of Expression in Thailand
On December 4, 2016, Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, known by his nickname "Pai," then a law student at Khon Kaen University in northeastern Thailand, was arrested and accused of violating Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, or defaming, insulting, or threatening the king, queen, heir-apparent, or regent. Two days prior, he had shared to Facebook a biography of the new king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, or Rama X, who became king following the death of his …
Dictatorship as occupation in Thailand
On 22 May 2014, a junta calling itself the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) launched the 12th coup in Thailand since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932. The NCPO's rule consolidated into a dictatorship marked by sweeping arrests, arbitrary detention, the criminalization of political participation, and use of military courts to prosecute dissidents. During the three years of rule by the NCPO, the repression of dictatorship has int…
The Anniversary of a Massacre and the Death of a Monarch
As part of this year's anniversary of the October 6, 1976, massacre at Thammasat University, an outdoor exhibit of photographs of the violence and the three preceding years of student and other social movements was displayed upon the very soccer field in the center of campus where students were beaten, shot, lynched, and murdered forty years prior. Several of the photographs were printed on large sheets of acrylic and positioned such that the ima…
Engendering Sedition
On April 5, 1951, Ethel Rosenberg was sentenced to death for allegedly conspiring to commit espionage and sell US atomic information to the Soviet Union. On August 28, 2009, Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for allegedly insulting the royal family of Thailand. By bringing the suffering and courageous actions of these two women into conversation across time and space, the nature of national crisis and the impos…
Anticipating the Struggle against Everyday Impunity in Myanmar through Accounts from Bangladesh and Thailand
Work done internationally to address impunity concentrates on removing blanket amnesties and establishing commissions of inquiry into past atrocities. Everyday impunity—the impossibility of bringing state officers to account for routinized violent crimes against other individuals—gets less attention, even though its effects on public life are insidious. Studying the 2014 killing of a journalist, we identify modes for the production of everyday im…
A Hyper-Royalist Parapolitics in Thailand
In the years since the 19 September 2006 coup, there has been a resurgence in prosecutions \nunder Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, the measure which criminalizes \nand provides for harsh penalties for alleged lèse majesté. One of the striking features of \nrecent court decisions in Article 112 cases is that judges have gone beyond the boundaries \nof law to justify the convictions, and developed a jurisprudence that centres on \nmonarchica…
Repression, Resistance, and the Law in Post-Coup Thailand
Since the May 2014 coup, the junta has leaned on the law to impose the worst repression in Thailand since the 1970s. Opposition activists are fighting back in the courts
When Torture is a Duty
On 19 March 2008, Imam Yapa Kaseng was arrested in Narathiwat in southern Thailand and detained as a suspected insurgent by Special Task Force 39 under the provisions of martial law and the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in an Emergency Situation (hereafter Emergency Decree). Two days after his arrest, he died in the custody of the army. On 25 December 2008, the Narathiwat Provincial Court ruled that “the cause of death is that the dec…
Hannah Arendt, Nidhi Eoseewong, and the Spectre of Totalitarianism in Thailand
Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism, her expansive analysis of the development and spread of totalitarianism in Europe in 1951, in the aftermath of the rise of anti-Semitism and Nazism, the Holocaust, and the violent destruction of life, community, and nation left both in the wake of World War II and amidst Stalinism. Her analysis rooted firmly in Europe, she commented in the preface that, "Never has our future been more unpred…
Martial Law and the Criminalization of Thought in Thailand
At 5.30 pm on 17 September 2014, police and soldiers interrupted a lecture on the topic of "Democracy Classroom #2: The Decline of Dictatorship in Other Countries" at Thammasat University in Bangkok. The officials went up to Professor Nidhi Eoseewong, the noted historian and public intellectual who was speaking, and told him to stop and come with them. Three additional scholars (Prajak Kongkirati, Janjira Sombutpoonsiri, and Chaowarit Chaowsangra…
Revolution Interrupted
Under and beyond the Law
Since the end of the absolute monarchy in Thailand on June 24, 1932, the rulers and the ruled have been locked into struggle, often violent, over what form the polity and the people's participation in it should take. This essay examines this struggle, the imagination of justice, and the inability to consolidate democracy, or even a stable government, through the lens of the monarchy, which has remained beyond accountability. Violence committed to…
Dictatorship, Monarchy, and Freedom of Expression in Thailand
On December 4, 2016, Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, known by his nickname "Pai," then a law student at Khon Kaen University in northeastern Thailand, was arrested and accused of violating Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, or defaming, insulting, or threatening the king, queen, heir-apparent, or regent. Two days prior, he had shared to Facebook a biography of the new king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, or Rama X, who became king following the death of his …
A Hyper-Royalist Parapolitics in Thailand
In the years since the 19 September 2006 coup, there has been a resurgence in prosecutions \nunder Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, the measure which criminalizes \nand provides for harsh penalties for alleged lèse majesté. One of the striking features of \nrecent court decisions in Article 112 cases is that judges have gone beyond the boundaries \nof law to justify the convictions, and developed a jurisprudence that centres on \nmonarchica…
The Anniversary of a Massacre and the Death of a Monarch
As part of this year's anniversary of the October 6, 1976, massacre at Thammasat University, an outdoor exhibit of photographs of the violence and the three preceding years of student and other social movements was displayed upon the very soccer field in the center of campus where students were beaten, shot, lynched, and murdered forty years prior. Several of the photographs were printed on large sheets of acrylic and positioned such that the ima…
When Torture is a Duty
