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This year, our fourth-year studio embarks on a journey to Nakhon Sawan city, fondly known as Pak Nam Po, renowned for its strategic location at the confluence of two major rivers. Situated 300 kilometers north of Bangkok, Pak Nam Po once thrived as a major rice trading hub, ranking among the world’s largest. However, today…
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A group of SEANNET delegates recently made our way to the city of Seattle to participate in the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2024. Our panels, titled “Place-Making in City Neighborhoods of Southeast Asia (Part 1 & 2),” explored the different processes of neighborhood-making in Southeast Asia, drawing upon our diverse cases from…
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19 March 2024 Jeff Hou from the University of Washington gave us a richly informative tour of Seattle’s Chinatown/International District. Far from the current trends of cultural revivalism and ethnic festivalization, it is humbling to learn more about the contested histories of Chinatown/ID as a site of intergroup tension, resistance, and collective action. As someone…
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16 March 2024 Exactly a year ago, I picked up a copy of “Grammars of the Urban Ground” (Amin and Lancione) at AAS 2023 in Boston, but I never moved past the introduction chapter. Now, as I’m traveling to AAS 2024 in Seattle, it seems fitting to revisit this book! Reading it on my flight…
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On Monday March 4th, 2024, my colleague Boonanan Natakul and I had the pleasure of speaking to third-year interior architecture students at Thammasat University about the fascinating evolution of Thonburi, a once-sleepy western part of Bangkok that has undergone significant changes due to the introduction of mass transit and a recent tourism boom. We talked…
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It’s late at night in Bangkok. I’ve just returned from the SEANNET 2.0 launch meeting in Surabaya, where I had the pleasure of meeting wonderful people and new colleagues, trying new foods, and seeing new sights and sites, all the while being overwhelmed by the hospitality of East Java. Ten hours and three coffees later,…
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