P Laungaramsri
Biographic Data
| ID | 65537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Laungaramsri |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Laungaramsri |
| SIGNATURE | LAUNGARAMSRI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chiang Mai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9494-877X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The politics of reproductive governance: Women’s bodies and biopower in Thailand
Across two centuries, the politics of reproduction in Thailand has continually bound women’s bodies to projects of moral virtue, economic development, and state power. This paper traces five modalities of reproductive governance—civilized, productive, developmental, moral, and market wombs—to analyze how Thai women’s reproductive capacities have been managed, valued, and contested. Drawing on historical and ethnographic sources, the article argue…
Dark Zomia: Myanmar Frontier and the Chinese Enclosure
Border and bribery: An anthropology of corruption
Corruption has been characterized as a disease of failed states and poor statecraft - a deviation from virtuous development that corrupts economic progress. The dominant paradigm, in which international institutions and policy-makers concur, is one of hard binaries between state and society, law and crime. This article resists binary thinking through ethnographic fieldwork in Mae Sot, a Thai-Myanmar border town. Rather than strangling development…
Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and Nation-State Deferred
Studies of nation and nationalism have long privileged questions about the origins and essence of the nation. When is a nation and what is a nation are the two questions that have occupied much of the debate in the twentieth century. The problem with such essentialist inquiries lies in the presumption that nations are innate, natural, and fixed entities fundamental to people's existence. Modernist critics, on the other hand, have argued for great…
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism
Governing by paper: Mediating textual border and negotiating mobility in Thailand
The relationship between border and bureaucracy offers fertile ground to study how the border continues to affect the lives and movement of people. As epistemological and material sites, borders and their document networks work to produce categories of people. The production of border documents also creates various forms of mediator that traverse in and outside the state arena. Such fluidity of the documentary traffic thus generates a subversive …
China in Laos: Enclave spaces and the transformation of borders in the Mekong Region
Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social and Cultural Change in the Border Regions edited by Grant Evans et al ., is among the few works that take borderlands between China and mainland Southeast Asia seriously. A major contribution of this collection of border studies is its attempt to understand how border experiences and the process of bordering have changed since the early 1990s. Various Chinese–local interactions are explored in this book, w…
Negotiating post-resettlement livelihoods: The Chinese special economic zone and its impact in northwestern Laos
Special economic zones (SEZs) are often employed by the state as a development mechanism to attract foreign direct investment and as a key engine for rural transformation. Drawing on fieldwork in northwestern Laos, this article examines the development impacts of the SEZ, the broker state and the development investor. Deprived of their lands, many post-resettlement villagers were not incorporated into the economy of the SEZ. Re-peasantisation is …
Frontier capitalism and the expansion of rubber plantations in southern Laos
This article examines the recent expansion of large-scale rubber plantations in border areas of Laos and argues that this phenomenon as well as the attendant land concession controversy must be understood from the perspective of resource frontiers. While transnational Vietnamese investment in rubber plantations represents one form of land capitalisation, their establishment in southern Laos has been part of the turbulent political economic transi…
Constructing marginality: The ‘hill tribe’ Karen and their shifting locations within Thai state and public perspectives
Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Women, Nation, and the Ambivalence of Subversive Identification along the Thai‐ Burmese Border
This article focuses on the making of Shan nationalism as a subversive identification against the Burmese regime and its gender ambivalence. By employing a feminist critique of nationalism, it explores the relationship between women and nation within the movement for political independence among the Shan people. The article examines the way in which the imagined Shan nation has become a gender construct and is negotiated and contested by Shan wom…
Imagining nation
This article explores the relationship between women, nation, nationalism, and transnational women's practice through the Shan women's movement in Thailand, particularly the international campaign to stop the systematic rape of Shan women by Burmese soldiers. Employing a feminist critique of nationalism, the article argues that transnational networks allow for the negotiation between national, local, and women's identities. Whereas the authoritat…
Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Frontier capitalism and the expansion of rubber plantations in southern Laos
This article examines the recent expansion of large-scale rubber plantations in border areas of Laos and argues that this phenomenon as well as the attendant land concession controversy must be understood from the perspective of resource frontiers. While transnational Vietnamese investment in rubber plantations represents one form of land capitalisation, their establishment in southern Laos has been part of the turbulent political economic transi…
Women, Nation, and the Ambivalence of Subversive Identification along the Thai‐ Burmese Border