On 19 March 2008, Imam Yapa Kaseng was arrested in Narathiwat in southern Thailand and detained as a suspected insurgent by Special Task Force 39 under the provisions of martial law and the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in an Emergency Situation (hereafter Emergency Decree). Two days after his arrest, he died in the custody of the army. On 25 December 2008, the Narathiwat Provincial Court ruled that “the cause of death is that the dec…
Engendering Sedition
On April 5, 1951, Ethel Rosenberg was sentenced to death for allegedly conspiring to commit espionage and sell US atomic information to the Soviet Union. On August 28, 2009, Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for allegedly insulting the royal family of Thailand. By bringing the suffering and courageous actions of these two women into conversation across time and space, the nature of national crisis and the impos…
Anticipating the Struggle against Everyday Impunity in Myanmar through Accounts from Bangladesh and Thailand
Work done internationally to address impunity concentrates on removing blanket amnesties and establishing commissions of inquiry into past atrocities. Everyday impunity—the impossibility of bringing state officers to account for routinized violent crimes against other individuals—gets less attention, even though its effects on public life are insidious. Studying the 2014 killing of a journalist, we identify modes for the production of everyday im…
Revolution Interrupted
When Torture is a Duty
On 19 March 2008, Imam Yapa Kaseng was arrested in Narathiwat in southern Thailand and detained as a suspected insurgent by Special Task Force 39 under the provisions of martial law and the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in an Emergency Situation (hereafter Emergency Decree). Two days after his arrest, he died in the custody of the army. On 25 December 2008, the Narathiwat Provincial Court ruled that “the cause of death is that the dec…
Hannah Arendt, Nidhi Eoseewong, and the Spectre of Totalitarianism in Thailand
Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism, her expansive analysis of the development and spread of totalitarianism in Europe in 1951, in the aftermath of the rise of anti-Semitism and Nazism, the Holocaust, and the violent destruction of life, community, and nation left both in the wake of World War II and amidst Stalinism. Her analysis rooted firmly in Europe, she commented in the preface that, "Never has our future been more unpred…
Martial Law and the Criminalization of Thought in Thailand
At 5.30 pm on 17 September 2014, police and soldiers interrupted a lecture on the topic of "Democracy Classroom #2: The Decline of Dictatorship in Other Countries" at Thammasat University in Bangkok. The officials went up to Professor Nidhi Eoseewong, the noted historian and public intellectual who was speaking, and told him to stop and come with them. Three additional scholars (Prajak Kongkirati, Janjira Sombutpoonsiri, and Chaowarit Chaowsangra…
Repression, Resistance, and the Law in Post-Coup Thailand
Since the May 2014 coup, the junta has leaned on the law to impose the worst repression in Thailand since the 1970s. Opposition activists are fighting back in the courts
Engendering Sedition
On April 5, 1951, Ethel Rosenberg was sentenced to death for allegedly conspiring to commit espionage and sell US atomic information to the Soviet Union. On August 28, 2009, Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for allegedly insulting the royal family of Thailand. By bringing the suffering and courageous actions of these two women into conversation across time and space, the nature of national crisis and the impos…
Anticipating the Struggle against Everyday Impunity in Myanmar through Accounts from Bangladesh and Thailand
Work done internationally to address impunity concentrates on removing blanket amnesties and establishing commissions of inquiry into past atrocities. Everyday impunity—the impossibility of bringing state officers to account for routinized violent crimes against other individuals—gets less attention, even though its effects on public life are insidious. Studying the 2014 killing of a journalist, we identify modes for the production of everyday im…
A Hyper-Royalist Parapolitics in Thailand
In the years since the 19 September 2006 coup, there has been a resurgence in prosecutions \nunder Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, the measure which criminalizes \nand provides for harsh penalties for alleged lèse majesté. One of the striking features of \nrecent court decisions in Article 112 cases is that judges have gone beyond the boundaries \nof law to justify the convictions, and developed a jurisprudence that centres on \nmonarchica…
Dictatorship as occupation in Thailand
On 22 May 2014, a junta calling itself the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) launched the 12th coup in Thailand since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932. The NCPO's rule consolidated into a dictatorship marked by sweeping arrests, arbitrary detention, the criminalization of political participation, and use of military courts to prosecute dissidents. During the three years of rule by the NCPO, the repression of dictatorship has int…
The Anniversary of a Massacre and the Death of a Monarch
As part of this year's anniversary of the October 6, 1976, massacre at Thammasat University, an outdoor exhibit of photographs of the violence and the three preceding years of student and other social movements was displayed upon the very soccer field in the center of campus where students were beaten, shot, lynched, and murdered forty years prior. Several of the photographs were printed on large sheets of acrylic and positioned such that the ima…
Dictatorship, Monarchy, and Freedom of Expression in Thailand
On December 4, 2016, Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, known by his nickname "Pai," then a law student at Khon Kaen University in northeastern Thailand, was arrested and accused of violating Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, or defaming, insulting, or threatening the king, queen, heir-apparent, or regent. Two days prior, he had shared to Facebook a biography of the new king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, or Rama X, who became king following the death of his …
Under and beyond the Law
Since the end of the absolute monarchy in Thailand on June 24, 1932, the rulers and the ruled have been locked into struggle, often violent, over what form the polity and the people's participation in it should take. This essay examines this struggle, the imagination of justice, and the inability to consolidate democracy, or even a stable government, through the lens of the monarchy, which has remained beyond accountability. Violence committed to…
In the Name of the King
A decade on from the country’s last coup, aggressive use of a law shielding the monarchy from criticism has blocked a real return to democracy
Generative Constitutional Bricolage
Jailed for criticising the royal family
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