Kanokrat Lertchoosakul
กนกรัตน์ เลิศชูสกุล

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Aug 2008 to Jun 2012

Sep 2023 to May 2024

University Affiliation (Current)

Dr. Kanokrat Lertchoosakul is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, faculty of political science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. During the past two decades, she has focused her research on various social movements in Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia. Her PhD thesis at LSE, The Rise of the Octobrists: Power and Conflict among Former Left-Wing Student Activists in Contemporary Thai Politics, was awarded by the Thailand National Research Committee in 2016. It was later published as a book by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University. Her later researches were on the contemporary conservative mass movements and the 2020-2021 youth movement in Thailand.

Recent Publications

2021      ‘The white ribbon movement: high school students in the 2020 Thai youth protests’, Critical Asian Studies, Vol 53, No. 2, 206-218

2021      Cold War, In-between and White Ribbons. Bangkok: Matichon (in Thai)

2020       ‘The Paradox of the Thai Middle Class in Democratization’, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Vol. 7, No. 1.

2020       ‘Thailand in 2019: The Year of Living Unpredictably’. Southeast Asian Affairs 2020, edited by Malcolm Cook and Daljit Singh, Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 337-354

2020       From Hand Clap to Whistle: Development and Dynamics of the Anti-Thaksin Movement, Bangkok: Illuminations Editions (in Thai)

2017       The Rise of the Octobrists in Contemporary Thailand: Power and Conflict among Former Left Wing Student Activists in Thai Politics, Chiang Mai: Silkworm

2016       The Rise of the Octobrists in Contemporary Thailand: Power and Conflict among Former Left Wing Student Activists in Thai Politics, New Haven Conn.: Monograph Series, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies

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