Multiple Border Lives: The ASEAN Economic Cooperation, the Border Trade, and the Development in Borderlands of Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand

• Date & Time : Tuesday, 23 October, 2018, 12:00-13:00
• Speaker :  Dr. Hyunjung Chae(Ins’t of Cross-Cultural Studies, SNU)
• Chair/Discussant : Dr. Eunyoung Nam (SNUAC)
• Place : Asia Square (3F), SNUAC(Bldg#101)
• Organizer : SNUAC
• Inquiry : Heejin Choi / +82-2-880-2693 / heejinchoi@snu.ac.kr

The fifth Asia Square Brown Bag Seminar was on the topic of the interactions between regional development focused on the Thai borderlands with the lives and economy at the border. Dr. Hyunjung Chae (SNU Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies) presented her field work findings in Chiang Rai that was conducted in 2015 under the framework of “multiple border lives.” In the seminar, Dr. Chae explained that border trading practices are influenced by multiple factors, and that different socioeconomic conditions and regional strategies of border traders are reflected in such factors which result in social differentiation. She emphasized that it is important to see borders as multiple entities that are aggregated with different socioeconomic factors and further added that it is possible to find out how ASEAN economic cooperation is accomplished when multiple borders, rather than the notion of a single border, are considered and liberalized.

Dr. Hyunjung Chae was the recipient of the 2017 SNUAC Dissertation Writing Fellowship and she has finished her PhD degree at the Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University. Dr. Chae currently is a research fellow at SNU Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies.