Peter Jackson

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Present Appointment

Fellow, Division of Pacific & Asian History,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200
Phone: 61-2-6125-3142; fax: 61-2-6125-5525
email: peter.jackson@anu.edu.au

Main Research Interests:

Buddhism, Politics and Society in Thailand
History of the Thai Sex/Gender System
Asian Area Studies Vs Asian Cultural Studies
Current Research Projects
Publications

Academic Qualifications:

University of New England, Armidale NSW
1974-1975: Bachelor of Arts in Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts.

University of Sydney
1978: Non-degree student in Department of General Philosophy, Faculty of Arts.
1979: Master of Arts [Preliminary] in Department of General Philosophy, Faculty of Arts.

Macquarie University, Sydney
1980-81: Master of Arts [Honours] in Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts. Thesis: Linguistic and Epistemological Relativism.

The Australian National University
1982-1986: Ph.D. in Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts. Thesis: Buddhadasa and Doctrinal Modernisation in Contemporary Thai Buddhism.

Previous Appointments:

Before joining the Division of Pacific and Asian History in December 1994, Peter Jackson worked in the following positions:

1984-1985: Thai UNESCO Research Fellow in Buddhist Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Project: Analysis of the Thai language version of the Theravada Buddhist scriptures.

1987-1988: Australia-ASEAN Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. Project: Research and writing of the monograph Buddhism, Legitimation and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism.

1988 - 1992: Senior Project Officer, Thai National Curriculum Project, ACT Department of Education.
Main responsibilities: (1) Head of a national Asian Studies Council funded project to develop Thai language curriculum and teaching materials for senior secondary students (including producing texts, videos and audio teaching materials; and (2) develop policy initiatives and provide administrative support to the Asian Studies Council in promoting Thai language education in Australia.

January - May 1992: Project Officer, International Policy Branch, Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET), Canberra.
Main duties: Research, policy development and administrative support for DEET educational initiatives with Thailand.

May 1992 - December 1994: Executive Officer, National Thai Studies Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Main responsibilities: Administration of the Centre's operations; editing of the Centre's publications: Thai Studies Newsletter, Thailand Information Papers series, Thai Teaching Materials series, Thai Regional Languages Monographs series; organising conferences on Thailand such as the Centre's annual Thailand Update Conference; and preparing a review of Thai studies in Australian education.

Research

Peter Jackson's research focuses on modern Thai cultural and political history.

Buddhism, Politics and Society in Thailand

In my Ph.D. at the Australian National University I analysed the work and intellectual impact of the most important twentieth century Thai philosopher monk, Buddhadasa (1906-1993). Buddhadasa was a controversial thinker who has had a profound influence on large sections of the educated Thai middle class since the 1950s. He is widely regarded as having laid the groundwork for transforming Thai Buddhism into a popular ideology critical of military authoritarianism and supportive of democratisation, social justice issues, and socio-economic development. My doctoral dissertation was published in 1988 with a revised edition including a review of the controversy surrounding Buddhadasa's death in 1993 to be published in 2002.

I further pursued my interest in the history of Thai Buddhism while Australia-ASEAN Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore in 1987 and 1988, considering the political background to trends in Buddhist thought since the mid-nineteenth century and to organisational reforms of the Thai Buddhist monkhood in the twentieth century. The results of this research were published in the book Buddhism, Legitimation and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism and the article 'The Hupphaasawan Movement: Millenarian Buddhism Among the Thai Political Elite'. I have also written on the political significance of twentieth century reinterpretations of the medieval Thai Buddhist cosmography, the 'Traiphum Phra Ruang'.

More recently I have analysed the impact of democratisation and rapid economic growth in Thailand on expressions of religiosity. In a chapter in Kevin Hewison's (1997) edited collection Political Change in Thailand, I considered the rapid decline of state involvement in religious issues and the emergence of new cults at the fringes of organised Buddhism. The cult of the supernatural monk Luang Phor Khoon and the incorporation of the Chinese cult of Guan Yin into Theravada Buddhism in Thailand have been focuses of interest. I am currently investigating the rise of "Asian prosperity religions" during the economic boom years of the 1980s and 1990s, and the challenge that these religious phenomena present to classical Weberian accounts of the relationship between capitalism and religion.

