ABSTRACT
To shed light on the status and state of poststructuralism in the teaching and studying of International Relations (IR) in Thailand, I would like to begin with a variation of a well-known Groucho Marx line that is often recounted by Slavoj Žižek (2014, 93): “No matter how hard you try to find it, it may look like there’s no poststructuralist IR theory in Thailand, but don’t let that fool you— there really is no poststructuralist IR theory in Thailand.” In short, I will be writing about something that either does not exist or whose traces are so weak that it is virtually non-existent. There is always the accompanying risk of overstating (e.g., my contributions) and/or understating (e.g., other academics’ roles). Ever-present too is the temptation to turn this piece into an “academic selfie,” capitalizing on the “selfie pandemic” of the twenty-first century (Horvat and Davis 2015).
