Bavo Stevens

🚨 Attache ta tuque!

@scientistsorg.bsky.social is hosting our 2nd Open Source Nuclear Analysis Bootcamp in partnership with @stanleycenter.org in Montréal on June 21-26!

Come hang out and learn:
• Geolocation
• Missiles
• FOIA
• Imagery analysis
• Poutine 🍟
• Bagels 🥯

C'est le fun! 👇

Fracturing citizenship: street-level policing and discretion in Thailand - New Mandala Police as street-level bureaucrats

NEW 🇹🇭 Police are in many ways the ultimate “street-level bureaucrats”—those who do the difficult on-the-ground work of connecting policy with ordinary people. As such, they play a key role in shaping the real-world nature of citizenship in contemporary Thailand, as Bavo Stevens' research explores.

Fracturing citizenship: street-level policing and discretion in Thailand - New Mandala Police as street-level bureaucrats

Excited to see some of my early findings from my research on policing in Thailand published in the @newmandala.bsky.social

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Exciting and important new book by @jwassers.bsky.social: _THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing_!

If your group or organization is supporting earthquake-affected communities in #Myanmar, we encourage you to apply for our small #grants program.

🗓 Deadline: 15 June 2025
📩 Submit : info@seajunction.org

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US academic faces deportation from Thailand after being fired from his job and therefore losing his visa - Thai Examiner US academic Paul Chambers faces deportation from Thailand after losing his job and visa despite charges being dropped. The respected professor, who has lived in… Read More ›

Paul Chambers is a US scholar working in Thailand. He was recently charged with defaming the monarchy. Those charges were dropped, but his university fired him, and he may soon lose his visa.

I can't stress enough that attacks on academics are being globalized

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Glad to be a part of such cool cohort!

It's a Political Earthquake, Too As I’m currently in Ann Arbor, I don’t have a personal reaction to the earthquake that happened in Bangkok last week other than to hope that the people who remain trapped in the rubble of the collapse...

It's a political earthquake, too: how the Bangkok earthquake is affecting politics in Thailand. coffeeparliament.substack.com/p/its-a-poli...

After lunch is our panel on ‘Governing martial forces’ with @drswhite.bsky.social @b-steve.bsky.social @hkrichards.bsky.social et co.