This article focuses on the making of Shan nationalism as a subversive identification against the Burmese regime and its gender ambivalence. By employing a feminist critique of nationalism, it explores the relationship between women and nation within the movement for political independence among the Shan people. The article examines the way in which the imagined Shan nation has become a gender construct and is negotiated and contested by Shan wom…
Dark Zomia: Myanmar Frontier and the Chinese Enclosure
Imagining nation
This article explores the relationship between women, nation, nationalism, and transnational women's practice through the Shan women's movement in Thailand, particularly the international campaign to stop the systematic rape of Shan women by Burmese soldiers. Employing a feminist critique of nationalism, the article argues that transnational networks allow for the negotiation between national, local, and women's identities. Whereas the authoritat…
Women, Nation, and the Ambivalence of Subversive Identification along the Thai‐ Burmese Border
This article focuses on the making of Shan nationalism as a subversive identification against the Burmese regime and its gender ambivalence. By employing a feminist critique of nationalism, it explores the relationship between women and nation within the movement for political independence among the Shan people. The article examines the way in which the imagined Shan nation has become a gender construct and is negotiated and contested by Shan wom…
Imagining nation
This article explores the relationship between women, nation, nationalism, and transnational women's practice through the Shan women's movement in Thailand, particularly the international campaign to stop the systematic rape of Shan women by Burmese soldiers. Employing a feminist critique of nationalism, the article argues that transnational networks allow for the negotiation between national, local, and women's identities. Whereas the authoritat…
Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
Constructing marginality: The ‘hill tribe’ Karen and their shifting locations within Thai state and public perspectives
Frontier capitalism and the expansion of rubber plantations in southern Laos
This article examines the recent expansion of large-scale rubber plantations in border areas of Laos and argues that this phenomenon as well as the attendant land concession controversy must be understood from the perspective of resource frontiers. While transnational Vietnamese investment in rubber plantations represents one form of land capitalisation, their establishment in southern Laos has been part of the turbulent political economic transi…
China in Laos: Enclave spaces and the transformation of borders in the Mekong Region
Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social and Cultural Change in the Border Regions edited by Grant Evans et al ., is among the few works that take borderlands between China and mainland Southeast Asia seriously. A major contribution of this collection of border studies is its attempt to understand how border experiences and the process of bordering have changed since the early 1990s. Various Chinese–local interactions are explored in this book, w…
Negotiating post-resettlement livelihoods: The Chinese special economic zone and its impact in northwestern Laos
Special economic zones (SEZs) are often employed by the state as a development mechanism to attract foreign direct investment and as a key engine for rural transformation. Drawing on fieldwork in northwestern Laos, this article examines the development impacts of the SEZ, the broker state and the development investor. Deprived of their lands, many post-resettlement villagers were not incorporated into the economy of the SEZ. Re-peasantisation is …
Governing by paper: Mediating textual border and negotiating mobility in Thailand
The relationship between border and bureaucracy offers fertile ground to study how the border continues to affect the lives and movement of people. As epistemological and material sites, borders and their document networks work to produce categories of people. The production of border documents also creates various forms of mediator that traverse in and outside the state arena. Such fluidity of the documentary traffic thus generates a subversive …
Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and Nation-State Deferred
Studies of nation and nationalism have long privileged questions about the origins and essence of the nation. When is a nation and what is a nation are the two questions that have occupied much of the debate in the twentieth century. The problem with such essentialist inquiries lies in the presumption that nations are innate, natural, and fixed entities fundamental to people's existence. Modernist critics, on the other hand, have argued for great…
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism
Dark Zomia: Myanmar Frontier and the Chinese Enclosure
Border and bribery: An anthropology of corruption
Corruption has been characterized as a disease of failed states and poor statecraft - a deviation from virtuous development that corrupts economic progress. The dominant paradigm, in which international institutions and policy-makers concur, is one of hard binaries between state and society, law and crime. This article resists binary thinking through ethnographic fieldwork in Mae Sot, a Thai-Myanmar border town. Rather than strangling development…
The politics of reproductive governance: Women’s bodies and biopower in Thailand
Across two centuries, the politics of reproduction in Thailand has continually bound women’s bodies to projects of moral virtue, economic development, and state power. This paper traces five modalities of reproductive governance—civilized, productive, developmental, moral, and market wombs—to analyze how Thai women’s reproductive capacities have been managed, valued, and contested. Drawing on historical and ethnographic sources, the article argue…
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · China (3 works) · Development economics (3 works)