Peter Vail serves as Culture and Rights researcher as well as resource people. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the University Scholars Program at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University and is currently teaching on the topics of language death and language, culture, and the idea of the native. Peter’s main interests lie in discourse and social practice, identity politics, language shift, and code-switching, with a geographical focus in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. As a grant recipient of the Thai Research Fund, he is currently completing a project entitled “Cambodian Views of Thailand: Identifying Discourse and Ideology in Social and Linguistic Practice.”
PEOPLE
- Dr. Coeli Barry
- Dr. Varaporn Chamsanit
- Dr. Kimberly A. Christen
- Dr. Alexandra Denes
- Dr. Anan Ganjanapan
- Dr. Tyrell Haberkorn
- Dr. Thanapol Limapichart
- Dr. William Logan
- Dr. Yukti Mukdawijitra
- Dr. Frank Munger
- Dr. Helaine Silverman
- Mr. Tiamsoon Sirisrisak
- Dr. David Streckfuss
- Dr. Peter Vail
- Dr. Suchat Wongsinnak
SPOTLIGHT
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Natural Resources Management and Indigenous Peoples Rights in Thailand
Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand (IMPECT) Association, an indigenous non-governmental development organization, has released its short documentary video on Natural Resources Management and Indigenous Peoples Rights in Thailand. read more»
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Restricted Rights: Migrant Women Workers in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia
War on Want and the Asian Migrant Centre have published a new report on the exploitation and rights of female migrants in Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia. The report details how the three countries and Western companies have reaped huge economic benefits from the contribution made by migrant female workers, yet refused to grant them the rights and security that are their due. read more»
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Natural Resources Management and Indigenous Peoples Rights in Thailand