From 10 November to 15 December, SEANNET team member Assistant Professor Komson Teeraparbwong offers an online class on Northern-Lanna development in Chiang Mai city - the QR code lasts till 15 December for free registration in the course, so sign up early! TRACING THE PAST: An Introduction to Northern-Lanna and Chiang Mai Urban Development Course … Continue reading Announcing an online MOOC: An Introduction to Northern-Lanna and Chiang Mai Urban Development
by Eka Nurul Farida (ekanurulfarida@gmail.com) Facilitating the production of CNA’s INSIGHT: Poverty in Asia, to explore social-economic struggles against COVID-19 from the perspective of Surabaya’s ordinary citizens. At the end of August 2020, a production team from CNA (Channel NewsAsia)’s INSIGHT program came to Surabaya to cover two households for the Indonesia edition of Poverty … Continue reading SEANNET Surabaya in CNA’s INSIGHT: Poverty in Asia
By Komson Teeraparbwong Neighbourhoods' living condition became a priority as a crucial responsive reaction, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit every region around the world since the beginning of 2020. This has resulted in severe impacts to the Tourism Industry, particularly in Chiang Mai as a main tourism Hub of Northern Thailand. Wua-lai, … Continue reading Wua-Lai observation during COVID19
By Komson Teeraparbwong Team Wua-lai, Chiang Mai, Thailand Introduction Before Covid-19 struck earlier this year, the Wua-Lai team had organised a "match-making" academic workshop in December last year. We called it "match-making" because we were trying, for the first time, to set up the regular students' workshop (between FACMU-Chiang Mai & ENSA-Paris Bellville) to run … Continue reading “Workshop within workshop”: Silver-craft Neighbourhood Forum as a learning process
What does it mean to do globally-informed research, at the neighbourhood level, in Southeast Asia?
We are pleased to invite contributions to ‘COVID-19 and Southeast Asia’, a project intended to encourage reflection upon what the COVID-19 crisis means for Southeast Asia. This project is an initiative of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (click here for the project webpage). COVID-19 presents huge challenges to governments, … Continue reading COVID-19 and Southeast Asia Call for Contributions
Neighborhoods are not just the subject of academic tomes and treatises, but often play a prominent role in the lyrics of popular music. Anyone interested in understanding neighborhoods would do well to listen to the voices of artists, musicians, and poets. For a window into one such perspective, we post a translation of a popular … Continue reading Khu Tao sống Translation
by Huiying Ng The Southeast Asia NeighbourhoodNetwork (SEANNET) and Humanities across Borders (HaB) research groupsco-organised a full day of panels at the 2nd Africa-Asia Conference, held in Dar es Salaam from 20-22 September 2018. Program: https://icas.asia/files/Program_Abstracts_Africa_Asia.pdf Chairs Paul Rabé, SEANNET, International Institute for Asian Studies, the Netherlands Rita Padawangi, SEANNET, IIAS, the Netherlands/Singapore University of … Continue reading Neighbourhoods as if people matter: Mobility, memory and livelihood in the everyday urban
by Erik Harms The streets of a city, when studied carefully, can unfurl like the pages of a history book. In Vietnam, the history of street names is particularly revealing, because the names themselves have changed with successive precolonial, colonial, post-colonial, American-sponsored, anti-communist, communist, and what might now be called “late socialist,” “post-reform era,” or, … Continue reading Street Names as Method
By Thomas Manuel The Chiang Mai leg of the Thailand workshop began with visits to the Chiang Mai House Museum where different traditional residential structures had been preserved for posterity and the Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) which is a public learning space to foster design and creativity. At TCDC, the Director introduced the … Continue reading Sensing Silver: The Chiang Mai Workshop
Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network 