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Dr. Kasian Tejapira
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Dr. Kasian Tejapira

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Date
of Birth December 23, 1957
Fields of Interest
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Political
Philosophy & Social Theory
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Modern
Thai Cultural Politics, Public Intellectuals &
Marxist-Communist Movement
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The
Ethnic Chinese in Thailand & Thai Nationalisms
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Marxist
and Postmodernist Cultural Studies
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The
Politics of Economic Crisis
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Terrorism
& U.S. New Imperialism
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Neo-Liberal
Globalization & Authoritarian Democracy
Work
Experience
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POSITIONS |
- Visiting
Professor, Chiangmai University
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Thammasat University
- Cornell
University
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| WORK
& OTHER EXPERIENCES |
- Student activist
at Thammasat University, 1975-1976
- Political refugee
in Cambodia , 1976-1978
- Guerrilla fighter
in rural Thailand , 1978-1981
- Member of the
editorial staffs of various Thai academic and intellectual
publications i.e. Pajarayasan , Parithassan , Journal of
Political Economy , Journal of Political Science , and the
Setthakit Karnmuang Newspaper , 1982-1985
- Editor of Journal
of Political Science 1992-1994; Assistant Editor of Thammasat
University Journal 1993-1994
- Script-writer of
Political Cartoons Review on TV Channel 11, March &
September 1992
- Consultant &
Editorial Writer of the Culture & Politics Section of
Phoojadkan Business Daily, May-October 1993
- Weekly Columnist
of Krungthep Thurakij Business Daily (1992), Phoojadkan
Business Daily (1992-1996), Siam Post Daily Newspaper
(1993-1996), Thai Financial Business Daily (1994), Khoo Khaeng
Business Daily (1996), Matichon Daily Newspaper (1997-1998,
2000-present), Nation Weekender (1998, 2000)
- Monthly Columnist
of Art & Culture Magazine (1993, 1998), Hi-Class Magazine
(1994-2000)
- Member of the
Social Science Research Council's Southeast Asia Regional
Advisory Panel (1998-2001)
- Member of the
Selection Committee of the Southeast Asian Studies Regional
Exchange Program (SEASREP) (2002-2004)
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EDUCATION
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1992
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Ph.D.
Department of Government, Cornell University , USA. ( Ph.D.
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Cornell University, U.S.A. ) major: Comparative Politics
minor: Political Theory Southeast Asian Studies |
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1988
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Master of Arts ¨Ò¡ Cornell University, U.S.A
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1983
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Hornors
and Award
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-Bhumibhol
Awards from His Majesty, the King of Thailand , Thammasat
University , 1975 and 1984
- Southeast
Asia Program Fellowships, Cornell, 1985-1986 and 1989-1990
-Harvard-Yenching
Grant, 1986-1987
-Social
Science Research Council Fellowship for dissertation
research in Thailand , 1988-1989
- Thammasat
University Scholarship, Fall 1990
-Foundation
for Development and Democracy ( Thailand )'s Research Grant,
Spring 1991
- Asia
Leadership Fellow Program's Fellowship from International
House of Japan and Japan Foundation Asia Center , Tokyo ,
Winter 1996-Spring 1997
-Visiting
Research Scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, December 1998-December 1999, March 2001,
March 2002, March 2003, March 2004, October 2004, October
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PUBLICATIONS
IN THAI
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"Commodifying
Marxism: The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Culture, 1927 -
1958." The study of the coming of Marxism-communism into
Thailand and its making into Thai. This dissertation
reconstructs and analyses the interaction and mutual
transformation between foreign Marxist-communist ideology and
Thai cultural-political practices and institutions.
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PUBLICATIONS
IN ENGLISH
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Book |
- Commodifying
Marxism: The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Culture,
1927-1958 . Kyoto and Melbourne : Kyoto University Press and
Trans Pacific Press, 2001.
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Articles in journals
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Kasian Tejapira.
1992. “Commodifying Marxism : The Formation of Modern
Thai Radical Culture , 1927-1958 .” Ph. D. dissertation,
Cornell University. 637 pp. (appeared as
a book of the same title in 2001. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press.
Kyoto Area Studies on Asia, Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
Kyoto University, Volume 3. xiv+390 pp.)
- "Pigtail:
A Pre-History of Chineseness in Siam ," Sojourn . VII:1
(February 1992), 95-122.
- "Independent
Siam and Colonial Burma : A Comparative Historical
Perspective," Asian Review 1993 , (January 1994), 1-62.
- "Globalizers vs
Communitarians : Post-May 1992
Debates among Thai Public Intellctuals." (MS) Fn. 1:
"This paper was originally prepared for the panel on
‘Direction and Priorities of Research on Southeast Asia’ at
the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Associations for Asian Studies in
Honolulu, 11-14 April 1996."
- "Signification
of Democracy," Thammasat Review , I:1 (October 1996),
5-13
- "The Story
of Three Songs: Illuminations on the Cultural Politics of
Thai Cultural Citizenship," Journal of Behavioral and
Social Sciences , 1997:1 (April 1997), 105-28.
- “In Memory of
Black May (Post-May Reform Incomplete),” Southeast Asian
Studies Bulletin , 2/97 (October 1997), 19-20.
- "The
Question of Minorities," Items , 52:4 (December 1998),
81-82.
- “The Nine
Most Interesting Publications in Thai in the Year 1998,”
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Newsletter , 40 ( 1 November 1998-30 April 1999), 11-12.
- “Transitions
and Futures in Southeast Asia ,” Southeast Asian Studies
Bulletin , 1/99 (April-May 1999), 18, 33.
