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Center for Social Development Studies
  • About/
    • About CSDS
    • Center of Excellence
    • UNESCO Chair in Resource Governance and Futures Literacy
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Research Associates and Interns
    • Research Partners
  • Themes/
    • Resource Politics
    • Rethinking Regionalization
    • Human Rights, Human Security & Justice
    • Transdisciplinary Knowledge and Innovation
    • Public Sphere, Democratization & the Commons
    • (Forced) Displacement and Development
    • List of Research Activities
  • Publications/
    • Journal Articles
    • Book Chapters
    • Books
    • Conference papers
    • Opinion pieces
    • Policy briefs
    • Multimedia
    • Conference proceedings
    • Reports
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    • Project Blogs
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Center for Social Development Studies

Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Center for Social Development Studies

Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Center for Social Development Studies
  • About/
    • About CSDS
    • Center of Excellence
    • UNESCO Chair in Resource Governance and Futures Literacy
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Research Associates and Interns
    • Research Partners
  • Themes/
    • Resource Politics
    • Rethinking Regionalization
    • Human Rights, Human Security & Justice
    • Transdisciplinary Knowledge and Innovation
    • Public Sphere, Democratization & the Commons
    • (Forced) Displacement and Development
    • List of Research Activities
  • Publications/
    • Journal Articles
    • Book Chapters
    • Books
    • Conference papers
    • Opinion pieces
    • Policy briefs
    • Multimedia
    • Conference proceedings
    • Reports
    • Newsletters
  • News and events/
    • Activities and Events
    • Project Blogs
    • Announcements Archive
    • CU Graduate Student Seminar Series
  • Contact us/
  • Subscribe/
 