My international standing in Thai Buddhist studies was recognised when organisers of the 7th International Thai Studies Conference (Amsterdam July 1999) invited me to convene the panel "Religion, Cults and Popular Culture", at which 21 speakers presented papers over two days. I am collaborating with Prof. Annette Hamilton (University of New South Wales) on a book based on papers from this conference. My work in this field was recognised with an invitation to present the keynote address at the international conference, Southeast Asian Religious Mosaic in the Third Millennium at Mahidol University, Bangkok, 1-4 February 2001.

History of the Thai Gender/Sex System

Concurrent with my doctoral research on Thai Buddhism, I also studied Thai discourses of homosexuality and transgenderism. By analysing letters from Thai homosexual men and women published in an "agony uncle" problems column in a popular magazine, I documented the character of cultural sanctions against homosexuality in Thailand. When published in 1989, Male Homosexuality in Thailand: An Interpretation of Contemporary Thai Sources was the first systematic study of homosexuality in Thailand and one of the first studies of a contemporary Asian homosexual culture. A fully revised and considerably expanded version of this book was published in 1995 under a new title, Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand.

In 1993 I began documenting the history of sexual and gender subcultures in Thailand and transformations in the Thai gender/sex system in the twentieth century. In 1996, in collaboration with Dr Nerida Cook (Sociology, University of Tasmania), I won an Australian Research Council Large Grant of $100,000 to undertake comparative research on the emergence of male and female sexual subcultures in Thailand. This project has focussed on tracing the shifts in academic and popular discourses in Thailand that accompanied the emergence of new gay, transgender and lesbian sexual identities in the 1960s and 1970s. Several articles and book chapters on this research have been published. I am currently preparing a new monograph ('Gender and Power in Thailand’s Same-Sex Cultures') fully documenting this study, which is to be published by the University of Chicago Press in the Worlds of Desire Series under the general editorship of Prof. Gilbert Herdt.

In collaboration with Dr Cook and Dr Gerard Sullivan (Sociology, University of Sydney), I have produced a series of four undergraduate readers focussing on gender and sexuality in Asia and amongst Australian homosexual men and women from Asian backgrounds. The first three books in this series, Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand, Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives and Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand were published in 1999 and 2000. The remaining edited collection in this series, Gay and Lesbian Asia, was published in 2002.

One of the most important themes emerging from this project has been a critical engagement with Eurocentric gay/lesbian and queer theories. My research has pointed to the limitations of European- and US-derived theories of sexuality for the history of Southeast Asian same-sex cultures. I have argued that notions of gender identity rather than sexual identity are the key to understanding Thai same-sex cultures, requiring a rapprochement between feminist theories of gender from a queer theories of sexuality. I have also critiqued simplistic theories of globalisation that claim an international homogenisation of sexual cultures is taking place. These theoretical critiques have been published in several articles, including: 'Thai Research on Male Homosexuality and Transgenderism and the Cultural Limits of Foucaultian Analysis'; 'Spurning Alphonso Lingis's Thai "Lust": The Perils of a Philosopher at Large'; 'An American Death in Bangkok: The Murder of Darrell Berrigan and the Hybrid Origins of Gay Identity in 1960s Thailand'; and 'An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Reimagining Queer Theory'.

In the next phase of my research on the history of Thailand's same-sex cultures I will study the role of capitalism and the commodification of sexual cultures in the rise of Bangkok as a key node in the global network of "gay capitals". I presented an outline of this project, Capitalism, Urbanism and Homosexual Autonomy in Bangkok: 'Gay Capitals' in Global Queer History, at the Perpetuating Cities workshop, National University of Singapore, in June 2001.

Asian Area Studies Vs Asian Cultural Studies

An emerging research theme that intersects with my work on both Thai religiosity and Thai genders/sexualities is an inquiry into theoretical bases of Asian area studies and Asian cultural studies. I reflected on the theoretical tensions between area studies and cultural studies knowledges of Asian societies in a recent conference paper, 'Mapping Poststructuralism’s Borders: Asian Area Studies and Asian Cultural Studies in an Era of World Hegemony'. This theme will be a focus of my forthcoming research collaboration with Dr Rachel Harrison (SOAS, London) for the AHRB-funded project, 'The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Aesthetics and Power in the Making of Thai Identities'. This project will analyse how Thailand’s changing relations with the West (1850 to present) have influenced the emergence of new notions of national, gendered and eroticised identity, and will refer particularly to the local forms of power that have refashioned Thai aesthetics and incited ambiguous desires for "Westernness", "civilisation", and "modernity".

