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Asian Border Traveler: October 2006

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006. Tivai Ngang, Punan Busang headman of Long Unai. Retro Fieldnotes from Long Unai, Sarawak, January 2003. While your average Southeast Asian expat has to compensate stress at work with physical workouts at fitness clubs/wellness centers and spas, Tivai doesn't need to. While your average Southeast Asian expat would rarely speak more than 2 languages, Tivai is multilingual and speaks 8 (Punan, Kenyah, Kayan, Iban, Bazaar Malay, Bahasa Indonesia proper, a bit of Banjarese and Foo...

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Asian Border Traveler: September 2006

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006. Cockfighting in Upriver Sarawak: E-Gov Makes Things (not quite) Easier. Apai Regang is expected to download a permit in PDF form if he wants to see his cock fight. Map Kapit Division in Sarawak. THE IBANS OF SARAWAK. While travel permit requirements for Ibans were lifted more than 40 years ago, Cockfight Permits made it well into the age of cyberspace. The e-gov website of the Kapit Resident's office is a fancy and well-designed homepage (its sister-website owned by the Kapit...

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Asian Border Traveler: November 2005

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Friday, November 18, 2005. A Day Out With The Malaysian Border Police. Road leading to the Sarawak - Kalimantan border near Lubok Antu. This job is boring us to death.". Not only did they allow me to hang around - but it was rather embarrasing when one police officer even offered to stop and check a bus exclusively for me to take pictures and videos. I filmed the police roadblock, and edited it for a documentary I made - "Borderless Borneo" (23 mins) - a rather patchy collection of research footage that ...

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Sovereign Myth: The politics of coups in Thailand 2008

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8220;I hate it when they say “grassroots, it has to come from the grass roots”, it makes me feel like I am being trampled on.” A Thai Villager. A blog that is partly an exploration of democrasubjection - the subjection of people to democratic forms of rule. November 28, 2008. The politics of coups in Thailand 2008. Comment on the crisis in Thailand. Who knows how the military will settle, and on what side (? PAD ideologues continue to fashion a hybrid civic, liberal-conservative, royalist and corporatist...

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Sovereign Myth: "The King Can Do Wrong"

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8220;I hate it when they say “grassroots, it has to come from the grass roots”, it makes me feel like I am being trampled on.” A Thai Villager. A blog that is partly an exploration of democrasubjection - the subjection of people to democratic forms of rule. September 29, 2008. The King Can Do Wrong". Connors MK (forthcoming) "Four Elections and a Coup D’etat: Giving Democracy a Break in Thailand",. Australian Journal of International Affairs. The King can do wrong. CITATIONS IN THE ORIGINAL). In the inte...

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Sovereign Myth: I am law - Thailand's repetitive decisionist moment

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8220;I hate it when they say “grassroots, it has to come from the grass roots”, it makes me feel like I am being trampled on.” A Thai Villager. A blog that is partly an exploration of democrasubjection - the subjection of people to democratic forms of rule. June 1, 2014. I am law - Thailand's repetitive decisionist moment. I am law - Thailand's repetitive decisionist moment. Thailand's return to its repetitive decisionism (how many coups d'eat now? Which is to say this latest assumption of sovereignty by...

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Sovereign Myth: How Terrorism Experts Get it Wrong

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8220;I hate it when they say “grassroots, it has to come from the grass roots”, it makes me feel like I am being trampled on.” A Thai Villager. A blog that is partly an exploration of democrasubjection - the subjection of people to democratic forms of rule. September 14, 2007. How Terrorism Experts Get it Wrong. Excerpted from “War on Error and the Southern Fire: How Terrorism Experts Get it Wrong” in. Citations in the original. Over a decade ago, Mike Smith noted that twenty years of. Will be shown, [Ro...

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Sovereign Myth

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8220;I hate it when they say “grassroots, it has to come from the grass roots”, it makes me feel like I am being trampled on.” A Thai Villager. A blog that is partly an exploration of democrasubjection - the subjection of people to democratic forms of rule. August 26, 2014. Rival camps on deadly collision course. Bangkok Post May 15th, 2014. This is a pre-edited version of the piece that appeared in. For a Constituent Assembly. The affinity the protestors have for the Crown Prince is hardly a secret, wit...

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Sovereign Myth: Thailand: Another Country

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8220;I hate it when they say “grassroots, it has to come from the grass roots”, it makes me feel like I am being trampled on.” A Thai Villager. A blog that is partly an exploration of democrasubjection - the subjection of people to democratic forms of rule. December 30, 2007. Reflections on the politics of culture and the Muslim South. Michael K. Connors. School of Social Sciences. Paper Presented at the Thai Update, Australian National University, September, 2006 (with some updated material). The NRC re...