Jiraporn Laocharoenwong

Jiraporn Laocharoenwong

จิราพร เหล่าเจริญวงศ์

Anthropology · Chulalongkorn University

I write about borderlands — how people, animals, pathogens and commodities move across the Thailand–Myanmar border, and what happens to places built to be temporary when they turn out to be permanent.

Cattle standing in close rows behind a wooden rail in an open-sided shed of bamboo and blue-painted posts. Two masked men and a boy lean over one of the animals, attending to it.
A fattening station on the Thailand–Myanmar border, where cattle are held and put on weight between crossings.

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  • 2026How do policy narratives influence policy design? Examining livestock policy in ThailandJournal of Asian Public Policy
  • 2025The Bovine Border at Mae Sot: "Just Transit" and the Live Cattle Trade Across Southeast AsiaJournal of Borderlands Studies
  • 2025Rethinking 'area' through appetite for hot-fresh meat and the cross-border cattle tradeEngaging Science, Technology, and Society
  • 2025Migratory Birds, Migratory Lives: A Brackish Contact Zone in Bangpu, ThailandSouthern Anthropocenes