Current Research Projects:

 Peter recently received research funding to support the following four-year project:

Fashioning a Globalised Siam: Power, Desire, Aesthetics and the Geo-Politics of Thai Discourses

Peter is currently applying for a research grant to support collaborative research on the following topic:

List of publications

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A. Books and Monographs

  1. A Topic Index of the Sutta Pitaka - Datchanii Sap Thamma Nai Phra Suttantapidok (Thai and English), Chulalongkorn University Press, Bangkok, 1986. (189 pages) ISBN 974 566 422 7

  2. Buddhadasa - A Buddhist Thinker for the Modern World, The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1988. (354 pages, publication of revised version of doctoral dissertation)

  3. Male Homosexuality in Thailand - An Interpretation of Contemporary Thai Sources, Global Academic Publishers, New York, 1989 (285 pages) ISBN 1 55741 007 0

  4. Buddhism, Legitimation and Conflict - The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1989. (245 pages) ISBN 981 3035 20 X

  5. Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand, Bua Luang Books, Bangkok, 1995. (310 pages) ISBN: 0 942777 11 5.

  6. Buddhadasa: Theravada Buddhism and Modernist Reform in Thailand, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2003. ISBN: 974-7551-91-8 (A fully revised version of my 1988 monograph above, including a new Epilogue).

    7. In Preparation

  7. History Without Sexuality: Gay and Lesbian Bangkok Make the News 1965-1999. (final manuscript to be submitted to University of Chicago Press mid-2003).

B. Co-Edited Volumes

  1. Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives, co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, Haworth Press, New York and London, 1999 (233 pages). ISBN 0-7890-0651-0.

  2. Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand, co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, Haworth Press, New York, 1999 (237 pages). ISBN 1-56023-119-X.
    • A Thailand edition of this book was published by Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2000, ISBN: 974-7551-44-6.
  3. Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand, co-edited with Nerida Cook, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2000, (289 pp.) ISBN 974-7551-07-1.

    4. Accepted for Publication

  4. Gay and Lesbian Asia: Culture, Community, Identity, co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, Haworth Press, New York (publication date 2001).

C. Refereed Papers Sole Author

  1. "The Hupphaasawan Movement and the Thai Military - Millenarian Buddhism Among the Thai Political Elite" Sojourn, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, August 1988, 3 (2), pp.134-170.
  2. "Thai Buddhist Accounts of Homosexuality and AIDS", The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA), 1995, 6 (3), pp.140-153.
  3. "Bot-bat Khorng Phutthasatsana Lae Sathaban Song Nai Kan-hai Khwam-chorp-tham Thang-kan-meuang: Seuksa Korani Phutthasatsana Khorng Chon Chan-klang Nai Meuang" (Thai language) (The Role of Buddhism and the Institution of the Sangha in Providing Political Legitimation: A Case Study of the Buddhism of the Urban Middle Class), Warasan Sangkhomsat (The Journal of Sociology - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok), 1995 28 (2), pp.31-53.
  4. "Thai Research on Male Homosexuality and Transgenderism and the Cultural Limits of Foucaultian Analysis", Journal of the History of Sexuality, July 1997, 8 (1) pp. 52-85.
  5. "The Magic Monk in Boom Time Thailand: The Cult of Luang Phor (Reverend Father) Khoon", Asia Pacific Magazine, No. 11, July 1998, pp.4-7.
  6. "The Enchanting Spirit of Thai Capitalism: The Cult of Luang Phor Khoon and the Postmodernisation of Thai Buddhism", Southeast Asia Research (ISSN: 0967-828X), March 1999, 7 (1), pp. 5-60.
  7. "Spurning Alphonso Lingis's Thai 'Lust': The Perils of a Philosopher at Large", Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 2, May 1999. (Internet journal - URL http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/)
  8. "An American Death in Bangkok: The Murder of Darrell Berrigan and the Hybrid Origins of Gay Identity in 1960s Thailand", GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (ISSN: 1064-2684), 5 (3), July 1999, pp. 361-411.
  9. "Royal Spirits, Chinese Gods and Magic Monks: Thailand's Boom Time Religions of Prosperity", Southeast Asia Research (ISSN 0967-828X), 7 (3), November 1999, pp. 245-320.
  10. "That's What Rice Queens Study! White Gay Desire and Representing Asian Homosexualities", Special Joint Issue of Journal of Australian Studies (No. 65), 2000, and Australian Cultural History (No. 19), 2000, Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia, (ISSN 0314 769X, ISBN 0 7022 3214 9), pp. 181-189.
  11. "An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Reimagining Queer Theory", Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2 (4), November 2000, (ISSN 1369-1058), pp. 405-424.

