Writings

Policy Brief 

This policy brief by Gurusaravanan Manoharan and Xavier Asuncion provides an overview of disaster governance in Chiang Mai, Thailand with a focus on flooding. This document compiles findings from interviews with the locals, and officials from the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), and the learnings from the existing available literature. 

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Walking as Ethnographic Research

Our field lab participant, Pamela Cajilig, writes about her experience of testing out the idea of walking as a form of ethnographic research to understand urban flooding in Chiang Mai.

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Chiang Mai: Information Ecosystems Mapping

The Resurgence team — JJ Gadher, Sunayana Sen, and Amy Willox — mapped the flow of information on rainfall and flood risk in Chiang Mai over two weeks in the field lab. Here, they share about their approach and findings from the research. 

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