Articles by Andrew Walker

The deprivation of liberty of Mr Prueksakasemsuk, being in contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is arbitrary.

The past two decades have seen governments in Asia improving the well-being of populations, transforming the nature of state-society relations. Contributions are sought for a panel discussing this issue at the 2013 EuroSEAS Conference.

Contract farming has a bad reputation, often being associated with the proletarianisation of vulnerable small holders. But this isn't always the case and contract farming can make a valuable contribution to agricultural diversification.

Written six years ago today, in the wake of the anti-Thaksin coup, this article reflects on the contribution Thailand's pro-democracy movement made to the undermining of democracy.

Exploring the ritual relationships between the social and supernatural domains can help us understand the way in which power is drawn into the day-to-day worlds of livelihood, aspiration, and ambition.

While Thai villagers were once believed to be remote from politics, and some imagine that still to be true, Walker is bent on exploding that notion for ever.

The state has become a very important source of income, but state expenditure has done little to produce more productive forms of economic activity.

A new mode of governing is transforming state formation, state-society relations, political organisation and civil society throughout Southeast Asia.

The main challenge for Thailand's agriculture–its relatively low labor productivity–arises from the persistence of an agricultural peasantry, not its disappearance.