- “Post-Crisis
Economic Impasse and Political Recovery,” Southeast Asian
Studies Bulletin , 1/01 (April-May 2001), 10-11.
- “Post-Crisis
Economic Impasse and Political Recovery in Thailand : The
Resurgence of Economic Nationalism,” Critical Asian
Studies , 34:3 (September 2002), 323-56.
- “On
Knowledge, the Nation, and Universals,” Kyoto Review of
Southeast Asia , 3 (March 2003). < http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/issue
/issue2 /index.html >
- “Toppling
Thaksin,” New Left Review , second series, 39 (May/June
2006), 5-37.
- (Chapters in
books)
- -co-author with
Herb Feith, John Girling, David Kelly, Greg Lockhart, Kyoji
Wakata and Patrick Weller. "Chapter 5. Democracy."
Comparing Cultures . Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty, eds.
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.132-64.
- "Cultural
Forces and Counter-Forces in Contemporary Thailand ."
Cultures in ASEAN & the 21st Century . Edwin Thumboo,
ed. Singapore : UniPress, the Centre for the Arts, National
University of Singapore for ASEAN Committee for Culture and
Information, 1996. Pp.239-50.
- "Sulak
Sivaraksa: Warrior in the Field of Cultural Politics."
Modern Thai Monarchy and Cultural Politics: The Acquittal of
Sulak Sivaraksa on the Charge of L?se Majest? in Siam 1995
and Its Consequences . David Streckfuss, ed. Bangkok : Santi
Pracha Dhamma Institute, 1996. Pp.81-86.
- "Imagined
Uncommunity: The Lookjin Middle Class and Thai Official
Nationalism." Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in
the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central
Europe . Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid, eds. Seattle and
London : University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp.75-98.
- "Consuming
Thainess: Global Commodities and National Identity."
Intellectual Concerns and Critiques in Southeast Asia : Asia
Leadership Fellow Program 1996 Program Report . Tokyo :
International House of Japan & Japan Foundation Asia
Center , 1998. Pp.103-35.
- “The
post-modernization of Thainess.” House of Glass: Culture,
Modernity, and the State in Southeast Asia . Yao Souchou,
ed. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001.
Pp. 150-70.
- “Pigtail: A
PreHistory of Chineseness in Siam .” Alternate Identities:
The Chinese of Contemporary Thailand . Tong Chee Kiong and
Chan Kwok Bun, eds. Singapore : Times Academic Press and
Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. 41-66.
- “Haunting.”
Conflict Management in the Face of Globalization:
Initiatives, Alternatives and Imagination: Asia Leadership
Fellow Program Reunion Conference Proceedings, August 3-7,
2001 . Tokyo : International House of Japan & Japan
Foundation Asia Center , 2002. Pp. 127-33.
- “The
Postmodernisation of Thainess.” Cultural Crisis and Social
Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos .
Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes, eds. London :
RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. Pp. 202-27.
- “The Story of
Three Songs: Illuminations on the Cultural Politics of Thai
Citizenship.” The Forging of Nationhood . Gyanendra Pandey
and Peter Gescheire, eds. New Delhi : Manohar Publishers
& Distributors and South-South Exchange Program for
Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS), 2003. Pp.
271-300.
- “Post-Crisis
Economic Impasse and Political Recovery in Thailand : The
Resurgence of Economic Nationalism.” Hegemony,
Technocracy, Networks: Papers presented at Core University
Program Workshop on Networks, Hegemony and Technocracy,
Kyoto , March 25-26 2002 . Takeshi Hamashita and Takashi
Shiraishi, eds. Kyoto : Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
2003. Pp. 207-72.
- “De-Othering
Jek Communists: Rewriting Thai History from the Viewpoint of
the Ethno-Ideological Other.” in Southeast Asia over Three
Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict R. O'G. Anderson .
James T. Siegel and Audrey R. Kahin, eds. Ithaca : Southeast
Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell
University , 2003. Pp. 245-62.
- “The
Emergence of NGO Movement in Thailand and the Sarit
Regime.” in The NGO Way : Perspectives and Experiences
from Thailand . Shinichi Shigetomi, Kasian Tejapira, and
Apichart Thongyou, eds. Chiba : Institute of Developing
Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, 2004. Pp.
21-37.
- “Thainess,
Ethno-nationalism, and the State.” in Asian Modernity –
Globalization Processes and Their Cultural and Political
Localization . Documentations, Papers & Reports of the
Heinrich Boll Foundation No. 7. Berlin :
Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung, 2004. Pp. 34-36.
- “Words.” in
Shock and Awe: War on Words . Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer
Gonzalez, Bettina Stotzer and Anna Tshing, eds. Santa Cruz ,
California : New Pacific Press, 2004. Pp. 174-76.
- “Party as
Mother: Ruam Wongphan and the Making of a Revolutionary
Metaphor.” in Proceedings of the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science and National Research Council of
Thailand Core University Program Workshop on Flows and
Movements in East Asia . Kyoto : Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, Kyoto University , 2004. Pp. 33-49.
- “Post-Crisis
Economic Impasse and Political Recovery in Thailand : The
Resurgence of Economic Nationalism.” in After the Crisis .
Shiraishi Takashi and Patricio N. Abinales, eds. Kyoto and
Melbourne : Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press,
2005. Pp. 179–221.
- “Reform and
Counter-Reform: Democratization and Its Discontents in
Post-May 1992 Thai Politics.” In Towards Good Society:
Civil Society Actors, the State, and the Business Class in
Southeast Asia – Facilitators of or Impediments to a
Strong, Democratic, and Fair Society? Documentation of a
workshop of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, held October
26-27, 2004 , in Berlin . Heinrich Boll Foundation, ed.
Berlin : Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung, 2005. Pp. 125-46.
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