During this site-specific workshop, graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, researchers, and activists residing in Thailand will be introduced to methods and concepts from “Multispecies Ethnography” and “Thai Baan” research with mentorship from scholars of the Global South.

Multispecies Ethnography offers modes of immersion for cultivating an attentiveness to the shared worlds that humans asymmetrically co-make with heterogeneous forms of more-than-human agency. The “Thai Baan” approach prioritizes engaging disproportionately affected, often marginalized and/or Indigenous communities in order to align scholarship with counter-hegemonic knowledge-making towards the remediation of urgent socio-ecological crises and enactment of solidarity and resistance.

With Chaya Vaddhanaputi, Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, Malee Sitthikriengkrai, Pasoot Lasuka, Maya Kóvskaya, and Ravi Agarwal.

Organized by: the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) in collaboration with the American Association for Asian Studies (AAS-in-Asia), AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab and the Integrative Center for Humanities Innovation of Chiang Mai University

Supported by: the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)