Peter Vail
Biographic Data
| ID | 4064316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Vail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Vail |
| SIGNATURE | VAIL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ubon Ratchathani University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Value of Remotely Sensed Information
A decision framework is developed for quantifying the economic value of information (VOI) from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission for drought monitoring, with a focus on the potential contributions of groundwater storage and soil moisture measurements from the GRACE data assimilation (GRACE-DA) system. The study consists of (i) the development of a conceptual framework to evaluate the socioeconomic value of GRAC…
Muay Thai
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…
Thailand's Khmer as ‘invisible minority
Ethnic Khmer speakers in Thailand number over a million. Yet, despite their large numbers, they are regarded as an 'invisible minority', largely inconspicuous in the nation's arena of cultural politics. Their invisibility has, to some extent, to do with their overall cultural similarity with surrounding ethnic Lao speakers of Thailand's north-eastern 'Isan' region; like Isan Lao, they are syncretic Theravada Buddhists, and their village life revo…
Can A Language of A Million Speakers Be Endangered? Language Shift and Apathy Among Northern Khmer Speakers in Thailand
Northern Khmer is a variety of Khmer spoken in several provinces of northeastern Thailand. With over a million speakers, it is not normally regarded as an endangered language. However, the effectiveness of Thai state penetration into the countryside, Thai language policy, changing modes of production in rural villages, the rise of mass media, and increased social mobility are leading speakers to shift to the national language, Thai. This shift is…
Making the Mundane Sacred Through Technology
This article explores the sanctifying power of technology and digital imagery, and its use for local political action. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in northeastern Thailand, the author examines how a photograph of a tree and its presentation on a laptop computer were used to save the tree from being cut down. He shows how a unique combination of rhetorical strategy and commodity fetishism, when coupled with the digital image, rendered the tree…
Muay Thai
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…
Thailand's Khmer as ‘invisible minority
Ethnic Khmer speakers in Thailand number over a million. Yet, despite their large numbers, they are regarded as an 'invisible minority', largely inconspicuous in the nation's arena of cultural politics. Their invisibility has, to some extent, to do with their overall cultural similarity with surrounding ethnic Lao speakers of Thailand's north-eastern 'Isan' region; like Isan Lao, they are syncretic Theravada Buddhists, and their village life revo…
Making the Mundane Sacred Through Technology
This article explores the sanctifying power of technology and digital imagery, and its use for local political action. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in northeastern Thailand, the author examines how a photograph of a tree and its presentation on a laptop computer were used to save the tree from being cut down. He shows how a unique combination of rhetorical strategy and commodity fetishism, when coupled with the digital image, rendered the tree…
Can A Language of A Million Speakers Be Endangered? Language Shift and Apathy Among Northern Khmer Speakers in Thailand
Northern Khmer is a variety of Khmer spoken in several provinces of northeastern Thailand. With over a million speakers, it is not normally regarded as an endangered language. However, the effectiveness of Thai state penetration into the countryside, Thai language policy, changing modes of production in rural villages, the rise of mass media, and increased social mobility are leading speakers to shift to the national language, Thai. This shift is…
Thailand's Khmer as ‘invisible minority
Ethnic Khmer speakers in Thailand number over a million. Yet, despite their large numbers, they are regarded as an 'invisible minority', largely inconspicuous in the nation's arena of cultural politics. Their invisibility has, to some extent, to do with their overall cultural similarity with surrounding ethnic Lao speakers of Thailand's north-eastern 'Isan' region; like Isan Lao, they are syncretic Theravada Buddhists, and their village life revo…
Muay Thai
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…
The Value of Remotely Sensed Information
A decision framework is developed for quantifying the economic value of information (VOI) from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission for drought monitoring, with a focus on the potential contributions of groundwater storage and soil moisture measurements from the GRACE data assimilation (GRACE-DA) system. The study consists of (i) the development of a conceptual framework to evaluate the socioeconomic value of GRAC…
Sociology (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Affordance (1 work)