The following open letter has been issued and signed by scholars, academics, and civil society members from across the world in support of the five academics and researchers who have been summoned by the military following the International Conference of Thai Studies (ICTS13), and to object to attempts by the state to control spaces of learning.

Prominent signatories from the international academic community include James C. Scott of Yale University, Jayati Ghosh of JNU, India, Tania Li of University of Toronto, Walden Bello of State University of New York at Binghamton and Philip McMichael of Cornell University.

OPEN LETTER

To: General Prayut Chan-ocha, Prime Minister of Thailand, Government House, 1 Phitsanulok Road, Dusit 10300, Bangkok, Thailand

via Email: [email protected]

20 August 2017

Your Excellency,

We the undersigned – members of the international academic community and civil society organisations — hereby express our alarm and dismay at the Summons issued by Col Suebsakul Buarawong, deputy commander of the 33rd Military Circle in Chiang Mai, to Dr Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Pakawadee Veerapatpong, Chaipong Samnieng, Nontawat Machai, and Thiramon Bua-ngam. They are accused of violating the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) chief’s Order No.3/2015, Thailand’s military regime’s ban on political gatherings of five or more persons. Conviction on the charges against these five scholars entails imprisonment for up to one year. The summons seem to be a response to the organization of the International Conference on Thai Studies, the main international scholarly forum for presentation and discussion of research on Thailand and Southeast Asia more broadly. It has been held every three years since 1981, hosted by universities in Thailand, Australia, China, India, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. In July 2017 the conference was hosted by Chiang Mai University and achieved a record attendance of 1224 participants. The conference was a resounding success. It was chaired by Dr. Vaddhanaphuti.

Dr. Vaddhanaphuti is a highly respected academic in Thailand and internationally. He is a member of the international editorial advisory board of the leading academic journal, The Journal of Peasant Studies ; co-editor of the globally popular ICAS small book series on agrarian change and peasant studies that is available in 10 language editions including Thai; coordinating team member of the global network BRICS Initiatives for Critical Agrarian Studies (BICAS); and coordinator of a large international consortium of academics and civil society groups studying the relationship between climate change mitigation politics, resource grabbing and conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar. The project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).

Perhaps more importantly, Dr. Vaddhanaphuti has carried out cutting-edge scientific work on critical rural issues in Thailand that have direct policy implications. This is the reason why he is a deeply respected academic within academia, civil society and within Thai government ministries. His leading scientific works include research on: (1) traditional knowledge and genetic resources in the context of policy deliberations on intellectual property rights and trade (Ministry of Commerce); (2) multiculturalism and the condition and rights of displaced peoples, especially children, across the Thai-Myanmar border (Ministry of Education and Health); (3) the Voluntary National Review (VNR) for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation of Thailand for the United Nations last July 2017 (Foreign Ministry). Among his most recent research initiatives is his contribution to knowledge-policy work related to the ‘sea gypsies/nomads’ and some of the indigenous and native groups who have faced serious legal charges of encroaching into private tourist resorts and recently declared ‘national reservation parks’. His work on this issue has introduced new ways of securing evidence beyond legal title deeds, such as village histories and DNA testing, resulting in court decisions favourable to the sea gypsies in Rawai, Phuket.

We respectfully urge the government of Thailand to:

1.     Immediately withdraw the summons and implied charges against Dr Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Ms Pakawadee Veerapatpong, Mr Chaipong Samnieng, Mr Nontawat Machai, and Mr Thiramon Bua-ngam.

2.     Facilitate and support academics and students in their conduct of scholarly teaching, research, public discussion and debate, on- and off-campus.

3.     Ease the restriction on free and open discussion on pressing issues of concern to the wider Thai public, in line with Thailand’s commitments to relevant international covenants.

The undersigned are international academics and civil society research organisations who have known, have worked with, or know the work of, Dr Vaddhanaphuti in various ways over the years.

We appreciate your attention and positive response to this matter that is very important not just to Dr Vaddhanaphuti and his colleagues, but to the international academic community as well.

