Former employees

Praphakorn Lippert

Praphakorn Lippert studied Social Sciences for Development at Silpakorn University, Thailand and Ethnology, Political Science and History of South Asia at the University of Heidelberg. She worked for the Foundation for Women in Bangkok, where she was responsible for public health measures for Burmese migrants working in Thailand. Since 2014, she has focused on her political work, organising events on political developments in Thailand and coordinating pro-democratic groups of Thai people in Europe. Her research focuses on authoritarianism, vigilantism, forced disappearances, and social movements.

Publications

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Nwet Kay Khine

Nwet Kay Khine, a researcher and a writer from Myanmar was hosted by the Chair of Development Politics at Passau University for her post-doctoral research fellowship under the mentorship of the Chairholder, Dr. Wolfram Schaffar between May 2021 to July 2023. Her study in Passau University was supported by the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies which is funded by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and six-month fellowship under Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research focuses on examining on enabling and limiting factors that shape ideological and coercive state apparatus including characteristics of the digital authoritarian regime and emerging new understanding on academic freedom within Myanmar.

Mirjam Lé

Mirjam Lé finished her Ph.D. in small-town urbanization and the production of urban space in Vietnam at the University of Passau. Her research interests involve practices of materiality, remoteness as social practice, and state-society relations in Vietnam, especially processes of self-organization and citizenship. She works as a researcher on a project on citizenship in Vietnam in cooperation with the University of Passau and Franziska S. Nicolaisen. Her current research project investigates the link between urban citizenship and social media.

You can find her publications here.

Franziska Nicolaisen

Franziska Nicolaisen has a master's degree in "International Cultural and Business Studies (ICBS)" with a focus on Southeast Asia. She has previously done research on urbanization processes, urban mobility, and state-society relations in Vietnam.