Thianchai Surimas

Thianchai Surimas is a PhD Candidate in International Development Studies and a Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) at Chulalongkorn University. His doctoral research examines hydropolitics of the Ing River in Northern Thailand. The research aims to reveal multiple ontologies of water and its ontological politics, and to understand tensions and cooperation between multiple ontologies of water among networks of human and non-human things that are involved in water-related conflicts. The research employs a hydrosocial perspective as an analytical approach. Thianchai’s research interests include environmental justice, environmental politics and policy, climate change, migration, livelihoods, development, and socio-environmental change.

Joined 2021

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