Public lecture ""One Northern Thai Village in Chiang Mai: a 40-year Rural Transition and Responses of Rural People to Opportunities"
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Title: "One Northern Thai Village in Chiang Mai: a 40-year Rural Transition and Responses of Rural People to Opportunities"
Date: Thursday, 20 February 2025
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 P.M
Location: Subaltern meeting room, basement floor, operational building, Faculty of Social Sciences, CMU
Speaker: Tetsuro Fujikura, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor of Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Abstract:
The village surveyed, Muang Kham, Pong Yeang, Mae Rim in Chiang Mai, is one of the quintessential northern Thai villages. The life history of rural households reconfigured a case study. It indicates that improved market accessibility benefits rural people. Paved roads improved accessibility for the first generation in their 50s. As laterite roads were replaced by paved roads, electricity, motorization, and a great wave of commercialization came. Moreover, information technology also provides accessibility for the second generation, the family's primary income earners. The author discusses how households there have accumulated capital and deployed investment throughout their life history. The study describes villagers’ active response to opportunities.