D. Refereed Papers Co-Author

  1. "Critical Regionalities and the Study of Gender and Sexual Diversity in South East and East Asia", co-authored with Mark Johnson and Gilbert Herdt, Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2 (4), November 2000, (ISSN 1369-1058), pp. 361-375.

E. Non-Refereed Papers Sole Author

  1. "The Persistence of Gender: From Ancient Indian Pandakas to Modern Thai Gay Quings", Meanjin (University of Melbourne) 1996, 55 (1) pp.110-120
  2. "Review Article: The Local, The Regional and the Global in Southeast Asian Transgender Subcultures", Canberra Anthropology, April 1998, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp.84-89
  3. "Review Article: Opportunities and Dangers in American Postmodernist Historiography", Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context, January 2000, Issue 3, (Internet journal - URL http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/), ISSN 1440-9151.
  4. "Buddhadasa - His Last Days and His Legacy", Journal of the Siam Society, Volume 82 (2) (1994, publication delayed until 2000), ISSN 0857-7099, pp. 103-113.

  5. "Review Article: Reading Rio from Bangkok: Comparative Perspectives on Brazilian Homoerotic Cultures", American Ethnologist, August 2000, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 950-960.

  6. "Review Essay: Interpreting 'Sambia' Masculine Erotics: A Question of Gender or of Sexuality?", The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2001, pp. 109-113.

F. Chapters in Books Sole Author

  1. "Thai Buddhist Identity: Debates on the Traiphuum Phra Ruang", in National Identity and its Defenders: Thailand 1939-1989, ed. Craig J. Reynolds, Monash Papers on Southeast Asia, No. 25, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, 1991. pp.191-232. ISBN 0 7326 0275 0.
    Note: The above volume was republished in 1993 by Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai. ISBN 974 7047 20 9.
  2. "Re-interpreting the Traiphuum Phra Ruang: Political Functions of Buddhist Symbolism in Contemporary Thailand", in Buddhist Trends in Southeast Asia, ed. Trevor Ling, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1993. pp.64-100. ISBN 981 3035 81 1
  3. "Thailand", Co-authored with Craig Reynolds, in Australia-Asia Survey, eds. Russell Trood & Deborah McNamara, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1994, pp.265-277. ISBN 0 7329 2795 1
  4. "Business Ethics" (Ch. 1) (One of eight co-authors), in Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures, ed. Anthony Milner, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp.14-43, ISBN: 0-19- 553672-X.
  5. "Human Rights" (Ch. 2) (One of eight co-authors), in Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures,, ed. Anthony Milner, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp.44-68, ISBN: 0-19- 553672-X.
  6. "Withering Centre, Flourishing Margins: Buddhism's Changing Political Roles", in Political Change in Thailand: Democracy and Participation, ed. Kevin Hewison, Routledge, London, 1997, pp.75-93, ISBN: 0-415-14795-6.
  7. "Kathoey < > Gay < > Man, The Historical Emergence of Gay Male Identity in Thailand", in Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure, Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific, eds. Lenore Manderson & Margaret Jolly, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1997, pp.166-190, ISBN: 0-226-50304-6.
  8. "Male Homosexuality and Transgenderism in the Thai Buddhist Tradition", in Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists, ed. Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco, 1998, pp.55-89, ISBN: 0-940567-22-9.
  9. "Same-Sex Sexual Experience in Thailand", in Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand, co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, Haworth Press, New York, 1999, pp. 29-60, ISBN 1-56023-119-X.
  10. "Tolerant But Unaccepting: The Myth of a Thai 'Gay Paradise'", in Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand, co-edited with Nerida Cook, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 1999, pp. 226-242, ISBN 974-7551-07-1.

