Assistant Professor Somchai Phatharathananunth, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham University, Thailand.
Assistant Professor Somchai Phatharathananunth, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham University, Thailand.
I teach on Thai politics and social movements. My main research interests are social movements and democratisation. I am currently undertaking a research project titled ‘The Formation of the National State and Peasant Resistance in Thailand’.
Books by this author
Civil Society and Democratization
Social Movements in Northeast Thailand
This book is for anyone wondering whatever happened to Thailand’s vanished Marxist insurgents or interested in understanding the forces behind the mass demonstrations of peasants that periodically descend on Bangkok. Specifically, the book investigates the struggle of an important social movement in Thailand, the Small Scale Farmers’ Assembly of Isan (SSFAI), and examines the role of civil society in the process of democratization