CSDS News: 2020 Year in Review

2020 has been a tough year for everyone, but thanks to your continuous support, we're able to spend it meaningfully. We’ve organized 4 (four) public events, participated in 11 (eleven) invitations, and publish 12 (twelve) publications, and there’s also significant increase in visitors to our website as well as page views, and also an increase in our social media presence.

This year, we also received the “Center of Excellence (CE) with Outstanding Performance” award from Chulalongkorn University. This annual award is presented to recognize the research achievements of the researchers within the center and their research over the previous year. Our team are honored to receive this award and its recognition of our ongoing work.

Thank you for your support this year, and please look forward to our projects in next year too!

Public Events

Due to 2020's public health measures, all the public events were held online.

• Building Power from Within: Rural and Indigenous Community Organizing

• Confronting the Triple Trap in the Mekong Region: The Pandemic, Economic Downturn, and Climate Crisis

• Haze and Social (In)Justice in Southeast Asia: Past Experience and What Next?

• New Research on COVID 19 and its Consequences: People, Planet and Inclusive Society

Publications

Book Chapter

• Flooding disaster, people’s displacement and state response: A case study of Hat Yai Municipality, Thailand

Critical Nature

• Addressing Drought and Climate Change on the Lancang-Mekong River Needs New and Nature-based Solutions - Thai version available here.

• Are China’s dams on the Mekong causing downstream drought? The importance of scientific debate

• Community-Based Tourism in Thailand: Impact and Recovery from the COVID-19 - Thai version available here.

• COVID-19, Health Borders, and the Purity of the Thai Nation

• Beyond Water Data Sharing, Mekong-Lancang River Needs Accountable Water Governance

Journal Article

• How transboundary processes connect commons in Japan and Thailand: A relational analysis of global commodity chains and East Asian economic integration

• The Salween River as a transboundary commons: Fragmented collective action, hybrid governance and power

• Shaping ocean governance: a study of EU normative power on Thailand’s sustainable fisheries

• ASEAN in the South China Sea conflict, 2012–2018: A lesson in conflict transformation from normative power Europe

• Reciprocity in practice: the hydropolitics of equitable and reasonable utilization in the Lancang-Mekong basin

Report

• Contested Knowledges of the Commons in Southeast Asia Research Progress report - Vignettes from the Field (CRISEA Working Paper 2)

CSDS News: 2019 Year in Review

2019 was a fruitful year for Center for Social Development Studies! We’ve organized 9 (nine) public events and publish 13 (thirteen) publications, and there’s also significant increase in visitors to our website as well as page views, and also an increase in our social media presence.

Thank you for your support this year, and please look forward to our projects in next year too!

Public Events

International Conference

• Political Ecology in Asia: Plural Knowledge and Contested Development in a More-Than-Human World

Research Forum

• Research Forum on Powering up Sustainable Development for Asia: The Future of Global and Regional Investment in Asia’s Energy Sector

Panel Discussion

• Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Transformation in Asia

• The Mekong Drought: Impact and Solutions 

Book Launch

• The Water-Food-Energy Nexus

• Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River

Graduate Students Seminar

• CU Graduate Student Seminar Series 'The Water-Food-Energy Nexus'

• CU Graduate Student Seminar Series 'The Globalization of Environmental Law'

Public Lecture

• Why Money and Disequilibrium Matter to Economics

Publications

Book

• The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice

• Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River

Book Chapter

• Knowledge coproduction for recovering wetlands, agro-ecological farming, and livelihoods in the Mekong Region

• Introduction: Resources Politics and Knowing the Salween River

• Hydropower Politics and Conflict on the Salween River

• From Hydropower Construction to National Park Creation: Changing Pathways of the Nu River

• A State of Knowledge of the Salween River: An Overview of Civil Society Research

Journal Article

• Hybrid Governance of Transboundary Commons: Insights from Southeast Asia

• Ontological politics of hydrosocial territories in the Salween River basin, Myanmar/Burma

Policy Brief

• Shaping the Future of Mekong Regional Architecture: Reinforcing Transboundary Water Governance Through Reciprocity

Opinion Piece

• Mekong Drought Reveals Need for Regional Rules-based Water Cooperation

Report

• The Environment - Contested Knowledge of the Commons in Southeast Asia (CRISEA Working Paper 1)

Teaching Manual

• KNOTS Project | First Section - What is Trandisciplinarity?

• KNOTS Project | Second Section - Methodologies and Research Designs

• KNOTS Project | Third Section - Topics, Themes and Application