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Publications Year 2007
Annotated Bibliography: Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion by Mekong Migration Network and Asian Migrant Centre. (Hong Kong: Mekong Migration Network and Asian Migrant Centre, 2007)
This bibliography is an updated version of the first and second annotated bibliography published in 2002 and 2005 respectively. It includes most of the references listed in the first and second issues, along with new materials. The references covered in this book include books, monographs, conference proceedings, project summaries, and web-based materials.
For more details, please contact here or visit its website.
This symposium was co-organized by the Mekong Migration Network, Action Network for Migrants, MAP Foundation, Asian Migrant Centre and International Organization for Migration with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Oxfam-Hong Kong. Around 100 participants ranging from policy-makers and representatives of IGOs to advocates from migrant support NGOs and migrant grassroots organization participated in the symposium and actively shared their information and perspectives.
These proceedings provide summaries of presentations by resource persons, summaries of discussion during the open forums, summaries of workshop discussions and a synthesis of recommendations put forward by the participants.
For more details, please contact AMC or visit its website.
This research was primarily conducted over the period of January-February 2007 with the support from the Rockefeller Foundation. The aim of this assessment was to find opportunities for cross-border linkages within already existing programming that could increase and improve related HIV and reproductive health interventions targeting Cambodian migrants on both sides of the Thai Cambodia border.
For more details, please contact Raks Thai or visit its website.
These working papers bring together sexuality research conducted by HSSIP students from Vietnam, Lao PDR, and Cambodia. These papers show how qualitative research methodology and research methods can elicit human sexuality information, the lived experiences and the meanings and context of both women's and men's sexuality.
For more information, please visit its website.
The Project "Mitigating the Exploitative Situation of Migrant Workers" aims to find the way to eliminate the exploitative situations of migrant workers such as dangerous work and harmful environment, low wages, wage deduction, etc. In addition, the research team tries to document best practices in the attempts to protect migrant workers and finally to create models of best practices.
The objectives of this research project are to examine the existing exploitative situations in fisheries and fish processing, domestic work and manufacturing, to examine what can be done to ensure safer migration for the Greater Mekong Sub-Region migrants working in Thailand, in terms of the legal system and social practice, to develop hypothetical models to reduce workload, mitigate dangerous tasks, and improve working conditions for migrant workers - and to document existing best practice. The locations where this study was carried out were Samutsakhon, Ranong, Tak and Bangkok.
For more information, please visit its website.
This publication is Working Paper Series No. 7 of "Resource Politics and Cultural Transformation in the Mekong Region" which is the result of visiting scholar and non-degree research fellowship programs supported by the Rockefeller Foundation through the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. The programs facilitate opportunities for scholars, researchers and NGO workers in the region to broaden and deepen their conceptual understanding and analysis of relating to trans-border and cultural diversity in the context of political and economic changes in the Mekong region.
This paper draws on eighteen months of ethnographic work with the Shan immigrant community in CHiang Mai, Thailand. This paper focuses on Shan popular music and the VCDs and cassettes used to disseminate music as primarily cultural forms that spill across Burma's borders and are consumed widely by Shan migrants living in Thailand. This study is driven by efforts to analyze mass media and migrantion as two central characteristics of global and modern life, examing how forms of (ethnic) national identities are being reworked and re-imagined through such mobility and the flow of media texts.
For more information, please contact RCSD directly or visit its website.
This Khmer publication is supported by AMRITA Performing Arts through a special grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please visit AMRITA's website.
This publication is part of ISLAM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: VIEWS FROM WITHIN series which is the result of a research fellowship program offered by the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Grants are awarded to promising Muslim scholars in Southeast Asia for innovative research on economic, socio-political, and cultural changes taking place in their diverse communities.
Indonesia's 1998 reformation movement spawned numerous organizations aimed at either establishing an Islamic state or applying Islamic law. This publication focuses on one such movement, Front Pembela Islam (FPI). The study presents the biography of Habib Muhammad Rizieq Syihab, one of FPI's founding fathers and its current head, and discusses the group's creation, activities, and ideology. Finally, it analyzes FPI's organizational bases, recruitment practices, and training methods, including the use of religious teachings to justify the deliberate destructioin of entertainment venues where gambling, prostitution, and drinking occur - activities which are seen as corrupting according to Islamic teaching. For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@silkwormbooks.com or visit AMAN's website and Silkworm's website.