Sincerely,

  1. Prof James C. Scott, Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA
  2. Prof Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA
  3. Prof. Christopher Goscha; History, Université du Québec à Montréal
  4. Dr. Marc Edelman, City University of New York, USA
  5. Dr. Nancy Peluso, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  6. Dr. Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
  7. Fiona Dove, Director, Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam
  8. Dr. Max Spoor, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
  9. Dr. Carol Hunsberger, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  10. Dr. Esteve Corbera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  11. Prof. Dr. Joan Martinez-Alier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
  12. Dr. Arnim Scheidel, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
  13. Dr. Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
  14. Dr. Courtney Work, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
  15. Sara Vigil, PhD Researcher, University of Liège, Belgium
  16. Mads Barbesgaard, PhD Researcher, Lund University, Sweden
  17. Dr. Veronika Goussatchenko , International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
  18. Yukari Sekine, PhD researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
  19. Eang Vuthy, Equitable Cambodia (EC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  20. Dr. Li Hua, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
  21. Dr. Jack Kloppenburg, University of Wisconsin, USA
  22. Sharmini Bisessar, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
  23. Dr. Emily Yeh, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
  24. Dr. Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon, USA
  25. Dr. Mario Samper, independent scholar and international specialist in rural development, Central America
  26. Dr. Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
  27. Professor dr. ir. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
  28. Pierre Merlet, PhD Researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  29. Dr. Suraya Afiff, University of Indonesia
  30. Dr Tania Li, University of Toronto, Canada
  31. Prof Rodolphe De Koninck, Université de Montréal, Canada
  32. Dr. Dominique Caouette, Université de Montréal, Canada
  33. Dr. Sébastien Rioux, Université de Montréal, Canada
  34. Salena Tramel, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands
  35. Dr. Stéphanie Martel, University of British Columbia, Canada
  36. Prof. Katherine Verdery, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA
  37. Professor Philip McMichael, Cornell University, USA
  38. Dr. Sayaka Funada Classen, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
  39. Dr. Shahra Razavi, Research & Data Section, UN Women
  40. Dr. Sonja Luehrmann, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  41. Julia, PhD Researcher, Universität Bonn, Germany
  42. Professor Rob Cramb, University of Queensland, Australia
  43. Professor Ben White (Emeritus), International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
  44. Ryan Isakson, University of Toronto, Canada
  45. Dr. Karen McAllister, McGill University, Canada
  46. Wendy Wolford, Cornell University, New York, USA
  47. Jerome Whitington, New York University, USA
  48. Dr. Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
  49. Yan Hairong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  50. Dr. Gabriel Fauveaud, University of Montreal, Canada
  51. Dr. Liam Campling, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, UK
  52. Dr. Vanessa Lamb, University of Melbourne, Australia
  53. Dr. Alice Beban, Massey University, New Zealand
  54. Dr. Shapan Adnan, former Professor, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
  55. Dr. Gerardo Otero, Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
  56. Professor Jonathan Rigg, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  57. Dr. Peter Rosset, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Mexico
  58. Ataman Avdan, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  59. Salomon Nahmad Sitton CIESAS PACIFICO SUR OAXACA MEXICO
  60. Laura Schoenberger, York University, Canada
  61. Dr. Jan Rus, Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica, México
  62. Dr. Ian Baird, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  63. Dr. Michael Hathaway, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  64. Dr. Merle L. Bowen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  65. Pamela X. Pareja, University of South Florida, USA
  66. Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University, USA
  67. Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros, Rio de Janeiro Rural Federal University, Brazil
  68. Dr. Gloria Rudolf, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  69. Dr. Arratee Ayuttacorn , Chiang Mai University, Thailand
  70. Dr. Laksmi Adriani Savitri, University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
  71. Dr. Scott Simon, University of Ottawa, Canada
  72. Prof. Yonariza, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia
  73. Dr. Zander Navarro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  74. Dr. Sandra Hyde, McGill University, Quebec
  75. Prof. James Putzel, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
  76. Dr. Jean-Christophe Diepart, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Belgium
  77. Dr Geoff Goodwin, London School of Economics and Political Science
