All Outputs (18)

Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006 (2024)
Thesis
Boonhok, S. (2024). Hybridising Na(rra)tion: The Reinvention and Embodiment of ‘Thainess’ in Thai Literature after 2006 [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043207

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)
Thesis
Yang, Z. (2024). An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041545

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)
Thesis
Lee, S. Y. (2023). Rethinking "comfort women" in Historical Fiction: A Multidisciplinary Study on Korean and Korean American Novels [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040389

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)
Thesis
Topoonyanont, W. S. (2023). Nature, Nurture and Nation in Folk Oralities in Thailand and Beyond [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039799

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)
Thesis
Mitski, A. I. (2022). Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00038397

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.

East-West Reflections on Demonization: Korea Now, China Next? (2020)
Book
R. Harrison, & G. Helgesen. (Eds.). (2020). East-West Reflections on Demonization: Korea Now, China Next?. NIAS Press.

Although the rapid spread worldwide of the coronavirus in 2020 focused minds everywhere on the dangers of a global pandemic, other dangers facing the world have not diminished. Failure to resolve issues relating to the divided Korean peninsula is one... Read More about East-West Reflections on Demonization: Korea Now, China Next?.

A sociological approach to the translation of Chinese martial arts fiction into Thai (2018)
Thesis
Jongjairuksa, K. (2018). A sociological approach to the translation of Chinese martial arts fiction into Thai [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026168

The representation of Thai Muslims in three southern border provinces on YouTube (2018)
Thesis
Kirdnark, T. (2018). The representation of Thai Muslims in three southern border provinces on YouTube [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030284

Exploring Thai Cultural Identity through the Remakes of Korean Dramas : A Study of Transnational and Hybrid Culture on Thai Television (2018)
Thesis
Sinpongsporn, I. (2018). Exploring Thai Cultural Identity through the Remakes of Korean Dramas : A Study of Transnational and Hybrid Culture on Thai Television [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032459

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.

The sociology of the representation of national self through the translation of modern Thai literature into English : a Bourdieusian approach (2016)
Thesis
Techawongstien, K. (2016). The sociology of the representation of national self through the translation of modern Thai literature into English : a Bourdieusian approach [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00023656

Gender, global economic development and intimate lives : exploring reproductive dilemmas in Metro Manila and Cavite, Philippines (2016)
Thesis
Collantes, C. F. (2016). Gender, global economic development and intimate lives : exploring reproductive dilemmas in Metro Manila and Cavite, Philippines [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029806

Is there still a gender divide? : indigenous women in Hong Kong since the legitimization of female land inheritance during the post-colonial era (2015)
Thesis
Ng, F. S. I. (2015). Is there still a gender divide? : indigenous women in Hong Kong since the legitimization of female land inheritance during the post-colonial era [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00022833

Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures (2014)
Book
R. Harrison. (Ed.). (2014). Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. Rowman and Littlefield.

Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentre... Read More about Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures.

Disturbing Crossings: The Unhomely, the Unworldly and the Question of Method in Approaches to World Literature (2014)
Book Chapter
El-Desouky, A. (2014). Disturbing Crossings: The Unhomely, the Unworldly and the Question of Method in Approaches to World Literature. In R. Harrison (Ed.), Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures (pp. 239-245). Rowman and Littlefield.

The bitter–sweet portrayals of expressing and maintaining “non-normative” genders and sexualities in Thai mainstream cinema from 1980 to 2010 (2011)
Thesis
Pongpanit, A. (2011). The bitter–sweet portrayals of expressing and maintaining “non-normative” genders and sexualities in Thai mainstream cinema from 1980 to 2010 [PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00012763

(Ir)resistibly modern : the construction of modern Thai identities in Thai literature during the Cold War era, 1958-1976 (2011)
Thesis
Feangfu, J. (2011). (Ir)resistibly modern : the construction of modern Thai identities in Thai literature during the Cold War era, 1958-1976 [PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00012761

The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand (2010)
Book
R. Harrison, & P. Jackson. (Eds.). (2010). The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand. Hong Kong University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501719219

The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present.

Siamese Modernities and the Colonial West [Special issue of: Southeast Asia Research. Vol. 17 No. 3] (2009)
Book
R. Harrison, & P. Jackson. (Eds.). (2009). Siamese Modernities and the Colonial West [Special issue of: Southeast Asia Research. Vol. 17 No. 3]. Taylor and Francis.