In 2004, the Center for Khmer Studies began the Junior Faculty Training Program that aimed at expanding the research and teaching skills of young Cambodian universities faculty in the humanities and social sciences. The program with the support from The Rockefeller Foundation recruits participants for a six-month semester and , at the end of the program, a selection of the key texts used in each session is chosen for translation into Khmer by Cambodian participants, with the dual aim of addressing the lack of academic materials available in the Khmer language at Cambodian universities and to train the next generation of translators.
This publication consists of five articles under the theme of "Contemporary Southeast Asia", which two of the articles introduce the readers to the culture and politics of Vietnam and Thailand. The other two texts focus on current economic development in Southeast Asia and its effect on the region's populations. The last one is a paper written by one of the Cambodian participants as an example of the research and analysis that has grown from this program and its combination of theory and application. For inquiries on how to obtain hard copies, please email publishing@khmerstudies.org or visit its website.
This publication is Working Paper Series No. 6 of "Resource Politics and Cultural Transformation in the Mekong Region" which is the result of visiting scholar and non-degree research fellowship programs supported by the Rockefeller Foundation through the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. The programs facilitate opportunities for scholars, researchers and NGO workers in the region to broaden and deepen their conceptual understanding and analysis of relating to trans-border and cultural diversity in the context of political and economic changes in the Mekong region.
This publication presents “Forest Thieves” issue regarded as one of the greatest concerns of both authorities and local people of Muong Tac, a northwestern valley of Vietnam. The issue is a social phenomenon leading to social conflict between local people and state management agencies. The author argues that the emergence of social conflicts over resources in the area is the result of the articulation between the ecological adaptation of local people, resource policies of the postcolonial state of Vietnam, and market forces.
For more information, please contact RCSD directly or visit its website.
This publication is Working Paper Series No. 5 of "Resource Politics and Cultural Transformation in the Mekong Region" which is the result of visiting scholar and non-degree research fellowship programs supported by the Rockefeller Foundation through the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. The programs facilitate opportunities for scholars, researchers and NGO workers in the region to broaden and deepen their conceptual understanding and analysis of relating to trans-border and cultural diversity in the context of political and economic changes in the Mekong region.
This research paper examines the Vietnamese tradition of ancestral worship, the specificity of rituals under the Nguyen before 1945 and changes of official ideology after renovation (doi moi) in 1986. In addition, it explores the significance of royal culture in the current development of the local community and the meaning of ritual revival in royal temples. This research is designed based on archival documents, surveys with case-study analysis and formal and informal interviews.
For more information, please contact RCSD directly or visit its website.
Mekong Institute with support from The Rockefeller Foundation organized the meeting on "Regional Support to Address Social Impacts of Infrastructure Corridors" in Khon Kaen, Thailand on 14-16 June 2007. This publication of proceeding intends to promote a better understanding of the progress and impacts of transport corridors and to develop concrete action plans to advance comprehensive, inter-disciplinary policy regulatory reforms.
For more information how to obtain the copy, please contact information@mekonginstitute.org or visit the website.
The Development Analysis Network (DAN), coordinated by CDRI with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, conducted a study on pro-poor tourism in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan province of China of the Greater Mekong Sub-region. This study looks in more depth at some of the issues and policy options at both the national and sub-regional levels and works more closely with governments and the private sectors to identify useful entrepreneurial models and policy initiatives for tourism that will be more 'pro-poor' in their impacts. For more information how to obtain the copy, please contact cdri@camnet.com.kh or visit the website.
The Mekong Art and Culture Project is a two-year collaboration of leading art institutes across Southeast Asia including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. The aim is to expand and encourage the contemporary art and culture movement as well as develop valuable learning community based experiences within the region. The project has been supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, Southeast Asia Regional Office since August 2006. Please click here to download The Mekong Art and Culture Project's Annual Report 2007.
