… marketplace welfare is best served by many contenders that are equally efficient and never
collude. In the battlefield … in the marketplace is exactly what we want to see in the battlefield. …

… While there are multiple ways that the issues I explore could be framed, I have chosen “turning
battlefields into marketplaces” because at the scale at which I examine transnational land …

On the afternoon of December 5, 1994, a white United Nation~ pick-up truck was slowly
working its way through the sun-drenched, jungled-clad mountains of Xaisomb0un. The truck, …

The vast majority of migrant workers in Thailand are employed predominantly in low‐paying
occupations commonly described as “3‐D jobs” (dangerous, dirty, and difficult). Currently, …

… reversed the Cambodian marketplace for Thai businesses back to a battlefield for Thai … in
regards to the transformation of a marketplace policy back to a battlefield. In the final section, it …

… Total war erased the boundaries between civilian and military spheres and transformed
conurbations into battlefields. The logic of total mobilization turned the social and cultural fabric …

… reversed the Cambodian marketplace for Thai businesses back to a battlefield for Thai … in
regards to the transformation of a marketplace policy back to a battlefield. In the final section, it …

This chapter identifies the pragmatic judge as the protagonist of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s
writings. At once an independent thinker and a figurehead of the legal institution, the …

This thesis examines the lives of undocumented and semi-documented migrants in Mae Sot,
a border town on the Thai side of the Thai-Myanmar border that is newly becoming central …

… book I examine the former battlefields of Laos as social fields powerfully shaped by violence
and intervention. In the transition from battlefield to marketplace, or minefield to schoolyard, …