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MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities Achieves Q2 Ranking in Scopus
We are delighted to announce that MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities has been ranked in Quartile 2 (Q2) of Scopus. This achievement reflects our commitment to publishing high-quality research in the...
Anaphoric Expressions in Thai Narratives: A Corpus Study on Accessibility and Distributional Tendency
This study examines the relationship between Thai anaphoric expressions and their antecedents’ Accessibility, analyzing 3,453 expressions from Thai-Zlatev Corpus (Zlatev and Yangklang 2001), Aakanee Website (Aakanee, “Thai Recordings”) and Thai...
Linguistic Uniscape: A Comparative Study of Universities in Thailand
This study examines the linguistic landscape (ll) of university campuses in Thailand and proposes the term “linguistic uniscape” (lu). It attempts to examine whether there is a significant difference in...
The Process of Unblocking Laos: Linking Indochina (1893–1945)
With the establishment of the Indochinese Federation, the French colonial government implemented policies to develop the transport system in the colonies, connecting Laos with other regions in the Indochinese Federation....
Mia Farang on YouTube: (Re)defining Thai Womanhood in the Network Society
This paper examines the notion of mia farang amid the covid-19 pandemic. An analysis of mia farang YouTubers during this time reveals essential characteristics of the gendered and sexualized trope. lens on the globalization process,...
A Less than Lay-Friendly Translation: A Textual Analysis of Information Leaflets and Labels for Drug and Cosmeceuticals in Thailand
Information on drug use should be easily comprehensible and provide clear instructions without relying on expert advice. Drawing upon the concept of lay-friendly translation (Askehave and Zethsen 2002, 2014; Jensen 2013), this...
From an Enclosure to Human-Scaled Encounters: Articulating the Notion of Third Space in the Vishwakarma Community Temple, Penang
The Arulmigu Kamatchi Amman Devasthanam, located on Jalan Dato Keramat, in Penang, Malaysia provides entry into the cultural world of Pathars, the traditional Tamil goldsmiths who have long established their...
Thai Rap Songs Through the World Englishes Approach: Code-Switching and Nativization
This study examines the English elements and nativized English features present in recent Thai rap songs. The source data comes from a Thai rap playlist called Thai Rapper on the online music...
Dissent and Posthuman Consciousness in Prabda Yoon’s Basement Moon
This paper examines Thai author Prabda Yoon’s Basement Moon, a 2018 science fictional novel that embodies the belief that art and science can play a vital role in triggering critical consciousness that keeps...
“Asia for Asians”: Revisiting Pan-Asianism through the Propaganda Arts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
The slogan “Asia for Asians” has been a central concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and propagated by Japan as it imperialized parts of East Asia, Southeast Asia,...
Japan for Example – National Character as the Driving Force of National Progress in Thai Conservative Writings about Japan
Japan has been considered a role-model for the successful pursuit of ‘progress’ or national development in Siam/Thailand since the late 19th century. As this article shows, the Japanese exemplar played...
Liberating Thai History: The Thai Past in an Asian Century
The nationalist plot of modern Thai history stresses the kingdom’s exceptionalism as the only un-colonized state in Southeast Asia and highlights the steadiness of unbroken monarchy. Critics of the established...
Prince Wan Waithayakon’s Attempt for Rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China at the 1955 Asian-African Conference at Bandung
After the end of the Second World War, newly emerging nations were being divided up geopolitically into ideological camps – the so-called “Free World” led by the United States and...
Military Study Abroad as Thailand’s Foreign Policy Between the 1930s–1940s
The need to modernize the armed forces motivated the Thai government to send a large number of soldiers to Europe to learn military during the absolute monarchy. Sending soldiers to...
The Ghadar Movement in Thailand, 1914–1917: Overseas Indian ‘Rebels’ and Their Multinational Asian Assistants
The Ghadar Movement was an effort by a group of overseas Indians from diverse diasporas around the Indo-Pacific region to set up an armed revolution to free India from the...
“Anarchy” against “Order”: French Elite Perception of the Conflict in Manchuria
The fall of the French empire in Asia is directly linked to the Second World War and France’s policy of appeasement that preceded it. The issue of France’s attitude to...
Tai Dam Diaspora Consciousness and Routes of Migration: An Analysis from Funeral Manuscripts
The objective of this study is to analyze Tai Dam funeral manuscripts called Kwam Bok Tang or Kwam Song Phi Khuen Mueang Fa. It is a comparative study conducted among Tai Dam or...

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