All Outputs (13)

Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006 (2024)
Thesis
Boonhok, S. Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the reinvention of Thainess (khwam pen Thai) or national Thai identity in Thai literature after 2006, the year of the coup which overthrew Thaksin Shinawatra and led to decades-long political and ideological clashes. At the same... Read More about Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006.

An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China (2024)
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Yang, Z. An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the potential contours of new academic bodies of Nepali Studies, and in doing so, questions for whom these bodies of knowledge might be reshaped. It proposes that the current academic discourse of Nepali Studies, with its predomi... Read More about An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China.

Rethinking "comfort women" in Historical Fiction: A Multidisciplinary Study on Korean and Korean American Novels (2023)
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Lee, S. Y. Rethinking "comfort women" in Historical Fiction: A Multidisciplinary Study on Korean and Korean American Novels. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research examines how “comfort women” are represented in Korean and Korean American novels. An analysis of the works reveals different methods of representations of “comfort women” between Korean and Korean American historical fiction. I examine... Read More about Rethinking "comfort women" in Historical Fiction: A Multidisciplinary Study on Korean and Korean American Novels.

Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond (2023)
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Topoonyanont, W. S. Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the interrelationships between humans and Nature1 as represented in the Thai folk oralities - from folk lullabies to rural belief systems. This includes a consideration of the portrayals of the archaic female guardian spirit (Mae... Read More about Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond.

Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city (2022)
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Mitski, A. I. Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In recent decades, Bangkok’s Japanese community has undergone an unprecedented growth, with its official numbers skyrocketing to over 70 thousand (Japanese MOFA data 2015) and the unofficial ones thought to exceed 100 thousand. The majority of that i... Read More about Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city.

The representation of Thai Muslims in three southern border provinces on YouTube (2018)
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Kirdnark, T. The representation of Thai Muslims in three southern border provinces on YouTube. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Exploring Thai Cultural Identity through the Remakes of Korean Dramas : A Study of Transnational and Hybrid Culture on Thai Television (2018)
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Sinpongsporn, I. Exploring Thai Cultural Identity through the Remakes of Korean Dramas : A Study of Transnational and Hybrid Culture on Thai Television. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis adopts the perspectives of media and cultural studies to interrogate ‘cultural identity’ and ‘cultural hybridity’ through an analysis of the influence of South Korean popular culture on contemporary Thai media production and audience rece... Read More about Exploring Thai Cultural Identity through the Remakes of Korean Dramas : A Study of Transnational and Hybrid Culture on Thai Television.

A sociological approach to the translation of Chinese martial arts fiction into Thai (2018)
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Jongjairuksa, K. A sociological approach to the translation of Chinese martial arts fiction into Thai. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The sociology of the representation of national self through the translation of modern Thai literature into English : a Bourdieusian approach (2016)
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Techawongstien, K. The sociology of the representation of national self through the translation of modern Thai literature into English : a Bourdieusian approach. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gender, global economic development and intimate lives : exploring reproductive dilemmas in Metro Manila and Cavite, Philippines (2016)
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Collantes, C. F. Gender, global economic development and intimate lives : exploring reproductive dilemmas in Metro Manila and Cavite, Philippines. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Is there still a gender divide? : indigenous women in Hong Kong since the legitimization of female land inheritance during the post-colonial era (2015)
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Ng, F. S. I. Is there still a gender divide? : indigenous women in Hong Kong since the legitimization of female land inheritance during the post-colonial era. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The bitter–sweet portrayals of expressing and maintaining “non-normative” genders and sexualities in Thai mainstream cinema from 1980 to 2010 (2011)
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Pongpanit, A. The bitter–sweet portrayals of expressing and maintaining “non-normative” genders and sexualities in Thai mainstream cinema from 1980 to 2010. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

(Ir)resistibly modern : the construction of modern Thai identities in Thai literature during the Cold War era, 1958-1976 (2011)
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Feangfu, J. (Ir)resistibly modern : the construction of modern Thai identities in Thai literature during the Cold War era, 1958-1976. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London