  78. Dr. Hart N. Feuer, Kyoto University, Japan
  79. Dr. Celia Lowe, Director, Southeast Asia Center, University of Washington, USA
  80. Prof. Andreas Neef, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  81. Dr. Jacquelyn Chase, California State University, Chico, USA
  82. Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
  83. Dr. Takeshi Ito, Sophia University, Japan
  84. Boaventura Monjane, PhD candidate. CES-University of Coimbra, Portugal
  85. Dr. Roy Huijsmans, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
  86. Dr. Koichi Ikegami, Kindai University, Nara, Japan
  87. Dr. Gabi Hesselbein, consultant, London
  88. Dr. Manuel Diaz, coffee specialist and consultant, Mexico
  89. Dr. Dianne Rocheleau, Clark University, Worcester MA USA
  90. Dr. Luis Malaret, Community College of Rhode Island, USA (retired)
  91. Dr. Aaron Pollack, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico
  92. Dr. Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University 
  93. Clara M. Park, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
  94. Christopher J Chanco, Graduate Student, York University, Canada
  95. Andrew Paul, Graduate Student, York University, Canada
  96. Dr. Robin Roth, Associate Professor, Geography, University of Guelph, Canada.
  97. Professor Philip Hirsch, University of Sydney, Australia
  98. Neera Chandhoke, formerly professor of political science, Delhi University, India
  99. Dr. Pedro Antonio Ortiz Báez Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, México
  100. Dr. Augusta Molnar, Trustee, The Mountain Institute, Washington DC, USA
  101. Dr. Andrew Orta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  102. Peter Swift, PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  103. Prof. A.R.Vasavi, formerly Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India
  104. Dr. Carl Middleton, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand 
  105. Dr. Keith D. Barney, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University
  106. Dr. Yvonne Underhill-Sem, Development Studies, University of Auckland
  107. Jessica Clendenning, PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore
  108. Dr. Bascom Guffin, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  109. Nandini Sundar, Professor, Dept of Sociology, Delhi University, India
  110. Dr Christian Castellanet, GRET, Paris
  111. Dr Phuc To Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University
  112. Dr Rini Astuti, Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  113. Dr Pujo Semedi, Department of Anthropology, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
  114. Dr. Michael Dwyer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
  115. Dr. Sai Latt, Toronto, Canada
  116. Professor Robert Costanza, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
  117. Dr. Dayabati Roy, CSSSC, Calcutta, India
  118. Dr. Pablo Lapegna, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
  119. Dang Bao Nguyet, PhD researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
  120. Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
  121. Dr. Lambrecht Hans, Lancaster University, UK
  122. Dr. Myrdene Anderson, Purdue University (Indiana, USA)
  123. Marie Joyce Godio, University of the Philippines
  124. Dr. M. Vijayabaskar, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
  125. Dr. Sharachchandra Lele, Senior Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment, Bangalore (India)
  126. Abidin Kusno, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
  127. Professor A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
  128. Suddhasattwa Barik, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands
  129. Dr. Frédéric Landy, professor, University of Paris Nanterre (France), director of the French Institute of Pondichérry, India
  130. Prof. Kyoko Kusakabe, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  131. Nokonwaba May, PhD Candidate, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
  132. Elyse Mills, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
  133. Ajit Menon, Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India
  134. Dr. Thanh-Dam Truong, retiree, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  135. Dr. Karen Coelho, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India
  136. Prof. Asmita Kabra, School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi
  137. Sita Venkateswar, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand
  138. Professor Christian Lund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  139. Ratha Thuon, PhD researcher, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands
  140. Jostein Jakobsen, PhD Candidate,University of Oslo
  141. Professor Tor A. Benjaminsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  142. Dr. Sudhir Kumar Suthar, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India
  143. Prof Nivedita Menon, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
  144. Dr Anne Hennings, Research Fellow University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
  145. Dr. Anamitra Roychowdhury, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  146. Prof. Carlota Perez, London School of Economics, UK
  147. Subhankar Chakraborty, All India People’s Science Network, India
  148. Prof Cherryl Walker, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  149. Dr Ariane Goetz, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
