SOAS Research Online

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Harrison, Rachel and Helgesen, Geir, eds. (2020) East-West Reflections on Demonization: Korea Now, China Next? Copenhagen: NIAS Press. (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 71)

Harrison, Rachel, ed. (2014) Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

Harrison, Rachel and Jackson, Peter, eds. (2010) The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Harrison, Rachel and Jackson, Peter, eds. (2009) Siamese Modernities and the Colonial West. London: Taylor and Francis. (Southeast Asia Research Vol. 17 No. 3.)

Book Chapters

Harrison, Rachel (2023) 'Mapping Emanuelle, Encountering Bangkok. Why Cultural Context Matters.' In: Janisse, Kier-La, (ed.), The Sensual World Of Black Emanuelle: The Black Emanuelle Bible. Los Angeles: Severin Films.

Yeager, Jack and Harrison, Rachel (2021) 'Rithy Panh’s The Sea Wall: Reinventing Duras in Cambodia.' In: Barnes, Leslie and Mai, Joseph, (eds.), The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Feangfu, Janit and Harrison, Rachel (2018) 'Contested modernities and spectres of progress in twentieth century Siam/Thailand.' In: Protchsky, Susie, (ed.), Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s. Leiden: Brill, pp. 166-190. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 310)

El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) 'Disturbing Crossings: The Unhomely, the Unworldly and the Question of Method in Approaches to World Literature.' In: Harrison, Rachel, (ed.), Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 239-245.

Harrison, Rachel (2010) 'The Man with the Golden Gauntlets: Mit Chaibancha’s Insi thorng and the Confusion of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War Action Cinema.' In: Day, Tony and Liem, Maya, (eds.), Cultures at War: The Cold War and the Arts in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, New York: SEAP Cornell University Press.

Harrison, Rachel (2009) '“Elementary, My Dear Wat”: Influence and Imitation in the Early Crime Fiction of “Late-Victorian” Siam.' In: Jedamski, Doris, (ed.), Chewing over the West: occidental narratives in non-Western readings. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story of Jan Daraa.' In: Worton, Michael and Wilson-Tagoe, Nana, (eds.), National Healths. Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context. London: UCL Press, pp. 121-136.

Harrison, Rachel (2003) 'Facing Demons: Sida Marries Totsakan in Sidaoreuang's Modern Thai Reinventions of the Epic Ramayana (Ramakien).' In: Labarthe, J., (ed.), Formes modernes de la poésie épique. Nouvelles approches. Bruxelles ; New York: Peter Lang, pp. 339-369.

Harrison, Rachel (2003) 'Thailande: Between East and West.' In: Zaini-Lajoubert, M and Bernot, Denise, (eds.), États et littérature en Asie : l'émergence des États modernes (XIXe - XXe siècles). Paris: Les Indes Savantes, pp. 154-184.

Harrison, Rachel (2001) 'The Indigenous and the "Foreign": the Reception, Adaptation and Reinvention of Western Literatures in South East Asia.' In: Detrie, M, (ed.), France-Asie: un siecle d'échanges litteraires. Paris: You Feng, pp. 240-254.

Harrison, Rachel (2001) 'Prostitution, Politics and Power: Issues of "Foreigness" in Western television documentaries of female sex workers.' In: Munshi, S, (ed.), Images of the 'Modern' Woman in Asia: Global Media, Local Meaning. London: Curzon, pp. 138-68.

Harrison, Rachel (1999) 'The Madonna and the Whore: Self/Other tensions in the characterization of the prostitute by Thai female authors.' In: Jackson, Peter and Cook, Nerida M., (eds.), Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand. Chiang Mai: Silkworm, pp. 168-190.

Harrison, Rachel (1997) 'The “Good”, the “Bad” and the Pregnant: Why the Thai Prostitute as Literary Heroine Can’t be Seen to Give Birth.' In: Somswasdi, Virada and Theobald, Sally, (eds.), Women, Gender Relations and Development in Thai Society. Chiangmai: Women’s Studies Centre, Chiangmai University Press, pp. 323-348.

Harrison, Rachel (1995) 'Birth, Death and Identity in the Writing of Sidaoru’ang from 1975-90.' In: Chitakasem, Manas, (ed.), Thai Literary Traditions. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, pp. 87-117.

Journal Article

Harrison, Rachel and Sutiwipakorn Toopyanont, Wasinee (2023) 'Re-narrating the Folk Legend of Jaomae Nang Norn: Human-nature Contact between Ecological Spiritualities and Buddhist Hybridity.' Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, 1 (2). pp. 66-86.

