Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand

283rd INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by Dr. Janet C. Sturgeon The Full Text of Janet’s Talk and Presentation Border Landscapes looks at Akha access to resources and land use as influenced both by their location on international borders, and by their incorporation into modernizing nation-states. Today I’m covering the second part, the … Read more

Politics and Professionalism in Community Development – Examining Intervention in the Highlands of Northern Thailand

267th INTG Meeting – A Talk and LCD Presentation by Dr. Katharine McKinnon About Dr. McKinnon Katharine was recently awarded her PhD in Human Geography at the Australian National University. Her dissertation was written following a year of fieldwork based in Chiang Mai. She is now a post-doctoral research fellow in Development Studies at Massey … Read more

From Finding a Treasure in a Poor Village to the Setting up of an Akha Educational System

218th INTG Meeting – A talk by Leo A. von Geusau A Summary of Leo’s Talk I came to Thailand in 1977 to conduct fieldwork studies on Akha language and culture. Two obstacles that I initially encountered were that I was discouraged by the Thai authorities who, for whatever reasons, did not want me to … Read more

Does Participatory Land-Use Planning have a Chance with Hilltribes?

183rd INTG Meeting – A Presentation of the PhD field research in Mae Hong Son by Oliver Puginier Contact: oliver.puginier@t-online.de Abstract In the last decades, in the highlands of northern Thailand, natural resource conflicts and inconsistent policies have increasingly affected sustainable development. One of the major conflicts is exemplified by the promotion of forest protection vis-à-vis the … Read more