  150. Janina Dannanberg, PhD researcher, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
  151. Professor Philip Kelly, York University, Toronto, Canada
  152. Professor Emeritus Cristóbal Kay, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador
  153. Dr Sarah Ruth Sippel, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  154. Nora McKeon, Rome 3 University and International University College of Turin
  155. Claudia Schur, PhD Researcher, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  156. Sofía Monsalve Suárez – FIAN International, Germany
  157. Giuseppe Mastruzzo, International University College of Turin, Italy
  158. Dr. Tomaso Ferrando, University of Warwick School of Law
  159. Dr. Laura Tejada, Centre for Development and Environment, Berne – Switzerland
  160. Professor E.A. Brett, London School of Economics UK
  161. Prof. Dr. Christoph Antweiler, University Bonn, Germany
  162. Prof. Laurence Roudart, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  163. Dr Katharine McKinnon, La Trobe University, Australia
  164. Dr Habib Ayeb, Associate Professor, Paris 8 University. France
  165. Dr Bridget O’Laughlin, International Institute of Social Studies (ret), Netherlands
  166. Prof Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India
  167. Prof Deniz Kandiyoti, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK
  168. Dr Graham Woodgate, Institute of the Americas, University College London (UCL), UK
  169. Dr Natalia Mamonova, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
  170. Prof Michael Lipton, Sussex University, Brighton, UK
  171. Dr Hue Le, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
  172. Huei-Ling Lai, PhD researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  173. Dr Joseph Hanlon, Visiting Senior Fellow, International Development, London School of Economics
  174. Professor Iwan Morgan, Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History, University College London, UK
  175. Dr. Alessandra Corrado, University of Calabria, Italy
  176. Dr. Muhammad Zulfiqar, Professor, Climate Change Centre, UAP Pakistan
  177. Dr. Wolfram Dressler, Future Fellow, Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia
  178. Prof Kevin Middlebrook, Institute of the Americas, University College London (UK)
  179. Dr. Tony Weis, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  180. Dr. Annu Jalais, National University of Singapore
  181. Dr. Padmini Swaminathan, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, India
  182. Dr. Julien-François Gerber, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands
  183. Siddharth Joshi, Independent Researcher, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  184. Dr. Chusak Wittayapak, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
  185. Dr Jens Lerche, SOAS, University of London
  186. Dr. Pritish Behuria, London School of Economics and Political Science
  187. Dr. Tsegaye Moreda, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague
  188. Arati Kumar-Rao, Independent Environmental Photographer & Writer, Bangalore, India
  189. Dr. Pascale Hatcher, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  190. Divya Sharma, Research Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University, UK
  191. Dr. Mindi Schneider, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands
  192. Prof Ben Cousins, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  193. Irna Hofman, Ph.D. Candidate Leiden University, the Netherlands
  194. André Laliberté, Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
  195. Dr. Giuliano Martiniello, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
  196. Dr. Amitabh Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  197. Mauro Conti, Phd Candidate University of Calabria
  198. Dr Rebecca Elmhirst, University of Brighton, UK
  199. Dr. Oane Visser, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands
  200. Dr. Sergio Sauer, University of Brasilia, Brazil
  201. Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, PhD researcher, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands
  202. David Rodríguez Goyes, PhD, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
  203. George T.Mudimu,Centre for Youth Empowerment, Zimbabwe
  204. Dr Paul Hendler, Extraordinary Senior Lecturer, School of Public Management, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  205. Dr. Allison Loconto, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
  206. Levi Gahman, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
  207. Enrique Castanon Ballivian, PhD Researcher, SOAS, University of London
  208. Muhammad Abdur Rahaman, Director, Climate Change Adaptation Mitigation Experiment & Training (CAMET) Park, Bangladesh
  209. Dr Karim Eid-Sabbagh, Thimar research collective and London School of Development, UK
  210. Dr. Alexander Dunlap, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  211. Dr. Priya Chandrasekaran, Postdoctoral Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University, USA
  212. Daniela Andrade, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
  213. D.Narasimha reddy, Professor of economics (Rtd), University of Hyderabad, India
  214. Dr. Lynda Dematteo IIAC EHESS Paris France
  215. Leandro Vergara-Camus, Senior Lecturer, SOAS University of London, UK
  216. Prof. Steve Déry, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
  217. Dr. Felice S. Wyndham, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK
