OPEN LETTER
To: General Prayut Chan-ocha, Prime Minister of Thailand, Government House, 1 Phitsanulok Road, Dusit 10300, Bangkok, Thailand
via Email: renu.tkg thaigov.go.th
20 August 2017
Your Excellency,
We the undersigned – members of the international academic community and civil society organisations — hereby express our alarm and dismay at the Summons issued by Col Suebsakul Buarawong, deputy commander of the 33rd Military Circle in Chiang Mai, to Dr Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Pakawadee Veerapatpong, Chaipong Samnieng, Nontawat Machai, and Thiramon Bua-ngam. They are accused of violating the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) chief’s Order No.3/2015, Thailand’s military regime’s ban on political gatherings of five or more persons. Conviction on the charges against these five scholars entails imprisonment for up to one year. The summons seem to be a response to the organization of the International Conference on Thai Studies, the main international scholarly forum for presentation and discussion of research on Thailand and Southeast Asia more broadly. It has been held every three years since 1981, hosted by universities in Thailand, Australia, China, India, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. In July 2017 the conference was hosted by Chiang Mai University and achieved a record attendance of 1224 participants. The conference was a resounding success. It was chaired by Dr. Vaddhanaphuti.
Dr. Vaddhanaphuti is a highly respected academic in Thailand and internationally. He is a member of the international editorial advisory board of the leading academic journal, The Journal of Peasant Studies ; co-editor of the globally popular ICAS small book series on agrarian change and peasant studies that is available in 10 language editions including Thai; coordinating team member of the global network BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS); and coordinator of a large international consortium of academics and civil society groups studying the relationship between climate change mitigation politics, resource grabbing and conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar. The project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
Perhaps more importantly, Dr. Vaddhanaphuti has carried out cutting-edge scientific work on critical rural issues in Thailand that have direct policy implications. This is the reason why he is a deeply respected academic within academia, civil society and within Thai government ministries. His leading scientific works include research on: (1) traditional knowledge and genetic resources in the context of policy deliberations on intellectual property rights and trade (Ministry of Commerce); (2) multiculturalism and the condition and rights of displaced peoples, especially children, across the Thai-Myanmar border (Ministry of Education and Health); (3) the Voluntary National Review (VNR) for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation of Thailand for the United Nations last July 2017 (Foreign Ministry). Among his most recent research initiatives is his contribution to knowledge-policy work related to the ‘sea gypsies/nomads’ and some of the indigenous and native groups who have faced serious legal charges of encroaching into private tourist resorts and recently declared ‘national reservation parks’. His work on this issue has introduced new ways of securing evidence beyond legal title deeds, such as village histories and DNA testing, resulting in court decisions favourable to the sea gypsies in Rawai, Phuket.
We respectfully urge the government of Thailand to:
1. Immediately withdraw the summons and implied charges against Dr Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Ms Pakawadee Veerapatpong, Mr Chaipong Samnieng, Mr Nontawat Machai, and Mr Thiramon Bua-ngam.
2. Facilitate and support academics and students in their conduct of scholarly teaching, research, public discussion and debate, on- and off-campus.
3. Ease the restriction on free and open discussion on pressing issues of concern to the wider Thai public, in line with Thailand’s commitments to relevant international covenants.
The undersigned are international academics and civil society research organisations who have known, have worked with, or know the work of, Dr Vaddhanaphuti in various ways over the years.
We appreciate your attention and positive response to this matter that is very important not just to Dr Vaddhanaphuti and his colleagues, but to the international academic community as well.
Sincerely,
Prof James C. Scott, Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA
Prof Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA
Prof. Christopher Goscha; History, Université du Québec à Montréal
Dr. Marc Edelman, City University of New York, USA
Dr. Nancy Peluso, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dr. Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
Fiona Dove, Director, Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam
Dr. Max Spoor, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
Dr. Carol Hunsberger, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr. Esteve Corbera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Dr. Joan Martinez-Alier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Arnim Scheidel, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Dr. Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Dr. Courtney Work, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
Sara Vigil, PhD Researcher, University of Liège, Belgium
Mads Barbesgaard, PhD Researcher, Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Veronika Goussatchenko , International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
Yukari Sekine, PhD researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Eang Vuthy, Equitable Cambodia (EC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dr. Li Hua, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
Dr. Jack Kloppenburg, University of Wisconsin, USA
Sharmini Bisessar, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
Dr. Emily Yeh, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Dr. Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon, USA
Dr. Mario Samper, independent scholar and international specialist in rural development, Central America
Dr. Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Professor dr. ir. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Pierre Merlet, PhD Researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Dr. Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
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Stephanie Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA
Dr. Noam Hart, Battery Researcher, University of California, Riverside, USA
Dr Ernest-Emile Lopez-Sanson de Longval, Archéologue, France, Ong Cerediar, Société Internationale d’archéologie sociale
Dr. Andrew D. Turner, Yale University, USA
Eric J. Heller, PhD Candidate, University of California Riverside, USA
Dr. Robert K. Hitchcock, University of New Mexico, USA
Professor Anthony Bebbington, University of Melbourne, Australia and Clark University, USA
Charles A. Flowerday, formerly editor, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, formerly managing editor, Anthropology of Consciousness, USA
Dr. Christine Gibb, postdoctoral researcher, University of Toronto, Canada
Lic. Victor Falcón Huayta. Peruvian archeologist, Peru
Professor John Collins, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
A/Prof Sarah Wright, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Devra Weber, Associate Professor, History, University of California, Riverside, USA
Brenda Biddle, Adjunct Lecturer, Queens College (CUNY), New York US.
Professor Katherine Gibson, Western Sydney University, Australia
Timothy Erik Ström, PhD Researcher, Western Sydney University, Australia
Sam Pack, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Kenyon College, USA
Harry W. Fischer, Associate Senior Lecturer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Dr. David Gilbert, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Violet Cho, PhD Candidate, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute, USA
Kees Krul, PhD Researcher, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Dr. Charlotte Cable, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia
Derick A. Fay, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, USA.
Dr. Leah Temper, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Spain
Dr. Greg Acciaioli, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Dr C Shambu Prasad, Institute of Rural Management Anand, India
Dr. Lawrence Surendra, Chairman, The Sustainability Platform, India
Prof. Balbir Singh Butola, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Lic. José Luis Fuentes Sadowski, National University of San Marcos, Perú
Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
Amit John Kurien, PhD scholar, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India
Dr. Shuo Li, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Genevieve Gebhart, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Dr. Anders Riel Müller, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Jonas Ecke, Forcier Consulting, South Sudan
Professor Rosalind C. Morris, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, USA
Dr. Jennifer C. Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam
Erik Harms, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, USA
John Gledhill, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester, UK
Dr. Satomi Higashi, Post Doctoral Fellow, Hosei University, Japan
Dr. Theodora Tsongas, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, USA
Dr. Eduardo C. Tadem, University of the Philippines
Abdul Rahman, graduate student, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Dr Vikas Bajpai, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Professor Charanjit Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Dr. John R. Campbell, School of Oriental & African Studies, London, UK
Miki Namba, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Marco Armiero, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Ethemcan Turhan, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Jiraporn Laocharoenwong, PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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