
Karin Zackari
Researcher

I am a researcher at the Centre since July 2024 working on academic freedom in Thailand. I am part of the EU in the Volatile Indopacific Region (EUVIP), a project funded under the Horizon Programme, Twinning call.
I hold a Ph.D. degree in Human Rights Studies from Lund University since September 2020. I have taught several courses in human rights, at Lund University and at Mahidol University, Thailand.
I am the PI of a research project on the colonial encounters between Scandinavian capitalist entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers and the Siamese royal elite. Link to the project.
The source materials and methods that I work with are often visual and archival. In addition to human rights history and discourse my interests are in historiographic photography, visual practices of social movements, counter-archives, the performative aspects of nationalism and citizenship, political violence, exile, academic freedom, and the political history of Thailand.
Pronoun: she/her/hers
Publications and research outputs
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Going Beyond the Tropes of ‘Friendship’ and ‘Modernization’ : Internal Colonialism in Siam and Scandinavia in the Age of Empire
Søren Ivarsson, Preedee Hongsaton, Karin Zackari
(2025) Scandinavian Journal of History, 50 p.52-76
Journal article”I en demokrati kan en statsminister stå ut med att bli störd.”
Emma Eleonorasdotter, Karin Zackari, Dalia Abdelhady, Victor Pressfeldt
(2024) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper article”Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan.”
Emma Eleonorasdotter, Dalia Abdelhady, David Bowling, Karin Zackari, Victor Pressfeldt, et al.
(2024) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleRemiss: Som om vi aldrig funnits – exkludering och assimilering av tornedalingar, kväner och lantalaiset (SOU 2023:68)
Lena Halldenius, Karin Zackari
(2024)
Consultation response”Ska vi bedriva den bästa undervisningen och forskningen kan vi inte agera poliser.”
Karin Zackari, Anna Lundberg, Maja Sager, Nina Gren, Till Koglin, et al.
(2023) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articlePraktisk universalism : Tillbakablickar från 25 år med Fronesis
Karin Zackari
(2023)
Web publicationAtt riva Fäladsskolan vore ett stort misstag
Johan Pries, Jennie Gustafsson, Karin Zackari, Ximena San Cristobal
(2023) Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Debatt
Newspaper articleDe unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
Christina Moberg, Hervé Corvellec, Anders Lindroth, Manuela Isacson, Linn Nilsson, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleSD:s nationalkonservativa ideologi står i direkt konflikt med mänskliga rättigheter
Eric Brandstedt, Karin Zackari
(2022) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleHögst aktuell MR-bok bidrar till debatten om förhållandet mellan idrott och politik
Karin Zackari
(2022) Idrottsforum.Org / Nordic Sport Science Forum
ReviewPhotography in the history of the 14 October 1973 and the 6 October 1976 events in Thailand
Karin H. Zackari
(2021) South East Asia Research, 29 p.32-52
Journal articleMedan proteströrelsen i Thailand har allierade i asiatiska länder är EU:s och Sveriges ledare tysta.
Karin H. Zackari
(2020) Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Debatt
Newspaper articleFraming the Subjects : Human Rights and Photography in Contemporary Thai History
Karin Hongsaton Zackari
(2020)
DissertationHuman Rights in Thailand : by Don F. Selby, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, xv + 234 pp
Karin Zackari
(2019) South East Asia Research, 27
ReviewVisualizing Impunity : Photography and State Violence in Thailand
Karin Hongsaton Zackari
(2019) The Trans Asia Photography Review, 10
Journal articleKonstitutioner och konflikter om mänskliga rättigheter i Thailands moderna politiska historia
Karin Zackari
(2018) Mänskliga rättigheter i samhället , p.211-231
Book chapterTyrell Haberkorn, In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand. : Wisconsin, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, January 2018. 312 p. ISBN: 978-0-299-31440-8.
Karin Hongsaton Zackari
(2018) Asia in Focus , p.50-51
ReviewPolitical Power of Photography: The Materiality of 14 and 6 October
Karin Zackari
(2017) , p.213-213
Conference paper: abstractArticulating Human Rights in Thailand in the 1970’s
Karin Zackari
(2017) , p.212-212
Conference paper: abstractDen auktoritära staten i Thailand har underskattat det folkliga motståndet
Karin Zackari
(2016) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper article'Här slutar Sverige' : Ockupationen på Ringgatan i Malmö 1990
Johan Pries, Karin Zackari
(2016) Politik underifrån : Kollektiva konfrontationer under Sveriges 1900-tal
Book chapterViolence on the Periphery of the Thai State and Nationhood
Karin Zackari
(2016) State Terror, State Violence: Global Perspectives , p.71-92
Book chapterWriting Rights into Thailand's History with Photography
Karin Zackari
(2015) Warasan Prawattisat Thammasat /Thammasat Journal of History, 2 p.201-247
Journal articleLivet fortsätter som vanligt för den som inte kräver att få säga vad den tänker eller tycker
Karin Zackari
(2014) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleThailands demokratiska system är oerhört känsligt
Karin Zackari
(2013) Sydsvenskan
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