  218. Dr. Clifford Andrew Welch, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
  219. Brittany Bunce, PhD Researcher, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  220. Claudia Job Schmitt, Social Sciences Graduate Program on Development, Agriculture and Society, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  221. Satyam, Doctoral Student, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India
  222. Michael Levien, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  223. Alexander Reid Ross, Department of Geography, Portland State University
  224. Profa. Dra. Marta Inez Medeiros Marques, Department of Geography, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  225. Paulo F. Petersen, Agronomist, Executive Coordinator of AS-PTA, Vice-President of Brazilian Association of Agroecology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  226. Robert Wilcox, Associate Professor, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, USA
  227. Nadia Augustyniak, PhD Student, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, USA 
  228. Daniela Marini, PhD Candidate, Colorado University Boulder, USA
  229. Cathy A. Rakowski, Associate Professor, Ohio State University, USA
  230. Jason W. Moore, Associate Professor, Binghamton University, USA
  231. Barry Ferguson, Moderator, Madagascar Environmental Justice Network
  232. Victoria Sanford, Professor and Chair of Anthropology & Director of the Center for Human RIghts & Peace Studies, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA
  233. Baris Karaagac, Lecturer, International Development Studies, Trent University, Canada
  234. Eugene N. Anderson, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, USA
  235. Dr. Claudio H. M. Batalha, History Department, Campinas State University (UNICAMP), Brazil
  236. Sidnei J. Munhoz, State University of Maringá, Brazil
  237. Joel Andreas, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
  238. Colum Graham, PhD Candidate, Australian National University, Canberra
  239. Prof. Raj Patel, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  240. Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University, USA
  241. Dr. Michael Kleinod, University Bonn, Germany
  242. Dr Sayoni Bose, Assistant Professor of Non-Western Geography, Governors State University, USA
  243. Kathleen Dill, PhD, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA
  244. Ramón Fogel Ph.D Researcher, Paraguay
  245. Sylvester P. Harris,MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Poverty Reduction Initiative (PORIN) West Africa, Liberia
  246. Dr. Sergio Pereira Leite, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  247. Dr Gerard Clarke, Swansea University, UK
  248. Burak Gurel, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Koc University, Turkey
  249. Fazil Moradi, Postdoc. University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  250. Ben McKay, Assistant Professor of Development and Sustainability, University of Calgary, Canada
  251. Nicholas Lo, Graduate Student, Yale University, USA
  252. Dr Joe Hill, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD), Ranchi, India
  253. Jonathan Shannon, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY, New York, NY USA
  254. Eunice Adhiambo Odhiambo, Executive Director, Ujamaa Center, Mombasa, Kenya 
  255. Jared Naimark, Graduate Student, Yale University, USA
  256. Dr. Deborah Dergousoff, University of British Columbia, Canada
  257. Dr. Julie Skurski, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA
  258. Dr. Betsy Taylor, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN), USA
  259. Dr. James Blair, City University of New York, USA
  260. Dr. Kregg Hetherington, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  261. Dr. Irene Velez-Torres, Associate professor UniValle, Colombia
  262. Sam Bliss, University of Vermont, USA
  263. Mihika Chatterjee, University of Oxford, UK
  264. Dr. Philippe-Richard Marius, College of Staten Island/City University of New York, USA
  265. Dr. Jacques Pollini, Research Associate, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  266. Prof Raúl Delgado Wise, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
  267. Dr. James Loucky, Western Washington University, USA
  268. Dr. Jacob Blanc, University of Edinburgh
  269. Hendrik Mentz, Retired, Suurbraak, Western Cape,South Africa
  270. Dr. John Metz, Northern Kentucky University, USA
  271. Ugo Mattei, Professor, UC Hastings, University of Turin, Italy
  272. Toms K Thomas, Olive Touch Healthcare Services, India
  273. Alaina L. Schneider, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
  274. Dr. Nga Dao, York University, Canada
  275. Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell University, USA
  276. Dr. Paola García Reyes, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
  277. Dr. David Rojas, Bucknell University, USA
  278. Dr. Linda Rabben, University of Maryland, USA
  279. Professor Judith Friedland er, Hunter College (CUNY), USA
  280. Dr. Mark Edberg, George Washington University USA
  281. Dr Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo, Canada
  282. Dr. Preeti Sampat, Ambedkar University Delhi, India
  283. Prof. Thomas H McGovern, Hunter College CUNY, USA
  284. Dr. Karina Kato, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  285. Dr. Luis Felipe Rincón, São Paulo State University, Brazil
  286. Dr. Maren Freudenberg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  287. Dr. Christine Ho, Professor Emerita, Fielding Graduate University, USA