Harrison, Rachel (2023) 'Dominant Masculinities and the Lure of the Rural Idyll in The King of Bangkok.' Journal of the Siam Society, 111 (1). pp. 171-182.

Taylor-Robinson, Simon, Harrison, Rachel, De Souza Lopes, Paolo A. and Zdravkov, Jey (2021) 'Should commercial sex workers have unrestricted healthcare access across the world?' International Journal for Equity in Health, 20 (237). pp. 1-5.

Taylor-Robinson, Simon, Harrison, Rachel, De Souza Lopes, Paolo A. and Zdravkov, Jey (2021) 'A personal perspective: is bullying still a problem in medicine?' Advances in Medical Education and Practice (12). pp. 141-145.

Harrison, Rachel and Helgesen, Geir (2019) 'Inviting Differences: An Ideal Vision for Area Studies?' South East Asia Research, 27 (1). pp. 3-13.

Harrison, Rachel (2017) 'Dystopia as Liberation: Disturbing Femininities in Contemporary Thailand.' Feminist Review, 116 (1). pp. 64-83.

Morement, Helen, Harrison, Rachel and Taylor-Robinson, Simon (2017) 'The multidisciplinary team meeting in the UK from the patients' perspective: comments and observations from cholangiocarcinoma patients and their families.' International Journal of General Medicine, 2017 (10). pp. 305-310.

Asavarut, Pallad, Norsworthy, Peter J., Cook, Joanna, Taylor-Robinson, Simon and Harrison, Rachel (2016) 'Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society - Understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology.' Journal of Medical Humanities, 42 (3). pp. 181-183.

Harrison, Rachel (2007) '“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”: Global Projections/Local Allusions in ‘Tears of the Black Tiger’/Fa thalai jone.' Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 8 (2). pp. 194-210.

Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Amazing Thai Film: The Rise and Rise of Contemporary Thai Cinema on the International Screen.' Asian Affairs, 36 (3). pp. 321-338.

Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Cultures of criticism, constructions of femininity and the impossibilities of female desire.' South East Asia Research, 13 (1). pp. 91-111.

Harrison, Rachel (2005) 'Introduction: New Directions in Thai Cultural Studies.' South East Asia Research, 13 (1). pp. 5-6.

Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Introduction: The Human World of south East Asian Literatures.' Tenggara, 47 (8). pp. 1-7.

Harrison, Rachel (2004) 'Wild Roses and Urban Boring Bees: (Western) Feminist Readings of a Thai Feminine Text?' Tenggara, 47/48. pp. 93-115.

Harrison, Rachel (2002) ''A Hundred Loves', 'A Thousand Lovers': Portrayals of Sexuality in the Work of Thidaa Bunnaak.' Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 33 (3). pp. 451-470.

Harrison, Rachel (2000) 'Looking forward, Looking back: towards a comparative study of the interaction between the traditional and modern in contemporary SEA [and] Sita Writes Back: Reinventing the Ramayana.' Tenggara, 42.

Harrison, Rachel (2000) 'The disruption of female desire and the Thai literary tradition of eroticism, religion and aesthetics.' Tenggara, 41. pp. 88-125.

Harrison, Rachel (1999) 'The Son of a Javanese.' South East Asia Research, 7 (2). pp. 141-188.

Harrison, Rachel (1995) 'The Writer, the Horseshoe Crab, His 'Golden Blossom' and Her Clients: Tales of Prostitution in Contemporary Thai Short Stories.' South East Asia Research, 3 (2). pp. 125-152.

Book Reviews

Harrison, Rachel, Sinnot, Megan and Fuhrmann, Arnika (2018) 'Symposium on Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema.' Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 33 (1). pp. 181-201.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Harrison, Rachel and Helgesen, Geir (2023) Humanity on thin ice: Why Area Studies matters for planetary survival. SOAS Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Harrison, Rachel (2020) Railway Sleepers: Travelling in Siamese Time and Space. Docalogue [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Translations

Harrison, Rachel, trans. (2023) House of Flesh: On Eroticism. Thailand: Sanam Ratsadorn.

Other

Harrison, Rachel (2018) 'Exit, Exile, Exodus: Culture at the Margins in Southeast Asia.'

Harrison, Rachel (2002) 'Sidaoruang.' In: Introduction in Europe, revue litteraire mensualle - Choderlos de Laclos, Ecrivains de Thailands et du Laos. Europe. pp. 236-7.