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Riverine Border Practices

People's Everyday Lives on the Thai-Lao Mekong Border

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Authors:
  1. Thanachate Wisaijorn

    1. Faculty of Political Science, Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

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  • Focuses on how unofficial modes of border-crossing can be theorised as a contribution to existing borderland studies
  • Reveals the stance of Thai Ban people is the mixture of subversion, rejection, and acceptance of the boundary
  • Discusses the notion of Third Space and pluralities of border-crossings

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction and Background

    • Thanachate Wisaijorn
    Pages 1-47

  3. Border Conceptualisation by Academia and the Thai Ban’s Everyday Life in Other Areas of the Thai-Lao Mekong Borderlands

    • Thanachate Wisaijorn
    Pages 49-83

  4. Spatial Negotiations: State Space and Lived Space of the Thai Ban

    • Thanachate Wisaijorn
    Pages 85-114

  5. Temporal Negotiations in the Borderland as a Third Space

    • Thanachate Wisaijorn
    Pages 115-142

  6. Negotiations of Political Subjectivities: Pluralities of Border-Crossings on the Thai-Lao Mekong Border

    • Thanachate Wisaijorn
    Pages 143-167

  7. Discussion of the Borderland as the Third Space and Conclusion

    • Thanachate Wisaijorn
    Pages 169-192

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 193-204
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About this book

This book focuses on the ways in which unofficial modes of border crossings are practised by the Thai Ban, along the Mekong Thai-Lao border. In doing so, the book assesses how these border crossings can be theorised as a contribution to existing literature on borderland studies. With that, the book discusses the importance of the notion of the Third Space and its effects on the pluralities of border-crossings in the borderland by weaving together spatial negotiations, temporal negotiations, and negotiations of political subjectivity.


To illustrate the importance and complexity of the notion of the Third Space, the borderland of Khong Chiam-Sanasomboun, an area composed of quasi-state checkpoints as well as mobile checkpoints, is used as a case study. The author employs an ethnographic approach using the four methods of participant observations, interviews, interpreting visual presentations, and essay readings to examine the everyday practices of the Thai Ban people in crossing the border between the riverine villages in the two nation-states of Thailand and Lao PDR. 


With this, the findings in the fieldwork reveal that people engaged in everyday border-crossings in the riverine area do not simply embrace or reject the existence of Thai-Lao territory. Most of the time, the stance of Thai Ban people is the mixture of subversion, rejection, and acceptance of the boundary resulting in the sedentary assumption in the form of Thai-Lao territory co-existing with people’s everyday mobility.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Political Science, Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

    Thanachate Wisaijorn

About the author

Thanachate Wisaijorn is currently a lecturer in Political Science (International Relations) at Ubon Ratchathani University. His research interest include International Relations Theory, Geopolitics, Borderland Studies, and Mekong Studies. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Riverine Border Practices

  • Book Subtitle: People's Everyday Lives on the Thai-Lao Mekong Border

  • Authors: Thanachate Wisaijorn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2866-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2865-8Published: 02 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2868-9Published: 03 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2866-5Published: 01 November 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 204

  • Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Asian Politics

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