  288. Michael Wilson Becerril, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.
  289. Dr. Samuel Totten, Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
  290. Dr. Carole Nagengast, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  291. Dr. Charles Goldblum, Professor Emeritus, Université Paris 8, France
  292. Dr. Renata Moreno Quintero, Associate professor, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia
  293. Nelson Delgado, Professor Titular, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro
  294. Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Full Professor, São Paulo State University, Brazil
  295. Sergio Gomez, Full Professor, FLACSO, Chile
  296. Brian Walter, Graduate Student, University of California- Santa Cruz
  297. Dr. Nils McCune, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, USA
  298. Dr. Henry Veltmeyer, Universidad Autónoma de Zacataecas, Mexico
  299. Ana Flavia Badue, City University of New York, USA
  300. Prof. Charlene Makley, Reed College, Portland, OR, USA
  301. Dr. Valdemar João Wesz Junior, Federal University of Latin American Integration, Brazil
  302. Dr. Stefania Barca, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  303. Dr Martin Mowforth, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK
  304. Dr. Mubbashir Rizvi, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
  305. Dr. Martha W Rees, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, USA
  306. Dr. Fátima Portilho – Professor, Social Sciences Graduate Program on Development, Agriculture and Society, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
  307. Thomas C. Patterson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside USA
  308. Alex Martin, Director of Travel Programs, Institute For Village Studies, Bellingham, Washington
  309. Les W. Field, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, USA
  310. Emel Karakaya, PhD, Department of City and Regional Planning, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey
  311. Christian Zlolniski, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  312. David G. Sweet, Dept. of History (Emeritus), University of California, Santa Cruz, USA 
  313. Hector Grad, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  314. Ivette Perfecto, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, USA
  315. Kate Crehan, Professor Emerita, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
  316. João Márcio Mendes Pereira, Professor, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  317. Dr. François Gemenne, University of Liège, Belgium / Sciences Po Paris, France
  318. Dr. Ritu G. Khanduri, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX, USA
  319. Yunan Xu, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
  320. Dr. Joseph Misati, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Maasai Mara University, Narok – Kenya
  321. China Sajadian, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York – Graduate Center, USA
  322. Lindsay Parme, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York – Graduate Center, USA
  323. Megan Youdelis, Department of Geography, York University, Toronto, Canada
  324. Dr. Miguel Carter, Founding Director, DEMOS – Centro para la Democracia, la Creatividad y la Inclusion Social, Caacupe, Paraguay
  325. Prof Walden Bello, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
  326. Dr Joseph Trapido, School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom
  327. Dr. Jeanne Koopman, Boston University African Studies Center, USA
  328. Dr. David Blake Willis, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, USA 
  329. Dr. Mary Hufford, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network, Bala Cynwyd, PA USA 
  330. Prof. Gregory Thaler, University of Georgia, USA
  331. Prof Lyla Mehta, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, UK
  332. Dr. Kevin Healy, Georgetown University, USA
  333. Dr. Barbara Rose Johnston, Center for Political Ecology, Santa Cruz, USA
  334. Dr. Fina Carpena-Mendez, Oregon State University, USA.
  335. Dr. Nina Wallerstein, University of New Mexico, USA
  336. Ryan Schaars, Hunter College, USA
  337. Dr. Maximiliano Menz, Department of History, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp).
  338. Nicholas Glastonbury, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York – Graduate Center, USA
  339. Dr. Kathleen Kevany, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Director of the Rural Research Centre, Dalhousie University, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
  340. Professor Elizabeth Ferry, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University, USA
  341. Dr. James Phillips, Southern Oregon University, USA
  342. Ellie Hamrick, PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center Department of Anthropology, New York, USA
  343. Angela J. Lederach, PhD Candidate, University of Notre Dame, USA
  344. Henry C. Theriault, Ph.D., Worcester State University and President, International Association of Genocide Scholars, USA
  345. Maria Aparecida de Moraes Silva. University Sao Carlos, Brazil
  346. Jérôme Rousseau, Professor emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada
  347. Bernadete Aparecida Caprioglio de Castro, São Paulo State University, Brazil
  348. Dr. Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
  349. Dr. Jose Carlos Silva-Macher, Departamento de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
