FASS Staff Profile

YOSHINORI NISHIZAKI
ASSOC PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

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Brief Introduction

I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies in 2005-06. After spending almost nine years elsewhere, first in the Department of Political and Social Change at Australian National University (a wonderful place!) and then in the Department of Political Science, NUS, I am now happily back in a multi-disciplinary area studies department where everyone shares passion for Southeast Asia.

While an undergrad student, I first became interested in Southeast Asia, especially the history of Singapore and Malaysia, by a totally strange twist of fate. Soon thereafter, by just another quirk of fate, my research interest shifted to (rural) Thailand, a subject on which I now specialize. Although formally trained as a political scientist, I have eclectic, interdisciplinary interests that cut across anthropology, history, literary studies, and psychology.

My publications on various aspects of Thai politics and society, ranging from provincial strongmen and road construction to female leadership and social movements, are listed in a separate section of this web page. 


Teaching Areas

I teach the following modules:

SE2213: Politics of Southeast Asia

SE2219: Culture and Power in Southeast Asia

SE4212: Elites of Southeast Asia

SE5242: Country Studies Seminar: Thailand

SE6214: Studies in Sooutheast Asian Politics


Research Interests

(rural) Thai politics and history; state-society relations; social movements; comparative politics


Publications

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    Book (single-authored):

    • Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-buri (Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Studies Program, 2011).

                       [reviewed by 11 scholars]

     

    Journal Articles (all single-authored): 

    • "Family Ties that Bind: Decentralisation, Local Elites, and the Provincial Administrative Organisations in Thailand." TRaNS: Trans-Regional and National Studies of Southeast Asia (2022), https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2022.8
    • "Embedded in a Patrimonial Culture: The Politicized Judiciary and an Undisciplined Reformist Party in Thailand." Critical Asian Studies, vol.53, no.2, pp.310-323, https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2021.1891444
    • "Birds of a Feather: Anand Panyarachun, Elite Families, and Network Monarchy in Thailand," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol.51, no.1-2, (2020), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002246342000020X.
    • "Ironic political reforms: elected senators, party-list MPs, and family rule in Thailand," Critical Asian Studies, vol.51, no.2 (2019), pp.210-231.
    • "New Wine in an Old Bottle: Female Politicians, Family Rule, and Democratization in Thailand," Journal of Asian Studies, vol.77, no.2 (2018), pp.375–403. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191181700136X
    • “Peasants and the Redshirt Movement in Thailand: Some Dissenting Voices,” Journal of Peasant Studies, vol.41, no.1 (2014), pp.1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.873409
    • “The King and Banharn: Towards an Elaboration of Network Monarchy in Thailand," South East Asia Research, vol. 21, no. 1 (2013), pp. 69-103. https://doi.org/10.5367/sear.2013.0140
    • “Prostitution and Female Leadership in Rural Thailand: The Story of Phayao Province.” Modern Asian Studies, vol.45, no.6 (2011), pp. 1535-1597. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X11000047
    • “Suphanburi in the Fast Lane: Roads, Prestige, and Domination in Provincial Thailand.” Journal of Asian Studies, vol.67, no.2 (2008), pp.433-467.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911808000661
    • “Constructing Moral Authority in Rural Thailand: Banharn Silpa-archa’s Non-violent War on Drugs,” Asian Studies Review, vol.31, no.3 (2007), pp.343-364. [Translated into Thai in Prajak Konkinti, Electoral Politics: Discourse, Power, and Dynamics of Rural Thailand [in Thai] (Nonthaburi: Fa Diaokan, 2012)]
    •  “The Gargantuan Project and Modernity in Provincial Thailand,” Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol.8, no.3 (2007), pp.217-233.
    • “The Domination of a Fussy Strongman in Provincial Thailand.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol.37, no.2 (2006), pp.267-291.
    • “The Moral Origin of Thailand’s Provincial Strongman: The Case of Banharn Silpa-archa.” South East Asia Research, vol.13, no.2 (2005), pp.184-234.
    • “Provincializing Thai Politics.” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, no.1 (March 2002), http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp. [Reproduced in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia: Selected Essays (Bangkok: Dream Catcher Graphic, 2004), pp.3-19]

     

    Chapter in Book/Monograph (all single-authored):

    • “Big is Good: The Banharn-Jaemsai Observatory Tower in Suphanburi,” in A Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Thailand, ed. Maurizio Peleggi (Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asian Studies Program, 2015), pp. 143-161.
    • “Parliament and Banharn Sinlapa-acha,” in Time's Arrow and the Burden of the Past: A Primer on the Thai Un-state, ed. Craig Reynolds. Canberra: Australian National University, 2011.

     

    Book Reviews:

    • Marc Askew, Performing Political Identity: The Democrat Party in Southern Thailand (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2008), in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 40, no.3 (2009), pp. 651-653.
    • Tyrell Haberkorn, Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), in Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 40, no. 2 (2013), pp. 459-462.
    • Andrew Walker, Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (2014).    

     

    Others

    • "A battle with the junta: There's little chance the 2019 Thai election will mark a turning point." Policy Forum (2019),  https://www.policyforum.net/battle-with-the-junta/
    • “Banharn Silapa-acha,” an entry in Leo Suryadinata, ed., Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012), 3 pp.
    • “Thailand 2014.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2015)
    • “Thailand 2013.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2014)
    • “Thailand 2012.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2013)
    • “Thailand 2011.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2012)
    • “Thailand 2010.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2011)
    • “Thailand 2009.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2010).
    • “Thailand 2008.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2009).
    • “Thailand 2007.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2008).
    • “Thailand 2006.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2007).
    • “Thailand 2005.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2006).
    • “Thailand 2004.” Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: Britannica Inc., 2005).

Other Information

Editorial board member for Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press), 2017-present

 

Teaching Awards:

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Washington, 2001

Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA), National University of Singapore, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013

Faculty Student Choice Award, National University of Singapore, 2011

University-level Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA), National University of Singapore, 2011, 2012 and 2013

 

 



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