Karin Dean

Karin Dean (PhD) lived and worked in China, Thailand and in Vietnam. Since 2007 she has been teaching and conducting research at Tallinn University. The entire body of her research, starting from her doctoral dissertation, is underpinned by ethnographic field work, mainly among cross-border ethnic minorities of Myanmar (Burma), in Myanmar, China, Thailand and Northeast India. In 2002–2006 she acted as a mediator between Myanmar’s armed ethnic opposition groups and the Geneva-based organisation The Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. As a political geographer she is interested in and is continuously monitoring political developments in Southeast Asia, i.a. relations with China. Her interest lies in interrelations between states and societies of Southeast Asia--in various social or political developments and processes such as mobilities, urbanization, globalization, various networks and connections, State discourses.