The competing cultures among Thai man have not yet been fully explored in the studies of Thai films released after the economic crisis in 1997. In this article, I purposefully choose to work on a selection of four muai Thai cinemas, entitled, Muai Thai, Nai Khanom Tom [Mr Khanom Tom: A Muai Thai...

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Thai-Isan (the Northeastern Thai), male migrant workers in Singapore's construction industry in 2004, I propose 'village transnationalism' as a conceptual model for understanding the transnationalization and globalization processes from below. Exclusively...