ROJANAPHRUK Pravit

r_pravit@hotmail.com,
c/o Michiko Yoshida - Rojanaphruk: michiko.y@chula.ac.th

Senior Reporter of The Nation, Pravit has been working with the Thai daily since 1991. Pravit is a Core Member of the Bangkok Forum, a civic group aimed at rejuvenating Bangkok community life, a Board Member of the Arom Pongphangarn Foundation (Labour Rights Promoting Foundation), contributor to the Pacaryasara Magazine, an alternative magazine led by social critic Sulak Sivaraksa and is columnist-cum-contributor of the leading Korean News Magazine, Hankyore 21. His special areas of interest are in media reform (with the promotion of transparency, democracy and public accountability), democratic culture, cultural globalisation and its repercussions and history.

Pravit was a recipient of various awards, fellowships, scholarship and grants from the Philippines, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. His more recent published works are: Sue Saeri Mee Jing Rue (Does Press Freedom Really Exist), 2003 and Tourist and Cultural Authenticity from Thai Host Perspective: Anthropological reflections on the notion of cultural authenticity in tourism and the opposition to mass tourism from Thai host perspectives, A Dissertation paper, 2002 - Trinity College, Oxford.

Pravit is a member of the ARENA Executive Board 2003 -2006.