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Bavo Stevens

@b-steve.bsky.social

PhD Candidate at McGill PoliSci, previously visiting researcher at Chulalongkorn University and lecturer at Ubon Ratchathani University. I'm interested in police and policing, civil military relations, and Southeast Asian politics

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🚨 Attache ta tuque!

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

Come hang out and learn:
β€’ Geolocation
β€’ Missiles
β€’ FOIA
β€’ Imagery analysis
β€’ Poutine 🍟
β€’ Bagels πŸ₯―

C'est le fun! πŸ‘‡

23.02.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Fracturing citizenship: street-level policing and discretion in Thailand - New Mandala Police as street-level bureaucrats

NEW πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ Police are in many ways the ultimate β€œstreet-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.

11.12.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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11.12.2025 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.06.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If your group or organization is supporting earthquake-affected communities in #Myanmar, we encourage you to apply for our small #grants program.

πŸ—“ Deadline: 15 June 2025
πŸ“© Submit : info@seajunction.org

Please download the propsal form in the link seajunction.org/small-grant-...

10.06.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€Ί

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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05.05.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad to be a part of such cool cohort!

02.05.2025 05:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

01.04.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After lunch is our panel on β€˜Governing martial forces’ with @drswhite.bsky.social @b-steve.bsky.social @hkrichards.bsky.social et co.

01.03.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0