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Art on the Beach is one of the Mekong Art and Culture Projects undertaken by the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University with partners in Cambodia, Vietnam and Lao DPR. This art camp aims to strengthen relationships among partner institutes in the Mekong Sub-region, and to enhance art students’ creativity from learning outside their institute. The activity took place on April 19 – 26, 2007 at Mo Koh Surin, Pang-Nga Province, Thailand.
For more information, please contact info@mekongart.org
Arts Worker Asia (ANA) is a group of independent artists, cultural workers and arts activists primarily from Southeast Asia that encourages and supports regional artistic collaboration as well as develops managerial and administrative skills within Asia. ANA is supported by the Asian Cultural Council through a special grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. TheatreWorks (72-13) hosts the ANA Secretariat with the primary purpose to foster collaborations, house residencies from creatives around the world and to encourage hybrid expressions from young Singaporeans.
The OK Video festival is one of the projects supported by ANA. This booklet presents the video works exhibited in the third OK Video festival with the theme of 'MILITIA' - to give opportunity to the public to use a video (camera) to challenge the hegemony of the audio-visual language. In addition to work by Indonesian artists, those from abroad were also displayed.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@ruangrupa.org or visit ANA's website
This publication is the latest in a series of publications that have been undertaken by the Consortium. This book presents research conducted by Southeast Asian and Chinese scholars that show unique insight into certain unexplored aspects of sexuality in their societies. All chapters address meanings, values, and other cognitive aspects of gender and sexuality as well as the socio-political contexts of sexuality.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email coordinator@seaconsortium.net or visit its website.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@silkwormbooks.com or visit Silkworm Books website
To download the publication, click here (113 pages, 653 KB Acrobat file). For inquiries on how to obtain hard copies, please email contact@bnc-nlc.info, thonevath@bnc-nlc.info or visit its website.
This publication is a Working Paper Series No. 4 of "Resource Politics and Cultural Transformation in the Mekong Region" which is the result of visiting scholar and non-degree research fellowship programs supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email rcsd@soc.cmu.ac.th or visit RCSD's website.
This publication brings together the work of researchers, scholars, activists, and leaders in the Mekong region to provide a baseline, state-of-knowledge review of the contemporary politics and discourses of water use, sharing, and management, and their implications for local livelihoods.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@mekongpress.com or visit Mekong Press's website.
This publication traces the benefits and underlying assumptions of tourism at the national and village levels, and questions the trickle down effect of tourism development. The objectives of ths book are to increase the knowledge and understanding of the effects of tourism on income and poverty reduction in five economies of the Mekong Region.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email rcsd@soc.cmu.ac.th or visit RCSD's website.
This publication is published by the Federation for the Development of the Book Sector in Cambodia (FDBC) which aims to develop activities and find ways for all interested parties to work together to solve problems currently affecting the book and reading sector in Cambodia. This issue consists of some information on the book sector in Cambodia, the statute of the Federation and two new rubrics.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email Bookfederation@online.com.kh
This book contains revised versions of a selection of papers and posters originally presented at the International Symposium on Uses and Effects of Pesticides in Southeast Asia: Ecological, Biomedical and Economic. This valuable collection of research by international and multidisciplinary experts explores the economic, environmental, and health benefits, as well as the harmful consequences, of pesticide use in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Chapters includes descriptions of pests and the pesticides used to control them.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@silkwormbooks.com or visit Silkworm's website.
This publication examines the dynamics of islamic discourse on sexuality and young Thail Muslims' interactions with modern urban Thai culture. The study vividly illustrates young Thai Muslims' struggles to reconcile their traditional religious beliefs with the surrounding manifestations of modernization, globalization, consumerism, changing sexual mores, and gay rights.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email info@silkwormbooks.com or visit Silkworm's website.
This publication provides an overview of economic corridors and highlights many of the essential issues discussed at the three-day regional policy formulation meeting on the social and environmental impact of economic corridors. This publication is a result of the Reginal Policy Formulation Meeting on "Social and Environmental Impacts of Economic Corridors" held by Mekong Institute at Khon Kane, Thailand, 18 - 20 September 2006.
For inquiries on how to obtain copies, please email reyum@camnet.com.kh or visit its website.