  350. Dr. Nora Haenn, North Carolina State University, USA
  351. Dr. Eraldo da Silva Ramos Filho, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil
  352. Dr Khin Zaw Win, Tampadipa Institute, Myanmar
  353. Dr. Ryan Mongelluzzo, San Diego Mesa College, USA
  354. Pamela Cantine, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, USA
  355. Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, USA
  356. Martha Robbins, PhD Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
  357. Prof. Kathy Le Mons Walker, Dept. of History (retired), Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
  358. Prof. Robert A. Benfer, Department of Anthropology (retired), University of Missouri, USA
  359. Dr. Javier Puente, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  360. Dr. David H. Price, Department of Society and Social Justice, Saint Martin’s University. USA
  361. Dr. Jennifer Sime, San Diego Mesa College, USA
  362. Dr. Luis Llambí, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Venezuela
  363. Dr. Amy Speier, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  364. Dr. Stephanie Buechler, University of Arizona, USA
  365. Dr Paul Hodge, University of Newcastle, Australia
  366. Prof. Dzodzi Tsikata, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
  367. Prof. Edward Schortman, Anthropology Department, Kenyon College, USA
  368. Stephanie Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA
  369. Dr. Noam Hart, Battery Researcher, University of California, Riverside, USA
  370. Dr Ernest-Emile Lopez-Sanson de Longval, Archéologue, France, Ong Cerediar, Société Internationale d’archéologie sociale
  371. Dr. Andrew D. Turner, Yale University, USA
  372. Eric J. Heller, PhD Candidate, University of California Riverside, USA
  373. Dr. Robert K. Hitchcock, University of New Mexico, USA
  374. Professor Anthony Bebbington, University of Melbourne, Australia and Clark University, USA
  375. Charles A. Flowerday, formerly editor, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, formerly managing editor, Anthropology of Consciousness, USA
  376. Dr. Christine Gibb, postdoctoral researcher, University of Toronto, Canada
  377. Lic. Victor Falcón Huayta. Peruvian archeologist, Peru
  378. Professor John Collins, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
  379. A/Prof Sarah Wright, The University of Newcastle, Australia
  380. Devra Weber, Associate Professor, History, University of California, Riverside, USA
  381. Brenda Biddle, Adjunct Lecturer, Queens College (CUNY), New York US.
  382. Professor Katherine Gibson, Western Sydney University, Australia
  383. Timothy Erik Ström, PhD Researcher, Western Sydney University, Australia
  384. Sam Pack, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Kenyon College, USA
  385. Harry W. Fischer, Associate Senior Lecturer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
  386. Dr. David Gilbert, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 
  387. Violet Cho, PhD Candidate, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  388. Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute, USA
  389. Kees Krul, PhD Researcher, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 
  390. Dr. Charlotte Cable, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia
  391. Derick A. Fay, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, USA.
  392. Dr. Leah Temper, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Spain
  393. Dr. Greg Acciaioli, The University of Western Australia, Australia
  394. Dr C Shambu Prasad, Institute of Rural Management Anand, India
  395. Dr. Lawrence Surendra, Chairman, The Sustainability Platform, India
  396. Prof. Balbir Singh Butola, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  397. Lic. José Luis Fuentes Sadowski, National University of San Marcos, Perú
  398. Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
  399. Amit John Kurien, PhD scholar, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India
  400. Dr. Shuo Li, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
  401. Genevieve Gebhart, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, USA
  402. Dr. Anders Riel Müller, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
  403. Dr. Jonas Ecke, Forcier Consulting, South Sudan
  404. Professor Rosalind C. Morris, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, USA
  405. Dr. Jennifer C. Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam
  406. Erik Harms, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, USA
  407. John Gledhill, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester, UK
  408. Dr. Satomi Higashi, Post Doctoral Fellow, Hosei University, Japan
  409. Dr. Theodora Tsongas, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, USA
  410. Dr. Eduardo C. Tadem, University of the Philippines
  411. Abdul Rahman, graduate student, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
  412. Dr Vikas Bajpai, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 
  413. Professor Charanjit Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  414. Dr. John R. Campbell, School of Oriental & African Studies, London, UK
  415. Miki Namba, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
  416. Prof. Marco Armiero, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  417. Dr. Ethemcan Turhan, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  418. Jiraporn Laocharoenwong, PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.