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Peoples, Communities & Cultural Diversity

Regional communities, diasporas, migrations, languages, identities and intercultural dynamics.

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'Thainess': the history of a national identity constructed, imposed and contested

In official speeches, at school and in public debate, *khwam pen thai*, 'Thainess', literally 'the fact of being Thai', is taken as self-evident. Yet…

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Peoples, Communities & Cultural Diversity

Kudi Chin, on the Thonburi bank: the descendants of the Portuguese and the memory of a plural neighbourhood

On the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, facing old Bangkok, the neighbourhood of Kudi Chin brings together a Catholic church, a Buddhist temple, a…

Understand 13 min read

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Articles

'Thainess': the history of a national identity constructed, imposed and contested

Kudi Chin, on the Thonburi bank: the descendants of the Portuguese and the memory of a plural neighbourhood