Tiến sỹ Yukti Mukdawijitra từ Khoa Xã hội học và Nhân chủng học, Đại học Thammasat, Bangkok, trình bày nguyên nhân đưa đến việc ông tìm hiểu và nghiên cứu văn hoá Việt Nam và người Thái vùng Tây Bắc

Dr. Yukti Mukdawijitra

Yukti Mukdawijitra is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University in Thailand. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. His research interests include ethnographic representation, ethnicity, linguistic anthropology, and political anthropology. His book Aan watthanatham chumchon: wathasin lae kanmuang khong chatiphan niphon naew watthanatham chumchon (Reading “community culture”: poetics and politics of watthanatham chumchon ethnography) (2005) uses “writing culture” framework to deconstruct communitarian movement in Thailand. His Ph.D. dissertation “Ethnicity and Multilingualism: The Case of Ethnic Tai in the Vietnamese Nation-State” (2007) explores politics of language and writing system to see how ethnic minority languages play roles in nation-state formation in Vietnam. Currently, in order to understand political crisis in recent Thailand, Yukti is heading a research project to explore a shifting political landscape of Thailand.