Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children He has held visiting appointments

He has held visiting appointments at Cornell University

primarily in the Shan Plateau

Seeing Forests for Trees examines various modes of response to environmental degradation in Thailand in order to show how comprehensively environmentalism has become woven into the country's social

The case studies included here look at the rights of communities to manage their own cultural and natural resources across a range of settings including ethnic Khmer communities in the Northeast

and provides a clear analysis of the close relationship between religion

Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children He has held visiting appointmentsGary L. Atkins The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a queer reading of Walter Spies,