  11. "Pre-Gay, Post-Queer: Thai Perspectives on Proliferating Gender/Sex Diversity in Asia", in Gay and Lesbian Asia: Culture, Identity, Community, co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, Harrington Park Press, Binghamton NY, 2001, (280 pp) ISBN 1-56023-145-9, pp. 1-25.

    12. In Preparation:

  12. "Thailand's Culture Wars: Economic Crisis, Resurgent Doctrinal Buddhism and Critiques of Prosperity Religions", to be included in Thai Spiritualities (working title only), editor Annette Hamilton (Macquarie University, Sydney)
  13. "Adapt, Resist, Ignore: Thai Sexual Minorities and the Episodic Allure of Queer English", to be included in Gay Language Without Gay English ? Globalization, Sexual Citizenship, and Languages of Same- sex Desire (working title only), editor Bill Leap (The American University, Washington DC)
  14. "Offending Images: Gender and Sexual Minorities and State Controls on the Media in Thailand 1970-1999", to be included in Media and Transition in ASEAN, editor Russell Heng (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore).

G. Chapters in books Co-Author

  1. "Ethnic Minorities and the Lesbian and Gay Community", co-authored with Gerard Sullivan, in Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives, Haworth Press, New York & London, 1999, pp. 1-28, ISBN: 0-7890-0651-0.
  2. "A Panoply of Roles: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Contemporary Thailand", co-authored with Gerard Sullivan, in Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand, co-edited with Gerard Sullivan, Haworth Press, New York, 1999, pp. 1-27. ISBN 1-56023-119-X.
  3. "Desiring Constructs: Transforming Sex/Gender Orders in Twentieth Century Thailand", co- authored with Nerida Cook, in Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand, co-edited with Nerida Cook, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 1999, pp. 1-27, ISBN 974-7551-07-1.

H. Textbooks, Manuals and Technical Reports

  1. Thai Voices, Thai Songs for Students with Transcriptions in Thai and Phonetics, Vocabulary Lists, Translations and Notes, co-authored with Scot Barmé and Pornphimol Panthuwanit, The National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1993. ISBN 0 7315 1581 1, ISSN 1320-2766
  2. Thai Accelerated Syllabus Years 11 and 12, National Assessment Framework for Languages at Senior Secondary Level (NAFLaSSL), Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1993.
  3. Life and Language, Thai Language Video Transcripts, Vocabulary Lists, Translations and Notes, Volume 1, Everyday Life (117 pages), Volume 2, Chatting & Work and Activities Thai Language Videos (112 pages), Editor and Co-author with Pornphimol Phanthuwanit and Matthew Copland, The National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1994. ISBN 0 7315 1911 6, ISSN 1320-2766
  4. Unlocking Australia's Language Potential, Profiles of Languages in Australia: Thai, The National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, Canberra, 1995. (62 pages) ISBN: 1 875578 44 7.
  5. Sanuk Sanuk Stages 1 and 2, National Curriculum Guidelines for Thai, The Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne, 1996 (Volume 1 = 165 pages, Volume 2 = 96 pages), ISBN: Vol. 1: 9 781863 662451. Vol. 2: 9 781863 662444) (Member of 8 person writing group).

I. Other Publications

    Guest Co-Editor of Journal Special Issues

  1. The Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 36, Numbers 3/4, 1999. Special Double Issue: Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives, Guest Co-editor with Gerard Sullivan.