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Announcements
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Jul 15, 2025
UPCOMING EVENT: Toward’s Thailand’s Green Transformation: Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
Jul 15, 2025
Jul 15, 2025
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May 21, 2025
[Closed] CALL FOR APPLICANTS: Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program
May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025
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Mar 18, 2024
UPCOMING EVENT: The Future of Sustainability: The Bio-Cultural Diversity Imperative [22 March 2024]
Mar 18, 2024
Mar 18, 2024
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Mar 20, 2023
UPCOMING EVENT: Launch of UNESCO Chair in Resource Governance and Futures Literacy [28 March 2023]
Mar 20, 2023
Mar 20, 2023
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Jan 18, 2023
UPCOMING EVENT: Transdisciplinarity for Global Sustainable Development [24 January 2023]
Jan 18, 2023
Jan 18, 2023
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Nov 21, 2022
UPCOMING EVENT: Towards a Green and Just Recovery in Southeast Asia [28 November 2022]
Nov 21, 2022
Nov 21, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
UPCOMING EVENT: “Land into Capital” book launch and discussion [6 December 2022]
Nov 9, 2022
Nov 9, 2022
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Nov 2, 2022
UPCOMING EVENT: Climate Change, Mobility and Human Rights [24 November 2022]
Nov 2, 2022
Nov 2, 2022
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Oct 31, 2022
UPCOMING EVENT: Towards a green and just recovery in Southeast Asia [28 November 2022]
Oct 31, 2022
Oct 31, 2022
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Oct 21, 2022
UPCOMING EVENT: Commoning water(s): Resources, Services and Ecological Justice in Asia [26 October 2022]
Oct 21, 2022
Oct 21, 2022
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Oct 18, 2022
UPCOMING EVENT: Shifting Development Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Understanding local voice and agency [27 and 28 March 2023]
Oct 18, 2022
Oct 18, 2022
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Oct 10, 2022
UPCOMING EVENT: Governing water(s) as a common [26 and 27 October 2022]
Oct 10, 2022
Oct 10, 2022
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Publications
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Jul 29, 2025
POLICY BRIEF: "Connecting Thailand’s Community-based Tourism to Chinese Travellers: Local Voices, Emerging Trends, and Collaboration"
Jul 29, 2025
Jul 29, 2025
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Jul 29, 2025
POLICY BRIEF: "Walking Alongside Communities: Supporting Community-Led Adaptation Resilience beyond Climate Change in Northern Thailand’s highlands"
Jul 29, 2025
Jul 29, 2025
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Jul 29, 2025
POLICY BRIEF: "From Trust to Recognition: Strengthening a Participatory and Community-Grounded Seed System in Thailand "
Jul 29, 2025
Jul 29, 2025
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Jul 29, 2025
POLICY BRIEF: "Protecting the Customary Rights and Way of Life in Thailand’s Small-scale Fishery Communities"
Jul 29, 2025
Jul 29, 2025
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Jul 4, 2025
JOURNAL ARTICLE: “Politics of data legibility. A commentary on Mostafanezhad et al.'s ‘Making air pollution legible’”
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
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May 30, 2025
POLICY BRIEF: “Recognizing and Promoting KWO and Women’s Decision-making in KNU’s 2025 Transition to Government”
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
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May 8, 2025
JOURNAL ARTICLE: “The Imaginaries of Urban Agriculture and a Livable City Shaping Bangkok’s Urban Governance and Design”
May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025
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May 2, 2025
BOOK CHAPTER: "Dams, Flows, and Data: Topologies of Power and Volumetric Hydropolitics in the Mekong Basin"
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
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May 2, 2025
POLICY BRIEF: "Co-Designing for Actionable and Accountable Data in the Tonle Sap Basin, Cambodia"
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
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Apr 30, 2025
JOURNAL ARTICLE: “(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar”
Apr 30, 2025
Apr 30, 2025
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Activities and Events
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Jul 4, 2025
WORKSHOP: Cultivating Connections: Just Futures Mekong Fellows at the 'Young Seed for the Future' Festival
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
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Jul 4, 2025
WORKSHOP: Turning Knowledge into Action for Green Transformation: "First Workshop for Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program"
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
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Jul 4, 2025
EVENT [RESOURCES]: “Southeast Asia Vulnerable Deltas Workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii State, United States of America [17th- 20th March 2025]”
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
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Jul 4, 2025
EVENT [RESOURCES]: “Southeast Asia Vulnerable Deltas Workshop in Samarinda, Indonesia [4th- 7th December 2023]”
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
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May 2, 2025
EVENT [RESOURCES]: "Climate Change Migration in Southeast Asia"
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
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May 9, 2024
EVENT (RESOURCES): International Migrants Day, Bangkok, Thailand [15th December 2023]
May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024
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Apr 4, 2023
EVENT (RESOURCES) : Launch of the Chulalongkorn University UNESCO Chair in Resource Governance and Futures Literacy [ 28 March 202 3 ]
Apr 4, 2023
Apr 4, 2023
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Apr 3, 2023
EVENT (RESOURCES): WriteShop on “Shifting Development Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Understanding Local Voice and Agency [27 and 28 March 2023]
Apr 3, 2023
Apr 3, 2023
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Jan 31, 2023
[EVENT RESOURCES] : Transdisciplinarity for Global Sustainable Development [24 January 2023]
Jan 31, 2023
Jan 31, 2023
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Jan 13, 2023
EVENT [RESOURCES] : “Land into Capital” book launch and discussion [6 December 2022]
Jan 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023
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Jan 13, 2023
EVENT [RESOURCES] : Towards a Green and Just Recovery in Southeast Asia [28 November 2022]
Jan 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023
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Jan 13, 2023
EVENT [RESOURCES] : Climate Change, Mobility and Human Rights [24 November 2022]
Jan 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023
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  Public Authority, Federalism and Forests in Post- Coup Myanmar

Public Authority, Federalism and Forests in Post- Coup Myanmar

  Disasters and Development in East Asian Regionalism in the Anthropocene

Disasters and Development in East Asian Regionalism in the Anthropocene

  The Political Ecology of Migration from Myanmar to Bangkok

The Political Ecology of Migration from Myanmar to Bangkok

  Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program

Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program

  Anticipatory Evidence and Large Dam Impact Assessment in the Mekong Basin

Anticipatory Evidence and Large Dam Impact Assessment in the Mekong Basin

  Public Authority, Federalism and Forests in Post- Coup Myanmar    Disasters and Development in East Asian Regionalism in the Anthropocene    The Political Ecology of Migration from Myanmar to Bangkok    Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program    Anticipatory Evidence and Large Dam Impact Assessment in the Mekong Basin
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OUR MISSION

The Center for Social Development Studies produces interdisciplinary critical research on development policy and practice in Southeast Asia that aims to be innovative, inclusive and sustainable.

We contribute to policy processes through undertaking research in collaboration with those involved in development policy and practice, participating in research, policy and academic networks, and by sharing our research publicly.

We support young and mid-career researchers and public intellectuals via the Master of Arts in International Development Studies (MAIDS) program, the Graduate Research in International Development (GRID) program, and the Faculty of Political Science, and through our fellowship programs and internships.

We organize public forums for debating critical issues on development by hosting seminars, conferences, and workshops.

 

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Carl Middleton
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Orapan Pratomlek
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