Religious Others, Tourism, and Missionization: Buddhist ‘Monk Chats’ in Northern Thailand

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1888-1916 ◽  
Author(s):  
BROOKE SCHEDNECK
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Religious Others ◽  
State Regional ◽  
Buddhist Monasticism

AbstractConjunctures of globalization and education have shaped the intersection of Buddhist monasticism and international tourism in the Northern Thai city, Chiang Mai. International tourism in Chiang Mai has been popular since the 1990s, while monks from all over Thailand and South and Southeast Asia have come to Chiang Mai in large numbers to pursue higher education in English since the 2000s. Focusing on Buddhist temples that contain a Monk Chat programme, where tourists and monks engage in conversation, this article analyses the responses of Buddhist monks towards a range of international tourists. Utilizing the perspectives of Buddhist monks through interviews reveals attitudes towards Western and Asian tourists as situated within broader discourses of Thai society. Investigating these attitudes and responses within the context of wider state, regional, and transnational influences, I argue that attitudes towards religious others are inextricably connected to missionization.

Allagelena monticola sp. n. (Araneae: Agelenidae), a new species of funnel-web spiders from northern Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1397 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
THANAPHUM CHAMI-KRANON ◽  
NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN ◽  
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Chiang Mai Province ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Doi Inthanon

A new species of the funnel-web spiders from Thailand, Allagelena monticola sp. n., is described and illustrated. The types of this species were collected from remnant patches of pristine evergreen hill forest in the Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. The new species resembles the widely distributed species A. opulenta (L. Koch), which is known from China, Korea and Japan. This discovery expands the known zoogeographical distribution of the genus Allagelena southwards into tropical Southeast Asia.

scholarly journals New records of Phacus and Monomorphina taxa (Euglenophyta) for Thailand

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-247
Author(s):  
Kritsana Duangjan ◽  
Konrad Wołowski ◽  
Yuwadee Peerapornpisal
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New Records ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Original Illustrations

Abstract The diversity of Phacus and Monomorphina (Euglenophyta) from northern Thailand was studied in various water bodies of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang and Phayao provinces. This paper presents 25 taxa of Phacus and 1 Monomorphina new for Thailand, including 3 Phacus taxa new for Southeast Asia. Several varieties and forms were recognized. All are briefly described, with original illustrations.

Festivity and the contemporary: Worldly affinities in Southeast Asian art1

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
David Teh
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Global System ◽  
Global Event ◽  
Global Circuit ◽  
National Representation ◽  
Event Calendar

What is the place of the festival in the global system of contemporary art, and in that system’s history? Can the large, recurring surveys that are its most prominent exhibitions today even be considered festivals? Such questions become more pressing as sites newly embraced by that system take their place on a global event calendar, and as the events increasingly resemble those held elsewhere or merge with the market in the form of art fairs. What becomes of community and locality, of spontaneity and participation, as that market ‐ and art history ‐ takes up the uncommodified fringes and untold stories of contemporary art’s ever widening geography? This article stems from my research for a recent volume entitled Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992‐98, concerning a series of artist-initiated festivals held in northern Thailand in the 1990s known as the Chiang Mai Social Installation. These gatherings, and others like them, suggest that while national representation was the usual ticket to participation on a global circuit, the agencies and currency of national representation were not essential determinants of contemporaneity; and that it was localism, rather than any internationalism, that underpinned the worldly affinities discovered amongst artists in Southeast Asia at that time. The sites of this becoming contemporary were festive, sites of celebration and expenditure rather than work and accumulation. What does this mean for contemporary art’s history and theory, and how might it change our understanding of the region’s art and its international currency today?

Allagelena monticola sp. n. (Araneae: Agelenidae), a new species of funnel-web spiders from northern Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1397 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
THANAPHUM CHAMI-KRANON ◽  
NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN ◽  
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Chiang Mai Province ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Doi Inthanon

A new species of the funnel-web spiders from Thailand, Allagelena monticola sp. n., is described and illustrated. The types of this species were collected from remnant patches of pristine evergreen hill forest in the Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. The new species resembles the widely distributed species A. opulenta (L. Koch), which is known from China, Korea and Japan. This discovery expands the known zoogeographical distribution of the genus Allagelena southwards into tropical Southeast Asia.

Forensic and phylogeographic characterization of mtDNA lineages from northern Thailand (Chiang Mai)

2009 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 495-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Zimmermann ◽  
Martin Bodner ◽  
Sylvain Amory ◽  
Liane Fendt ◽  
Alexander Röck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Mtdna Lineages

scholarly journals Interventional nephrology and vascular access practice: A perspective from South and Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 112972982110113
Author(s):  
Raja Ramachandran ◽  
Vinant Bhargava ◽  
Sanjiv Jasuja ◽  
Maurizio Gallieni ◽  
Vivekanand Jha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vascular Access ◽  
Central Catheter ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Venous Fistula ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Group 1

South and Southeast Asia is the most populated, heterogeneous part of the world. The Association of Vascular Access and InTerventionAl Renal physicians (AVATAR Foundation), India, gathered trends on epidemiology and Interventional Nephrology (IN) for this region. The countries were divided as upper-middle- and higher-income countries as Group-1 and lower and lower-middle-income countries as Group-2. Forty-three percent and 70% patients in the Group 1 and 2 countries had unplanned hemodialysis (HD) initiation. Among the incident HD patients, the dominant Vascular Access (VA) was non-tunneled central catheter (non-TCC) in 70% of Group 2 and tunneled central catheter (TCC) in 32.5% in Group 1 countries. Arterio-Venous Fistula (AVF) in the incident HD patients was observed in 24.5% and 35% of patients in Group-2 and Group-1, respectively. Eight percent and 68.7% of the prevalent HD patients in Group-2 and Group-1 received HD through an AVF respectively. Nephrologists performing any IN procedure were 90% and 60% in Group-2 and Group 1, respectively. The common procedures performed by nephrologists include renal biopsy (93.3%), peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter insertion (80%), TCC (66.7%) and non-TCC (100%). Constraints for IN include lack of time (73.3%), lack of back-up (40%), lack of training (73.3%), economic issues (33.3%), medico-legal problems (46.6%), no incentive (20%), other interests (46.6%) and institution not supportive (26%). Routine VA surveillance is performed in 12.5% and 83.3% of Group-2 and Group-1, respectively. To conclude, non-TCC and TCC are the most common vascular access in incident HD patients in Group-2 and Group-1, respectively. Lack of training, back-up support and economic constraints were main constraints for IN growth in Group-2 countries.

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