    2. Occasional Papers - Sole Author

  2. "Thai Government Cabinets, April, June and September 1992, Complete Ministerial Lists for the Suchinda, Anand II and Chuan Cabinets in Thai and English with Pronunciation Guide", Thailand Information Paper No. 3, National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, June 1993. (14pp.) ISBN 0 7315 1584 6, ISSN 1039-768-X

    3. Occasional Papers - Co-Author

  3. "The May 1992 Crisis in Thailand: Background and Aftermath, Selected Papers from the Thailand Update Conference", University of Sydney, 16 October 1992, Thailand Information Paper No. 2, National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, June 1993. (46pp.) ISBN 0 7315 1580 3, ISSN 1039-768X
  4. Perceiving "Human Rights", Australian-Asian Perceptions Project, Working Paper Number 2, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Asia-Australia Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, December 1993. (Member of paper writing group and author of the section "Contests of Values - The Thai Case", pp.16-18) ISBN 0 7334 0860 5
  5. Perceiving "Business Ethics", Australian-Asian Perceptions Project, Working Paper Number 3, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Asia-Australia Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, February 1994. (Member of paper writing group and author of the section "Thailand", pp.17-18) ISBN 0 7334 0878 8

    6. Work Republished in Anthologies

  6. "Thailand - Letters to Uncle Go", from Male Homosexuality in Thailand: An Interpretation of Contemporary Thai Sources included in Coming Out: An Anthology of International Gay and Lesbian Writings, ed. Stephan Likosky, Pantheon Books, New York, 1992. pp.6-12. ISBN 0 679 74054 6
  7. Selected readings from Male Homosexuality in Thailand: An Interpretation of Contemporary Thai Sources included in video Maybe I Can Give You Sex, produced by Jürgen Brüning and Rune Layumas, Jurgen Bruning Filmproduktion, Berlin, 1992.

    8. Encyclopedia Entries

  8. "Thailand" in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume I, Lesbian Histories and Cultures, Bonnie Zimmerman (ed.), New York: Garland Publishing, (2000), Co-authored with Dr Nerida Cook, pp. 761-762, ISBN: 0-8153-1920-7.
  9. "Bangkok", in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume II: Gay Histories and Cultures, George E. Haggerty (ed.), New York: Garland Publishing, (2000), pp. 95-96, ISBN 0-8153-1880-4.
  10. "Thailand", in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume II: Gay Histories and Cultures, George E. Haggerty (ed.), New York: Garland Publishing, (2000), pp. 871-3, ISBN 0-8153-1880-4.

    11. Book Reviews

  11. Somboon Suksamran, Buddhism and Politics in Thailand: A Study of Socio-Political Change and Political Activism of the Thai Sangha (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1982) in Australian Outlook, The Australian Journal of International Affairs, 40 (3) December 1986, p.196.
  12. Eberhardt, Nancy, Gender, Power and the Construction of the Moral Order: Studies from the Thai Periphery, (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1988) in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review, 13 (2) Nov. 1989. pp.218-219.
  13. Sudham, Pira, Monsoon Country (Shire Books, Bangkok, 1988) in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review, 13 (2) Nov. 1989. pp.219-221.
  14. Tambiah, Stanley J., The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of the Amulets: A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism and Millennial Buddhism (Cambridge, 1984) in Canberra Anthropology, 13 (1), 1990, pp.110-112.
  15. Johnson, Mark. Beauty and Power: Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines (New York: Berg, 1997), Journal of Asian Studies (ISSN: 0021- 9118), 58 (3), August 1999, pp. 894-896.

  16. Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Cartographies of Desire: Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), Journal of Gender Studies (ISSN: 0958-9236), 10 (1), 2001, pp. 102-104.

    17. Fiction

  17. The Intrinsic Quality of Skin, Floating Lotus Publishing, Bangkok 1994. (a novel set in Thailand dealing with sexuality, poverty and race). ISBN 0 942777 10 7
  18. "Cheap Workmen's Skin", short story included in Dunne, Gary (ed.) Fruit, A New Anthology of Contemporary Australian Gay Writing, Blackwattle Press, Sydney, 1994, pp.106-110. ISBN: 1 875243 15 1

    19. Articles in Popular Magazines

  19. "Beyond Bars and Boys: Life in Gay Bangkok", Outrage (Melbourne), No. 170, July 1997, pp. 61-63.
  20. "Dr. Peter Jackson kap prawattisat khreung sattawat gay Thai" (Thai language) (Dr. Peter Jackson and half a century of Thai Gay History), Bukkhon Wan-ni (People Today) (Bangkok), Vol. 11, No. 129, September 1997, pp.59-67.

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